BOOK
.
I.
The
Introduction
.
Of
the
necessity
,
and
Vsefulness
of
the
Art
of
Midwifry
.
THe
Art
of
Midwifry
is
doubtless
one
of
the
most
useful
and
necessary
of
all
Arts
,
for
the
being
and
well-being
of
Mankind
,
and
therefore
it
is
extremely
requisite
that
a
Midwife
,
be
both
fearing
God
,
faithful
,
and
exceeding
well
experienced
in
that
profession
.
Her
fidelity
shall
find
not
only
a
reward
here
from
man
,
but
God
hath
given
a
special
example
of
it
,
Exod.
1.
in
the
Midwives
of
Israel
,
who
were
so
faithful
to
their
trust
,
that
the
Command
of
a
King
could
not
make
them
depart
from
it
,
viz.
But
the
Midwives
feared
God
,
and
did
not
as
the
King
of
Egypt
commanded
them
,
but
saved
the
men
children
alive
.
Therefore
God
dealt
well
with
the
Midwives
;
and
because
they
feared
God
,
he
made
them
Houses
.
As
for
their
knowledge
it
must
be
two-fold
,
Speculative
;
and
Practical
,
she
that
wants
the
knowledge
of
Speculation
,
is
like
to
one
that
is
blind
or
wants
her
sight
:
she
that
wants
the
Practice
,
is
like
one
that
is
lame
and
wants
her
legs
,
the
lame
may
see
but
they
cannot
walk
,
the
blind
may
walk
but
they
cannot
see
.
Such
is
the
condition
of
those
Midwives
that
are
not
well
versed
in
both
these
.
Some
perhaps
may
think
,
that
then
it
is
not
proper
for
women
to
be
of
this
profession
,
because
they
cannot
attain
so
rarely
to
the
knowledge
of
things
as
men
may
,
who
are
bred
up
in
Universities
,
Schools
of
learning
,
or
serve
their
Apprentiships
for
that
end
and
purpose
,
where
Anatomy
Lectures
being
frequently
read
,
the
sitution
of
the
parts
both
of
men
and
women
,
and
other
things
of
great
consequence
are
often
made
plain
to
them
.
But
that
Objection
is
easily
answered
,
by
the
former
example
of
the
Midwives
amongst
the
Israelites
,
for
though
we
women
cannot
deny
,
that
men
in
some
things
may
come
to
a
greater
perfection
of
knowledge
than
women
ordinarily
can
,
by
reason
of
the
former
helps
that
women
want
;
yet
the
holy
Scriptures
hath
recorded
Midwives
to
the
perpetual
honour
of
the
female
Sex
.
There
being
not
so
much
as
one
word
concerning
Men-mid-wives
mentioned
there
that
we
can
find
,
it
being
the
natural
propriety
of
women
to
be
much
seeing
into
that
Art
:
and
though
nature
be
not
alone
sufficient
to
the
perfection
of
it
,
yet
farther
knowledge
may
be
gain'd
by
a
long
and
diligent
practice
,
and
be
communicated
to
others
of
our
own
sex
.
I
cannot
deny
the
honour
due
to
able
Physicians
,
and
Chyrurgions
,
when
occasion
is
:
Yet
we
find
even
that
amongst
the
Indians
,
and
all
barbarous
people
,
where
there
is
no
Men
of
Learning
,
the
women
are
sufficient
to
perform
this
duty
:
and
even
in
our
own
Nation
,
that
we
need
go
no
farther
,
the
poor
Country
people
where
there
are
none
but
women
to
assist
(
unless
it
be
those
that
are
exceeding
poor
and
in
a
starving
condition
,
and
then
they
have
more
need
of
meat
than
Midwives
)
the
women
are
as
fruitful
,
and
as
safe
and
well
delivered
,
if
not
much
more
fruitful
,
and
better
commonly
in
Childbed
than
the
greatest
Ladies
of
the
Land
.
It
is
not
hard
words
that
perform
the
work
,
as
if
none
understood
the
Art
that
cannot
understand
Greek
.
Words
are
but
the
shell
,
that
we
ofttimes
break
our
Teeth
with
them
to
come
at
the
kernel
,
I
mean
our
brains
to
know
what
is
the
meaning
of
them
;
but
to
have
the
same
in
our
mother
tongue
would
save
us
a
great
deal
of
needless
labour
.
It
is
commendable
for
men
to
imploy
their
spare
time
in
some
things
of
deeper
Speculation
than
is
required
of
the
female
sex
;
but
the
Art
of
Midwifry
chiefly
concern
us
,
which
,
even
the
best
Learned
men
will
grant
,
yielding
something
of
their
own
to
us
,
when
they
are
forced
to
borrow
from
us
the
very
name
they
practise
by
,
and
to
call
themselves
Men-midwives
.
But
to
avoid
long
preambles
in
a
matter
so
clear
and
evident
,
I
shall
proceed
to
set
down
such
rules
,
and
method
concerning
this
Art
as
I
think
needful
,
and
that
as
plainly
and
briefly
as
possibly
I
can
,
and
with
as
much
modesty
in
words
as
the
matter
will
bear
:
and
because
it
is
commonly
maintain'd
,
that
the
Masculine
gender
is
more
worthy
than
the
Feminine
,
though
perhaps
when
men
have
need
of
us
they
will
yield
the
priority
to
us
;
that
I
may
not
forsake
the
ordinary
method
,
I
shall
begin
with
men
,
and
treat
last
of
my
own
sex
,
so
as
to
be
understood
by
the
meanest
capacity
,
desiring
the
Courteous
Reader
to
use
as
much
modesty
in
the
perusal
of
it
,
as
I
have
endeavoured
to
do
in
the
writing
of
it
,
considering
that
such
an
Art
as
this
cannot
be
set
forth
,
but
that
young
men
and
maids
will
have
much
just
cause
to
blush
sometimes
,
and
be
ashamed
of
their
own
follies
,
as
I
wish
they
may
if
they
shall
chance
to
read
it
,
that
they
may
not
convert
that
into
evil
that
is
really
intended
for
a
general
good
.
CHAP.
I.
A
brief
description
of
the
Generative
parts
in
both
sexes
;
and
first
of
the
Vessels
in
Men
appropriated
to
procreation
.
THere
are
six
parts
in
Men
that
are
fitted
for
generation
.
1.
The
Vessels
that
prepare
the
matter
to
make
the
seed
,
called
the
preparing
Vessels
.
2.
There
is
that
part
or
Vessel
which
works
this
matter
,
or
transmutes
the
blood
into
the
real
desire
for
seed
.
3.
The
Stones
that
make
the
Seed
fructifie
.
4.
There
are
Vessels
that
conveigh
the
Seed
back
again
from
the
Stones
when
they
have
concocted
it
.
5.
There
are
the
seminal
or
Seed-Vessels
that
keep
or
retain
the
Seed
concocted
.
6.
The
Yard
,
that
from
these
containing
Vessels
,
casts
the
seed
prepared
into
the
Matrix
.
CHAP.
II.
Of
the
Seed-preparing
Vessels
.
1.
THe
Vessels
that
prepare
the
matter
to
make
the
Seed
are
four
,
two
Veins
,
and
two
Arteries
,
which
go
down
from
the
small
guts
to
the
Stones
;
they
have
their
names
from
their
office
,
which
is
to
fit
that
matter
for
the
work
,
which
the
Stones
turn
into
Seed
that
is
made
fruitful
by
them
,
though
it
be
a
kind
of
Seed
or
blood
changed
into
a
white
substance
before
it
comes
to
the
Stones
.
It
will
be
needful
that
you
should
know
that
the
fountain
of
blood
is
the
Liver
,
and
not
the
Heart
,
as
was
anciently
supposed
,
and
the
Liver
by
the
Veins
disperse
the
blood
through
the
Body
.
The
two
Arteries
that
prepare
the
matter
,
arise
both
from
the
great
Artery
or
Trunk
that
is
in
the
Hearts
and
is
the
beginning
of
all
the
Arteries
,
for
the
Arteries
rise
from
the
Heart
,
as
the
Vein
,
do
from
the
Liver
;
but
the
two
Veins
for
preparation
of
Seed
,
are
one
on
the
right
the
other
on
the
left
side
;
the
right
Vein
proceeds
from
the
great
hollow
Vein
of
the
Liver
,
a
little
below
the
beginning
of
the
Emulgent
Vein
;
but
the
left
Vein
springs
commonly
from
the
root
of
the
Emulgent
Vein
,
yet
it
hath
been
seen
to
have
a
branch
that
comes
to
it
from
the
Trunk
of
the
hollow
Vein
.
Of
these
two
Veins
and
Arteries
there
is
one
Vein
,
and
one
Arterie
of
each
side
;
these
two
Veins
in
the
middle
part
,
pass
streight
through
the
Loins
,
and
they
repose
upon
the
Lumbal
Muscle
,
having
only
a
thin
skin
,
that
comes
betwixt
them
,
and
there
they
divide
and
scatter
themselves
into
the
skinny
parts
that
are
near
adjoining
.
All
these
Veins
and
Arteries
so
descending
,
are
called
Seed-preparing
Vessels
,
and
they
are
covered
with
a
skin
that
comes
from
the
Peritonaeum
,
the
Vein
lies
uppermost
,
and
the
Artery
under
it
.
The
lower
part
of
these
two
Veins
goes
beyond
the
Midriff
to
the
Stones
,
and
descends
with
a
little
Nerve
,
and
that
Muscle
which
holds
up
the
Stones
,
through
the
doubling
of
the
Midriff
,
but
they
pass
not
through
the
Peritonaeum
,
and
when
it
comes
near
the
Stones
an
Artery
joins
with
it
,
and
then
are
these
Vessels
with
that
skin
that
comes
from
the
Peritonoeum
twisted
together
as
the
young
twigs
of
Vines
are
,
and
so
pass
they
to
the
end
of
the
Stones
.
These
two
Arteries
have
their
beginning
from
the
great
Artery
a
little
below
the
Emulgent
,
and
so
they
go
downwards
till
they
join
with
the
two
Veins
formerly
mentioned
;
the
two
Veins
they
prepare
and
carry
the
natural
Blood
to
make
Seed
of
;
the
two
Arteries
,
they
carry
the
vital
Spirits
or
vital
blood
.
CHAP.
III.
Of
the
Vessels
that
make
the
change
of
red
Blood
into
a
white
substance
like
Seed
.
THese
Vessels
,
as
you
heard
before
,
are
also
four
,
two
Veins
and
two
Arteries
,
that
at
their
first
descending
keep
near
one
to
the
other
,
carrying
their
different
blood
,
one
from
the
Liver
the
other
from
the
Heart
,
as
fit
matter
for
the
Stones
to
make
Seed
of
;
but
before
they
come
at
the
Stones
,
they
twist
one
with
the
other
,
sometimes
the
Veins
going
into
the
Arteries
,
and
sometimes
again
the
Arteries
going
into
the
Veins
,
thus
they
joyn
their
forces
,
the
better
to
prepare
the
matter
for
the
use
of
the
Stones
,
and
after
that
they
part
again
,
which
things
are
full
of
delight
for
a
Man
to
behold
,
that
he
may
the
more
admire
the
excellency
of
the
works
of
the
great
God
that
hath
so
wonderfully
made
Man
.
The
two
Veins
and
two
Arteries
,
after
they
have
joyned
with
many
ingraftings
and
twistings
together
,
appear
but
two
Bodies
crumpled
like
the
tendrels
of
a
Vine
,
white
and
pyramidal
,
and
rest
one
upon
the
right
,
the
other
on
the
left
Stone
,
piercing
the
very
tunicles
of
the
Stones
with
very
small
veins
,
and
so
disperse
themselves
all
through
the
bodies
of
the
Stones
.
The
substance
of
these
vessels
is
betwixt
that
of
the
stones
and
that
of
the
Veins
and
Arteries
,
being
neither
wholly
kernels
,
nor
wholly
skinny
;
their
office
is
,
by
their
several
twistings
,
to
mingle
the
vital
and
natural
blood
together
which
they
contain
,
and
by
vertue
they
borrow
from
the
Stones
,
to
change
the
colour
of
red
blood
into
a
matter
that
is
white
,
prepared
immediately
for
the
Stones
to
make
Seed
of
.
CHAP.
IV.
Of
the
Cods
,
or
rather
the
Stones
contained
therein
.
THe
Cods
is
as
it
were
a
purse
for
the
Stones
to
be
kept
in
with
the
seminary
Vessels
,
and
this
purse
is
divided
in
the
middle
with
a
thin
membrane
,
which
some
call
the
seam
,
and
may
be
seen
on
the
outside
of
the
Cods
,
making
a
kind
of
wrinkle
that
runs
all
along
the
length
of
it
,
and
just
in
the
middle
:
This
member
suffers
many
kinds
of
diseases
and
distempers
,
the
property
of
it
is
to
be
dilated
and
extended
,
by
which
means
there
arise
sundry
Ruptures
,
the
Watry
Uly
,
the
windy
,
the
Humoral
,
the
Fleshy
,
and
the
watry
ruptures
,
and
all
this
happens
by
reason
of
too
much
repletion
of
the
vessels
of
seed
caused
by
much
grosse
or
watry
bloud
.
Within
this
pursy
and
sobbing
and
chaking
of
the
stones
which
are
two
whole
kernels
like
to
the
kernels
of
womens
paps
,
their
figure
is
Oval
,
and
therefore
some
call
them
Eggs.
The
substance
of
the
Stones
hath
neither
blood
in
it
nor
feeling
;
yet
they
feel
exqusitely
by
reason
of
the
pannicles
,
and
each
stone
hath
two
Muscles
sticking
to
their
pannicles
,
to
lift
them
up
that
they
hang
not
too
loose
.
They
are
temperately
hot
and
moist
,
but
the
bloud
that
flowes
to
them
is
very
hot
,
by
which
means
they
draw
as
a
Limbeck
the
matter
of
seed
from
the
whole
Body
.
Physicians
place
them
amongst
the
Principal
parts
for
the
Generation
and
the
preservation
of
mankind
.
They
are
fastned
to
all
the
Principal
parts
by
Veins
,
Arteries
,
and
Pannicles
,
they
are
subject
to
mulplicity
of
diseases
and
distempers
.
They
are
wrapt
up
in
three
several
Coats
;
the
outermost
is
the
purse
or
Cod
common
to
them
both
,
it
differs
from
other
skin
that
covers
the
Body
,
because
other
skin
is
smooth
,
this
is
wrinkled
,
that
it
may
observe
the
motions
of
the
stones
,
to
extend
or
shrink
with
them
,
when
they
ascend
,
or
descend
:
they
ascend
in
time
of
copulation
,
but
in
all
violent
heats
,
or
Feavers
,
or
weakness
,
or
in
old
age
,
the
stones
hang
down
,
which
is
alwayes
a
very
strong
sign
of
much
damage
in
sickness
.
The
second
Coat
wraps
up
the
stones
as
the
first
purse
doth
,
but
the
second
wraps
them
nearer
,
and
is
not
so
wide
as
the
first
;
and
though
the
fleshy
pannicle
from
which
it
springs
be
thinner
here
than
any
where
else
,
yet
it
is
full
of
small
arteries
and
veins
,
that
carry
in
vital
&
natural
bloud
to
keep
the
stones
warm
,
which
are
of
themselves
a
very
cold
part
The
third
Coat
immediately
wraps
in
the
Stones
,
and
is
white
,
thick
,
and
strong
to
preserve
the
soft
and
loose
substance
of
the
Stones
.
Some
persons
there
are
,
yet
not
many
,
and
those
Monsters
in
nature
,
that
have
but
one
stone
,
and
some
three
stones
,
but
one
stone
is
oftener
than
three
;
and
unlesse
it
be
some
great
failing
in
Nature
,
I
rather
think
that
the
other
stone
lyeth
up
close
within
the
Body
,
as
sometimes
both
stones
do
,
and
do
not
come
down
into
the
Cod
till
such
an
age
,
or
at
certain
times
as
is
proved
by
experience
,
where
the
stones
lie
within
,
and
come
not
down
;
such
persons
are
more
prone
to
venery
,
because
the
stones
are
kept
warmer
than
when
they
appear
;
yet
the
stones
are
tyed
with
strings
that
are
long
and
slender
,
which
are
Muscles
that
hang
by
on
both
sides
,
to
keep
the
stones
from
being
overstretched
or
oppressing
the
passage
of
the
the
seminal
Vessels
;
if
any
ill
chance
befall
the
stones
then
these
Muscles
are
exceeding
sensible
of
pain
and
subject
to
swell
by
reason
of
it
.
The
left
stone
is
the
biggest
,
and
therefore
some
think
more
femals
are
begotten
than
males
,
and
the
right
is
the
hotter
and
breeds
the
stronger
Seed
,
and
therefore
it
is
generally
maintained
,
that
Boyes
are
begotten
from
the
right
stone
,
but
Girles
with
the
left
.
Those
that
have
hottest
stones
are
most
prone
to
Venery
:
and
their
stones
are
longer
and
harder
,
and
they
are
more
hairy
about
those
parts
especially
.
The
right
stone
is
the
hottest
in
all
,
because
it
receives
more
pure
and
Vital
blood
from
the
hollow
Vein
and
the
great
Artery
than
the
left
doth
,
which
receives
onely
a
watry
bloud
from
the
Emulgent
Vein
.
But
both
of
them
have
an
innate
quality
to
make
Seed
,
and
without
the
Stones
no
procreation
can
be
;
as
we
see
that
such
as
are
gelded
lose
the
faculty
of
Generation
,
though
they
want
nothing
else
but
their
stones
.
The
substance
of
the
stones
is
very
like
to
the
Seed
it self
,
moist
,
white
and
clammy
.
There
is
yet
another
Vessel
,
or
conduit
belonging
to
the
stones
,
which
is
called
the
Vessel
of
ejecting
,
or
casting
forth
of
the
Seed
,
it
comes
from
the
head
of
the
stones
to
the
root
of
the
yard
overthwart
the
stones
in
a
small
body
like
a
Silkworm
,
by
one
end
the
carrying
vessel
elutes
the
stones
,
and
carries
forth
the
seed
,
from
the
other
end
the
casters
forth
of
the
Seed
passeth
and
descends
to
the
bottom
of
the
stones
,
and
bends
back
again
and
is
knit
to
the
preparing
Vessels
,
and
returns
to
the
head
of
the
stones
,
and
so
goes
upward
till
it
touch
the
bone
of
the
small
guts
,
keeping
close
to
the
preparing
vessels
,
till
it
pierce
the
production
of
the
Hypogastrium
or
lower
belly
,
which
is
the
upper
part
of
the
place
where
the
hair
grows
above
the
Privities
;
it
reacheth
from
the
Navil
to
that
hair
,
and
so
it
runnes
from
thence
through
the
hollowness
of
the
hip
and
sides
between
the
bladder
and
the
straight
gut
,
till
it
come
as
far
as
the
forestanders
,
and
so
fixeth
it self
,
where
it
ends
at
the
root
of
the
Yard
where
it
begins
;
so
long
as
it
remains
amongst
the
Coats
of
the
stones
,
it
is
full
of
many
windings
forward
and
backward
,
but
near
the
end
it
hath
many
little
Bladders
like
Warts
.
CHAP.
V.
Of
the
carrying
Vessels
.
THe
carrying
Vessels
on
both
sides
,
are
certain
small
bladders
,
united
between
the
Bladder
and
the
right
Gut
,
the
last
of
them
,
with
the
seminary
Vessels
,
by
a
little
pipe
ends
in
the
forestanders
:
These
carry
and
conveigh
the
seed
that
is
first
fully
concocted
in
the
stones
,
by
the
great
heat
of
them
by
reason
of
the
vital
blood
that
is
brought
to
them
,
to
the
seminary
Vessels
which
are
to
hold
the
Seed
,
till
there
is
cause
to
cast
it
forth
.
They
are
but
two
white
nervous
sinews
,
obscure
,
hollow
Pipes
,
they
rise
from
the
Stones
to
the
Belly
not
far
from
the
preparing
Vessels
,
from
the
hollow
of
the
belly
they
return
and
go
to
the
backside
of
the
bladder
;
betwixt
that
and
the
right
gut
,
and
near
the
neck
of
the
bladder
they
are
joyned
to
the
Vessels
for
Seed
,
which
are
like
a
Honey-comb
;
these
Honey-combs
or
hollow
Cells
have
an
oyly
matter
in
them
,
for
they
attract
the
fatty
substance
from
the
Seed
,
and
that
they
send
forth
into
the
urinary
passage
chiefly
in
the
act
of
carnal
copulation
,
lest
the
thin
skin
of
the
Yard
,
which
is
very
quick
of
feeling
should
be
hurt
by
the
sharpness
of
the
Seed
.
The
carrying
Vessels
fall
at
last
into
the
vessels
ordain'd
to
the
Seed
till
there
is
use
for
it
.
The
carriers
strengthen
the
vessels
for
the
seed
,
and
are
storehouses
for
it
,
that
the
whole
store
be
not
wasted
in
one
act
;
you
shall
find
in
some
persons
enough
to
serve
for
severall
acts
of
copulation
.
They
are
hollow
and
round
to
contain
the
more
Seed
,
and
they
are
full
of
membrances
that
they
may
be
shortned
or
lengthened
as
the
Seed
is
more
or
less
in
quantity
,
and
are
full
of
meanders
and
turnings
,
that
the
seed
pass
not
away
without
a
mans
will
.
CHAP.
VI.
The
Vessels
for
seed
.
THe
Vessels
for
Seed
are
such
as
you
call
kernels
in
your
meat
,
we
call
them
here
forestanders
;
they
are
two
little
stones
seated
at
the
root
of
the
Yard
,
a
little
above
the
sphyaster
of
the
the
bladder
,
they
are
wrapt
up
with
a
skin
that
covers
them
,
they
seem
to
be
round
,
but
they
are
flat
behind
,
and
before
,
they
are
loose
and
spongy
as
kernels
usually
are
,
and
white
,
and
hard
,
in
some
persons
more
or
less
,
they
having
a
quick
feeling
to
stir
up
delight
in
Copulation
;
they
have
some
small
pipes
which
open
into
the
common
pipes
through
which
the
Seed
passeth
into
the
Yard
:
these
kernels
or
forestanders
being
pressed
by
the
lower
muscles
of
the
Yard
,
besides
the
oyly
fat
substance
they
defend
the
urinary
passage
by
,
they
also
defend
the
Vessels
that
carry
the
seed
to
them
,
lest
by
much
standing
and
stretching
of
the
Yard
the
carriers
of
seed
should
be
hurt
;
they
have
another
use
also
,
for
lying
between
the
bladder
and
the
right
gut
,
they
serve
for
cushions
for
the
vessels
to
rest
upon
,
to
keep
them
from
violent
pressing
,
and
this
is
the
cause
why
those
that
are
costive
and
cannot
easily
go
to
stool
,
when
they
strain
to
do
their
business
,
they
press
those
kernels
and
sometimes
void
some
Seed
,
and
also
must
needs
make
some
water
,
more
or
less
when
they
go
to
stool
.
These
kernels
compass
the
vessels
that
carry
the
seed
,
and
through
the
midst
of
these
passeth
the
water
or
Urine
pipe
,
or
common
passage
both
for
seed
and
Urine
,
or
conduit
of
the
Yard
.
At
the
mouth
of
this
conduit
where
the
carrying
vessels
meet
with
it
,
there
is
a
thin
skin
that
keeps
the
vessels
for
seed
that
are
like
a
spunge
in
nature
,
that
they
shed
not
forth
the
seed
against
mens
will
.
But
this
skin
is
full
of
holes
,
which
open
by
the
violent
heat
and
motion
in
Copulation
,
and
so
the
seed
finds
its
way
out
,
for
it
is
a
thin
spirit
,
and
the
rather
by
reason
of
motion
,
and
passes
like
Quicksilver
through
a
piece
of
leather
;
there
are
no
more
holes
to
be
seen
in
this
skin
than
in
a
piece
of
leather
,
unless
it
be
seen
in
some
persons
after
death
,
who
were
in
their
lifetime
troubled
with
a
great
running
of
the
Reins
as
it
is
called
,
but
properly
an
involuntary
shedding
of
the
Seed
,
because
these
holes
are
become
so
great
,
that
the
subtile
seed
cannot
be
kept
back
by
it
;
the
reins
are
to
part
the
Urine
from
the
blood
,
and
to
send
that
to
the
bladder
by
the
conduits
of
Urine
,
but
not
to
send
forth
seed
or
to
provide
it
,
that
is
the
work
of
the
stones
as
I
said
.
Yet
by
communication
of
parts
,
if
the
reins
be
much
offended
,
the
seminary
parts
cannot
perform
their
office
as
they
should
,
but
an
involuntary
shedding
of
Seed
will
follow
,
untill
such
time
as
the
reins
be
strengthened
and
cured
.
I
shall
give
onely
one
observation
and
so
conclude
this
Chapter
:
And
that
is
a
warning
to
all
that
cut
for
the
stone
in
the
bladder
,
of
what
age
soever
they
be
who
are
cut
;
oftentimes
in
drawing
forth
the
stone
they
so
rend
and
tear
the
seed
vessels
,
that
such
persons
are
never
able
to
beget
Children
,
they
may
hatch
the
Cuckows
Eggs
,
and
keep
other
mens
if
they
please
,
but
they
shall
never
get
any
themselves
;
these
kernels
are
a
hard
and
spungy
substance
near
as
great
as
a
Walnut
.
CHAP.
VII
.
Of
a
mans
yard
.
THe
Yard
is
as
it
were
the
Plow
wherewith
the
ground
is
tilled
,
and
made
fit
for
production
of
Fruit
:
we
see
that
some
fruitful
persons
have
a
Crop
by
it
almost
every
year
,
only
plowing
up
their
own
ground
,
and
live
more
plentifully
by
it
than
the
Countryman
can
with
all
his
toil
and
cost
:
&
some
there
are
that
plow
up
other
mens
ground
,
when
they
can
find
such
lascivious
women
that
will
pay
them
well
for
their
pains
,
to
their
shame
be
it
spoken
,
but
commonly
they
pay
dear
for
it
in
the
end
,
if
timely
they
repent
not
.
The
Yard
is
of
a
ligamental
substance
,
sinewy
and
hollow
as
a
spunge
,
having
some
muscles
to
help
it
in
its
several
postures
.
The
Yard
and
the
Tongue
have
more
great
Veins
and
Arteries
in
them
than
any
part
of
the
Body
for
their
bigness
;
by
these
porosities
,
by
help
of
Imagination
the
Yard
is
sometimes
raised
,
and
swels
with
a
windy
spirit
only
,
for
there
is
a
natural
inclination
and
force
by
which
it
is
raised
when
men
are
moved
to
Copulation
,
as
the
motion
is
natural
in
the
Heart
and
Arteries
;
true
it
is
that
in
these
motion
is
alwayes
necessary
,
but
the
Yard
moves
only
at
some
times
,
and
riseth
sometimes
to
small
purpose
.
It
stands
in
the
sharebone
in
the
middle
as
all
know
,
being
of
a
round
and
long
fashion
,
with
a
hollow
passage
within
it
,
through
which
passe
both
the
Urine
and
Seed
;
the
top
of
it
is
called
the
Head
or
Nut
of
the
Yard
,
and
there
it
is
compact
and
hard
,
&
not
very
quick
of
feeling
,
lest
it
should
suffer
pain
in
Copulation
;
there
is
a
soft
loose
skin
called
the
foreskin
which
covers
the
head
of
it
,
and
will
move
forward
and
backward
as
it
is
moved
;
this
foreskin
in
the
lower
part
only
in
the
middle
,
is
fastned
or
tyed
long
ways
to
the
greater
part
of
the
Head
of
the
Yard
by
a
certain
skinny
part
called
the
string
or
bridle
.
It
is
of
temperament
hot
and
moist
,
&
it
is
joined
to
the
middle
of
the
share
bone
,
and
with
the
Bladder
by
the
Conduit
pipe
that
carrieth
the
Urine
,
&
with
the
brain
by
Nerves
and
Muscles
that
come
to
the
skin
of
it
,
to
the
Heart
and
Liver
by
Veins
and
Arteries
that
come
from
them
.
The
Yard
hath
three
holes
or
Pipes
in
it
,
one
broad
one
and
that
is
common
to
the
Urine
and
Seed
,
and
two
small
ones
by
which
the
Seed
comes
into
the
common
long
Conduit
pipe
;
these
two
Arteries
or
Vessels
enter
into
this
pipe
in
the
place
called
the
Perinaeum
,
which
in
men
is
the
place
between
the
root
of
the
Yard
and
the
Arse-hole
or
Fundament
,
but
in
a
woman
it
is
the
place
between
that
and
the
cut
of
the
neck
of
the
womb
;
from
those
holes
to
the
Bladder
,
that
passage
is
called
the
neck
of
the
Bladder
,
and
from
thence
to
the
head
of
the
Yard
is
the
common
pipe
or
channel
of
the
Yard
.
The
Yard
hath
four
Muscles
,
two
towards
the
lower
part
on
both
sides
,
one
of
them
near
the
channel
or
pipe
of
the
Yard
,
and
these
are
extended
in
length
,
and
they
dilate
the
Yard
and
raise
it
up
,
that
the
Seed
may
with
ease
pass
through
it
:
two
other
muscles
there
are
that
come
from
the
root
of
it
near
the
share
bone
that
comes
slanting
toward
the
top
of
the
Yard
in
the
upper
part
of
it
,
when
these
are
stretched
the
Yard
riseth
,
and
when
they
slacken
then
it
falls
again
,
and
if
one
of
these
be
bent
and
the
other
be
not
,
the
Yard
bends
to
that
muscle
that
is
stretched
or
bent
.
If
the
Yard
be
of
a
moderate
size
,
not
too
long
,
nor
too
short
,
it
is
good
as
the
Tongue
is
,
but
if
the
Yard
be
too
long
,
the
spirits
in
the
seed
flee
away
;
if
it
be
too
short
,
it
cannot
carry
the
Seed
home
to
the
place
it
should
do
.
The
Yard
also
serveth
to
empty
the
Bladder
of
the
water
in
it
,
and
that
is
easily
proved
by
a
Louse
put
into
the
pipe
of
the
Yard
,
which
by
biting
will
cause
one
to
make
water
when
the
Urine
is
supprest
.
The
foreskin
was
made
to
defend
the
Yard
that
is
tender
,
and
to
cause
delight
in
Copulation
;
the
Jews
were
commanded
to
cut
it
off
.
Many
diseases
are
incident
to
the
Yard
,
but
a
priapisme
or
standing
of
the
Yard
continually
by
reason
of
a
windy
matter
,
is
a
disease
that
properly
belongs
to
this
part
,
and
is
very
dangerous
sometimes
.
The
Yard
of
a
man
is
not
bony
,
as
in
Dogs
,
and
Wolves
,
and
Foxes
;
nor
gristly
,
for
then
it
could
not
stand
and
fall
as
need
is
;
it
is
make
of
Skins
,
Brawns
,
Tendons
,
Veins
,
Arteries
,
Sinews
,
and
great
Ligaments
;
yet
not
so
full
of
Veins
but
it
may
be
emptyed
and
filled
again
,
nor
so
full
of
Arteries
as
to
beat
alwayes
,
yet
you
shall
find
it
beat
sometimes
;
it
consists
not
of
Nerves
for
they
are
not
hollow
enough
for
the
passages
,
but
it
is
compounded
of
a
peculiar
substance
that
is
not
found
in
any
other
part
of
the
body
;
the
place
of
it
,
as
I
said
,
begins
at
the
share-bone
,
and
it
is
fast
knit
to
the
Yard
between
the
Cods
and
the
Fundament
,
so
that
there
is
a
seam
that
comes
up
along
the
Cods
and
parts
them
in
the
midst
between
the
Stones
.
The
Yard
is
not
perfectly
round
,
but
is
somewhat
broad
on
the
back
or
upperside
,
it
differs
a
little
in
some
from
others
;
the
situation
of
it
is
so
peculiar
to
Men
,
that
they
have
herein
a
preeminence
above
all
other
creatures
.
Some
men
,
but
chiefly
fools
,
have
Yards
so
long
that
they
are
useless
for
generation
.
It
is
generally
held
,
that
the
length
or
proportion
of
the
Yard
depends
upon
cutting
the
Navel
string
,
if
you
cut
it
too
short
and
knit
it
too
close
in
Infants
it
will
be
too
short
,
because
of
the
string
that
comes
from
the
Navel
to
the
bottom
of
the
bladder
,
which
draws
up
the
Bladder
and
shortnes
the
Yard
:
and
this
beside
the
general
opinion
,
stands
with
so
much
reason
,
that
all
Midwives
have
cause
to
be
careful
to
cut
the
Navel
string
long
enough
,
that
when
they
tye
it
,
the
Yard
may
have
free
liberty
to
move
and
extend
it self
,
alwayes
remembring
that
moderation
is
best
,
that
it
be
not
left
too
long
,
which
may
be
as
bad
as
too
short
.
There
are
six
parts
to
be
observed
of
which
the
Yard
consists
:
1.
Two
sinewy
bodies
.
2.
A
sinewy
substance
to
hold
up
the
two
side
Ligaments
and
the
urinary
passage
.
3.
The
Urinary
passage
it self
.
4.
The
Nut
of
the
Yard
.
5.
The
four
Muscles
;
and
6.
The
Vessels
.
The
two
sinewy
bodies
are
really
two
though
they
are
joined
together
,
they
are
long
and
hard
,
within
they
are
spongy
and
full
of
black
blood
,
the
spongy
substance
within
seems
to
be
woven
network
,
and
is
made
of
numberless
Veins
and
Arteries
,
and
the
black
blood
that
is
contained
in
them
is
full
of
spirits
.
Motion
and
leisure
in
Copulation
heats
them
,
and
makes
the
Yard
to
stand
,
and
so
will
imagination
;
the
hollow
weaving
of
them
together
was
to
hold
the
spirits
as
long
as
may
be
that
the
Yard
fall
not
down
before
it
hath
performed
the
work
of
nature
.
These
side
ligaments
of
the
Yard
where
they
are
thick
and
round
,
spring
from
the
lower
part
of
the
share-bone
,
and
not
the
upper
part
as
Galen
supposed
.
At
the
beginning
they
are
parted
and
resemble
a
pair
of
Horns
or
the
Letter
Y
,
where
the
common
pipe
for
Urine
and
Seed
goes
between
them
.
It
is
thus
manifest
that
the
greatest
part
of
the
Yard
is
made
of
two
sinewy
parts
,
one
of
them
of
each
side
,
and
they
both
end
at
the
top
of
the
head
of
the
Yard
,
they
come
from
two
beginnings
and
lean
upon
the
hip
under
the
share-bone
,
and
so
run
on
to
the
Nut
of
the
Yard
.
Also
their
substance
is
double
,
the
outside
is
sinewy
,
hard
and
thick
,
the
inside
black
,
soft
,
loose
,
spongy
and
thin
,
they
are
joined
by
a
thin
and
sinewy
skin
,
which
is
strengthened
by
some
slanting
small
Veins
placed
there
like
to
a
Weavers
Shuttle
;
they
are
parted
at
their
first
rising
to
make
way
for
the
water
pipe
,
but
they
are
joined
about
the
middle
of
the
share-bone
,
and
there
they
lose
near
a
third
part
of
their
sinewy
substance
.
The
use
of
these
two
sinewy
bodies
that
make
the
yard
,
is
for
the
vital
spirits
to
run
through
the
thin
parts
of
them
and
fill
the
Yard
with
spirits
,
and
they
are
so
thick
and
compact
,
and
strong
on
the
outside
;
that
they
hinder
these
spirits
from
breaking
suddenly
away
,
for
should
they
flee
out
,
the
Yard
will
stand
no
longer
but
presently
fall
down
.
In
the
inside
of
the
substance
of
the
Yard
which
is
wrapt
about
by
the
outward
sinewy
substance
there
is
seen
a
thin
and
tender
artery
coming
from
the
root
of
the
Yard
,
and
runs
quite
through
the
whole
loose
substance
of
it
:
Besides
these
there
is
a
Conduit
pipe
placed
at
the
lower
part
of
the
Yard
that
serves
both
for
Seed
and
Urine
to
be
put
forth
by
,
as
common
to
them
both
,
and
it
runs
through
the
middle
of
the
foresaid
two
sinewy
bodies
,
and
is
of
the
same
substance
with
them
,
and
is
loose
and
thick
,
soft
and
tender
,
and
runs
equally
in
all
respects
from
the
neck
of
the
bladder
to
the
top
of
the
Yard
,
only
it
is
something
larger
where
it
begins
than
where
it
ends
at
the
top
of
the
Nut.
This
pipe
at
first
,
as
I
said
,
hath
three
holes
where
it
riseth
from
the
neck
of
the
bladder
,
that
in
the
middle
is
wider
than
the
other
two
pipes
or
holes
are
which
stand
on
both
sides
of
it
,
and
which
are
derived
from
the
passage
that
comes
from
the
Seed
Vessels
,
and
they
carry
the
Seed
into
this
great
pipe
.
In
this
great
pipe
where
it
is
fastened
to
the
Nut
of
the
Yard
,
and
with
the
two
sinewy
bodies
,
there
is
a
little
hollow
place
wherein
when
a
man
is
troubled
with
the
running
of
the
Reins
by
reason
of
the
Pox
,
some
corrupt
Seed
or
sharp
matter
lyeth
,
which
occasions
great
pains
and
Ulcers
,
and
sometimes
the
Chirurgeon
is
forced
to
cut
off
the
top
of
the
Yard
;
and
sometimes
from
these
Ulcers
there
will
grow
a
piece
of
flesh
in
the
Yards
passage
for
Urine
,
which
hinders
the
Urine
that
it
cannot
come
forth
till
that
piece
of
flesh
be
taken
away
by
conveighing
something
into
that
Urinary
passage
that
may
eat
it
off
.
There
is
one
thing
more
worth
taking
notice
of
by
Chirurgions
,
concerning
this
pipe
or
Urinary
passage
,
that
from
the
place
where
it
begins
and
goes
forward
from
the
neck
of
the
bladder
to
the
spermatick
Vessels
and
forestanders
,
that
there
is
a
thin
and
very
tender
skin
which
is
of
a
most
acute
feeling
,
and
to
stir
up
delight
in
the
act
of
Venery
,
and
it
will
make
the
Yard
stand
upon
any
delightsome
thoughts
or
desires
.
If
the
Chirurgions
be
not
careful
when
they
thrust
the
springs
in
near
that
place
,
they
will
soon
break
this
skin
and
undoe
their
Patient
.
This
common
pipe
comes
from
the
neck
of
the
bladder
,
that
is
,
it
begins
there
,
but
it
doth
not
take
its
being
from
it
;
for
boyl
the
bladder
of
any
creature
,
and
it
will
part
from
it
whereby
it
is
plain
,
that
it
is
only
join'd
to
it
,
and
so
runs
on
to
the
Nut
of
the
Yard
.
CHAP.
VIII
.
The
Nut
of
the
Yard
.
THe
Nut
is
a
piece
of
soft
thin
brawny
flesh
,
that
it
may
do
no
hurt
to
the
Womb
when
it
enters
;
it
is
full
of
spirits
and
blood
,
very
quick
and
tender
of
feeling
,
yet
will
endure
to
be
touched
;
the
skin
of
it
is
very
pure
thin
skin
;
and
if
it
be
broken
or
rub'd
off
,
it
will
soon
grow
again
,
but
if
the
body
of
it
be
hurt
in
the
fleshy
part
,
or
once
lost
,
it
will
never
grow
again
;
it
is
a
little
sharp
at
the
end
,
and
made
like
to
a
top
,
that
it
may
enter
the
better
;
it
is
fastened
as
I
told
you
,
to
the
foreskin
or
the
lower
part
with
a
ligament
or
bridle
,
which
is
sometimes
so
streight
tied
,
and
is
so
strong
,
that
it
will
pull
the
head
of
the
Yard
backwards
when
it
stands
;
but
it
is
usually
broken
,
or
gives
way
the
first
time
that
a
man
lyeth
with
a
woman
,
for
the
combate
is
then
doubtless
so
furious
,
that
a
man
feels
no
pain
of
it
by
reason
of
the
abundance
of
pleasure
that
takes
it
off
,
otherwise
doubtless
the
part
is
so
quick
of
feeling
,
that
no
man
were
able
to
endure
it
.
CHAP.
IX
.
The
Muscles
of
the
Yard
.
A
Muscle
is
an
Instrument
for
voluntary
motion
,
for
without
that
no
part
were
in
a
capacity
to
move
it self
.
There
is
a
little
Book
lately
set
forth
and
is
well
worth
the
reading
,
concerning
the
reason
of
the
motion
of
the
Muscles
.
Of
these
Muscles
the
Yard
hath
four
,
two
on
each
side
to
give
motion
to
it
.
These
Muscles
are
a
fibrous
flesh
to
make
up
their
body
;
they
have
sinews
for
feeling
,
veins
for
nourishment
,
Arteries
for
vital
blood
,
a
skin
to
cover
them
,
and
to
part
one
Muscle
from
another
,
and
all
of
them
from
the
flesh
,
you
may
if
you
please
easily
discern
them
in
a
leg
of
a
Rabbit
.
Of
each
side
of
the
Yard
,
one
of
these
Muscles
is
shorter
and
thicker
than
the
others
are
,
and
they
serve
to
raise
the
Yard
and
to
make
it
stand
,
and
are
therefore
called
raisers
or
erecters
;
the
other
two
are
longer
and
smaller
,
and
they
open
the
lower
part
of
the
Urinary
pipe
both
when
men
make
water
,
and
when
they
cast
forth
the
Seed
,
and
are
therefore
called
hasteners
,
because
they
dispatch
and
hasten
the
work
;
one
pair
of
these
Muscles
comes
from
a
part
of
the
hip
near
the
beginning
of
the
Yard
;
besides
that
they
raise
the
Yard
to
make
it
stand
,
they
also
bend
the
fore
part
of
the
Yard
to
be
thrust
into
the
womb
,
so
that
all
things
are
so
exactly
fitted
by
nature
,
that
a
blind
man
cannot
miss
it
.
The
two
longer
Muscles
come
from
the
sphincter
of
the
Fundament
,
and
are
of
a
more
fleshy
substance
;
and
are
full
as
long
as
the
Yard
,
under
which
they
go
downward
ending
at
the
side
of
the
water
pipe
about
the
middle
of
the
Yard
;
were
it
not
for
these
large
Muscles
to
open
the
conduit
pipe
,
the
passage
would
be
stopt
by
repletion
of
nervy
bodies
,
both
when
men
should
make
water
,
or
cast
out
the
Seed
:
They
also
hold
the
Yard
firm
,
that
it
lean
not
to
either
side
,
and
serve
farther
to
press
forth
the
Seed
out
of
the
forestanders
,
all
helping
to
the
sudden
and
forceable
casting
it
out
in
time
of
Copulation
,
lest
the
spirits
fly
away
and
the
Seed
prove
unfruitful
.
There
are
all
manner
of
Vessels
in
the
Yard
,
as
Veins
,
Nerves
,
Arteries
,
yet
Columbus
tells
us
,
that
Vesalius
a
great
Anatomist
,
maintains
that
there
is
neither
Vein
,
nor
Nerve
in
it
,
which
is
very
false
,
for
there
are
some
Veins
and
Arteries
to
be
seen
in
the
outward
skin
of
the
Yard
,
others
are
within
,
and
there
the
Arteries
are
far
more
than
the
Veins
,
and
are
dispersed
through
the
whole
body
of
the
Yard
.
The
right
Artery
runs
to
the
left
side
of
it
,
and
the
left
to
the
right
side
,
the
veins
that
appear
on
the
outside
of
it
,
and
on
the
foreskin
,
come
from
the
under
belly
;
and
these
Veins
do
swell
with
a
frothy
blood
when
the
Yard
begins
to
stand
.
It
hath
also
two
sinews
,
the
lesser
of
the
two
goes
upon
the
skin
,
the
greater
upon
the
muscles
and
body
of
the
Yard
.
These
sinews
scatter
themselves
from
the
marrow
of
that
bone
which
is
called
the
holy
bone
,
and
they
pass
quite
through
the
Yard
,
and
cause
exceeding
great
delight
when
the
Yard
stands
,
and
they
prick
forward
in
the
action
of
Venery
.
The
Yard
is
stretched
and
made
to
swell
by
reason
of
fulness
of
Seed
and
plenty
of
wind
,
and
therefore
all
windy
meats
,
as
Pulse
,
Beans
,
and
Pease
and
the
like
,
will
make
the
Yard
stand
,
and
sometimes
they
cause
a
priapisme
or
continual
standing
of
the
Yard
,
which
will
be
more
troublesome
than
if
it
should
never
stand
at
all
.
It
is
not
to
be
imagined
what
pains
some
have
undergone
,
who
by
indiscreet
taking
of
Cantharides
have
fallen
into
this
grievous
distemper
,
wherefore
I
would
wish
men
to
take
heed
lest
they
pay
for
it
at
last
,
for
the
Proverb
is
commonly
true
,
sweet
meat
must
have
sour
sawce
.
Sometimes
the
bladder
is
full
of
Urine
,
and
the
veins
are
very
hot
which
make
the
Yard
to
rise
.
The
Yard
is
placed
betwixt
the
thighs
,
that
it
may
stand
the
stronger
to
perform
its
work
with
all
the
force
a
man
is
able
,
and
at
the
lower
end
of
it
to
add
more
strength
it
is
more
fleshy
,
and
that
flesh
is
musculous
,
and
besides
that
it
hath
two
muscles
as
I
said
on
both
sides
to
poise
it
equally
when
it
stands
,
they
are
indeed
but
small
muscles
yet
they
are
exceeding
strong
.
The
skin
of
the
Yard
is
long
and
loose
that
it
may
swell
or
slack
as
the
Yard
doth
,
and
the
foreskin
of
that
skin
sometimes
covers
the
head
of
the
Yard
,
and
sometimes
goes
so
far
back
that
it
will
not
come
forward
again
.
This
skin
in
time
of
the
Venerious
action
,
keeps
the
mouth
of
the
womb
close
that
no
cold
air
get
in
,
yet
some
think
the
action
migh
be
better
performed
without
it
;
the
Jews
indeed
were
commanded
to
be
Circumcised
,
but
now
Circumcision
a
vails
not
&
is
forbidden
by
the
Apostle
.
I
hope
no
man
will
be
so
void
of
reason
and
Religion
,
as
to
be
Circumcised
to
make
trial
which
of
these
two
opinions
is
the
best
;
but
the
world
was
never
without
some
mad
men
,
who
will
do
any
thing
to
be
singular
:
were
the
foreskin
any
hindrance
to
procreation
or
pleasure
,
nature
had
never
made
it
,
who
made
all
things
for
these
very
ends
and
purposes
.
The
top
of
the
Nut
hath
a
hole
for
the
Urine
and
Seed
to
come
forth
by
,
and
nature
hath
made
a
little
round
circle
at
the
bottom
of
the
Nut
,
with
a
fit
jetting
out
from
the
body
of
the
Yard
,
and
when
the
Yard
casts
the
Seed
into
the
Womb
,
the
neck
of
the
womb
with
her
own
slanting
fibres
lays
hold
of
it
and
embraceth
it
,
and
by
this
circle
the
Seed
is
kept
in
the
womb
that
it
cannot
fly
out
again
.
The
Nut
of
the
Yard
,
when
it
is
half
covered
with
the
foreskin
,
looks
like
an
Acorn
in
the
Cup
,
and
therefore
some
call
it
Glans
,
which
in
Latin
signifies
an
Acorn
,
in
this
Acorn
or
Nut
of
the
Yard
lyeth
all
the
pleasure
of
Copulation
,
so
that
if
the
Nut
were
gone
,
many
think
there
could
be
no
more
tickling
or
moving
in
the
Seed
,
but
all
fruitful
Copulation
would
be
lost
,
or
at
least
there
would
be
no
pleasure
in
the
act
of
Generation
,
though
the
Stones
might
move
a
desire
to
it
by
transmitting
of
the
Seed
which
is
made
by
them
.
Let
men
be
careful
then
how
they
enter
too
far
,
for
it
will
be
hard
to
say
which
were
the
greater
loss
,
of
the
Stones
or
the
Nut.
CHAP.
X.
Of
the
Generation
or
Privy
parts
in
Women
.
MAn
in
the
act
of
procreation
is
the
agent
and
tiller
and
sower
of
the
Ground
,
Woman
is
the
Patient
or
Ground
to
be
tilled
,
who
brings
Seed
also
as
well
as
the
Man
to
sow
the
ground
with
.
I
am
now
to
proceed
to
speak
of
this
ground
or
Field
which
is
the
Womans
womb
,
and
the
parts
that
serve
to
this
work
:
we
women
have
no
more
cause
to
be
angry
,
or
be
ashamed
of
what
Nature
hath
given
us
than
men
have
,
we
cannot
be
without
ours
no
more
than
they
can
want
theirs
.
The
things
most
considerable
to
be
spoken
to
are
,
1.
The
neck
of
the
womb
or
privy
entrance
.
2.
The
womb
it self
.
3.
The
Stones
.
4.
The
Vessels
of
Seed
.
At
the
bottom
of
the
womans
belly
is
a
little
bank
called
a
mountain
of
pleasure
near
the
well-spring
,
and
the
place
where
the
hair
coming
forth
shews
Virgins
to
be
ready
for
procreation
,
in
some
far
younger
than
others
;
some
are
more
forward
at
twelve
years
than
some
at
sixteen
years
of
age
,
as
they
are
hotter
and
riper
in
constitution
.
Under
this
hill
is
the
spring-head
,
which
is
a
passage
having
two
lips
set
about
with
hair
as
the
upper
part
is
:
I
shall
give
you
a
brief
account
of
the
parts
of
it
,
both
within
and
without
,
and
of
the
likeness
and
proportion
between
the
Generative
parts
in
both
sexes
.
CHAP.
XI
.
Of
the
Womb.
THe
Matrix
or
Womb
hath
two
parts
,
the
great
hollow
part
within
,
and
the
neck
that
leads
to
it
,
and
it
is
a
member
made
by
Nature
for
propagation
of
children
.
The
substance
of
the
concavity
of
it
is
sinewy
,
mingled
with
flesh
,
so
that
it
is
not
very
quick
of
feeling
,
it
is
covered
with
a
sinewy
Coat
that
it
may
stretch
in
time
of
Copulation
,
and
may
give
way
when
the
Child
is
to
be
born
;
when
it
takes
in
the
Seed
from
Man
the
whole
concavity
moves
towards
the
Center
,
and
embraceth
it
,
and
toucheth
it
with
both
its
sides
.
The
substance
of
the
neck
of
it
is
musculous
and
gristly
with
some
fat
,
and
it
hath
one
wrinkle
upon
another
,
and
these
cause
pleasure
in
the
time
of
Copulation
;
this
part
is
very
quick
of
feeling
.
The
concavity
or
hollow
of
it
is
called
the
Womb
,
or
house
for
the
infant
to
lie
in
.
Between
the
neck
and
the
Womb
there
is
a
skinny
fleshy
substance
within
,
quick
of
feeling
,
hollow
in
the
middle
,
that
will
open
and
shut
,
called
the
Mouth
of
the
Womb
and
it
is
like
the
head
of
a
Tench
,
or
of
a
young
Kitten
;
it
opens
naturally
in
Copulation
,
in
voiding
menstrous
blood
,
and
in
child-birth
;
but
at
other
times
,
especially
when
a
woman
is
with
Child
,
it
shuts
so
close
,
that
the
smallest
needle
cannot
get
in
but
by
force
.
The
neck
is
long
,
round
,
hollow
,
at
first
it
is
no
wider
than
a
mans
Yard
makes
it
,
but
in
maids
,
much
less
.
About
the
middle
of
it
is
a
Pannicle
called
the
Virgin
Pannicle
,
made
like
a
net
with
many
fine
ligaments
and
Veins
,
but
a
woman
loseth
it
in
the
first
act
,
for
it
is
then
broken
.
At
the
end
of
the
neck
there
are
small
skins
which
are
called
foreskins
;
within
the
neck
,
a
little
toward
the
share
bone
,
there
is
a
short
entrance
,
whose
orifice
is
shut
with
certain
fleshy
and
skinny
additions
,
whereby
,
and
by
the
aforesaid
foreskin
,
the
air
coming
between
,
they
make
a
hissing
noise
when
they
make
water
.
The
figure
of
the
concavity
of
the
Womb
is
four-quare
,
with
some
roundness
,
and
hollow
below
like
a
bladder
.
There
is
towards
the
neck
of
the
Womb
on
both
sides
a
strong
ligament
near
the
hanches
,
binding
the
womb
to
the
back
,
they
are
like
a
Snails
horns
,
and
therefore
are
called
the
horns
of
the
womb
.
About
these
horns
there
is
one
Stone
on
each
side
,
harder
and
smaller
than
Mens
stones
,
and
not
perfectly
round
,
but
flat
like
an
Almond
;
Seed
is
bred
in
them
,
not
thick
and
hot
as
in
Men
,
but
cold
Watry
seed
.
These
Stones
have
not
one
purse
to
hold
them
both
as
Mens
stones
have
,
but
each
of
them
hath
a
covering
of
its
own
that
springs
from
the
Peritoneum
,
binding
them
about
,
the
horns
and
each
of
them
hath
a
small
muscle
to
move
them
by
.
The
foresaid
Seed-Vessels
are
plainted
in
these
Stones
,
and
are
called
preparing
Vessels
,
descending
from
the
Liver
Vein
,
the
great
Artery
and
the
Emulgent
Veins
;
then
there
are
other
Vessels
called
carriers
,
that
continually
dilate
themselves
and
proceed
as
far
as
the
concavity
of
the
womb
,
where
it
is
joyned
to
the
neck
,
and
they
carry
the
Seed
to
the
hollow
of
the
Womb.
The
many
Orifices
of
these
Vessels
are
called
Cups
,
the
menstruous
blood
runs
forth
by
them
▪
and
the
Infant
suck's
its
nutriment
from
them
by
the
Veins
and
Arteries
of
the
Navel
,
that
are
joyned
to
these
Cups
.
A
Woman
hath
no
forestanders
,
for
a
womans
Vessels
are
soft
,
and
do
not
hurt
the
stones
as
they
would
do
in
Men
because
they
are
so
hard
.
The
whole
Matrix
considered
with
the
stones
and
Seed
Vessels
,
is
like
to
a
mans
Yard
and
privities
,
but
Mens
parts
for
Generation
are
compleat
and
appear
outwardly
by
reason
of
heat
,
but
womens
are
not
so
compleat
,
and
are
made
within
by
reason
of
their
small
heat
.
The
Matrix
is
like
the
Yard
turned
inside
outward
,
for
the
neck
of
the
womb
is
as
the
Yard
,
and
the
hollow
of
it
with
its
receivers
,
and
Vessels
,
and
Stones
,
are
like
the
Cods
,
for
the
Cods
turned
in
have
a
hollowness
,
and
within
the
womb
lye
the
Stones
and
seed
Vessels
,
but
Mens
stones
and
Vessels
are
larger
.
The
place
of
the
cut
of
the
Matrix
is
between
the
Fundament
and
the
share-hone
,
and
the
place
between
both
Arteries
,
is
called
the
Peritoneum
.
The
neck
from
the
cut
by
the
belly
goeth
upward
as
far
as
the
womb
,
and
the
place
of
it
is
between
the
right
Gut
and
the
bladder
;
all
these
are
placed
at
length
in
the
cavity
of
the
belly
.
The
womb
is
small
in
Maids
,
and
less
than
their
bladder
,
neither
is
the
hollow
compleat
,
but
groweth
bigger
as
the
body
doth
.
In
Maids
of
ripe
years
it
is
not
much
bigger
than
you
can
comprehend
in
your
hand
;
unless
when
they
come
to
be
with
Child
,
yet
it
grows
by
reason
of
their
courses
.
The
sides
of
it
are
fleshy
,
hard
,
and
thick
,
but
when
a
Woman
is
with
Child
it
is
stretched
out
and
made
thin
and
seems
more
sinewy
,
and
then
it
riseth
toward
the
Navel
more
or
less
accordding
as
the
Child
is
in
bigness
.
It
hath
but
one
hollow
Cell
,
yet
this
at
the
bottom
is
in
some
manner
divided
into
two
,
as
if
there
were
two
wombs
fastened
to
one
neck
.
For
the
most
part
Boys
are
bred
in
the
right
side
of
it
,
and
Girles
in
the
left
.
It
joyns
to
the
Brain
by
Nerves
,
to
the
Heart
by
Arteries
,
to
the
Liver
and
Lightes
by
Veins
,
to
the
right
Gut
by
Pannicles
,
to
the
bladder
by
the
neck
of
it
;
which
neck
is
short
,
and
comes
not
forth
as
Mens
do
;
it
is
joyned
to
the
hanches
by
the
hornes
,
the
concavity
of
it
is
loose
every
way
,
and
therefore
it
will
fall
to
the
sides
,
and
sometimes
it
will
come
all
forth
of
the
body
by
the
neck
of
it
.
Perhaps
it
is
no
error
to
say
the
Wombs
are
two
,
because
there
are
two
cavities
like
two
hollow
hands
touching
one
the
other
,
both
covered
with
one
Pannicle
,
and
both
end
in
one
channel
;
No
Man
that
sees
a
womb
can
well
discern
it
unless
he
be
well
skiled
in
the
Aspects
,
concerning
limbs
,
and
shadows
,
whereby
Physicians
are
much
helped
in
many
practices
as
well
as
other
Artificers
.
The
womb
by
reason
of
that
which
flows
to
it
,
is
hot
and
moist
.
It
is
of
great
use
to
cleanse
the
body
from
superfluous
blood
,
but
chiefly
to
preserve
the
Child
.
It
is
subject
to
all
diseases
,
and
the
whole
womb
may
be
taken
forth
when
it
is
corrupted
,
as
I
have
seen
,
and
yet
the
woman
may
live
in
good
health
when
it
is
all
cut
away
.
In
the
year
of
our
Lord
1520
,
upon
the
5th
.
of
October
,
Domianus
a
Chirurgion
,
cut
out
a
whole
womb
from
one
called
Gentil
,
the
wife
of
Christopher
Briant
of
Millan
,
in
the
presence
of
many
Learned
Doctors
,
and
other
Students
:
and
that
woman
did
afterwards
follow
her
ordinary
business
,
and
as
she
and
her
Husband
confest
and
reported
,
she
kept
company
with
her
husband
,
and
cast-forth
Seed
in
Copulation
,
and
had
her
monthly
courses
as
she
was
wont
to
have
before
.
CHAP.
XII
.
Of
the
likeness
of
the
Privities
of
both
sexes
.
BUt
to
handle
these
things
more
particularly
,
Galen
saith
that
women
have
all
the
parts
of
Generation
that
Men
have
,
but
Mens
are
outwardly
,
womens
inwardly
.
The
womb
is
like
to
a
mans
Cod
,
turned
the
inside
outward
,
and
thrust
inward
between
the
bladder
and
the
right
Gut
,
for
then
the
stones
which
were
in
the
Cod
,
will
stick
on
the
outsides
of
it
,
so
that
what
was
a
Cod
before
will
be
a
Matrix
,
so
the
neck
of
the
womb
which
is
the
passage
for
the
Yard
to
enter
,
resembleth
a
Yard
turned
inwards
,
for
they
are
both
one
length
,
onely
they
differ
like
a
pipe
,
and
the
case
for
it
;
so
then
it
is
plain
,
that
when
the
woman
conceives
,
the
same
members
are
made
in
both
sexes
,
but
the
Child
proves
to
be
a
Boy
or
a
Girle
as
the
Seed
is
in
temper
;
and
the
parts
are
either
thrust
forth
by
heat
,
or
kept
in
for
want
of
heat
;
so
a
woman
is
not
so
perfect
as
a
Man
,
because
her
heat
is
weaker
,
but
the
Man
can
do
nothing
without
the
woman
to
beget
Children
,
though
some
idle
Coxcombs
will
needs
undertake
to
shew
how
Children
may
be
had
without
use
of
the
woman
.
CHAP.
XIII
.
Of
the
secrets
of
the
Female
sex
,
and
first
of
the
privy
passage
.
SEven
things
are
here
to
be
observed
:
1.
The
Lips.
2.
The
Wings
.
3.
The
Clitoris
.
4.
The
passage
for
Urine
.
5.
The
four
fleshy
Knobs
.
6.
The
membrane
,
or
sinewy
skin
that
joynes
these
four
fleshy
knobs
together
.
7.
The
neck
of
the
womb
.
The
Lips
,
or
Laps
of
the
Privities
are
outwardly
seen
,
and
they
are
made
of
the
common
coverings
of
the
body
,
having
some
spongy
fat
,
both
are
to
keep
the
inward
parts
from
cold
,
and
that
nothing
get
in
to
offend
the
womb
;
some
call
this
the
womans
modesty
,
for
they
are
a
double
door
like
Flood-gates
to
shut
and
open
:
the
neck
of
the
womb
ends
in
this
,
and
it
is
as
it
were
a
skinny
addition
,
for
covering
of
the
neck
,
answering
to
the
foreskin
of
a
Mans
yard
.
These
Lips
which
make
the
fissure
of
the
outward
orifice
,
are
long
,
soft
,
of
a
skinny
and
fleshy
substance
;
in
some
kind
spongy
and
like
kernels
,
with
a
hard
brawny
fat
under
them
,
and
they
are
covered
with
a
thin
skin
;
but
in
those
women
that
are
married
,
they
lye
lower
and
smoother
than
in
maids
;
when
maids
are
ripe
they
are
full
of
hair
that
grows
upon
them
,
but
they
are
more
curled
in
women
than
the
hair
of
Maids
.
They
that
have
much
hair
and
very
young
are
much
given
to
venery
.
The
wings
appear
when
the
Lips
are
parted
,
and
they
are
made
of
soft
spongy
flesh
,
and
the
doubling
of
the
skin
,
placed
at
the
sides
of
the
neck
,
these
compass
the
Clitoris
,
and
are
like
a
Cocks
Comb.
These
wings
besides
the
great
pleasure
they
give
women
in
Copulation
,
are
to
defend
the
Matrix
from
outward
violence
,
and
serve
to
the
orifice
of
the
neck
of
the
womb
as
the
foreskin
doth
to
a
mans
Yard
,
for
they
shut
the
cleft
with
lips
as
it
were
,
and
preserve
the
womb
from
cold
air
and
all
injuries
:
and
they
direct
the
Urine
through
the
large
passage
,
as
between
two
walls
,
receiving
it
from
the
bottom
of
the
cleft
like
a
Tunnel
,
and
so
it
runs
forth
in
a
broad
stream
and
a
hissing
noise
,
not
so
much
as
wetting
the
wings
of
the
Lap
as
it
goes
along
;
and
therefore
these
wings
are
called
Nymphs
,
because
they
joyn
to
the
passage
of
the
Urine
,
and
the
neck
of
the
womb
,
out
of
which
as
out
of
Fountains
,
whereof
the
Nymphs
were
called
Goddesses
,
water
and
humours
do
flow
,
&
besides
in
them
is
all
the
joy
and
delight
of
Venus
.
Those
parts
that
are
seen
without
are
the
Lips
,
the
slit
,
and
the
groin
,
but
so
soon
as
the
Lips
are
divided
there
are
three
slits
to
be
seen
,
the
greatest
is
the
outmost
and
is
first
seen
,
and
there
are
two
less
slits
between
the
wings
,
which
serve
to
close
up
the
parts
the
more
firmly
.
But
that
which
is
the
great
and
long
slit
,
is
made
by
the
Lips
,
and
bends
backward
toward
the
Fundament
from
the
share-bone
downward
toward
the
slit
of
of
the
buttocks
,
and
the
more
backward
it
goes
the
deeper
and
broader
it
is
,
and
so
it
makes
a
trench
like
a
Boat
,
and
ends
in
the
welt
of
the
orifice
of
the
neck
of
the
womb
.
The
Clitoris
is
a
sinewy
hard
body
,
full
of
spongy
and
black
matter
within
it
,
as
it
is
in
the
side
ligaments
of
a
mans
Yard
,
and
this
Clitoris
will
stand
and
fall
as
the
Yard
doth
,
&
makes
women
lustfull
and
take
delight
in
Copulation
,
and
were
it
not
for
this
they
would
have
no
desire
nor
delight
,
nor
would
they
ever
conceive
.
Some
think
that
Hermaphrodites
are
only
women
that
have
their
Clitoris
greater
,
and
hanging
out
more
than
others
have
,
and
so
shew
like
a
Mans
Yard
,
and
it
is
so
called
,
for
it
is
a
small
exuberation
in
the
upper
,
forward
,
and
middle
part
of
the
share
,
in
the
top
of
the
greater
slit
where
the
wings
end
.
It
differs
from
the
Yard
in
length
,
the
common
pipe
,
and
the
want
of
one
pair
of
the
muscles
which
the
Yard
hath
,
but
is
the
same
in
place
and
substance
;
for
it
hath
two
sinewy
bodies
round
,
without
thick
and
hard
,
but
inwardly
spongy
and
full
of
holes
,
or
pores
,
that
when
the
spirits
come
into
it
,
it
may
stretch
,
and
when
the
spirits
are
dissipated
it
grows
loose
again
;
these
sinews
as
in
a
Mans
Yard
,
are
full
of
gross
black
vital
blood
,
they
come
from
both
the
share-bones
and
join
with
the
bones
of
the
Hip
,
they
part
at
first
,
but
join
about
the
joining
of
the
share-bones
,
and
so
they
make
a
solid
hard
body
of
the
Yard
;
and
the
end
is
like
the
Nut
,
to
which
is
joined
a
small
muscle
on
each
side
.
The
head
of
this
counterfeit
Yard
is
called
Tertigo
,
and
the
Wings
joining
cover
it
with
a
fine
skin
like
the
foreskin
;
it
hath
a
hole
,
but
it
goes
not
through
,
and
Vessels
run
along
the
back
of
it
as
upon
a
Mans
Yard
;
commonly
it
is
but
a
small
sprout
,
lying
close
hid
under
the
Wings
,
and
not
easily
felt
,
yet
sometimes
it
grows
so
long
that
it
hangs
forth
at
the
slit
like
a
Yard
,
and
will
swell
and
stand
stiff
if
it
be
provoked
,
and
some
lewd
women
have
endeavoured
to
use
it
as
men
do
theirs
.
In
the
Indies
,
and
Egypt
they
are
frequent
,
but
I
never
heard
but
of
one
in
this
Country
,
if
there
be
any
they
will
do
what
they
can
for
shame
to
keep
it
close
.
The
Clitoris
in
Women
as
it
is
very
small
in
most
,
serves
for
the
same
purpose
as
the
bridle
of
the
Yard
doth
,
for
the
womans
stones
lying
far
distant
from
the
Mans
Yard
,
the
imagination
passeth
to
the
spermatical
Vessels
by
the
Clitoris
moving
and
the
lower
ligatures
of
the
Womb
,
which
are
joyned
to
the
carrying
Vessels
of
the
Seed
,
so
by
the
stirring
of
the
Clitoris
the
imagination
causeth
the
Vessels
to
cast
out
that
Seed
that
lyeth
deep
in
the
body
,
for
in
this
and
the
ligaments
that
are
fastened
in
it
,
lies
the
chief
pleasure
of
loves
delight
in
Copulation
;
and
indeed
were
not
the
pleasure
transcendently
ravishing
us
,
a
man
or
woman
would
hardly
ever
die
for
love
.
I
told
you
the
Clitoris
is
so
long
in
some
women
that
it
is
seen
to
hang
forth
at
their
Privities
and
not
only
the
Clitoris
that
lyeth
behind
the
wings
but
the
Wings
also
,
for
the
Wings
being
two
skinny
Caruncles
,
on
each
side
one
,
joyn
almost
at
first
,
arising
from
a
welt
or
gard
of
the
skin
,
of
a
ligamental
substance
in
the
back
part
the
slit
of
the
neck
,
and
they
ly
hid
betwixt
the
two
Lips
of
the
Lap
:
they
alwayes
almost
touch
one
the
other
,
and
they
go
up
to
the
end
where
the
share-bone
meets
,
and
when
they
joyn
they
make
a
fleshy
rising
and
cover
the
Clitoris
with
a
foreskin
and
so
they
rise
to
the
top
of
the
great
cleft
.
They
are
longer
from
the
middle
upward
,
and
sometimes
they
will
hang
forth
a
little
at
the
great
slit
without
the
lips
with
a
blunt
corner
;
yet
they
are
threesquare
,
like
that
part
of
a
Cocks
Comb
that
hangs
down
under
his
throat
both
for
form
and
colour
;
they
are
soft
and
spongy
,
partly
fleshy
,
and
partly
skinny
.
In
some
Countries
they
grow
so
long
that
the
Chirurgion
cuts
them
off
to
avoid
trouble
and
shame
,
chiefly
in
Egypt
;
they
will
bleed
much
when
they
are
cut
,
and
the
blood
is
hardly
stopt
;
wherefore
maids
have
them
cut
off
betimes
,
and
before
they
marry
,
for
it
is
a
flux
of
humours
to
them
,
and
much
motion
that
makes
them
grow
so
long
.
Some
Sea-mem
say
that
they
have
seen
Negro
Women
go
stark
naked
,
and
these
wings
hanging
out
.
Besides
these
,
under
the
Clitoris
and
above
the
neck
is
the
passage
of
the
womans
water
,
for
the
Woman
makes
not
water
through
the
neck
of
the
womb
,
nor
is
it
a
common
passage
for
Urine
and
Seed
as
in
men
,
but
it
is
only
for
Urine
,
therefore
they
that
will
cast
an
injection
into
the
womans
cleft
to
stop
their
water
from
coming
forth
too
much
upon
any
occasion
concerns
their
bladder
,
must
take
heed
they
thrust
not
the
spring
into
the
mouth
of
the
Matrix
instead
of
the
passage
of
the
bladder
.
Near
this
are
four
Caruncles
or
fleshy
knobs
,
in
form
like
to
Mirtle
berries
,
they
are
round
in
maids
,
but
they
flag
and
hang
down
as
soon
as
their
maidenhead
is
lost
,
the
uppermost
of
them
is
forked
and
largest
,
that
it
may
admit
the
neck
of
the
urinary
passage
;
the
other
three
are
below
this
on
the
sides
;
they
all
serve
to
keep
off
air
or
any
thing
may
offend
the
neck
of
the
womb
.
Maids
have
these
fleshy
knobs
joyned
together
by
a
sinewy
skin
interwoven
with
many
small
veins
,
and
with
a
hole
in
the
middle
,
and
through
that
their
Courses
pass
,
it
is
about
the
bigness
of
a
mans
little
finger
in
such
as
are
grown
up
;
this
is
that
skin
so
much
talked
of
,
and
is
the
token
of
Virginity
wheresoever
it
is
,
for
the
first
act
of
Copulation
breaks
it
;
some
think
that
it
is
not
found
in
all
maids
,
but
doubtless
that
is
false
,
else
it
could
have
been
no
proof
of
Virginity
to
the
Israelites
.
Yet
certain
it
is
that
it
may
be
broken
before
Copulation
,
either
by
defluxion
of
sharp
humours
,
especially
in
young
maids
,
or
by
thrusting
in
of
Pessaries
unskilfully
to
provoke
the
Terms
,
and
many
other
ways
.
The
four
fleshy
knobs
with
this
are
like
a
Rose
half
blown
when
the
bearded
leaves
are
taken
away
,
or
this
production
with
the
Lap
or
privity
is
like
a
great
Clove-gilleflower
new
blown
,
thence
came
the
word
deflowred
.
The
Arabians
thought
this
skin
called
Hymen
was
the
joining
of
five
Veins
together
as
they
are
placed
on
both
sides
;
but
that
is
rejected
.
Termelius
thought
the
sides
of
the
womb
stuck
together
and
were
parted
by
Copulation
;
there
are
many
other
opinions
needless
to
trouble
the
Reader
with
.
Whatsoever
it
is
,
there
are
certain
Veins
in
it
which
bleed
in
the
breaking
of
it
;
and
the
Hebrew
maids
were
more
careful
to
keep
it
unbroken
,
than
the
French
and
Italian
are
;
or
else
Columbus
would
not
say
it
is
seldom
found
;
and
Laurentius
professeth
he
never
could
find
it
.
It
lieth
alwayes
hid
in
the
middle
of
the
great
cleft
,
and
is
peculiar
no
doubt
to
all
maids
,
it
is
as
long
as
the
little
finger
and
is
broad
in
the
middle
,
and
is
compassed
about
with
a
round
hollowness
,
the
fashion
of
it
is
round
,
but
it
ends
in
a
point
that
hath
a
hole
in
it
so
long
as
the
top
of
the
little
finger
may
be
put
into
it
;
it
is
partly
fleshy
and
partly
skinny
;
there
are
also
four
skins
,
like
Mirtle
berries
,
as
I
said
,
at
every
corner
of
the
bosome
one
,
and
there
are
also
four
membranes
or
skins
that
tie
these
together
,
and
they
go
not
slanting
,
but
they
run
all
right
downward
,
from
the
inside
of
the
said
bosome
,
and
are
each
of
them
placed
in
the
distance
between
the
foresaid
fleshy
skins
,
and
with
them
they
are
almost
equally
stretched
out
;
but
both
these
and
they
are
in
several
bodies
shorter
or
larger
,
and
the
orifice
at
the
end
of
them
wider
or
smaller
,
the
hole
is
then
straitest
when
the
fleshy
skins
are
nearest
joined
together
;
for
this
cause
some
maids
suffer
not
so
much
pain
to
lose
their
Maidenhead
as
others
do
;
for
when
the
Yard
first
enters
the
neck
of
the
womb
,
the
fleshy
membranes
and
caruncles
are
torn
up
,
and
the
caruncles
are
so
stretched
that
a
man
would
think
they
were
never
join'd
together
;
some
Vessels
are
opened
by
this
means
,
&
by
reason
of
the
pain
puts
maids
to
a
squeek
or
two
,
but
it
is
soon
over
;
the
younger
the
maids
are
the
greater
the
pain
,
because
of
the
dryness
of
the
part
,
but
they
lose
less
blood
in
the
act
because
of
the
smalness
of
the
Vessels
:
the
elder
they
are
,
by
reason
of
their
courses
that
have
often
flowed
,
the
moisture
is
more
and
the
pain
less
,
by
reason
of
the
wetness
and
looseness
of
the
Hymen
,
but
the
Flux
of
blood
is
greater
,
because
the
Vessels
are
greater
,
and
the
blood
hath
gotten
a
fuller
passage
thither
;
some
pain
there
will
be
for
all
this
but
not
much
;
yet
if
they
have
their
Courses
then
running
,
or
have
had
them
some
three
or
four
daies
before
,
the
membranes
are
so
dilated
by
the
moisture
of
those
parts
that
the
pain
is
far
less
;
which
hath
been
a
reason
why
some
persons
have
been
jealous
of
their
new
married
Wives
without
a
cause
,
thinking
they
had
lost
their
Maidenheads
before
.
It
is
best
therefore
for
maids
new
married
to
keep
their
honour
,
and
not
to
suffer
any
man
to
touch
them
during
the
time
they
have
their
monthly
Terms
.
Besides
that
it
is
forbidden
severely
by
the
Law
of
God
;
and
Physicians
know
,
that
those
Children
that
are
begotten
during
the
time
of
separation
will
be
Leprous
,
and
troubled
with
an
incurable
Itch
and
Scabs
as
long
as
they
live
.
Also
next
to
their
caruncles
lieth
the
outward
cleft
of
the
neck
,
and
is
placed
as
it
were
in
the
Trench
of
the
great
cleft
,
and
is
full
of
wrinkles
and
like
a
narrow
valley
leads
the
way
by
a
round
cavity
into
the
inmost
parts
,
and
causeth
the
outward
orifice
of
the
neck
of
the
womb
,
by
which
the
Yard
enters
,
to
provoke
the
womans
parts
to
give
forth
their
Seed
,
and
to
cast
in
his
own
.
There
is
a
skinny
ligament
also
in
the
back
parts
of
the
outward
orifice
of
the
neck
which
is
strait
in
Maids
,
and
is
covered
by
the
Trench
,
but
in
women
that
have
born
Children
it
is
large
and
loose
,
and
a
certain
sign
,
as
well
as
the
former
,
that
Virginity
is
lost
.
The
neck
of
the
womb
is
the
distance
between
the
Privy
passage
,
and
the
mouth
of
the
womb
,
into
this
the
mans
Yard
enters
in
time
of
Copulation
.
It
is
eight
inches
long
if
the
Woman
be
of
a
reasonable
stature
.
The
substance
of
the
Matrix
is
fleshy
without
,
but
skinny
and
all
wrinkled
within
,
that
it
may
be
able
to
retain
the
Seed
,
&
that
it
may
stretch
exceedingly
in
Childbirth
.
The
neck
of
it
stands
directly
betwixt
the
Urinary
passage
and
the
right
Gut
;
which
are
the
two
great
sinks
of
the
body
,
that
vain
Man
should
not
be
over
proud
of
his
beginning
.
It
hath
two
membranes
,
and
if
you
cut
them
you
shall
see
a
spongy
flesh
between
them
,
such
as
is
found
in
the
five
ligaments
of
the
Yard
,
and
it
contains
vital
spirits
,
and
causeth
it
to
swell
in
the
time
of
Copulation
,
and
is
full
of
numberless
twigs
of
small
Veins
and
Arteries
.
The
neck
of
the
womb
is
the
third
part
of
it
,
and
into
it
,
as
I
said
,
the
mans
yard
passeth
,
it
is
a
passage
within
the
passage
of
the
Peritoneum
called
the
Bason
or
Laver
,
placed
between
the
right
Gut
and
the
bladder
,
and
it
is
whiter
than
the
superficies
of
the
bottom
;
the
cavity
is
deep
,
but
the
mouth
or
entrance
is
much
narrower
,
it
reacheth
from
the
inward
mouth
of
the
womb
to
the
outward
mouth
or
lips
of
the
Privities
.
It
is
a
fit
sheath
to
receive
the
Yard
,
and
is
long
,
that
by
it
the
mans
Seed
may
be
carried
to
the
orifice
of
the
Womb
;
it
grows
longer
or
shorter
in
time
of
Copulation
,
and
wider
and
narrower
,
as
the
mans
Yard
is
,
so
it
swells
more
or
less
,
is
more
open
and
more
shut
;
the
length
and
wideness
cannot
be
limited
,
because
it
is
fit
for
any
Yard
:
yet
I
have
heard
a
French
man
complain
sadly
,
that
when
he
first
married
his
Wife
,
it
was
no
bigger
nor
wider
than
would
fit
his
turn
,
but
now
it
was
grown
as
a
Sack
;
Perhaps
the
fault
was
not
the
womans
but
his
own
,
his
weapon
shrunk
and
was
grown
too
little
for
the
scabbard
.
The
neck
of
the
womb
is
continued
with
the
bottom
of
it
,
yet
it
hath
a
diverse
substance
from
it
,
for
it
is
sinewy
and
skinny
that
it
may
with
more
care
be
enlarged
or
contracted
,
not
become
too
hard
nor
too
soft
.
The
substance
of
it
is
spongy
and
fungous
,
like
that
of
a
mans
Yard
,
that
when
there
is
Copulation
,
it
may
close
about
the
Yard
,
which
it
doth
by
reason
of
many
small
Arteries
which
fill
up
the
passage
with
spirits
and
make
it
become
narrower
.
Wherefore
in
women
that
are
lustfull
,
it
swels
in
that
time
of
desire
,
and
the
caruncles
strut
out
,
and
the
hole
grows
very
strait
.
In
young
maids
it
is
more
soft
and
delicate
,
but
it
grows
every
day
harder
as
they
grow
elder
;
after
many
Children
,
and
in
old
women
it
becomes
hard
like
a
gristle
,
by
reason
it
is
so
often
worn
and
by
the
Courses
flowing
forth
.
It
is
smooth
when
you
stretch
it
,
and
slippery
,
but
otherwise
full
of
wrinkles
,
unless
it
be
where
it
ends
in
the
Lap.
In
the
entrance
of
the
passage
and
in
the
fore
part
,
there
are
many
round
folds
and
plaights
,
which
cause
the
more
pleasure
in
Venus
action
,
by
the
attraction
of
the
Nut
of
the
Yard
.
In
young
women
these
folds
are
smoother
and
narrower
,
and
the
passage
straiter
,
that
it
will
scarce
admit
a
finger
to
go
in
,
yet
through
this
do
pass
not
onely
the
Menstruous
blood
,
but
also
corrupt
humours
in
those
that
have
that
disease
is
called
the
Whites
.
CHAP.
XIV
.
Of
the
Vessels
preparing
Seed
in
Women
.
AS
in
Men
so
in
Women
,
the
Seed
vessels
are
either
preparing
or
carrying
Vessels
.
The
Preparing
vessels
are
neither
more
nor
less
than
they
are
in
Men
;
for
they
are
just
four
,
two
Veins
and
two
Arteries
;
and
they
arise
as
they
do
in
men
,
for
the
right
Vein
is
derived
from
the
pipe
of
the
great
Liver
vein
under
the
Emulgent
,
but
the
left
comes
from
the
Emulgent
on
the
left
side
:
both
the
Arteries
come
from
the
trunk
of
the
great
Artery
,
yet
I
do
not
say
that
there
is
no
difference
between
these
in
men
and
women
,
for
then
it
had
been
needless
to
go
over
this
subject
any
more
.
The
differences
are
chiefly
two
;
1.
Because
womens
passages
are
shorter
,
these
vessels
are
shorter
in
women
than
they
are
in
men
,
for
womens
stones
lye
in
their
bellies
,
but
mens
hang
without
in
their
Cods
,
but
womens
Vessels
have
by
far
more
windings
and
turnings
,
hither
and
thither
,
out
and
in
,
than
mens
have
,
that
the
matter
they
bring
may
be
better
prepared
;
their
windings
up
and
down
prove
that
they
are
not
shorter
,
if
they
had
room
to
go
any
farther
as
they
have
in
Men.
It
is
worth
observing
,
that
you
may
know
that
the
Vessels
of
the
womb
have
union
and
communion
one
with
the
other
,
both
the
Veins
&
the
Arteries
;
for
the
vital
and
natural
blood
are
mingled
to
perform
this
great
work
,
and
it
is
thus
brought
to
pass
.
The
spermatick
Veins
passing
by
the
side
of
the
womb
joyn
with
the
foresaid
Arteries
,
and
then
they
make
this
mixture
,
and
this
is
easily
proved
;
for
if
you
blow
up
the
Seed
Vein
with
a
hollow
pipe
or
quill
,
you
shall
see
all
the
Vessels
of
the
womb
to
swell
at
the
same
time
,
and
to
be
blown
up
with
it
;
which
is
enough
to
confirm
that
they
are
all
mingled
and
united
.
These
four
Vessels
bring
the
Seed
from
all
parts
of
the
body
,
that
they
may
fit
it
&
make
it
ready
for
Natures
use
.
The
right
vein
comes
from
the
trunk
of
the
hollow
Liver
vein
,
below
the
Emulgent
vein
,
nigh
unto
the
great
hollow
bone
:
but
the
left
vein
comes
from
the
left
Emulgent
vein
,
for
the
great
Artery
is
seated
on
this
side
by
the
hollow
vein
,
and
that
Artery
beats
&
throbs
continually
;
and
if
the
left
Seed
vein
had
come
from
the
Trunk
of
the
hollow
vein
as
the
right
doth
,
it
must
have
past
over
the
great
Artery
,
and
then
the
never
ceasing
beating
of
the
Artery
would
have
broken
this
thin
Vein
,
if
nature
had
not
provided
the
foresaid
remedy
against
it
.
The
Arteries
both
of
them
have
the
same
beginning
as
they
have
in
men
,
for
they
come
from
the
Trunk
of
the
great
Artery
,
near
the
great
bone
under
the
Emulgent
vein
,
and
they
are
filled
with
vital
blood
,
as
the
two
Veins
are
with
natural
blood
.
Yet
they
do
not
fall
out
of
the
Peritoneum
as
the
Arteries
of
men
do
,
nor
do
they
reach
the
share-bone
,
because
women
have
no
reason
to
cast
their
Seed
out
of
themselvs
,
but
onely
into
their
own
womb
,
which
is
but
a
short
way
;
nor
do
these
Arteries
interweave
or
grow
together
till
they
come
into
their
stones
;
but
with
some
variation
again
they
are
divided
;
for
in
women
they
are
supported
with
fat
membranes
,
&
so
brought
to
the
Stones
;
yet
by
the
way
as
they
come
they
inoculate
the
Veins
with
the
Arteries
,
and
after
that
they
branch
into
two
parts
,
and
the
one
part
makes
the
Seed
vessels
,
and
that
which
is
called
Corpus
varicosum
,
affording
to
the
Cods
and
stones
some
small
twigs
for
to
feed
them
;
but
the
other
part
is
carried
to
the
skin
that
cleaves
to
the
bottom
of
the
Matrix
,
and
supplieth
the
higher
part
of
its
bottom
with
nourishment
,
and
feeds
the
Infant
in
the
womb
also
with
blood
:
and
moreover
by
these
Vessels
the
monthly
Terms
are
voided
forth
,
especially
of
such
women
that
are
not
with
Child
;
but
in
Men
they
are
all
wrought
up
into
one
body
which
is
called
Corpus
varicosum
.
The
difference
that
they
make
in
shortness
from
the
same
Vessels
in
men
,
may
be
for
this
reason
also
,
because
the
womans
Seed
doth
not
need
so
strong
and
great
preparing
as
mens
Seed
doth
;
nor
could
their
Vessels
have
been
kept
within
the
womans
belly
,
had
they
not
been
made
shorter
than
mens
.
But
it
is
admirable
to
consider
how
strangely
these
Vessels
are
infolded
and
wrapt
up
one
within
the
other
to
prepare
the
Seed
:
Yet
because
womens
stones
are
but
small
their
Seed
vessels
needed
not
to
be
great
;
so
that
if
they
have
any
Prostates
,
saith
Galen
,
to
keep
the
Seed
in
,
they
are
so
small
they
can
hardly
be
discerned
.
CHAP.
XV.
Of
the
Seed-carrying
Vessels
in
Women
.
THese
vessels
that
carry
the
Seed
come
from
the
lower
part
of
the
stones
,
they
are
on
each
side
one
,
and
are
propt
up
by
the
ligaments
of
the
womb
,
they
are
white
and
sinewy
,
they
do
not
go
directly
to
the
womb
,
but
with
many
windings
,
and
turnings
,
because
the
way
is
short
,
they
are
broad
near
the
stones
,
then
they
grow
less
,
and
again
when
they
come
to
the
womb
they
are
enlarged
,
they
go
to
the
horns
of
the
womb
and
there
they
end
,
and
by
those
horns
they
pass
into
the
womb
,
this
may
be
plainly
seen
in
other
Female
creatures
as
well
as
in
women
though
with
much
difference
.
These
vessels
in
their
twistings
are
like
to
the
Seed
bladders
as
are
in
men
;
full
of
wrinkles
,
&
in
the
midst
they
have
a
hole
or
mouth
like
to
a
Trumpets
mouth
,
and
it
is
curled
up
like
Vine
tendrils
,
they
are
more
folded
together
than
in
Men
,
because
they
are
not
to
pass
through
the
Peritoneum
,
for
womens
stones
do
not
hang
forth
as
mens
do
.
Also
they
do
not
come
from
the
stones
presently
to
the
neck
of
the
bladder
as
with
men
,
but
they
go
from
the
stones
to
the
womb
,
and
when
they
come
to
the
sides
of
it
,
called
the
horns
,
there
they
part
,
and
one
part
which
is
larger
and
shorter
enters
into
the
middle
of
the
horns
of
his
own
side
,
or
very
near
it
,
and
there
it
delivers
in
,
and
so
into
the
cavity
of
the
womb
,
Seed
perfectly
concocted
;
but
the
other
part
which
is
longer
though
it
be
narrower
,
passeth
along
by
the
sides
of
the
womb
to
the
neck
of
it
on
both
sides
,
and
below
the
innermost
mouth
of
the
womb
they
are
implanted
under
the
neck
of
it
into
the
forestanders
,
which
are
not
so
plain
to
be
seen
as
they
are
with
men
,
yet
these
hold
the
Seed
there
till
it
is
the
time
of
Copulation
,
and
then
they
cast
it
forth
,
for
thus
women
great
with
Child
do
spend
their
Seed
,
and
not
by
opening
the
innermost
mouth
of
the
womb
as
some
falsely
think
;
for
so
soon
as
a
woman
conceives
,
the
mouth
of
the
womb
is
most
exactly
shut
close
,
yet
they
can
lye
with
men
all
that
while
;
and
some
women
before
others
,
will
take
more
pleasure
,
and
are
more
desirous
of
their
Husbands
company
than
before
,
which
is
scarce
seen
in
any
other
female
creatures
besides
,
most
of
them
being
fully
satisfied
after
they
have
conceived
;
but
it
was
needful
for
man
that
it
should
be
so
,
because
polygamy
is
forbidden
by
the
Laws
of
God
.
CHAP.
XVI
.
Of
Women
stones
.
WOmen
have
need
of
stones
to
concoct
and
digest
their
Seed
as
well
as
men
;
the
use
of
stones
in
both
sexes
is
to
make
Seed
fruitful
,
for
if
either
the
stones
of
the
man
or
woman
be
out
of
temper
they
must
needs
be
barren
and
unfruitful
,
nor
is
there
any
greater
sign
of
health
than
when
the
stones
are
well
;
and
of
this
Jugement
was
that
great
Physician
Hippocrates
.
There
are
many
differences
betwixt
the
stones
of
both
sexes
.
1.
In
place
,
because
women
are
colder
than
men
,
their
stones
are
kept
within
their
lower
belly
to
keep
them
warm
and
to
make
them
fruitful
,
and
they
lye
on
either
side
of
the
womb
,
above
the
bottom
,
when
women
are
not
with
Child
;
but
when
they
are
with
Child
,
these
stones
lye
near
the
place
where
the
hanch-bone
,
and
the
holy-bone
join
,
and
they
are
contained
in
loose
skins
coming
from
the
Peritoneum
,
which
skins
cover
also
half
the
Stones
,
and
they
lie
upon
the
Muscles
of
the
Loins
within
the
Abdomen
.
2.
Womans
Stones
have
no
Cod
to
hold
them
as
Mens
have
;
they
have
but
one
skin
to
cover
them
,
for
lying
within
the
body
they
need
no
more
;
but
mens
Stones
have
four
several
skins
to
keep
them
warm
because
they
hang
without
their
bellies
.
Also
the
Cod
or
rather
coat
for
the
Stones
,
is
softer
,
and
thinner
than
the
mans
,
and
cleaves
fast
to
them
,
that
it
seems
to
be
the
same
body
with
them
;
this
coat
also
receives
the
Vessels
of
blood
,
and
wrapping
them
fast
keeps
the
blood
from
shedding
forth
.
3.
Womens
Stones
are
not
so
thick
,
nor
great
,
nor
round
,
nor
smooth
,
nor
hard
as
mens
are
;
but
they
are
small
and
uneven
,
and
broad
and
flat
both
before
and
behind
;
whereas
mens
are
oval
,
smooth
,
large
,
round
and
equall
;
the
upper
side
of
womens
Stones
are
so
unequal
that
they
resemble
small
kernels
of
the
Kall
joined
together
and
they
are
long
and
hollow
with
small
textures
in
them
▪
and
they
are
full
of
a
watry
humour
like
very
thick
Whey
when
Women
are
in
good
health
,
but
when
they
are
sickly
they
seem
like
bladders
full
of
a
clear
watry
humour
,
and
sometimes
of
a
yellow
colour
like
Saffron
,
and
will
stink
,
so
that
it
oftentimes
causeth
the
strangling
of
the
Mother
,
which
Midwives
call
fits
of
the
Mother
.
4.
Their
Stones
are
also
colder
and
moister
,
and
so
is
their
Seed
,
and
therefore
women
have
no
Beards
on
their
faces
because
of
the
coldness
of
their
Stones
.
5.
They
have
no
forestanders
.
Mans
Seed
is
the
agent
and
womans
Seed
the
patient
,
or
at
least
not
so
active
as
the
mans
.
Aristotle
denyed
that
women
had
any
seed
at
all
;
and
Jovianus
Pontanus
would
prove
this
by
the
Moon
,
which
Aristotle
likeneth
to
women
in
act
of
Procreation
,
who
held
that
the
Moon
doth
nothing
but
bring
moist
matter
for
the
Sun
to
work
upon
in
things
below
,
but
Hermetick
Philosophy
will
prove
,
that
the
moisture
the
Moon
brings
,
hath
an
active
principle
as
well
as
the
Sun
:
and
so
doubtless
women
are
not
only
passive
in
Procreation
,
but
active
also
as
well
as
the
man
though
not
in
so
high
a
degree
of
action
:
her
seed
is
more
watry
,
and
mans
seed
full
of
vital
spirits
,
more
condensed
,
thick
and
glutinous
;
for
had
the
womans
seed
been
as
thick
as
the
mans
,
they
could
never
have
been
so
perfectly
mingled
together
.
CHAP.
XVII
.
Of
the
Womb
it self
or
Matrix
.
THe
Womb
is
that
Field
of
Nature
into
which
the
Seed
of
man
and
woman
is
cast
,
and
it
hath
also
an
attractive
faculty
to
draw
in
a
magnetique
quality
,
as
the
Load-stone
draweth
Iron
,
or
Fire
the
light
of
the
Candle
,
and
to
this
seed
runs
the
Womans
blood
also
,
to
beget
,
nourish
,
encrease
and
preserve
the
Infant
till
it
is
time
for
it
to
be
born
;
for
the
natural
and
vegetable
Soul
is
virtually
in
the
Seed
,
and
runs
through
the
whole
mass
,
and
is
brought
into
act
by
the
Virtue
and
heat
of
the
Woman
that
receives
the
Seed
,
and
by
the
forming
faculty
which
lies
hid
in
the
Seed
of
both
Sexes
,
and
in
the
disposition
of
the
womb
both
Seeds
are
well
mingled
together
at
the
same
time
in
all
parts
of
the
body
,
I
mean
as
to
the
parts
made
of
Seed
,
but
as
for
the
parts
made
with
blood
,
they
are
made
at
several
times
,
as
they
can
sooner
or
later
procure
nourishment
and
spirits
.
The
parts
therefore
next
the
Liver
are
sooner
made
than
those
that
are
far
from
it
,
and
those
are
first
made
that
the
mothers
blood
first
runs
to
,
that
is
first
the
Navel
Vein
,
and
that
being
first
made
,
by
that
the
blood
is
carried
to
other
parts
.
The
Womb
is
like
a
Bottle
or
Bladder
blown
when
the
Infant
is
in
it
,
and
it
lieth
in
the
lower
belly
,
and
in
the
last
place
amongst
the
entrails
by
the
water
course
,
because
this
is
easily
enlarged
as
the
child
grows
in
the
Womb
;
and
the
child
is
by
this
means
more
easily
begot
,
and
the
Woman
delivered
of
it
;
nor
is
it
any
hindrance
to
the
parts
of
nutrition
while
the
woman
continues
with
Child
;
but
had
the
Womb
where
the
Infant
lieth
,
been
seated
in
the
middle
or
upper
belly
,
the
child
would
have
been
soon
stifled
,
for
the
womb
could
not
have
stretched
wider
according
to
the
growth
of
the
Child
,
because
the
bones
that
compass
the
upper
belly
would
have
hindered
it
.
The
hollow
part
of
the
belly
where
the
Womb
lieth
is
called
the
Bason
,
and
it
is
placed
between
the
Bladder
and
the
right
Gut
;
the
bladder
stands
before
it
,
and
is
a
strong
membrane
to
defend
it
;
and
the
right
Gut
lieth
behind
it
,
as
a
pillow
to
keep
off
the
hardness
of
the
backbone
,
so
that
the
womb
lieth
in
the
middle
of
the
lowest
belly
to
ballance
the
body
equally
,
and
to
contain
the
Womb
:
the
Bason
is
larger
in
women
than
in
men
,
as
you
may
see
by
their
larger
buttocks
.
As
the
child
grows
,
the
bottom
of
the
womb
which
lieth
uppermost
,
lying
at
liberty
and
not
tyed
,
grows
upward
towards
the
Navel
,
and
so
leans
upon
the
small
Guts
,
and
so
fills
all
the
hollow
of
the
flancks
when
women
are
near
the
time
to
bring
forth
.
The
Womb
is
fastened
and
tied
partly
by
the
substance
of
it
,
and
also
by
four
ligaments
,
two
above
,
and
two
beneath
,
but
the
bottom
is
not
tied
neither
before
,
nor
behind
,
nor
above
,
but
is
free
and
at
liberty
,
that
it
can
stretch
as
need
requires
in
Copulation
,
or
Child-bearing
,
and
it
hath
a
kind
of
animal
motion
to
satisfie
its
desire
.
Galen
saith
,
that
the
sides
are
fastened
to
the
hanch-bone
by
membranes
,
&
ligaments
,
coming
from
the
muscles
of
the
Loyns
,
and
interwoven
oft-times
with
fleshy
fibres
,
and
carried
to
other
parts
of
the
womb
to
hold
it
fast
.
The
neck
of
the
womb
is
tied
,
but
not
every
side
,
to
the
parts
that
lie
near
it
;
at
the
sides
it
is
loosely
tied
to
the
Peritoneum
by
certain
membranes
that
grow
to
it
,
and
on
the
back
part
it
is
fastened
with
thin
fibres
,
and
a
little
fat
to
the
right
Gut
and
the
holy-bone
,
it
lieth
upon
that
fat
all
along
that
passage
,
and
it
grows
into
one
with
the
Fundament
,
above
the
Lap
,
to
which
it
is
joined
before
;
if
the
Fundament
chance
to
be
ulcerated
within
,
the
dung
hath
been
seen
to
fall
out
at
the
Lap.
The
fore
part
is
knit
to
the
neck
of
the
bladder
,
and
because
the
wombs
neck
is
broader
than
the
neck
of
the
bladder
,
some
part
of
it
is
fastened
by
membranes
coming
from
the
Peritoneum
to
the
share-bone
;
from
hence
it
happens
that
when
the
womb
is
inflamed
,
the
Woman
hath
a
great
desire
to
go
to
stool
and
to
make
water
,
but
cannot
.
The
lower
strings
that
fasten
the
Womb
are
two
also
,
called
the
horns
of
the
womb
;
they
are
sinewy
,
round
,
reddish
,
and
hollow
,
chiefly
at
their
ends
,
like
to
the
husky
membrane
;
and
sometimes
this
hollowness
is
full
of
fat
;
these
horns
come
from
the
sides
of
the
Womb
,
and
at
their
first
coming
forth
they
touch
the
Seed-carrying
Vessels
.
When
these
productions
are
stretched
too
much
,
as
they
are
ofttimes
in
hard
labour
in
Child-birth
,
there
happens
to
women
a
rupture
as
well
as
to
men
,
but
they
may
be
cured
by
cutting
and
strong
ligatures
.
Fleshy
fibres
are
joined
to
these
productions
after
they
come
forth
of
the
Abdomen
,
and
they
are
small
Muscles
called
holders
up
,
in
Women
they
belong
not
to
the
Stones
as
they
do
in
men
,
because
they
join
in
men
to
the
Seed
Vessels
.
When
these
ligaments
come
at
the
share-bone
,
they
change
into
a
broad
sinewy
slenderness
,
mingled
with
a
membrane
which
toucheth
and
covers
the
forepart
of
the
share-bone
,
and
upon
this
the
Clitoris
cleaveth
and
is
tied
,
which
being
nervous
,
and
of
pure
feeling
,
when
it
is
rubbed
and
stirred
it
causeth
lustful
thoughts
,
which
being
communicated
to
these
ligaments
,
is
passeth
to
the
Vessels
that
carry
the
seed
.
Yet
these
holders
up
serve
for
other
uses
,
for
as
they
are
Muscles
that
hold
up
the
Stones
in
men
,
so
they
hold
up
the
womb
in
women
that
it
may
be
kept
fom
falling
out
at
the
Lap.
The
parts
then
of
the
womb
are
two
;
The
neck
or
mouth
,
and
the
bottom
:
The
neck
is
the
entrance
into
it
,
which
will
open
and
shut
like
a
purse
;
for
in
the
act
of
Copulation
it
receives
the
Yard
into
it
,
but
after
conception
the
point
of
a
Bodkin
cannot
pass
;
yet
when
the
time
comes
for
the
Child
to
come
forth
,
it
will
open
and
make
room
enough
for
the
greatest
child
that
is
conceived
:
This
made
Galen
wonder
,
and
so
should
we
all
,
to
consider
how
fearfully
and
wonderfully
God
hath
made
us
as
the
Psalmist
saith
;
The
Works
of
the
Lord
are
wonderful
,
to
be
sought
out
of
all
those
that
take
Pleasure
therein
.
The
form
of
the
womb
is
exactly
round
,
and
in
maids
it
is
no
bigger
than
a
walnut
,
yet
it
will
stretch
so
after
conception
,
that
it
will
easily
contain
the
child
and
all
that
belongs
to
it
;
it
is
small
at
first
to
embrace
the
Seed
that
is
but
little
cast
into
it
.
It
is
made
of
two
skins
,
an
outward
,
and
an
inward
skin
,
the
outward
is
thick
,
smooth
,
and
slippery
,
excepting
those
parts
where
the
Seed
Vessels
come
into
the
womb
;
the
inward
skin
is
full
of
small
holes
.
It
is
far
different
from
the
Matrix
of
beasts
,
which
Galen
knew
not
,
for
the
Grecians
in
those
daies
held
it
an
abomination
to
dissect
any
man
or
woman
though
they
were
dead
;
all
the
knowledge
of
Anatomy
they
learned
,
was
by
dissecting
Apes
and
such
Creatures
that
were
the
most
like
to
mankind
,
but
the
inside
of
men
or
women
they
saw
not
,
and
so
were
ignorant
of
the
difference
between
them
.
Whence
it
is
confirmed
,
that
they
knew
not
the
seat
of
some
diseases
so
well
as
we
do
,
and
therefore
must
need
fall
short
of
the
cure
;
nor
would
they
use
the
means
to
find
out
what
disease
they
died
of
,
which
true
Anatomy
would
have
made
known
to
them
,
and
would
have
been
a
great
furtherance
to
preserve
others
that
were
sick
of
the
same
diseases
that
others
died
of
before
.
It
hath
been
much
and
long
disputed
how
many
Cells
are
in
the
womb
:
Mundinus
and
Galen
say
there
are
seven
several
Cells
,
and
that
a
woman
may
,
by
reason
of
so
many
places
distinct
one
from
the
other
,
have
seven
Children
at
a
birth
,
and
many
midwives
are
of
this
opinion
,
but
none
that
ever
saw
the
womb
can
think
so
;
for
there
is
but
one
hollow
place
,
unless
Men
will
say
that
those
holes
where
the
seed
vessels
come
into
the
womb
are
places
for
Children
to
be
conceived
in
.
They
that
maintain
seven
Cells
in
the
womb
,
say
a
woman
may
have
seven
Children
at
a
birth
,
three
Boys
,
three
Girls
,
and
one
Hermaphrodite
;
others
say
a
woman
can
have
but
two
Children
at
once
because
nature
hath
given
her
but
two
breasts
,
she
may
as
well
go
but
two
Miles
because
she
hath
but
two
legs
,
but
it
is
usual
for
women
to
have
three
at
one
birth
:
In
Egypt
the
place
is
so
fruitful
they
have
sometimes
five
or
six
at
a
birth
.
Aristotle
tells
us
of
one
woman
,
that
at
four
births
brought
forth
twenty
perfect
living
Children
:
but
Albertus
Magnus
tells
us
of
one
woman
who
miscarryed
of
two
and
twenty
perfect
Children
at
once
,
and
of
another
that
had
one
hundred
and
fifty
at
once
,
and
every
one
of
them
as
big
as
a
Mans
little
finger
,
but
believe
him
that
will
:
yet
the
story
of
Margeret
Countess
of
Holsteed
,
whose
Tomb
is
said
to
be
in
a
Monastery
in
Holland
,
is
much
lowder
,
to
have
had
three
hundred
and
sixty
four
living
Infants
born
at
a
birth
all
living
,
&
Christned
.
But
to
let
this
pass
,
and
come
to
what
we
know
.
How
comes
it
to
pass
that
Twins
are
conceived
at
the
same
time
,
if
the
womb
have
no
more
but
one
Cell
?
Empedocles
saith
,
the
cause
is
plenty
of
seed
that
is
sufficient
to
make
more
than
one
Child
.
Asclepiades
ascribes
it
to
the
strength
of
the
seed
ejected
:
And
Ptolomy
to
the
position
of
the
Starrs
when
Children
are
begot
.
That
twins
are
begot
at
the
same
act
of
Copulation
is
held
by
all
Antient
and
modern
Writers
,
for
the
seed
say
they
being
not
cast
into
the
womb
all
at
once
,
divides
in
the
womb
,
and
makes
more
Children
;
another
reason
they
give
is
,
that
the
womb
,
when
it
hath
received
the
Seed
,
shuts
so
close
that
no
more
Seed
can
enter
.
I
answer
to
the
first
question
,
That
the
beginning
of
conception
is
not
so
soon
as
the
Seed
is
cast
into
the
womb
,
for
then
a
woman
would
conceive
every
time
she
receives
it
.
But
the
perfect
mixing
of
the
seed
of
both
sexes
is
the
beginning
of
conception
,
and
it
is
hard
to
believe
,
that
the
womb
that
is
so
small
at
first
,
that
it
will
hardly
hold
a
Bean
,
and
having
but
one
Cell
,
can
mingle
the
man
and
womans
seed
together
exactly
in
two
places
at
the
same
time
,
and
it
is
certain
it
shuts
so
close
that
no
place
is
left
for
the
air
to
enter
in
.
Second
Answer
,
The
womb
doth
not
shut
so
close
presently
but
that
superfluous
seed
may
come
forth
,
and
after
conception
the
pleasures
of
Venus
will
open
the
womb
at
any
time
,
for
it
opens
the
Muscles
willingly
in
such
cases
;
nor
do
all
Authors
agree
that
Twins
are
begotten
at
the
same
time
,
for
all
the
Stoick
Philosophers
hold
that
they
are
begotten
at
several
times
,
and
if
you
read
the
Treatise
of
Hermes
,
he
will
tell
you
,
that
Twins
are
not
conceived
at
the
same
minute
of
time
;
for
if
they
were
conceived
at
once
,
they
must
be
born
at
once
,
which
is
impossible
.
Some
may
object
,
that
the
Treatise
of
Hermes
speaks
not
to
a
minute
,
but
if
it
be
true
to
a
Sign
ascending
,
it
must
be
true
to
a
Degree
,
and
to
a
minute
,
and
Second
.
All
Authors
allow
of
a
superfetation
,
that
is
,
the
woman
may
conceive
again
when
she
hath
conceiv'd
of
one
Child
before
she
be
delivered
of
that
.
So
Alcumena
in
Plautus
Amphitrio
,
is
said
to
have
brought
forth
Hercules
at
seven
Moneths
,
and
Iphyclus
three
moneths
after
.
Hippocrates
tells
us
of
a
woman
of
Larista
who
was
delivered
of
two
perfect-living
Children
at
forty
days
distance
one
from
the
other
.
Avicenna
holds
,
that
all
women
that
have
their
Terms
after
conception
,
may
conceive
again
before
the
first
be
born
;
and
if
they
can
conceive
so
long
after
again
before
the
first
be
delivered
,
much
rather
sooner
when
the
womb
is
not
filled
with
the
growth
of
the
first
.
But
to
end
this
dispute
we
read
Gen.
4.2
.
That
Eve
conceived
again
and
bare
his
brother
Abel
;
the
Original
signifies
,
she
conceived
upon
conception
,
and
bare
his
brother
Abel
.
And
in
the
Treatise
of
Hermes
you
shall
find
a
reason
why
two
Children
may
be
conceived
a
moneth
asunder
and
yet
born
about
the
same
time
,
and
a
woman
may
miscarry
of
one
of
them
,
and
yet
go
her
full
time
with
the
other
,
as
Hippocrates
shews
in
his
Book
De
natura
Pueri
:
Nay
he
relates
of
women
that
brought
forth
two
Children
at
one
birth
,
and
a
third
fifteen
weeks
after
.
Let
then
Midwives
take
heed
that
they
do
not
force
the
second
Child
before
its
time
especially
if
there
be
no
great
flux
of
bloud
nor
signs
of
labour
appearing
.
Question
.
Why
do
women
desire
Copulation
when
they
have
already
conceived
,
and
beasts
do
not
?
Pappea
the
Daughter
of
Agrippa
a
Roman
,
a
lustful
lass
answered
,
because
they
are
beasts
.
Some
say
it
is
a
vertue
and
prerogative
given
to
women
,
but
they
are
those
that
call
Vice
Vertue
.
The
truth
is
that
Adam's
first
sin
lyeth
heavy
upon
his
posterity
,
more
than
upon
beasts
,
&
for
this
the
curse
of
God
follows
them
,
and
inordinate
lust
is
a
great
part
of
this
curse
,
&
the
propagation
of
many
Children
at
once
is
an
effect
of
this
intemperance
.
Hippocrates
forbids
women
to
use
Copulation
after
conception
;
but
I
may
not
wrong
the
Man
so
much
.
But
these
are
the
fruits
of
Original
sin
,
for
which
we
ought
to
humble
our selves
in
the
presence
of
God
,
and
pray
earnestly
for
his
assistance
against
the
effects
of
it
.
CHAP.
XVIII
.
Of
the
fashion
and
greatness
of
the
Womb
,
and
of
the
parts
it
is
made
of
.
THe
womb
is
of
the
form
of
a
Pear
,
round
toward
the
bottom
and
large
,
but
narrow
by
degrees
to
the
neck
,
the
roundness
of
it
makes
it
fit
to
contain
much
,
and
it
is
therefore
less
subject
to
be
hurt
.
When
women
are
with
Child
the
bottom
is
broad
like
a
bladder
,
&
the
neck
narrow
;
but
where
they
are
not
with
Child
the
bottom
is
no
broader
than
the
neck
.
Some
womens
wombs
are
larger
than
others
,
according
to
the
age
,
stature
,
and
burden
that
they
bear
;
Maids
wombs
are
small
and
less
than
their
bladders
;
but
womens
are
greater
,
especially
after
they
have
once
had
a
Child
,
and
so
it
will
continue
.
It
stretcheth
after
they
have
conceived
,
and
the
larger
it
extends
the
thicker
it
grows
.
It
hath
parts
of
two
kinds
;
The
simple
parts
it
is
made
of
,
are
Membranes
,
Veins
,
Nerves
,
and
Arteries
.
The
compound
parts
are
four
;
the
mouth
,
the
bottom
,
the
neck
,
and
the
Lap
or
lips
.
The
membranes
are
two
as
I
said
,
one
outward
and
the
other
inward
,
that
it
may
open
and
shut
at
pleasure
;
the
outward
membrane
is
sinewy
,
and
the
thickest
of
all
the
membranes
that
come
from
the
Peritoneum
;
it
is
strong
and
doubled
,
and
cloaths
the
womb
to
make
it
more
strong
,
and
grows
to
it
on
both
sides
:
The
inward
membrane
is
double
also
,
but
can
scarce
be
seen
but
in
exulcerations
of
the
womb
.
When
the
woman
conceives
it
is
thick
and
soft
,
but
it
grows
thicker
daily
,
and
is
thickest
when
the
time
of
birth
is
Fibres
of
all
kinds
run
between
these
membranes
,
to
draw
and
keep
the
Seed
,
and
to
thrust
forth
the
burthen
;
and
the
flesh
of
the
womb
is
chiefly
made
up
of
fleshy
Fibres
.
The
three
sorts
of
Fibres
for
Seed
do
plainly
appear
after
women
have
gone
long
with
Child
,
those
that
draw
the
seed
are
inward
,
and
are
not
many
,
because
the
Seed
is
most
cast
into
the
womb
by
the
Yard
,
the
thwart
Fibres
are
strongest
,
and
most
,
and
they
are
in
the
middle
,
but
the
Fibres
that
lye
transverse
are
strong
also
,
and
lye
outward
,
because
it
is
great
force
that
is
required
in
time
of
delivery
.
The
Veins
&
Arteries
that
pass
through
the
membranes
of
the
womb
come
from
divers
places
,
for
two
Veins
and
two
Arteries
come
from
the
Seed
Vessels
,
and
two
veins
and
two
Arteries
from
the
vessels
in
the
lower
belly
,
and
run
upward
,
that
from
all
the
body
,
both
from
above
and
under
,
blood
of
all
sorts
might
be
conveighed
,
to
bring
nourishment
for
the
womb
,
and
for
the
infant
in
it
;
also
they
serve
as
Scavengers
to
purge
out
the
Terms
every
moneth
.
The
twigs
of
the
Vein
that
is
in
the
lower
belly
,
mingle
in
the
womb
with
the
branches
of
the
Seed
veins
,
and
the
mouths
of
them
reach
into
the
hollow
of
the
womb
▪
and
they
are
called
cups
;
through
these
comes
more
blood
alwaies
than
the
infants
needs
,
that
the
Child
may
never
want
nutriment
in
the
womb
,
and
there
may
be
some
to
spare
when
the
time
comes
for
the
Child
to
be
born
;
but
after
the
birth
,
this
blood
comes
not
hither
but
goes
to
the
Breasts
to
make
Milk
;
but
at
all
other
times
it
is
cast
out
monethly
what
is
superfluous
,
and
if
it
be
not
it
corrupts
and
causeth
fits
of
the
Mother
;
yet
they
come
oftner
from
the
Seed
corrupted
,
and
staying
there
than
they
do
from
blood
.
It
is
not
onely
blood
is
voided
by
the
Terms
,
but
multitude
of
humours
and
excrements
,
and
these
purgations
last
sometimes
three
or
four
days
,
sometimes
a
week
,
and
young
folk
have
them
when
the
Moon
changeth
,
but
women
in
years
at
the
full
of
the
Moon
;
which
is
to
be
observed
,
that
we
may
know
when
to
give
remedies
to
Maids
whose
Terms
come
not
down
,
for
we
must
do
it
in
the
time
when
the
Moon
is
new
or
ready
to
change
,
and
to
elder
women
about
the
time
that
Nature
useth
to
send
them
forth
,
because
a
Physician
is
but
a
helper
to
nature
,
and
if
he
observe
not
natures
rules
he
will
sooner
kill
than
cure
.
The
sinews
of
the
womb
are
small
but
many
,
and
interwoven
like
Net-work
,
which
makes
it
quick
of
feeling
;
they
come
to
the
upper
part
of
the
bottom
from
the
branches
of
the
Nerves
of
the
sixth
Conjugation
,
which
go
to
the
root
of
the
ribs
,
and
to
the
lower
part
of
the
bottom
,
and
to
the
neck
of
the
Womb
from
the
marrow
of
the
Loins
,
and
the
great
bone
.
Thus
they
by
their
quick
feeling
cause
pleasure
in
Copulation
,
and
Expulsion
of
what
offends
the
part
;
they
are
most
plentiful
at
the
bottom
of
the
Womb
,
to
quicken
and
strengthen
it
in
attracting
and
embracing
the
seed
of
man
.
There
is
but
one
continued
passage
from
the
top
or
Lap
to
the
bottom
of
the
Womb
;
yet
some
divide
it
into
four
parts
;
namely
into
the
upper
part
,
or
bottom
,
for
that
lieth
uppermost
in
the
body
.
2.
The
mouth
or
inward
orifice
of
the
neck
.
3.
The
neck
.
4.
The
outward
Lap
,
Lips
,
or
Privity
.
The
chief
part
of
these
,
which
is
properly
the
Womb
or
Matrix
,
is
the
bottom
;
here
is
the
Infant
conceived
,
kept
,
formed
,
and
fed
until
the
rational
Soul
be
infused
from
above
,
and
the
Child
born
▪
The
broader
part
or
bottom
is
set
above
the
share-bone
that
it
may
be
dilated
as
the
Child
grows
,
the
outside
is
smooth
and
overlaid
with
a
watry
moisture
:
there
is
a
corner
on
each
side
above
,
and
when
Women
are
not
with
Child
the
seed
is
poured
out
into
these
,
for
the
carrying
Vessels
for
seed
are
planted
into
them
▪
They
are
to
make
more
room
for
the
Child
,
and
at
first
it
is
so
small
that
the
Parents
seed
fills
it
full
,
for
it
embraceth
it
,
be
it
never
so
little
,
as
close
as
't
is
possible
;
the
bottom
is
full
of
pores
,
but
they
are
but
the
mouths
of
the
Cups
by
which
the
blood
in
Child-bearing
comes
out
of
the
Veins
of
the
womb
into
the
cavity
.
The
corners
of
the
wombs
bottom
are
wrinkled
,
the
bottom
is
softer
than
the
neck
of
it
;
yet
harder
than
the
Lap
and
more
thick
.
From
the
lower
part
of
the
bottom
comes
a
piece
an
inch
long
like
the
Nut
of
the
mans
Yard
,
but
small
as
ones
little
finger
,
and
a
Pins
point
will
but
enter
into
it
,
but
it
is
rough
to
keep
the
Seed
from
recoiling
after
it
is
once
attracted
,
for
when
the
parts
are
overslippery
the
humours
are
peccant
,
and
those
women
are
barren
.
Hippocrates
saith
,
that
sometimes
part
of
the
kall
falls
between
the
bladder
and
the
womb
and
makes
women
fruitless
.
This
part
may
well
be
reckoned
for
another
part
of
the
womb
,
for
it
lieth
between
the
beginning
of
the
bottom
and
the
mouth
,
&
there
is
a
clear
passage
in
it
.
The
womb
hath
two
mouths
,
the
inward
mouth
and
the
outward
,
by
the
inward
mouth
the
bottom
opens
directly
into
the
neck
,
this
mouth
lyeth
overthwart
like
the
mouth
of
a
Place
,
or
the
passage
of
the
Nut
of
the
Yard
;
the
whole
Orifice
with
the
slit
transverse
is
like
the
Greek
Letter
Theta
Θ
:
it
is
so
little
and
narrow
that
the
Seed
once
in
can
scarce
come
back
,
nor
any
offensive
thing
enter
into
the
hollow
of
the
womb
.
The
mouth
lies
directly
against
the
bottom
,
for
the
Seed
goeth
in
a
streight
line
from
the
neck
to
the
bottom
.
The
womb
is
alwayes
shut
but
in
time
of
generation
,
and
then
the
bottom
draws
in
the
Seed
,
and
it
presently
shuts
so
close
that
no
needle
,
as
I
said
,
can
find
an
entrance
,
and
thus
it
continues
till
the
time
of
delivery
,
unless
some
ill
accident
,
or
disease
force
it
to
open
;
for
when
women
with
child
are
in
Copulation
with
men
,
they
do
give
seed
forth
,
but
that
seed
comes
not
from
the
bottom
,
as
some
think
,
but
by
the
neck
of
the
womb
.
It
must
open
when
a
child
is
born
so
wide
as
to
give
passage
for
it
by
degrees
,
because
the
neck
of
the
womb
is
of
a
compact
thick
substance
,
and
thicker
when
the
birth
is
nigh
;
wherefore
there
cleaves
to
it
a
body
like
glew
,
and
by
that
means
the
mouth
opens
safely
without
danger
of
being
torn
or
broken
,
and
as
often
as
the
passage
is
open
it
comes
away
like
a
round
crown
,
and
Midwives
call
it
the
Rose
,
the
Garland
,
or
the
Crown
.
If
this
mouth
be
too
often
and
unreasonably
opened
by
too
frequent
coition
,
or
in
over
moist
bodies
,
or
by
the
whites
,
it
makes
women
barren
,
and
therefore
Whores
have
seldom
any
Children
;
it
is
the
same
reason
if
it
grow
too
hard
,
or
thick
,
or
fat
,
also
the
Cancer
and
the
Schirrhus
,
two
diseases
incurable
,
which
happen
but
seldom
till
the
courses
fail
,
are
bred
here
.
Thus
I
have
as
briefly
and
as
plainly
as
I
could
,
laid
down
a
description
of
the
parts
of
generation
of
both
sexes
,
purposely
omitting
hard
names
,
that
I
might
have
no
cause
to
enlarge
my
work
,
by
giving
you
the
meaning
of
them
where
there
is
no
need
,
unless
it
be
for
such
persons
who
desire
rather
to
know
Words
than
Things
.
BOOK
II.
CHAP.
I.
What
things
are
required
for
the
procreation
of
Children
.
I
Have
in
the
former
part
made
a
short
explanation
of
the
parts
of
both
sexes
,
that
are
needful
for
this
use
,
but
yet
some
think
that
there
is
no
need
of
describing
the
parts
of
them
both
,
because
some
have
written
that
the
Generative
parts
in
men
,
differ
not
from
those
in
women
,
but
in
respect
of
place
and
situation
in
the
body
;
and
that
a
woman
may
become
a
man
,
and
that
one
Tyesias
was
a
man
for
many
years
,
and
after
that
was
strangely
metamorphos'd
into
a
woman
,
and
again
from
a
woman
to
a
man
,
and
that
in
regard
he
had
been
of
both
sexes
,
he
was
chosen
as
the
most
fit
Judge
to
determine
that
great
question
,
which
of
the
two
Male
or
Female
find
most
pleasure
in
time
of
Copulation
.
Some
again
hold
that
man
may
be
changed
into
a
woman
,
but
a
woman
can
never
become
a
man
;
but
let
every
man
abound
in
his
own
opinion
,
certain
it
is
,
that
neither
of
these
opinions
is
true
:
for
the
parts
in
men
and
women
are
different
in
number
,
and
likeness
,
substance
,
and
proportion
;
the
Cod
of
a
man
turned
inside
outward
is
like
the
womb
,
yet
the
difference
is
so
great
that
they
can
never
be
the
same
;
for
the
Cod
is
a
thin
wrinkled
skin
,
but
the
womb
at
the
bottom
is
a
thick
membrane
all
fleshy
within
,
and
woven
with
many
small
fibres
,
and
the
Seed-Vessels
are
implanted
so
that
they
can
never
change
their
place
;
and
moreover
their
Stones
are
for
shape
,
magnitude
,
and
composition
too
different
to
suffer
a
change
of
the
sex
;
so
that
of
necessity
there
must
be
a
conjunction
of
Male
and
Female
for
the
begetting
of
children
.
Insects
and
imperfect
creatures
are
bred
sundry
wayes
,
without
conjunction
;
but
it
is
not
so
with
mankind
,
but
both
sexes
must
concur
,
by
mutual
embracements
,
and
there
must
be
a
perfect
mixture
of
Seed
issueing
from
them
both
,
which
vertually
contain
the
Infant
that
must
be
formed
from
them
.
God
made
all
things
of
nothing
but
man
must
have
some
matter
to
work
upon
or
he
can
produce
nothing
.
The
two
principles
then
that
are
necessary
in
this
case
are
the
seed
of
both
sexes
,
and
the
mothers
blood
;
the
seed
of
the
Male
is
more
active
than
that
of
the
Female
in
forming
the
creature
,
though
both
be
fruitful
,
but
the
female
adds
blood
as
well
as
seed
out
of
which
the
fleshy
parts
are
made
,
&
both
the
fleshy
and
spermatick
parts
are
maintain'd
and
preserv'd
.
What
Hippocrates
speaks
of
two
sorts
of
Seed
in
both
kinds
,
strong
and
weak
seed
,
hot
and
cold
,
is
to
be
understood
only
of
strong
and
weak
people
,
and
as
the
seed
is
mingled
,
so
are
Boys
and
Girls
begotten
.
The
Mothers
blood
is
another
principle
of
Children
to
be
made
;
but
the
blood
hath
no
active
quality
in
this
great
work
,
but
the
seed
works
upon
it
,
and
of
this
blood
are
the
chief
parts
of
the
bowels
and
the
flesh
of
the
muscles
formed
,
and
with
this
both
the
spermatical
and
fleshy
parts
are
fed
;
this
blood
and
the
menstrual
blood
,
or
monthly
Terms
are
the
same
,
which
is
a
blood
ordained
by
Nature
for
the
procreation
and
feeding
of
the
Infant
in
the
Womb
,
and
is
at
set
times
purged
forth
what
is
superfluous
;
and
it
is
an
excrement
of
the
last
nutriment
of
the
fleshy
parts
,
for
what
is
too
much
for
natures
use
she
casts
it
forth
;
for
women
have
soft
loose
flesh
and
small
heat
,
and
cannot
concoct
all
the
blood
she
provides
,
nor
discuss
it
but
by
this
way
of
purgation
.
The
efficient
cause
of
this
purging
,
are
the
Veins
that
are
burdened
with
this
superfluity
of
the
remaining
blood
,
and
desire
to
be
discharged
of
it
.
Yet
nature
keeps
an
exact
method
and
order
in
all
her
works
;
and
therefore
she
doth
not
send
this
blood
out
but
at
certain
periods
of
time
,
viz.
once
every
month
,
and
that
only
in
some
persons
:
generally
maids
have
their
terms
at
fourteen
years
old
,
and
they
cease
at
about
fifty
years
,
for
they
want
heat
and
cannot
breed
much
good
blood
nor
expel
what
is
too
much
▪
yet
those
that
are
weak
sometimes
have
no
courses
till
eighteen
or
twenty
,
some
that
are
strong
have
them
till
almost
sixty
years
old
,
fulness
of
blood
and
plenty
of
nutriment
in
diet
brings
them
down
sometimes
at
twelve
years
old
:
but
commonly
in
Climacterical
or
twice
seven
years
they
break
forth
,
heat
and
strength
making
way
for
them
,
and
then
maids
will
not
be
easily
ruled
,
for
their
passages
grow
larger
,
the
humours
flow
,
and
they
find
a
way
by
their
own
thinness
of
parts
,
being
helped
by
the
expulsive
faculty
.
Men
about
the
same
age
begin
to
change
their
faces
and
to
grow
downy
with
hair
,
and
to
change
their
notes
and
voices
;
Maids
breasts
swell
;
lustful
thoughts
draw
away
their
minds
,
and
some
fall
into
Consumptions
,
others
rage
and
grow
almost
mad
with
love
.
The
time
of
the
courses
is
not
so
exact
that
it
can
be
certainly
determined
by
us
who
are
not
of
Natures
Cabinet
counsel
.
Sometimes
sharp
corroding
humours
force
the
passage
before
it
is
time
,
and
sometimes
the
blood
is
so
thick
that
it
cannot
break
forth
.
Lusty
and
Menlike
women
send
them
forth
in
three
days
,
but
idle
persons
and
such
as
are
always
feeding
will
be
seven
or
eight
days
about
it
;
but
there
is
a
mean
between
them
both
that
proportions
the
time
accordingly
,
four
dayes
will
be
sufficient
;
but
the
quantity
of
blood
that
is
cast
out
is
more
or
less
,
considering
the
circumstance
of
age
,
temperament
,
diet
,
and
nature
of
the
blood
,
and
that
different
according
to
the
seasons
of
the
year
:
the
places
by
which
it
comes
forth
are
the
Veins
,
and
the
bottom
of
the
womb
,
for
the
veins
come
from
under
the
belly
,
and
seed
branches
to
the
bottom
and
to
the
neck
of
the
womb
,
and
when
women
are
with
Child
,
the
superfluous
blood
runs
out
by
the
veins
of
the
neck
;
but
maids
and
such
as
are
not
with
Child
,
send
this
blood
forth
by
the
womb
it self
;
by
this
blood
the
seed
conceived
increaseth
,
and
when
the
Child
is
delivered
,
then
it
returns
to
the
breasts
for
to
make
Milk
as
we
hinted
at
before
.
Though
the
blood
be
a
necessary
cause
,
and
nothing
will
be
done
without
it
that
comes
to
perfection
,
yet
the
seed
is
the
Principal
cause
in
this
building
;
for
the
seed
is
the
workmaster
that
makes
the
Infant
,
and
therefore
the
stones
that
make
this
seed
must
needs
be
Principal
parts
,
though
some
exclude
them
,
making
only
the
Heart
,
the
Brain
,
and
the
Liver
;
to
be
of
the
first
rank
;
but
the
stones
may
in
some
sort
be
put
in
the
first
rank
,
not
onely
to
make
the
body
fruitful
,
but
to
work
a
change
in
the
whole
;
Take
away
a
Mans
stones
and
he
is
no
more
the
same
man
,
but
growes
cold
of
constitution
though
he
were
never
so
hot
before
,
and
is
subject
to
Convulsion
fits
,
also
their
voice
grows
shrill
and
Feminine
,
and
their
manners
and
dispositions
are
commonly
naught
.
Eunuchs
may
live
without
them
,
and
it
hath
been
an
approved
cure
for
the
Leprosy
in
former
times
;
but
Hippocrates
tells
us
,
that
the
stones
are
the
strength
and
vigour
of
Manhood
,
and
that
a
convulsion
of
the
stones
threatneth
Death
,
and
the
firmness
or
looseness
of
them
is
a
great
sign
of
good
or
evil
,
and
that
applications
to
the
stones
are
very
effectual
to
the
strengthning
of
the
body
.
It
is
then
very
needful
for
all
to
keep
the
Organs
of
procreation
pure
,
and
clean
,
that
they
may
send
forth
good
seed
to
make
the
work
perfect
,
and
that
Children
may
be
long
lived
,
which
they
cannot
well
be
,
nor
of
sound
constitutions
,
if
they
are
begotten
from
corrupt
Seed
or
unnatural
blood
.
Alchymists
lay
the
cause
of
all
Childrens
diseases
on
the
Seed
of
the
Parents
;
as
plants
have
not
the
causes
of
their
destruction
from
the
Elements
,
but
from
their
own
Seed
;
as
also
we
see
,
that
when
the
Plague
or
any
Epidemical
disease
rageth
,
all
are
not
infected
,
because
they
have
not
that
matter
in
them
that
will
so
soon
take
as
it
doth
with
others
.
That
therefore
the
matter
may
be
fit
for
the
work
of
nature
,
there
are
two
things
very
useful
,
good
diet
moderately
taken
,
and
conveniet
labour
and
exercise
of
body
.
Ill
diet
causeth
ill
blood
,
and
excess
in
meat
or
drink
choakes
the
natural
heat
,
causeth
raw
,
crude
humours
,
which
will
never
make
good
blood
,
and
ill
blood
will
never
make
good
seed
,
for
every
part
hath
its
natural
propriety
to
change
the
nutriment
into
its
own
likeness
,
as
the
Breasts
change
blood
into
Milk
,
the
stones
change
it
into
seed
alwayes
supposing
such
-
previous
preparations
that
are
needful
,
or
it
cannot
be
done
as
it
should
be
.
Temperance
in
eating
and
drinking
will
make
both
Parents
and
Children
to
be
long
lived
,
and
there
is
as
much
difference
between
good
and
bad
nourishment
,
as
there
is
between
pure
Fountain
water
,
and
ditch
water
;
but
temperance
is
not
to
be
understood
as
if
there
were
a
set
proportion
for
all
alike
,
for
it
is
according
to
every
ones
constitution
,
what
is
too
much
for
one
Man
or
woman
may
be
too
little
for
another
;
it
is
then
such
a
quantity
of
meat
or
drink
that
the
stomach
can
well
master
and
digest
for
the
feeding
of
the
body
.
Those
that
work
hard
must
eat
more
than
Schollars
that
follow
their
studies
,
for
the
work
of
the
stomach
is
called
off
by
the
intention
of
the
mind
,
their
meat
must
be
less
,
and
of
easier
digestion
.
They
that
live
in
hot
climates
or
near
the
Sun
have
not
so
strong
stomachs
,
as
in
colder
regions
,
nor
is
it
with
us
all
one
in
Summer
and
winter
,
but
every
man
or
woman
of
years
,
by
good
observation
may
know
his
own
temper
,
and
what
quantity
will
best
agree
with
him
,
and
so
if
he
be
not
a
fool
he
may
be
his
own
Physician
.
Youth
and
age
cannot
feed
alike
,
Children
are
often
feeding
because
they
want
both
for
growth
and
nourishment
,
but
old
age
not
near
so
much
;
sick
and
healthful
differ
in
the
same
kind
.
I
never
could
endure
that
preposterous
way
that
most
persons
observe
to
the
destruction
of
their
Friends
,
that
when
they
are
sick
they
will
never
let
them
alone
but
provoke
them
to
eat
,
whereas
fasting
is
the
better
Doctor
,
so
it
be
not
out
of
measure
.
The
causes
of
great
eating
and
drinking
beyond
the
bounds
of
nature
,
are
a
liquorish
appetite
,
and
a
fancy
beyond
reason
:
But
having
found
out
the
causes
,
I
shall
prescribe
some
remedies
withal
.
It
is
easy
to
know
when
you
have
eat
or
drank
too
much
,
or
what
agrees
not
with
you
;
when
you
find
nature
charged
with
it
,
and
is
not
able
to
digest
it
,
vapours
rising
from
the
stomach
that
is
glutted
will
choak
the
brain
,
and
cause
defluxions
and
multitudes
of
diseases
:
if
you
be
sleepy
after
meat
and
drink
,
you
have
taken
too
much
,
for
moderation
makes
a
Man
cheerful
and
not
sleepy
.
Also
refrain
from
all
meats
and
drinks
that
agree
not
with
your
constitution
,
for
they
will
never
breed
good
blood
,
but
if
you
have
done
amiss
in
surfeiting
your self
,
or
over
eating
,
or
using
any
thing
that
agrees
not
with
you
;
remember
that
nature
abhors
all
sudden
changes
;
and
therefore
you
must
not
withdraw
all
at
once
but
by
degrees
till
you
can
bring
your selves
safely
to
a
moderation
.
This
intemperance
of
Parents
is
the
cause
that
many
Children
die
before
their
time
;
for
what
is
too
much
can
never
be
well
concocted
,
but
turns
to
ill
and
raw
humours
,
and
if
the
stomach
turn
the
food
into
crude
juyce
,
or
chyle
,
the
Liver
that
makes
the
second
concoction
can
never
mend
it
,
to
make
good
blood
;
nor
can
the
third
concoction
of
the
stones
to
turn
that
blood
into
seed
,
make
good
seed
of
ill
blood
;
for
what
is
bad
in
the
first
concoction
,
the
second
concoction
,
nor
third
can
ever
rectify
,
but
if
the
chyle
be
good
,
blood
and
seed
will
be
good
.
But
you
must
know
that
nothing
furthers
good
concoction
more
than
moderate
labour
,
for
it
stirs
up
natural
heat
;
whereas
idle
persons
breed
crude
humours
.
And
therefore
Lycurgus
the
Lacedemonian
Law-giver
commanded
Maids
to
work
,
for
saith
he
,
this
keeps
their
bodies
in
good
temper
,
and
free
from
crudities
,
and
when
they
come
to
marry
,
their
Children
will
be
strong
.
There
's
as
much
difference
between
labour
and
sloth
,
as
between
the
earth
in
Summer
and
Winter
;
in
Summer
the
Sun
by
its
heat
makes
it
fruitful
,
in
Winter
it
is
chill
for
want
of
the
Suns
,
heat
;
Convenient
labour
sends
the
spirits
to
all
parts
of
the
body
;
when
the
Elements
are
unequally
divided
,
death
follows
,
so
the
better
the
spirits
are
distrubuted
to
the
seed
,
the
better
will
the
seed
be
,
and
your
Children
the
stronger
,
which
is
no
small
effect
of
moderate
exercise
,
when
sloth
is
the
cause
of
their
hasty
dissolution
:
moderate
labour
open
the
pores
of
the
body
,
and
by
sweat
or
insensible
transpriation
sends
forth
all
fuliginous
,
and
smoky
vapours
that
choke
the
spirits
and
cause
divers
maladies
;
we
find
all
this
to
be
true
in
reason
,
and
experience
confirms
it
;
for
Countrey
people
that
work
hard
digest
what
they
eat
,
and
their
Children
are
usually
strong
and
long
liv'd
.
But
Citizens
and
such
as
refuse
to
labour
and
live
idle
lives
,
I
do
not
say
all
,
I
hope
there
will
be
the
fewer
,
for
what
I
have
taken
the
pains
to
write
now
for
their
better
instruction
and
reformation
:
then
will
Men
wonder
no
longer
what
becomes
of
so
many
Children
as
are
born
in
the
City
?
one
can
hardly
find
as
many
living
as
are
born
in
half
a
years
time
;
I
am
perswaded
not
so
many
can
be
found
to
have
lived
to
seven
years
of
age
.
They
that
love
their
Children
will
take
my
advice
,
and
they
and
their
Children
will
have
good
cause
to
thank
me
for
it
;
and
besides
the
avoiding
the
mischiefs
of
intemperance
to
themselves
and
posterity
,
they
shall
find
the
blessing
of
God
upon
them
,
as
a
great
reward
of
this
vertue
of
moderation
,
and
the
poor
will
have
just
cause
to
pray
for
me
and
them
,
for
what
is
wastfully
spent
by
the
riotous
,
may
be
charitably
bestowed
upon
their
poor
neighbours
that
stand
in
need
of
it
.
CHAP.
II.
Of
true
conception
.
TRue
Conception
is
then
,
when
the
seed
of
both
sexes
is
good
,
and
duly
prepared
and
cast
into
the
womb
as
into
fruitful
ground
,
and
is
there
so
fitly
and
equally
mingled
,
the
Man's
seed
with
the
womans
,
that
a
perfect
Child
is
by
degrees
framed
;
for
first
small
threads
as
it
were
of
the
solid
and
substantial
parts
are
formed
out
,
and
the
womans
blood
flowes
to
them
,
to
make
the
bowels
and
to
supply
all
parts
of
the
infant
with
food
and
nourishment
.
Conception
is
the
proper
action
of
the
womb
after
fruitful
seed
cast
in
by
both
sexes
,
and
this
Conception
is
performed
in
less
than
seven
hours
after
the
seed
is
mingled
,
for
nature
is
not
a
minute
idle
in
her
work
,
but
acts
to
the
utmost
of
her
power
;
it
is
not
copulation
,
but
the
mixture
of
both
seeds
is
called
conception
,
when
the
heat
of
the
womb
fastens
them
;
if
the
woman
conceives
not
,
the
seed
will
fall
out
of
the
womb
in
seven
daies
,
and
abortion
and
conception
are
reckoned
upon
the
same
time
.
The
Seeds
of
both
must
be
first
perfectly
mixed
,
and
when
that
is
done
,
the
Matrix
contracts
it self
and
so
closely
embraceth
it
,
being
greedy
to
perfect
this
work
,
that
by
succession
of
time
she
stirs
up
the
formative
faculty
which
lieth
hid
in
the
seed
and
brings
it
into
act
,
which
was
before
but
in
possibilty
,
this
is
the
natural
property
of
the
womb
to
make
prolifick
Seed
fruitful
,
it
is
not
all
the
art
of
man
that
setting
the
womb
aside
can
form
a
living
child
.
To
conceive
with
child
is
the
earnest
desire
if
not
of
all
yet
of
most
women
,
Nature
having
put
into
all
a
will
to
effect
and
produce
their
like
.
Some
there
are
who
hold
conception
to
be
a
curse
,
because
God
laid
it
upon
Eve
for
tasting
of
the
forbidden
fruit
,
I
will
greatly
multiply
thy
conception
:
but
forasmuch
as
encrease
and
multiply
,
was
the
blessing
of
God
,
it
is
not
the
conception
,
but
the
sorrow
to
bring
forth
that
was
laid
as
a
curse
.
We
see
that
there
is
in
women
so
great
a
longing
to
conceive
with
child
,
that
ofttimes
for
want
of
it
the
womb
falls
into
convulsions
and
distracts
the
whole
body
.
The
womb
as
I
said
is
fast
tied
at
the
neck
and
about
the
middle
,
but
the
bottom
hangs
lose
,
so
that
it
doth
ofttimes
fall
into
strange
motions
.
The
natural
motion
of
it
comes
from
the
moving
faculty
,
but
the
unnatural
motions
from
some
unhealthful
and
convulsive
cause
;
which
is
most
commonly
bred
in
it
for
want
of
conception
,
and
not
bearing
of
children
;
we
see
no
women
ordinarily
that
are
better
in
health
than
those
that
often
conceive
with
child
,
and
some
are
so
fruitful
that
they
conceive
with
many
children
about
the
same
time
;
so
that
considering
his
magnitude
,
surely
no
creature
multiplies
more
than
man
,
for
he
hath
a
priority
in
this
blessing
above
the
beasts
.
Twins
are
frequent
,
and
sometimes
two
or
three
children
at
one
birth
,
are
not
the
same
thing
with
superfetation
,
when
children
are
got
again
before
the
first
be
delivered
;
you
must
not
think
divers
Cells
in
the
womb
to
be
the
cause
of
this
multiplicity
of
children
;
for
there
is
no
such
thing
in
the
womb
to
be
the
cause
of
this
multiplicity
of
children
;
for
there
is
no
such
thing
in
the
womb
,
but
only
one
line
that
parts
one
side
from
the
other
,
but
such
women
have
larger
wombs
than
others
,
and
so
the
seed
divided
finds
place
to
form
more
children
than
one
,
if
their
be
sufficient
strength
in
the
several
parts
of
the
seed
to
do
it
.
Yet
when
Twins
are
begotten
,
they
have
no
more
than
one
cake
called
Placenta
,
that
both
their
Navel
vessels
are
received
by
;
though
they
have
different
Secundines
or
Coats
that
cover
them
.
It
may
be
discerned
but
with
some
difficulty
,
that
a
woman
will
have
more
than
one
child
,
by
their
heavy
burden
and
slow
motion
,
also
by
the
unevenness
of
their
bellies
;
and
that
there
is
a
kind
of
separation
made
by
certain
wrinkles
and
seams
to
shew
the
children
are
parted
in
the
womb
;
and
if
she
be
not
very
strong
to
go
through
with
it
in
her
Travel
,
she
is
in
danger
both
she
and
her
children
.
If
the
twins
be
both
boys
or
both
girls
they
will
fare
the
better
.
Yet
one
is
found
by
frequent
examples
to
be
more
lusty
&
longer
liv'd
than
the
other
,
be
they
both
of
one
sex
,
or
one
a
boy
the
other
a
girl
,
that
which
is
strongest
encreaseth
,
but
the
weaker
decayes
or
fails
by
reason
of
the
prevailing
force
of
the
other
.
Sometimes
the
woman
conceives
again
a
long
time
after
her
conception
,
the
womb
opening
it self
by
reason
of
great
delight
in
the
action
;
though
it
were
shut
so
close
as
no
air
could
enter
:
for
the
Matrix
attracts
and
makes
room
for
it
.
And
this
may
fall
out
not
only
for
once
but
at
a
third
Copulation
,
that
a
woman
may
have
one
mischance
and
two
children
yet
no
twins
.
It
may
be
discerned
by
the
several
motions
of
the
Infants
,
but
the
mother
is
in
great
danger
of
her
life
by
losing
of
so
great
a
quantity
of
blood
as
she
must
needs
lose
at
two
births
in
so
short
a
compass
of
time
.
It
is
most
dangerous
to
spurr
nature
to
delivery
before
her
period
,
wherefore
in
such
cases
leave
it
to
the
work
of
nature
,
using
only
Corroboratives
and
some
such
remedies
as
may
facilitate
her
progress
therein
.
But
women
may
avoid
this
mischief
that
often
happens
,
if
they
will
rest
themselves
content
when
they
have
once
conceived
.
But
that
Story
which
I
touched
before
,
seems
to
me
to
be
but
a
meer
Romance
,
of
Margaret
Countess
of
Hennenberge
,
and
sister
to
William
King
of
the
Romans
,
as
some
writers
record
;
that
when
she
was
forty
years
old
,
she
was
delivered
at
one
birth
successively
of
as
many
children
as
there
are
daies
in
the
year
,
namely
three
hundred
sixty
five
,
the
one
half
boys
and
the
other
half
girls
,
and
the
odd
child
was
divided
to
both
sexes
,
an
Hermaphrodite
,
partly
male
,
partly
female
:
and
that
the
cause
of
this
miracle
was
from
a
curse
of
her
sister
,
some
say
a
poor
beggar
woman
at
her
door
,
laid
upon
her
for
her
causeless
jealousie
;
and
farther
it
is
constantly
reported
,
that
these
children
were
all
baptized
living
at
the
Church
of
Lardune
in
Holland
near
the
Hague
,
and
the
boys
were
all
called
Johns
,
the
girls
Elizabeths
;
there
were
two
Silver
Basons
that
they
were
Christned
in
,
and
Guido
the
Suffragan
of
Vtrecht
keeps
them
for
to
shew
to
strangers
,
and
one
of
these
Basons
,
as
it
is
reported
,
was
brought
for
a
present
to
King
Charles
the
second
,
before
he
came
from
thence
;
and
they
say
farther
,
that
presently
after
they
were
baptized
,
the
mother
and
all
her
children
died
.
Some
write
of
another
Countess
in
Frederick
the
eleventh's
daies
,
who
had
five
hundred
boys
at
one
birth
.
But
to
leave
this
and
to
proceed
to
the
causes
of
Conception
:
Notwithstanding
that
God
gave
the
blessing
generally
to
our
first
Parent
,
and
so
by
consequent
to
all
her
succeeding
generations
,
yet
we
find
that
some
women
are
exceeding
fruitful
to
conceive
;
and
others
barren
that
they
conceive
not
at
all
;
God
reserving
to
himself
a
prerogative
of
furthering
and
hindering
Conception
where
he
pleaseth
,
that
men
and
women
may
more
earnestly
pray
unto
God
for
his
blessing
of
Procreation
,
and
be
thankful
unto
him
for
it
:
so
Psal.
127.3
.
the
Psalmist
tells
us
,
Loe
Children
,
and
the
fruit
of
the
Womb
are
an
heritage
and
gift
that
cometh
from
the
Lord
.
So
Hannah
pray'd
in
the
first
of
Samuel
,
and
gave
thanks
when
God
had
heard
her
prayer
.
Some
women
are
by
nature
barren
,
though
both
they
themselves
and
their
husbands
are
no
way
deficient
to
perform
the
acts
of
Generation
,
and
are
in
all
parts
,
as
perfect
as
the
most
fruitful
persons
can
be
:
Some
think
the
cause
is
too
much
likeness
and
similitude
in
their
complexions
,
for
God
having
framed
an
Harmonious
world
,
by
a
due
disposing
of
contraries
,
they
that
are
too
like
of
constitution
can
never
beget
any
thing
;
this
I
confess
is
hard
to
find
,
that
they
should
agree
in
all
respects
,
no
difference
of
complexion
at
all
;
yet
sometimes
Physicians
judge
barrenness
proceeds
from
too
great
similitude
of
persons
;
but
I
should
rather
think
from
some
disproportion
of
the
Organs
,
or
some
impediment
not
easily
perceived
;
else
how
comes
it
to
pass
that
some
that
have
continued
barren
many
years
,
at
last
have
proved
fruitful
.
I
remember
a
story
that
I
heard
of
a
Watch-maker
,
who
had
an
excellent
Watch
that
was
out
of
tune
,
and
he
could
never
make
it
go
true
,
what
the
fault
was
he
could
not
find
,
at
length
he
grew
so
angry
that
he
threw
the
watch
against
the
wall
,
and
took
it
up
again
,
and
then
he
found
it
goe
exceeding
true
,
and
by
that
means
he
came
also
to
know
the
cause
of
the
former
defect
,
for
indeed
it
proved
to
be
nothing
else
but
some
inequality
in
the
Case
of
the
watch
,
which
by
throwing
it
against
the
wall
,
accidentally
was
amended
;
wherefore
a
small
matter
sometimes
will
remove
the
impediment
if
we
can
but
find
what
it
is
.
Some
say
again
the
cause
of
barrenness
is
want
of
love
in
man
and
wife
,
whose
Seed
never
mixeth
as
it
should
to
Procreation
of
children
,
their
hatred
is
so
great
;
as
it
is
recorded
of
Eleocles
and
Polynices
two
Theban
Princes
who
killed
each
other
,
and
when
their
bodies
were
afterwards
burn'd
,
(
as
the
manner
of
burial
was
in
their
daies
,
to
preserve
only
their
ashes
in
a
pot
,
)
as
if
the
hatred
still
continued
in
their
dead
bodies
,
the
flames
parted
in
the
midst
and
ascended
with
two
points
;
and
this
extream
hatred
is
the
reason
why
women
seldom
or
never
conceive
when
they
are
ravished
,
and
it
proves
as
ineffectual
as
Onan's
Seed
when
he
spilt
it
upon
the
ground
.
The
cause
of
this
hatred
in
married
people
,
is
commonly
when
they
are
contracted
and
married
by
unkind
Parents
for
some
sinister
ends
against
their
wills
,
which
makes
some
children
complain
of
their
Parents
cruelty
herein
all
the
daies
of
their
lives
;
but
as
Parents
do
ill
to
compel
their
children
in
such
cases
,
so
children
should
not
be
drawn
away
by
their
own
foolish
fansies
,
but
take
their
Parents
counsel
along
with
them
when
they
go
about
such
a
great
work
as
marriage
is
,
wherein
consists
their
greatest
woe
or
welfare
so
long
as
they
live
upon
the
earth
.
Another
cause
that
women
prove
barren
is
,
when
they
are
let
blood
in
the
arm
before
their
courses
come
down
,
whereas
to
provoke
the
Terms
when
they
flow
not
as
they
should
,
Women
or
Maids
ought
rather
to
be
let
blood
in
the
foot
,
for
that
draws
them
down
to
the
place
nature
hath
provided
,
but
to
let
blood
in
the
arm
keeps
them
from
falling
down
,
and
is
as
great
a
mischief
as
can
be
to
hinder
them
;
wherefore
let
the
Terms
first
come
naturally
before
you
venture
to
draw
blood
in
the
arm
,
unless
the
cause
be
so
great
that
there
is
no
help
for
it
otherwise
.
The
time
of
the
courses
to
appear
for
maids
is
fourteen
or
thirteen
,
or
the
soonest
at
twelve
years
old
;
yet
I
remember
that
in
France
I
saw
a
child
but
of
nine
years
old
that
was
very
sickly
until
such
time
as
she
was
let
blood
in
the
arm
,
and
then
she
recovered
immediately
;
but
this
is
no
president
for
others
,
especially
in
our
climate
,
blood-letting
being
the
ordinary
remedy
in
those
parts
when
the
Patient
is
charged
with
fulness
of
blood
,
of
what
age
almost
soever
they
be
.
There
is
besides
this
natural
barrenness
of
women
,
another
barrenness
by
accident
,
by
the
ill
disposition
of
the
body
and
generative
parts
,
when
the
courses
are
either
more
or
fewer
than
stands
with
the
state
of
the
womans
body
,
when
humours
fall
down
to
the
womb
,
and
have
found
a
passage
that
way
and
will
hardly
be
brought
to
keep
their
natural
rode
;
or
when
the
womb
is
disaffected
,
either
by
any
preternatural
quality
that
exceeds
the
bounds
of
nature
,
as
heat
or
cold
,
or
dryness
,
or
moisture
,
or
windy
vapours
.
Lastly
,
There
is
barrenness
by
inchantment
,
when
a
man
cannot
lye
with
his
wife
by
reason
of
some
charm
that
hath
disabled
him
;
the
French
in
such
a
case
advise
a
man
to
thred
the
needle
Nouer
C'eguilliette
,
as
much
as
to
say
,
to
piss
through
his
wives
wedding
ring
and
not
to
spill
a
drop
and
then
he
shall
be
perfectly
cured
.
Let
him
try
it
that
pleaseth
.
CHAP.
III.
Signs
that
a
woman
is
conceived
with
Child
,
and
whether
it
be
a
Son
or
a
Daughter
.
YOung
women
especially
of
their
first
Child
,
are
so
ignorant
commonly
,
that
they
cannot
tell
whether
they
have
conceived
or
not
,
and
not
one
of
twenty
almost
keeps
a
just
account
,
else
they
would
be
better
provided
against
the
time
of
their
lying
in
,
and
not
so
suddenly
be
surprised
as
many
of
them
are
.
Wherefore
divers
Physicians
have
laid
down
rules
whereby
to
know
when
a
woman
hath
conceived
with
Child
,
and
these
rules
are
drawn
from
almost
all
parts
of
the
body
.
The
rules
are
too
general
to
be
certainly
proved
in
all
women
,
yet
some
of
them
seldom
fail
in
any
.
First
,
if
when
the
seed
is
cast
into
the
womb
,
she
feel
the
womb
shut
close
,
and
a
shivering
or
trembling
to
run
through
every
part
of
her
body
,
and
that
is
by
reason
of
the
heat
that
draws
inward
to
keep
the
conception
,
and
so
leaves
the
outward
parts
cold
&
chill
.
Secondly
,
The
pleasure
she
takes
at
that
time
is
extraordinary
,
and
the
mans
seed
comes
not
forth
again
,
for
the
womb
closely
embraceth
it
,
and
will
shut
as
fast
as
possibly
may
be
.
Thirdly
,
The
womb
sinks
down
to
cherish
the
seed
,
and
so
the
belly
grows
flatter
than
it
was
before
.
Fourthly
,
She
finds
pain
that
goes
about
her
belly
,
chiefly
about
her
Navel
and
lower
belly
,
which
some
call
the
Water-course
.
Fifthly
,
Her
stomach
becomes
very
weak
,
she
hath
no
desire
to
eat
her
meat
,
but
is
troubled
with
sowr
belchings
.
Sixthly
,
Her
monthly
terms
stop
at
some
unseasonable
time
that
she
lookt
not
for
.
Seventhly
,
She
hath
a
preternatural
desire
to
something
not
fit
to
eat
nor
drink
,
as
some
women
with
child
have
longed
to
bite
off
a
piece
of
their
Husbands
Buttocks
.
Eightly
,
Her
Brests
swell
and
grow
round
,
and
hard
,
and
painful
.
Ninthly
,
She
hath
no
great
desire
to
copulation
,
for
some
time
she
will
be
merry
,
or
sad
suddenly
upon
no
manifest
cause
.
Tenthly
,
She
so
much
loatheth
her
victuals
,
that
let
her
but
exercise
her
body
a
little
in
motion
,
and
she
will
cast
off
what
lieth
upon
her
stomack
.
Eleventhly
,
Her
Nipples
will
look
more
red
at
the
ends
than
they
usually
do
.
Twelfthly
,
the
veins
of
her
breasts
will
swell
and
shew
themselves
very
plain
to
be
seen
.
Thirteenthly
,
Likewise
the
veins
about
the
eyes
will
be
more
apparent
.
Fourteenthly
,
The
womb
pressing
the
right
gut
,
it
is
painful
for
her
to
go
to
stool
,
she
is
weaker
than
she
was
&
her
visage
discoloured
.
These
are
the
common
rules
that
are
laid
down
.
But
if
a
womans
courses
be
stopt
,
and
the
Veins
under
her
lowest
Eylid
swell
,
and
the
colour
be
changed
,
and
she
hath
not
broken
her
rest
by
watching
the
night
before
;
these
signs
seldom
or
never
fail
of
Conception
for
the
first
two
months
.
If
you
keep
her
water
three
dayes
close
stopt
in
a
glass
,
and
then
strain
it
through
a
fine
linnen
cloth
,
you
will
find
live
worms
in
the
cloth
.
Also
a
needle
laid
twenty
four
hours
in
her
Urine
,
will
be
full
of
red
spots
if
she
have
conceived
,
or
otherwise
it
will
be
black
or
dark
coloured
.
To
know
whether
the
Infant
conceived
be
male
or
female
I
refer
you
to
Hippocrates
,
Aphor
.
48.
for
it
is
a
very
hard
thing
to
discover
.
1.
If
it
be
a
boy
she
is
better
coloured
,
her
right
Breast
will
swell
more
,
for
males
lye
most
on
the
right
side
,
and
her
belly
especially
on
that
side
lieth
rounder
and
more
tumified
,
and
the
Child
will
be
first
felt
to
move
on
that
side
,
the
woman
is
more
cheerful
and
in
better
health
,
her
pains
are
not
so
often
nor
so
great
,
the
right
breast
is
harder
and
more
plump
,
the
nipple
a
more
clear
red
,
and
the
whole
visage
clear
not
swarthy
.
2.
If
the
marks
before
mentioned
be
more
apparent
on
the
left
side
it
is
a
Girle
that
she
goes
with
all
.
3.
If
when
she
riseth
from
the
place
she
sits
on
,
she
move
her
right
foot
first
,
and
is
more
ready
to
lean
on
her
right
hand
when
she
reposeth
,
all
signifies
a
boy
.
Lastly
,
Drop
some
drops
of
breast
Milk
into
a
Bason
of
water
,
if
it
swim
on
the
top
it
is
a
Boy
,
if
it
sink
in
round
drops
judge
the
contrary
.
CHAP.
IV.
Of
false
Conception
,
and
of
the
Mole
or
Moon
Calf
.
MAny
women
themselves
have
thought
that
they
had
conceived
with
Child
because
their
bellies
were
swoln
so
great
,
and
their
courses
were
staid
and
came
not
down
according
to
natures
custome
;
whereas
this
swelling
of
the
belly
more
and
more
,
and
stopping
of
the
Termes
proceeded
from
nothing
else
but
an
ill
shaped
lump
of
flesh
which
grows
greater
every
day
in
the
womb
,
and
is
fed
by
the
Terms
that
flow
to
it
;
and
this
is
that
Midwives
call
a
Mole
or
Moon-Calf
;
and
these
are
of
two
sorts
,
one
the
true
,
the
other
the
false
Mole
.
The
true
Mole
is
a
mishapen
piece
of
flesh
without
figure
or
order
,
it
is
full
of
Veins
and
Vessels
with
discoloured
veins
or
membranes
of
almost
all
colours
,
without
any
entrails
or
bones
,
or
motion
;
it
is
bred
in
the
wombs
hollowness
,
and
cleaves
fast
to
the
sides
of
it
but
takes
no
substance
from
it
,
sometimes
it
hath
a
skin
to
cover
it
and
is
empty
within
,
sometimes
it
is
long
or
round
,
and
some
women
have
cast
forth
three
at
a
time
like
the
Yard
of
a
man
:
sometimes
these
Moles
are
without
sense
,
sometimes
they
have
an
obscure
feeling
;
sometimes
they
are
bred
with
the
Child
,
and
then
is
the
Child
in
great
danger
to
be
opprest
by
them
;
sometimes
they
are
voided
when
the
Child
is
delivered
,
or
before
or
after
.
Widows
have
been
known
to
have
had
these
Moles
formed
in
their
wombs
by
their
own
seed
and
blood
that
flows
thither
.
But
ordinarily
I
think
this
comes
not
to
pass
,
but
it
proceeds
from
a
fault
in
the
forming
faculty
,
when
the
mans
seed
in
Copulation
is
weak
or
defective
and
too
little
,
so
that
it
is
overcome
by
the
much
quantity
of
the
womans
blood
,
the
faculty
begins
to
work
but
cannot
perfect
,
and
so
onely
Veins
and
Membranes
are
made
but
the
Child
is
not
made
,
yet
this
Mole
is
of
so
different
kinds
that
it
is
not
possible
to
set
them
down
according
to
their
several
varieties
;
but
doubtless
a
Mole
is
sooner
formed
if
Men
and
Women
ly
together
when
they
have
their
courses
,
and
the
blood
is
not
fit
for
formation
by
reason
of
impurity
,
so
that
neither
heat
nor
cold
are
the
chief
cause
of
this
error
,
but
the
uncleanness
of
the
matter
that
is
not
endued
with
a
forming
faculty
;
from
corrupt
seed
or
menstruous
blood
bad
humours
are
ingendred
and
nature
works
in
vain
.
Some
are
called
false
Moles
,
and
of
those
are
four
sorts
,
as
their
causes
are
;
for
either
they
proceed
from
wind
and
are
called
windy
swellings
,
or
from
water
flowing
to
the
womb
,
and
called
watry
swellings
,
or
else
diverse
humours
cause
this
swelling
,
and
sometimes
it
is
nothing
but
a
bag
full
of
blood
.
If
the
Child
be
conceived
with
a
Mole
,
it
draws
the
nourishment
from
the
Child
.
Both
sexes
doubtless
contribute
to
the
making
of
most
Moles
,
the
seed
of
the
Man
being
choakt
with
the
blood
of
the
woman
,
and
wrapt
both
in
a
caule
,
Nature
will
make
something
of
it
though
nothing
to
the
purpose
.
If
it
be
true
that
some
widdows
have
had
them
,
they
were
neither
of
the
same
shape
nor
substance
,
but
voided
will
consume
into
water
,
and
this
can
be
supposed
only
of
dead
Moles
,
for
living
Moles
that
have
some
sense
or
feeling
or
true
motion
in
them
can
never
be
produced
but
mans
seed
must
be
a
part
of
their
beginning
;
as
for
Maids
they
cannot
breed
any
true
Mole
,
because
a
true
Mole
must
be
made
of
the
greatest
part
of
the
womans
blood
coming
into
the
womb
,
but
the
vessels
&
passages
in
maids
are
too
narrow
,
so
that
there
is
no
flux
of
blood
thither
to
make
this
Mole
of
,
as
it
is
in
women
that
have
had
the
use
of
man
:
but
without
dispute
,
the
principal
cause
is
womens
carnally
knowing
their
Husbands
when
their
Terms
are
purging
forth
,
from
whence
Moles
,
and
Monsters
,
distorted
,
imperfect
,
ill
qualified
Childred
are
begotten
.
Let
such
as
fear
God
,
or
love
themselves
,
or
their
posterity
beware
of
it
.
The
windy
Mole
proceeds
from
an
over-cold
womb
,
Spleen
and
Liver
,
which
breeds
wind
that
fastneth
in
the
hollow
of
the
part
.
Sometimes
the
womb
is
weak
and
cannot
transmute
the
blood
for
nourishment
,
but
it
turns
to
water
which
cannot
be
all
sent
forth
,
but
part
of
it
remains
in
the
womb
;
also
the
womb
ofttimes
receives
a
great
confluence
of
water
from
the
spleen
or
from
some
parts
nigh
unto
it
.
The
Mole
made
of
many
humors
flowing
to
the
womb
,
proceeds
from
the
Whites
,
or
ill
purgations
coming
from
the
menstruous
Veins
.
The
fourth
Mole
is
a
skin
full
of
blood
with
many
white
diaphanous
vessels
,
if
you
cast
it
into
the
water
,
the
skin
coagulates
like
a
clod
of
seed
;
and
the
blood
runs
away
.
It
is
very
hard
to
know
a
false
conception
from
a
true
until
four
moneths
be
past
,
and
then
the
motion
of
the
body
of
the
thing
conceived
will
shew
it
;
for
if
it
be
a
living
Child
,
that
moves
quick
and
lively
;
but
the
false
conception
falls
from
one
side
to
another
like
a
stone
as
the
woman
turns
her self
in
her
bed
,
if
it
stir
at
all
it
is
but
like
a
sponge
,
trembling
and
beating
,
and
contracts
and
dilates
it self
like
the
beating
of
the
pulse
almost
.
This
false
conception
hath
many
signes
whereby
it
personates
and
shews
like
a
true
Conception
;
for
the
Terms
stop
,
their
stomachs
fail
,
they
loath
their
meat
,
they
vomit
and
belch
sowrly
,
their
breasts
and
belly
swell
,
cunning
Midwives
and
women
themselves
that
have
them
are
deceived
taking
one
for
the
other
.
There
are
many
other
things
bred
in
the
womb
sometimes
besides
these
Moles
;
Two
famous
Physician
of
Senon
,
tell
us
of
a
woman
that
had
a
Child
in
her
womb
,
that
did
not
corrupt
,
nor
stink
,
though
it
lay
long
dead
there
untill
it
was
turned
into
a
stone
;
cold
,
and
heat
,
and
driness
might
keep
the
child
from
corrupting
,
but
there
was
also
a
petrifying
humour
mixt
with
the
seed
and
blood
,
or
it
could
never
have
been
turned
into
a
stone
;
there
,
is
but
this
single
History
that
I
ever
read
of
this
kind
,
and
Authors
say
the
mother
lived
twenty
eight
years
after
she
was
delivered
of
it
;
but
it
is
no
great
wonder
why
it
did
not
stink
nor
corrupt
in
the
womb
,
for
many
aged
women
live
many
years
with
a
Mole
in
the
body
,
yet
it
never
stinks
nor
corrupts
though
they
keep
it
in
them
till
they
dye
.
As
for
Monsters
of
all
sorts
to
be
formed
in
the
womb
all
nations
can
bring
some
examples
;
Worms
,
Toades
,
Mice
,
Serpents
,
Gordonius
saith
,
are
common
in
Lumbardy
,
and
so
are
those
they
call
Soole
kints
in
the
Low
Countries
,
which
are
certainly
caused
by
the
heat
of
their
stones
and
menstrual
blood
to
work
upon
in
women
that
have
had
company
with
men
;
and
these
are
sometimes
alive
with
the
infant
,
and
when
the
Child
is
brought
forth
these
stay
behind
,
and
the
woman
is
sometimes
thought
to
be
with
Child
again
;
as
I
knew
one
there
my self
,
which
was
after
her
child-birth
delivered
of
two
like
Serpents
,
and
both
run
away
into
the
Burg
wall
as
the
women
supposed
,
but
it
was
at
least
three
moneths
after
she
was
delivered
of
a
Child
,
and
they
came
forth
without
any
loss
of
blood
,
for
there
was
no
after
burden
.
Again
in
time
of
Copulation
,
Imagination
ofttimes
also
produceth
Monstrous
births
,
when
women
look
too
much
on
strange
objects
.
To
distinguish
then
false
conceptions
from
true
,
but
if
there
be
both
true
and
false
at
once
that
is
very
hard
to
know
.
False
Conceptions
cause
the
greatest
pains
in
their
Backs
,
and
Groins
,
and
Loyns
,
and
Head
;
their
Bellies
swell
sooner
,
they
faint
more
,
their
Faces
,
and
Feet
,
and
Legs
swell
,
their
Bellies
grow
hard
like
a
Dropsie
,
they
have
such
pain
in
their
Bellies
that
they
cannot
sleep
because
they
carry
such
a
dead
weight
within
them
;
and
though
their
Faces
and
breasts
swell
,
they
grow
daily
soft
and
lank
,
and
no
milk
in
their
Breasts
but
what
is
like
water
,
or
very
little
;
whereas
women
with
Child
about
the
fourth
moneth
have
their
Breasts
swoln
with
milk
.
Some
women
look
well
with
these
false
Conceptions
,
but
most
of
them
look
pale
,
and
wan
,
and
ill
favoured
:
If
it
be
a
boy
that
is
conceived
he
will
stir
at
the
beginning
of
the
third
Moneth
,
and
a
Girle
at
the
beginning
of
the
third
or
fourth
moneth
,
and
so
soon
as
the
infant
moves
there
is
Milk
bred
in
the
Breasts
as
any
one
may
prove
that
will
.
The
Child
that
is
alive
moves
to
all
sides
,
and
upward
and
downward
without
any
help
,
but
oftenest
to
the
right
flanck
.
A
false
conception
may
have
a
motion
from
the
expulsive
faculty
,
but
not
from
it self
,
and
being
not
tied
by
ligaments
as
a
living
Child
is
,
it
tumbles
to
one
side
or
other
,
and
if
she
lye
on
her
back
and
one
press
it
down
with
his
hand
gently
,
there
it
will
stay
and
not
remove
up
again
of
it self
.
If
she
go
with
a
Mole
nine
months
compleat
her
belly
will
swell
more
and
more
,
but
she
will
wax
lean
and
wan
,
and
never
offer
to
be
delivered
.
Yet
a
woman
may
go
ten
or
eleven
months
with
child
before
her
time
be
perfect
to
bring
forth
,
but
this
depends
upon
the
time
when
the
child
was
begotten
,
and
some
women
ordinarily
go
longer
or
shorter
before
they
come
to
bring
forth
.
Those
that
have
Moles
are
usually
barren
,
or
their
Privities
are
ulcerated
,
for
it
hurts
the
womb
and
the
whole
fabrick
of
their
bodies
.
The
windy
Mole
will
swell
the
belly
like
a
Bladder
,
and
it
will
sound
like
a
Drum
,
but
it
is
softer
than
the
fleshy
Mole
or
the
watry
,
it
grows
sooner
,
and
sooner
disappears
,
and
she
will
feel
her self
lighter
when
it
abates
,
but
sometimes
it
will
heat
the
belly
with
such
violence
as
if
she
were
upon
the
rack
.
The
watry
Mole
is
a
fluctuation
of
water
from
one
side
to
another
,
as
the
woman
turns
her self
when
she
lieth
,
and
then
that
lide
will
be
higher
where
the
water
falls
,
and
the
other
side
will
sink
down
the
more
and
grow
flatter
.
The
Mole
caused
from
many
humours
doth
not
make
the
belly
swell
so
much
as
the
watry
Mole
doth
,
because
the
water
comes
more
in
quantity
,
and
is
clear
,
whereas
the
humours
are
reddish
and
stink
when
they
come
forth
,
like
water
wherein
flesh
hath
been
washed
.
There
is
one
observation
more
concerning
false
conceptions
,
that
when
they
happen
the
Flowers
stop
presently
and
never
come
down
,
whereas
they
do
sometimes
the
first
two
months
in
true
conceptions
,
because
they
are
superfluous
in
strong
full
fed
persons
before
the
child
comes
to
want
more
nutriment
,
also
the
Navel
of
the
woman
doth
not
rise
higher
in
false
conceptions
,
but
in
true
it
doth
.
Some
women
have
their
Terms
well
,
and
their
wombs
well
disposed
,
yet
their
bellies
have
swoln
and
the
cause
not
discerned
till
they
were
dead
,
for
being
opened
,
one
or
both
corners
of
the
womb
have
had
little
bags
of
water
,
or
else
clusters
of
kernels
and
strange
flesh
growing
in
them
.
Some
women
have
also
a
piece
of
flesh
hanging
within
the
inward
neck
of
the
womb
,
fastned
about
a
finger
broad
at
the
root
,
and
growing
dayly
downward
in
form
like
a
bell
,
and
sometimes
fills
all
the
privy
members
orifice
,
and
may
be
seen
hanging
forth
,
all
these
make
the
belly
swell
round
,
but
are
not
properly
Moles
as
they
are
before
spoken
of
.
Amongst
false
conceptions
all
monstrous
births
may
be
reckoned
,
for
a
monster
saith
Aristotle
is
an
error
of
nature
failing
of
the
end
she
works
for
,
by
some
corrupted
principle
;
sometimes
this
happens
when
the
sex
is
imperfect
,
that
you
cannot
know
a
boy
from
a
girl
;
they
call
these
Hermaphrodites
:
there
is
but
one
kind
of
Women
Hermaphrodites
,
when
a
thing
like
a
Yard
stands
in
the
place
of
the
Clitoris
above
the
top
of
the
genital
,
and
bears
out
in
the
bottom
of
the
share-bone
;
sometimes
in
boys
there
is
seen
a
small
privy
part
of
the
woman
above
the
root
of
the
Yard
,
and
in
girls
a
Yard
is
seen
at
the
Lesk
or
in
the
Peritoneum
.
But
three
ways
a
boy
may
be
of
doubtful
sex
.
1.
When
there
is
seen
a
womans
member
between
the
Cods
and
the
Fundament
.
2.
When
it
is
seen
in
the
Cod
,
but
no
excrement
coming
forth
by
it
.
3.
When
they
piss
through
it
.
But
Monsters
most
ordinarily
falling
out
,
are
when
the
child
born
is
of
some
strange
feature
,
or
like
a
dog
,
or
any
other
creature
,
as
the
Tartar
lately
captivated
by
the
Germans
in
their
last
war
against
the
Turks
;
if
the
relation
be
true
,
he
had
a
head
and
neck
like
a
horse
,
some
think
he
was
begotten
of
a
beast
,
a
custom
too
frequent
amongst
those
miscreants
.
Some
are
monsters
in
magnitude
,
when
one
part
,
as
the
head
,
is
too
great
for
the
body
;
or
a
Gyant
or
a
Pigmy
is
brought
forth
.
Sometimes
in
place
,
when
the
parts
are
displaced
,
as
when
the
eyes
stand
in
the
forehead
,
or
the
ears
behind
in
the
poll
;
many
such
strange
births
have
been
in
the
world
,
and
sometime
children
have
been
born
with
six
fingers
on
a
hand
,
and
six
toes
,
like
those
Gyants
the
Scripture
speaks
of
,
and
others
there
are
born
with
but
one
eye
,
or
one
hand
,
one
ear
,
and
the
like
.
CHAP.
V.
Of
the
causes
of
Monstrous
Conceptions
.
WHat
should
be
the
causes
of
Monstrous
Conceptions
hath
troubled
many
great
Learned
men
.
Alcabitius
saith
,
if
the
Moon
be
in
some
Degrees
when
the
child
is
conceived
,
it
will
be
a
Monster
.
Astrologers
they
seek
the
cause
in
the
stars
,
but
Ministers
refer
it
to
the
just
judgements
of
God
,
they
do
not
condemn
the
Parent
or
the
Child
in
such
cases
,
but
take
our
blessed
Saviours
answer
to
his
Disciples
,
who
askt
him
,
who
sinned
the
Parent
or
the
Child
,
that
he
was
born
blind
?
our
Saviour
replyed
,
neither
he
nor
his
Parents
,
but
that
the
Judgments
of
God
might
be
made
manifest
in
him
.
In
all
such
cases
we
must
not
exclude
the
Divine
vengeance
,
nor
his
Instruments
,
the
stars
influence
;
yet
all
these
errors
of
Nature
as
to
the
Instrumental
causes
,
are
either
from
the
material
or
efficient
cause
of
procreation
.
The
matter
is
the
seed
,
which
may
fail
three
several
wayes
,
either
when
it
is
too
much
,
and
then
the
members
are
larger
,
or
more
than
they
should
be
,
or
too
little
,
and
then
there
will
be
some
part
or
the
whole
too
little
,
or
else
the
seed
of
both
sexes
is
ill
mixed
,
as
of
men
or
women
with
beasts
;
&
certainly
it
is
likely
that
no
such
creatures
are
born
but
by
unnatural
mixtures
,
yet
God
can
punish
the
world
with
such
grievous
punishments
,
and
that
justly
for
our
sins
.
Aristotle
tells
us
that
in
Africa
so
many
monsters
are
bred
amongst
beasts
,
because
going
far
together
to
water
,
they
that
are
of
different
kinds
ingender
there
,
and
so
dayly
new
Monsters
are
begotten
.
But
the
efficient
cause
of
Monsters
,
is
either
from
the
forming
faculty
in
the
Seed
,
or
else
the
strength
of
imagination
joyned
with
it
;
add
to
these
the
menstruous
blood
and
the
disposition
of
the
Matrix
;
sometimes
the
mother
is
frighted
or
conceives
wonders
,
or
longs
strangely
for
things
not
to
be
had
,
and
the
child
is
markt
accordingly
by
it
.
The
unfitness
of
the
matter
hinders
formation
,
for
an
agent
cannot
produce
the
effect
where
the
patient
is
not
fit
to
receive
it
.
Imagination
can
do
much
,
as
a
woman
that
lookt
on
a
Black-more
brought
forth
a
child
like
to
a
Black-more
;
and
one
I
knew
,
that
seeing
a
boy
with
two
thumbs
on
one
hand
,
brought
forth
such
another
;
but
ordinarily
the
spirits
and
humours
are
disturbed
by
the
passions
of
the
mind
,
and
so
the
forming
faculty
is
hindered
and
overcome
with
too
great
plenty
of
humours
that
flow
to
the
matrix
,
or
the
spirits
are
called
off
and
gone
another
way
.
But
the
imagination
is
so
strong
in
some
persons
with
child
,
that
they
produce
such
real
effects
that
can
proceed
from
nothing
else
;
as
that
woman
who
brought
forth
a
child
all
hairy
like
a
Camel
,
because
she
usually
said
prayers
kneeling
before
the
image
of
St.
John
Baptist
who
was
clothed
with
camels
hair
:
How
the
imagination
can
work
such
wonders
is
hard
to
say
,
but
there
must
be
some
strength
of
mind
that
can
convey
the
species
from
the
external
senses
to
the
formative
faculty
,
for
by
this
means
there
is
a
consent
between
the
faculties
superior
and
inferior
.
The
Soul
is
all
in
all
,
and
all
in
every
part
of
the
body
,
yet
it
works
in
several
parts
as
occasions
serves
.
The
child
in
the
Mothers
womb
hath
a
soul
of
its
own
,
yet
it
is
a
part
of
the
mother
untill
she
be
delivered
,
as
a
branch
is
part
of
a
Tree
while
it
grows
there
,
and
so
the
mothers
imagination
makes
an
impression
upon
the
child
,
but
it
must
be
a
strong
imagination
at
that
very
time
when
the
forming
faculty
is
at
work
or
else
it
will
not
do
,
but
since
the
child
takes
part
of
the
mothers
life
whilst
he
is
in
the
womb
,
as
the
fruit
doth
of
the
tree
,
whatsoever
moves
the
faculties
of
the
mothers
soul
may
do
the
like
in
the
child
.
So
the
parts
of
the
infant
will
be
hairy
where
no
hair
should
grow
,
or
Strawberries
or
Mulberries
,
or
the
like
be
fashioned
upon
them
,
or
have
lips
or
parts
divided
or
joined
together
according
as
the
imagination
transported
by
violent
passions
may
sometimes
be
the
cause
of
it
.
The
Arabians
say
,
a
strange
imagination
can
do
as
much
as
the
Heavens
can
to
make
plants
and
mettals
in
the
earth
.
The
second
cause
is
the
heat
or
place
of
conception
,
which
molds
the
matter
quickly
into
sundry
forms
.
But
imagination
holds
the
first
place
,
and
thence
it
is
that
children
are
so
like
their
Parents
.
CHAP.
VI.
Of
the
resemblance
or
likeness
of
Children
and
Parents
.
THere
are
according
to
Philosophers
and
Physicians
,
three
forms
or
likenesses
in
every
living
creature
.
First
,
Likeness
of
kind
,
as
when
a
creature
of
the
same
kind
is
produced
,
a
man
from
a
man
,
a
horse
from
a
horse
;
and
herein
the
likeness
proceeds
commonly
from
the
matter
;
and
because
the
female
usually
brings
more
matter
than
the
male
,
more
children
are
like
the
Mother
than
the
Father
.
So
a
she-Goat
with
a
Ram
breed
a
Kid
,
but
a
he-Goat
and
a
Sheep
beget
a
Lamb.
Secondly
,
there
is
a
likeness
of
sex
,
and
the
cause
why
the
child
is
a
boy
or
a
girl
is
the
heat
of
the
seed
,
if
the
mans
seed
prevail
in
mixing
above
the
womans
it
will
be
a
boy
,
else
a
girl
.
Thirdly
,
there
is
a
likeness
of
forms
and
figures
and
other
accidents
,
that
the
child
by
them
more
resembles
,
the
father
or
the
mother
,
as
these
accidents
,
are
found
in
it
more
like
to
either
of
the
two
;
this
,
saith
Galen
,
comes
from
the
difference
of
parts
and
conformation
of
the
members
.
Hence
one
is
black
,
another
white
,
one
with
a
high
forehead
or
a
Roman
nose
,
the
other
not
.
Sometimes
the
child
is
very
like
the
father
,
sometimes
the
mother
,
and
oft-times
like
them
both
in
many
respects
,
sometimes
like
neither
,
but
the
grandfather
or
grandmother
:
and
there
are
many
examples
where
children
have
been
like
to
those
who
have
had
no
part
in
the
work
;
but
a
strong
fansie
of
the
mother
hath
been
the
reason
of
it
.
Authors
and
Travellers
say
,
that
the
Chineses
children
are
like
their
Sires
in
many
limbs
and
parts
of
their
faces
,
as
the
forehead
,
nose
,
beard
,
and
eyes
.
In
some
Countries
where
they
have
Wives
in
common
,
as
a
people
called
Cammate
have
,
Men
make
choice
of
their
children
by
the
likeness
to
themselves
.
There
are
also
childrens
marks
,
proper
to
some
Families
,
that
are
visible
upon
their
bodies
,
Thyestes
had
the
likeness
of
a
Crab
,
some
of
a
star
.
The
Thebans
and
Spartans
a
Lance
:
Delemus
and
his
offspring
had
their
thighs
crooked
and
like
to
an
anchor
,
and
that
lascivious
strumpet
Julia
,
Augustus's
daughter
,
had
no
children
but
resembled
her self
,
for
she
was
so
cunning
,
that
she
would
admit
of
none
besides
her
husband
till
she
had
conceived
.
Some
are
of
that
opinion
,
that
all
this
proceeds
from
the
strength
of
imagination
,
so
Empedocles
,
so
Paracelsus
determine
it
,
and
the
last
thought
the
Plague
to
be
infectious
only
to
those
that
phansie
made
it
so
.
But
the
Arabians
ascribe
so
much
power
to
imagination
,
that
it
can
change
the
very
works
of
nature
,
heal
diseases
,
work
wonders
,
command
all
kind
of
matter
,
and
they
impute
as
much
or
more
to
that
,
than
Divines
do
to
having
Faith
,
to
which
nothing
is
impossible
;
but
I
cannot
be
altogether
of
their
opinion
.
Imagination
is
powerful
in
all
living
creatures
,
for
by
it
Jacob's
Ewes
conceived
spotted
,
and
grisled
,
the
peeled
rods
being
set
before
them
when
they
were
in
conjunction
.
Galen
taught
an
Aethiopian
to
get
a
white
child
,
setting
a
picture
before
him
for
his
wife
to
look
on
.
Their
opinions
also
are
not
wide
,
who
say
the
cause
of
this
likeness
lieth
much
in
the
motion
of
the
Seed
and
the
forming
faculty
,
this
was
Aristotles's
judgment
.
We
deny
not
but
both
may
be
true
,
for
imagination
can
do
nothing
without
it
,
and
by
the
forming
faculty
Imagination
works
this
similitude
,
yet
so
that
they
both
concur
to
the
business
.
The
Soul
lyeth
in
the
Seed
which
makes
its
own
house
,
for
all
confess
a
forming
faculty
,
and
this
faculty
must
come
from
some
substance
that
lyeth
close
in
the
seed
,
though
it
appear
not
in
the
first
act
for
want
of
fit
organs
to
work
with
.
Three
things
are
requisite
to
form
a
child
.
1.
Fruitful
seed
from
both
sexes
wherein
the
Soul
rests
with
its
forming
faculty
.
2.
The
mothers
blood
to
nourish
it
.
3.
A
good
constitution
of
the
matrix
to
work
it
to
perfection
;
if
any
of
these
be
wanting
you
must
not
expect
a
perfect
child
:
But
as
for
the
marks
,
or
likeness
to
the
Parents
,
sometimes
this
vertue
lyeth
hid
some
ages
in
the
seed
,
and
appears
not
,
and
then
the
child
comes
to
be
like
those
from
whom
it
was
descended
by
many
succeeding
generations
,
for
H●lin
had
a
white
daughter
by
a
Black
,
but
that
daughter
had
a
black
son
born
of
her
,
the
forming
faculty
still
continuing
in
the
seed
when
it
hath
been
stirred
up
by
new
imagination
.
Plants
being
grafted
,
experience
shews
will
bear
fruit
of
the
nature
of
the
graft
,
but
the
kernels
of
that
fruit
sowed
will
bring
fruit
like
the
stock
it
was
grafted
on
.
Graft
an
Apricock
on
a
Pear
stock
you
shall
have
Apricocks
,
but
a
stone
of
those
Apricocks
set
grows
a
Pear
stock
.
If
the
forming
faculty
be
free
,
children
will
be
like
their
Parents
,
but
if
it
be
overpowred
or
wrested
by
imagination
,
the
form
will
follow
the
stronger
faculty
;
if
the
mother
long
for
figs
,
or
roses
,
or
such
things
,
the
child
is
sometimes
markt
with
them
.
Avicen
gives
this
reason
for
it
,
that
the
aery
spirits
that
are
nimble
of
themselves
,
are
soon
moved
by
the
phansie
,
and
these
mingle
with
the
nutrimental
blood
of
the
child
and
imprint
this
likeness
from
imagination
.
This
is
a
deep
speculation
,
but
it
may
be
compared
and
represented
to
our
understanding
by
those
equivocal
generations
made
in
the
air
of
frogs
,
and
flies
and
the
like
by
the
forming
faculties
of
the
Heavens
,
so
are
the
forms
imagination
sends
forth
engraven
on
the
light
spirits
,
for
the
quick
spirits
receive
all
forms
from
the
imagination
,
and
the
seed
that
passeth
through
all
parts
and
is
derived
from
the
whole
body
retains
the
images
of
them
all
.
CHAP.
VII
.
Of
the
sympathy
between
the
womb
and
other
parts
,
and
how
it
is
wrought
upon
by
them
.
IT
is
strange
to
consider
that
the
womb
should
discern
between
sweet
and
stinking
scents
,
and
to
be
so
diversly
affected
with
these
smels
that
some
have
miscarryed
by
smelling
the
snuff
of
a
Candle
,
insomuch
that
some
have
thought
the
womb
to
be
a
creature
of
a
discerning
quality
,
and
it
receives
this
judgement
from
every
part
of
the
body
,
it
is
delighted
with
sweet
scents
,
and
displeased
with
the
contrary
.
Wise
Men
have
been
at
a
stand
to
give
a
reason
for
it
.
Some
refer
it
to
a
hidden
quality
,
but
that
is
still
the
last
refuge
for
ignorance
.
There
are
indeed
many
things
in
nature
secret
to
us
,
of
which
we
can
give
no
certain
reason
,
as
for
the
Loadstone
to
draw
Iron
;
we
see
it
is
so
but
we
cannot
say
how
it
comes
to
pass
.
In
fits
of
the
Mother
sweet
smels
are
good
,
for
they
disperse
the
ill
qualities
and
venenosities
of
the
Air
,
and
so
by
a
peculiar
quality
strengthen
the
womb
,
by
drawing
down
the
spirits
,
and
humours
,
but
the
different
way
of
applying
them
will
do
good
or
harm
.
For
the
sweetest
things
that
are
,
as
Musk
,
or
Civet
,
will
cause
fits
of
the
Mother
,
if
you
apply
them
to
the
womans
nose
,
for
the
womb
consents
or
dissents
by
sympathy
and
antipathy
,
and
sweet
things
applied
to
the
privities
profit
in
such
cases
,
and
stinking
things
to
the
nose
,
as
burnt
leather
,
feathers
,
or
the
like
.
There
is
a
great
agreement
between
the
womb
and
the
brain
,
as
Hippocrates
proves
by
a
smoke
to
try
barrenness
by
,
and
there
is
the
like
between
the
womb
and
the
Heart
by
Nerves
and
Arteries
.
Sweet
scents
are
pleasing
to
all
womens
wombs
,
and
ill
savours
offend
,
but
not
in
all
women
alike
,
for
where
the
Matrix
is
well
disposed
and
not
disaffected
by
reason
of
ill
humours
that
it
is
charged
with
▪
those
Women
are
much
delighted
with
sweet
smels
,
but
it
is
not
so
with
others
who
are
unclean
,
for
they
cannot
away
with
sweet
smels
,
for
no
sooner
do
they
begin
to
scent
them
,
but
they
fall
into
those
fits
,
for
while
the
womb
resents
those
sweet
swels
,
the
ill
humours
that
lye
hid
in
the
womb
,
especially
where
the
seed
is
corrupted
,
fly
up
with
the
spirits
and
carry
the
bad
humours
with
them
to
the
Heart
,
and
to
the
brain
,
and
so
cause
these
stiflings
of
the
womb
.
This
is
general
for
all
sweet
things
,
that
the
Matrix
is
pleased
with
them
rightly
applied
;
for
apply
any
sweet
thing
to
the
Privities
,
the
womb
is
quiet
and
well
refresht
by
them
,
and
so
the
humours
are
still
,
or
else
they
move
downward
,
but
contrarily
stinking
things
by
Antipathy
with
the
womb
are
thrust
out
by
the
spirits
when
we
apply
such
stinks
to
the
nose
,
for
the
spirits
fly
downwards
,
and
often
there
is
an
abortion
thereby
.
The
womb
cannot
smell
scents
no
more
than
it
can
hear
sounds
or
see
objects
,
for
scents
belong
to
the
nose
which
is
the
Organ
of
smelling
,
as
colours
to
the
eyes
that
are
the
instruments
of
seeing
,
&
the
ears
of
hearing
,
but
the
womb
partakes
with
these
scents
by
reason
of
a
thin
vapour
or
spirit
that
comes
from
any
strong
smell
,
for
the
womb
is
affected
as
our
senses
are
,
very
suddenly
as
it
feels
exactly
,
which
is
in
some
kind
a
general
sense
,
and
is
common
to
every
part
of
the
body
,
our
spirits
are
refresht
with
sweet
vapours
,
not
discerning
them
but
as
they
are
placed
and
strengthened
by
them
.
But
how
doth
the
womb
chuse
sweet
smels
and
refuse
the
contrary
if
she
cannot
discern
?
I
know
not
why
it
is
so
,
unless
the
reason
be
,
because
of
the
impurity
of
those
vapours
that
arise
from
stinking
things
,
for
all
such
things
are
noynoysome
,
and
not
well
concocted
,
and
defile
the
spirts
contained
in
the
parts
of
Generation
,
and
so
cause
faintings
,
and
swoundings
,
whereas
sweet
smels
are
pleasant
,
and
refresh
the
spirits
.
But
why
then
doth
Ambergreece
and
Musk
cause
suffocations
being
so
extreamely
sweet
scented
;
and
Assafetida
and
Castoreum
,
two
stinking
cure
it
?
The
Answer
is
,
that
all
women
are
not
so
affected
,
but
onely
they
whose
wombs
,
as
I
said
,
are
charged
with
ill
humours
,
and
then
quick
spirits
arising
from
sweet
smels
presently
move
the
brain
and
the
membranes
of
it
;
and
so
the
membranous
womb
is
soon
drawn
into
consent
,
the
bad
vapours
that
lay
still
before
being
stirred
and
raised
by
the
Arteries
,
flee
to
the
heart
and
the
brain
,
and
by
secret
passages
cause
such
fits
,
but
noysome
smels
being
raw
and
ill
tempered
,
stop
the
pores
of
the
brain
,
and
come
not
to
the
inward
membranes
to
prevent
them
.
Also
Nature
being
offended
with
destructive
ill
qualified
scents
,
raiseth
up
all
her
forces
as
against
an
open
enemy
to
oppose
them
,
and
so
casts
out
of
the
womb
with
the
ill
vapours
the
ill
humours
also
from
which
these
vapours
rise
,
so
comes
a
crisis
in
acute
diseases
,
if
Nature
be
strong
she
casts
them
forth
;
and
when
a
man
takes
a
purge
,
Nature
helps
her self
against
the
ill
qualities
of
the
Medicament
,
which
she
can
no
way
conquer
but
by
casting
it
forth
,
and
so
what
humours
were
peccant
are
cast
forth
with
it
.
It
was
the
judgment
of
Hippocrates
,
that
womens
wombs
are
the
cause
of
all
their
diseases
;
for
let
the
womb
be
offended
▪
all
the
faculties
Animal
,
Vital
,
and
natural
;
all
the
parts
,
the
Brain
,
Heart
,
Liver
,
Kidneys
,
Bladder
,
Entrails
,
and
bones
,
especially
the
share-bone
partake
with
it
:
but
no
part
is
so
much
of
consent
with
the
womb
as
the
Breasts
are
.
The
agreement
between
the
womb
and
the
Brain
comes
from
the
Nerves
and
membranes
of
the
marrow
of
the
back
,
some
fee
great
pains
in
the
hinder
part
of
the
head
,
some
are
frantick
,
others
so
silent
they
cannot
speak
.
Some
have
dimness
of
sight
,
dulness
of
hearing
,
noyse
in
their
ears
,
strange
passions
and
Convulsions
.
It
agrees
with
the
Heart
by
the
Arteries
of
the
Seed
and
lower
belly
,
and
if
these
be
stopt
or
choked
by
a
venemous
air
,
the
hearts
natural
heat
is
dissolved
,
&
faintings
,
and
swoondings
,
and
intermission
of
pulse
follow
with
stopping
of
their
breath
,
so
that
you
cannot
perceive
them
to
breath
unless
you
apply
a
clear
looking-glass
to
their
mouth
,
and
if
they
breath
at
all
there
will
be
left
a
dewy
vapor
upon
the
Glass
,
if
not
they
are
dead
;
for
some
of
these
women
draw
in
no
more
air
than
what
comes
in
by
the
pores
of
the
skin
into
the
Arteries
and
so
goes
to
the
Heart
;
and
such
persons
sometimes
lye
in
such
fits
twenty
four
hours
at
least
,
and
many
of
them
have
lain
so
long
that
their
Friends
have
thought
them
to
be
dead
and
have
caused
them
to
be
unhappily
buried
when
they
were
alive
,
and
would
no
doubt
have
revived
when
the
fit
had
been
over
.
I
speak
this
for
a
warning
to
others
,
to
beware
what
they
do
upon
such
occasions
,
and
to
give
at
least
two
or
three
dayes
time
before
they
put
them
into
the
ground
;
some
have
been
taken
alive
out
of
their
Coffins
long
after
they
were
thought
to
be
dead
.
The
womb
and
Liver
agree
by
Veins
running
from
the
Liver
to
the
womb
,
which
is
the
cause
of
Jaundies
,
Dropsies
,
and
Green-sickness
,
if
the
blood
be
naught
that
comes
to
it
.
And
that
the
Kidnies
by
the
Seed-veins
consents
with
the
womb
,
is
manifest
by
the
pains
of
the
loins
women
suffer
when
they
have
their
Courses
;
for
the
left
Seed-Vein
comes
from
the
left
emulgent
or
kidney-vein
on
the
same
side
.
So
the
womb
,
the
bladder
,
and
the
right
gut
agree
,
for
if
the
womb
be
inflamed
,
presently
follows
a
desire
to
go
to
stool
,
and
to
make
water
,
by
reason
of
the
nearness
and
communion
these
parts
have
one
with
the
other
,
by
the
membranes
of
the
Peritoneum
,
that
tye
the
womb
and
these
parts
together
,
and
by
common
Vessels
running
betwixt
,
for
from
the
same
branch
of
the
vein
of
the
under
belly
run
small
Fibres
to
these
three
parts
▪
but
the
consent
of
the
womb
with
the
breasts
is
most
observable
,
the
humours
passing
ordinarily
from
one
to
the
other
,
whereby
we
may
know
the
affections
of
the
womb
,
and
how
to
cure
them
,
and
of
the
state
of
the
Child
contained
in
it
.
Lufitanus
tells
us
that
he
saw
two
women
that
voided
monethly
blood
by
their
Nipples
when
their
Courses
were
stopt
.
Hippocrates
confirms
this
,
affirming
that
women
are
in
danger
to
run
mad
when
blood
comes
forth
at
their
Nipples
.
Brassavolus
tells
us
of
womens
milk
that
came
like
blood
,
but
it
was
raw
unconcocted
blood
,
and
that
might
be
,
for
Nurses
Courses
are
alwayes
stopt
because
the
blood
runs
to
their
breasts
to
make
Milk
.
By
the
colour
of
the
nipples
the
state
of
the
womb
is
perceived
;
if
the
Paps
look
pale
or
yellow
that
should
look
red
,
the
womb
is
not
well
.
Also
if
you
will
stop
the
Terms
that
run
too
much
,
set
a
great
cupping
glass
under
the
Breasts
,
for
that
will
turn
the
course
of
the
blood
backward
.
Farther
you
may
know
the
Child
if
it
be
a
Boy
to
be
three
moneths
old
,
and
if
a
Girle
to
be
about
four
moneths
old
,
if
you
find
Milk
in
the
Mothers
breasts
,
for
at
those
times
the
Child
first
moves
,
and
then
is
there
Milk
found
in
the
breasts
of
the
Mother
.
If
the
right
breast
swell
and
strut
out
the
Boy
is
well
,
if
it
flag
it
is
a
sign
of
miscarriage
,
judge
the
same
of
the
Girle
by
the
left
breast
,
when
it
is
sunk
,
or
round
and
hard
,
the
first
signifies
abortion
to
be
near
,
the
other
health
and
safety
both
of
the
Mother
and
the
Child
.
CHAP.
VIII
.
How
the
Child
grows
in
the
Womb
,
and
one
part
after
the
other
successively
made
.
MEn
are
of
several
minds
concerning
the
time
when
each
part
is
made
;
I
think
they
are
in
the
right
,
who
maintain
that
the
membranes
are
first
made
which
wrap
the
Child
,
with
the
Navel-vessels
by
which
the
Child
is
fastned
to
the
Mothers
womb
,
and
draws
nutriment
from
her
,
and
all
parts
are
made
sooner
or
later
,
as
dignity
and
necessity
of
the
parts
require
,
but
this
is
thought
to
be
the
hardest
piece
of
Anatomy
,
because
it
is
seldome
to
be
observed
,
because
if
women
dye
in
child-bed
they
first
miscarry
and
dye
afterward
.
Some
follow
Galen
herein
,
who
never
saw
a
woman
Anatomized
▪
others
Columbus
,
some
Vesalius
,
but
few
or
none
know
the
truth
.
The
stones
of
a
woman
for
generation
of
seed
,
are
white
,
thick
and
well
concocted
,
for
I
have
seen
one
,
and
but
one
and
that
is
more
by
one
than
many
Men
have
seen
.
In
the
act
of
Copulation
both
eject
their
seed
,
which
is
united
in
the
womb
▪
and
Boys
or
Girls
are
begotten
as
the
seed
is
that
prevails
stronger
or
weaker
,
so
the
greater
light
puts
out
the
lesser
,
the
Sun
the
light
of
a
Candle
.
Nature
desires
to
beget
its
like
in
all
things
,
a
Man
a
Man-child
,
a
woman
one
of
her
own
sex
;
but
we
follow
desire
not
nature
when
we
with
the
contrary
.
If
the
Horse
or
Mare
trot
,
it
were
strange
that
the
Filly
should
amble
.
The
seed
of
both
persons
being
joyn'd
,
the
Matrix
presently
shuts
as
close
as
may
be
,
to
keep
in
,
and
to
fasten
the
seed
by
its
native
heat
,
and
so
womens
bellies
seem
lank
at
their
first
conception
.
The
first
thing
that
works
is
the
spirit
of
which
the
seed
is
full
,
this
is
stir'd
up
to
action
by
heat
of
the
womb
,
and
though
the
seed
seems
to
be
homogeneous
and
all
one
substance
,
yet
it
consists
of
very
different
parts
,
some
pure
and
some
impure
;
the
spirit
then
in
the
seed
divides
between
these
parts
,
and
makes
a
separation
of
the
earthy
,
cold
,
clammy
,
grosser
parts
,
from
the
more
aerial
,
pure
,
and
noble
parts
.
The
impure
are
cast
to
the
outside
,
to
circle
in
and
keep
close
the
seed
which
is
pure
,
and
of
the
outside
are
the
Membranes
made
,
by
which
the
seed
inclosed
is
kept
from
danger
of
cold
and
other
ill
accidents
▪
just
as
it
is
in
Trees
so
it
is
here
,
the
cold
winter
congeals
the
vital
spirits
of
the
Tree
,
but
the
Suns
heat
revives
it
in
the
Spring
,
and
opens
the
pores
of
the
Tree
,
and
separates
the
clean
from
the
which
is
unclean
,
making
of
the
pure
juyce
flowers
,
of
the
impure
and
gross
juyce
leaves
and
bark
.
The
first
thing
Nature
makes
for
the
child
,
is
the
Amnios
or
inward
skin
that
surrounds
the
Child
in
the
womb
,
as
the
Pia
mater
doth
the
brain
:
next
is
the
Chorion
or
outward
skin
made
,
which
compasseth
the
Child
,
as
the
dura
mater
the
brain
▪
this
is
soon
done
by
nature
,
for
God
and
nature
hate
idleness
,
and
no
sooner
are
these
two
coats
made
,
but
presently
the
Navel-Vein
is
bred
,
piercing
both
these
skins
whilest
they
are
exceeding
tender
;
and
conveighs
a
drop
of
blood
from
the
mothers
womb-veins
to
the
seed
;
of
this
one
drop
is
formed
the
Childs
Liver
,
from
the
Liver
is
bred
the
hollow
Vein
,
and
this
Vein
is
the
fountain
of
all
other
Veins
of
the
body
,
so
this
being
done
,
the
seed
hath
blood
sufficient
to
feed
it
and
to
form
the
rest
of
the
parts
by
.
It
is
a
vain
fancy
that
some
hold
,
how
that
all
the
parts
are
formed
together
,
others
that
the
heart
is
first
framed
;
it
must
receive
a
right
construction
what
Aristotle
saith
,
that
the
Heart
lives
first
and
dyeth
last
,
for
the
Liver
is
made
much
before
the
Heart
.
Nor
is
that
if
it
be
well
understood
to
be
found
fault
with
,
that
a
Man
lives
successively
,
first
the
life
of
a
Plant
,
then
of
a
Beast
,
and
lastly
of
a
Man
.
For
first
the
Child
grows
,
then
it
begins
to
move
,
last
of
all
it
becomes
a
reasonable
Soul
.
Next
to
the
hollow
Vein
of
the
Liver
being
made
,
are
the
arteries
of
the
navel
made
,
then
the
great
Artery
which
is
the
Tree
,
and
all
the
small
Arteries
are
but
branches
coming
from
it
;
&
last
of
all
the
Heart
is
framed
,
as
Columbus
proves
upon
very
sufficient
reason
,
for
all
the
arteries
are
made
before
it
,
for
the
Body
receives
its
life
by
Arteries
,
and
the
Navel
arteries
are
bred
from
the
Mothers
arteries
,
and
therefore
are
made
next
to
the
Veins
,
to
give
vital
blood
to
the
Seed
,
as
the
Liver
feeds
it
with
natural
blood
to
build
a
frail
house
for
poor
mortals
.
Next
in
order
,
so
far
as
reason
and
Anatomy
can
guide
us
,
the
Liver
sends
blood
to
the
Arteries
to
make
the
Heart
,
for
the
arteries
are
made
of
seed
,
but
the
heart
and
all
fleshy
parts
are
made
of
blood
;
last
of
all
the
brain
,
and
then
the
Nerves
to
give
feeling
and
motion
are
produced
.
If
the
most
noble
parts
were
first
framed
,
as
the
Peripateticks
suppose
,
then
the
brain
and
heart
should
be
first
made
,
which
is
not
agreeing
to
reason
and
observation
.
As
for
the
forming
of
the
bones
in
order
,
I
think
Aristotle
said
true
,
that
the
whirl
bones
and
the
skull
are
first
made
.
I
confess
all
these
things
have
been
questioned
by
some
,
but
I
love
not
impertinent
disputes
,
as
it
was
the
quality
of
the
Grecians
,
who
have
made
a
large
dispute
,
whether
the
Elephants
Tusks
be
Horns
or
Teeth
.
Hippocrates
divides
the
forming
of
the
infant
into
four
divisions
:
First
the
seed
of
both
sexes
mixed
have
not
lost
their
own
form
,
but
resemble
curdled
milk
covered
with
a
film
or
cream
:
the
next
form
is
a
rude
draught
of
the
parts
,
or
a
chaos
like
a
lump
of
flesh
.
And
next
in
order
there
is
a
more
curious
draught
,
wherein
the
three
chief
parts
,
the
Brain
,
the
Heart
,
and
the
Liver
,
may
be
seen
together
with
the
first
three
,
and
as
it
were
the
warp
of
all
the
seed
parts
,
and
this
is
called
Embrion
:
But
fourthly
,
To
perfect
the
whole
work
,
all
the
parts
are
set
in
order
and
perfected
,
so
that
Nature
hath
nothing
to
do
but
to
hasten
to
delivery
,
that
this
work
of
hers
may
be
brought
forth
into
the
world
.
When
the
spirit
in
the
seed
begins
to
work
,
it
parts
the
more
noble
from
the
base
,
and
the
pure
from
the
impure
,
so
that
the
thick
,
cold
,
clammy
parts
are
kept
out
to
cover
the
more
thin
and
pure
parts
,
and
to
defend
and
preserve
them
.
Nature
begins
her
conformation
with
the
cold
clammy
parts
of
the
seed
,
and
makes
skins
and
membranes
of
them
to
cover
the
rest
,
and
stretcheth
them
out
as
need
requires
.
Men
have
only
two
membranes
,
the
outward
or
Chorion
which
is
strong
and
nervous
,
and
wraps
the
infant
round
,
and
this
membrane
is
like
a
soft
pillow
for
the
Veins
and
Navel-arteries
of
the
Child
to
lean
upon
,
for
it
had
been
dangerous
for
the
Childs
Vessels
coming
from
its
Navel
to
pass
far
unguarded
:
but
the
inward
Coat
which
is
wonderful
soft
and
thin
,
called
the
Amnios
or
Lamb-skin
is
loose
on
each
side
except
it
be
at
the
cake
,
where
it
growes
so
fast
to
the
skin
that
it
cannot
easily
be
parted
;
this
skin
receives
the
sweat
and
Urine
,
and
from
thence
the
Child
is
much
helped
,
for
it
swims
in
these
waters
like
as
in
a
bath
,
and
time
is
for
delivery
,
it
moistneth
the
orifice
of
the
Matrix
,
makes
it
glib
and
slippery
whereby
the
woman
is
more
easily
and
more
speedily
delivered
.
These
two
Coats
grow
so
close
together
that
they
seem
to
be
but
one
garment
,
and
it
is
called
the
Secundine
or
after-burthen
,
because
it
comes
forth
after
the
Child
is
born
,
for
the
Child
first
breaks
through
it
,
&
sometimes
brings
along
with
it
a
piece
of
the
said
Lamb-skin
upon
the
face
and
head
,
which
is
called
by
Midwives
the
Caule
,
and
strange
reports
they
give
of
it
.
Some
think
it
ridiculous
and
fabulous
,
but
as
all
extraordinary
things
signifie
something
more
than
is
usual
,
so
I
am
subject
to
believe
that
this
Caule
doth
foreshew
something
notable
which
is
like
to
befall
them
in
the
course
of
their
lives
.
But
notwithstanding
all
that
hath
been
said
,
some
Anatomists
do
a
little
vary
from
it
,
for
they
maintain
,
that
within
the
first
seven
days
wherein
the
generative
seed
is
mingled
and
curdled
in
the
Mothers
womb
by
the
heats
motion
,
many
small
fibres
are
bred
,
in
which
shortly
the
Liver
and
his
principal
Organs
are
formed
first
,
and
through
these
Organs
the
vital
spirits
coming
to
the
seed
in
ten
days
makes
all
the
distinction
of
parts
,
and
through
some
small
Veins
in
the
Secundine
the
blood
runs
,
and
of
that
is
the
Navel
made
,
and
there
appears
at
the
same
time
three
clods
of
seed
or
white
lumps
like
curdled
Milk
,
&
these
are
the
foundation
of
three
principal
parts
,
viz.
the
Brain
,
the
Liver
,
and
the
Heart
.
But
the
Liver
is
confest
to
be
first
made
of
a
blood
gathered
by
one
branch
of
this
Vein
,
for
the
Liver
it self
is
nothing
else
but
a
lump
of
clotted
blood
full
of
Veins
which
serve
to
attract
and
to
expell
;
but
immediately
before
the
Liver
is
made
,
there
is
a
two-forked
Vein
formed
through
the
navel
,
to
suck
away
the
grosser
part
of
the
blood
that
rests
in
the
seed
.
In
the
other
branch
of
this
vein
more
veins
are
made
for
the
spleen
and
lower
belly
,
and
all
of
them
coming
to
one
root
meet
in
the
upper
part
of
the
Liver
in
the
hollow
Vein
,
&
from
hence
other
Veins
are
sent
out
of
the
Midriff
to
the
thighs
below
,
&
to
the
upper
part
of
the
back-bone
;
next
this
the
heart
is
made
with
its
veins
,
for
these
veins
draw
the
hottest
part
of
the
blood
&
that
which
is
most
subtil
,
&
so
make
the
heart
:
within
the
membrane
called
the
Pericardium
or
skin
that
covers
the
heart
,
the
hollow
Vein
runs
through
the
inward
part
of
the
right
side
of
the
heart
carrying
blood
to
it
to
feed
it
:
from
the
same
branch
of
this
vein
and
the
same
part
of
the
heart
is
there
another
vein
that
beats
but
faintly
,
therefore
called
the
still
Vein
,
amongst
the
pulsative
Veins
,
and
this
is
provided
to
send
the
more
pure
blood
by
from
the
heart
to
the
Lungs
,
they
are
covered
with
a
double
Coat
as
the
Arteries
are
.
The
Artery
called
Aorta
,
that
conveighs
the
vital
spirits
through
the
whole
body
from
the
heart
by
the
beating
Veins
or
arteries
,
is
bred
in
the
hollow
of
the
left
Vein
of
the
heart
,
and
under
this
artery
in
the
same
hollow
place
of
the
heart
is
another
Vein
bred
which
is
called
the
vein-artery
,
that
brings
the
cold
air
from
the
Lungs
to
cool
the
heart
,
for
the
Lungs
are
made
by
many
Veins
that
run
from
the
hollow
of
the
heart
,
and
come
thither
to
frame
the
Lungs
;
and
they
have
their
substance
from
a
very
thin
subtil
blood
that
is
brought
thither
from
the
right
hollow
of
the
heart
.
The
breast
is
first
framed
by
the
great
Veins
of
the
Liver
,
and
after
that
the
outmost
parts
,
the
legs
and
arms
.
But
last
of
all
the
Brain
is
made
in
the
third
little
skin
I
speak
of
,
for
the
seed
being
full
of
vital
spirits
,
the
vital
spirits
draw
much
of
the
natural
moisture
,
into
one
hollow
place
where
the
brain
is
made
,
and
covered
with
a
Coat
which
heat
drieth
and
bakes
into
a
skull
.
The
Veins
come
all
from
the
Liver
,
Arteries
from
the
Heart
,
Nerves
from
the
brain
,
of
a
soft
gentle
nature
,
yet
not
hollow
as
Veins
are
,
but
solid
;
the
Brain
retains
and
changes
the
vital
spirits
,
from
hence
are
the
beginnings
of
sense
and
reason
.
After
the
Nerves
the
pith
of
the
back-bone
is
bred
which
cannot
be
called
Marrow
,
for
Marrow
is
a
superfluous
substance
made
of
blood
to
moisten
and
strengthen
the
bones
,
but
the
pith
of
the
back
and
brain
are
made
of
seed
,
not
to
serve
other
parts
,
but
to
be
also
parts
of
themselves
,
for
sense
and
motion
,
that
all
the
Nerves
might
grow
originally
from
thence
;
also
Bones
Gristles
,
Coats
,
and
Membranes
are
bred
from
the
seed
,
Veins
for
the
Liver
,
Arteries
for
the
Heart
,
Nerves
for
the
Brain
,
besides
all
other
pannicles
and
coverings
the
child
is
wrapped
in
.
But
all
fleshy
substance
as
the
Heart
it self
,
Liver
,
and
Lungs
,
are
made
of
the
proper
blood
of
the
birth
;
this
is
all
ended
in
eighteen
days
of
the
first
month
,
and
all
that
time
it
carrieth
the
name
of
seed
,
and
afterwards
is
called
the
birth
;
and
this
birth
so
long
as
it
is
in
the
womb
is
fed
with
blood
received
through
the
Navel
,
and
therefore
when
women
are
with
child
the
courses
cease
;
for
after
conception
this
blood
is
severed
into
three
parts
,
the
best
and
finest
serves
for
the
childs
nourishment
,
the
next
in
pureness
though
not
so
pure
as
the
first
,
riseth
to
the
breasts
to
make
milk
,
and
the
grossest
part
of
the
three
stays
in
the
womb
and
comes
away
with
the
birth
and
after-birth
.
But
this
is
a
long
dispute
how
the
child
comes
to
be
fed
in
the
womb
.
Alcmeon
thought
the
childs
body
being
soft
like
a
sponge
did
draw
nourishment
by
all
parts
of
its
body
,
as
a
sponge
sucks
water
,
not
only
drinking
from
the
mothers
veins
but
from
the
womb
also
.
Hippocrates
as
well
as
Democritus
or
Epicurus
seems
to
say
,
that
the
child
sucks
both
nourishment
and
breath
at
the
mouth
,
from
the
mother
when
she
breaths
,
for
these
two
causes
.
1.
Because
it
could
not
suck
so
soon
as
it
is
born
were
it
not
used
to
it
before
.
2.
There
are
excrements
found
in
the
Guts
of
a
new
born
child
;
but
all
creatures
that
suck
will
do
it
presently
by
instinct
of
nature
;
as
Chickins
that
never
fed
before
,
will
presently
pick
up
their
food
;
and
as
for
the
excrements
found
in
the
Guts
they
are
not
excrements
of
the
first
concoction
,
for
they
stink
not
,
but
are
gross
blood
that
came
from
the
Vessels
of
the
spleen
to
the
Guts
and
are
dried
there
;
but
now
it
is
agreed
by
all
since
the
truth
is
found
out
,
that
the
child
in
the
womb
is
fed
by
its
Navel
,
only
they
differ
about
the
food
it
lives
on
,
the
Peripateticks
say
it
is
fed
by
menstrual
blood
which
is
the
excrement
of
the
last
nutriment
of
the
fleshy
parts
,
which
at
certain
times
is
purged
forth
by
the
womb
in
a
moderate
quantity
,
but
primarily
ordained
for
the
generation
and
nutriment
of
the
child
.
But
Fernelius
,
Pliny
,
Columella
,
and
Columbus
deny
this
,
because
such
blood
is
impure
,
and
will
,
where
it
falls
,
destroy
Plants
,
and
Trees
,
Dogs
will
run
mad
that
eat
it
,
and
ofttimes
hurts
the
women
themselves
,
causing
swimmings
of
the
head
,
pains
,
swellings
,
and
suffocations
,
this
then
were
ill
food
for
a
tender
infant
.
But
to
answer
all
:
If
the
woman
be
in
good
health
,
her
monthly
courses
are
no
bad
blood
for
quality
though
they
hurt
in
quantity
being
more
than
she
can
concoct
▪
and
therefore
she
sends
forth
what
is
too
much
▪
but
if
her
body
be
ill
affected
,
the
blood
that
stays
in
the
womb
is
naught
as
well
as
that
she
voids
by
her
terms
,
but
when
the
courses
are
not
duly
voided
but
stay
,
in
being
stopt
beyond
their
time
of
evacuation
,
then
they
cause
those
ill
effects
formerly
mentioned
,
else
not
:
but
women
have
not
these
courses
the
greatest
part
of
the
time
they
are
with
child
,
nor
yet
when
they
give
suck
,
for
the
most
part
;
if
the
child
be
not
fed
with
this
blood
what
becomes
of
this
blood
when
women
are
with
child
?
certain
it
is
it
turns
into
milk
,
when
time
serves
,
to
suckle
the
infant
with
.
Yet
Hippocrates
was
mistaken
,
who
says
,
that
the
last
part
of
the
time
the
child
lieth
in
the
womb
after
it
is
quick
,
it
s
fed
partly
by
the
mother
milk
;
but
this
is
certain
that
the
infant
in
the
womb
is
fed
with
pure
blood
conveyed
in
the
Liver
by
the
Navel-vein
which
is
a
branch
of
the
great
vein
,
and
spreads
to
the
small
veins
of
the
Liver
.
And
here
this
blood
is
more
refined
,
the
thick
,
gross
,
crude
part
goes
to
the
Spleen
and
Kidneys
,
and
the
gross
excrement
of
it
to
the
Guts
,
and
that
is
it
is
found
in
the
Guts
as
soon
as
they
are
born
.
The
most
pure
part
goes
into
the
hollow
vein
,
and
from
thence
through
the
whole
body
by
small
branches
;
this
blood
hath
a
watry
substance
with
it
,
as
all
blood
hath
,
to
make
it
run
and
keep
it
from
clodding
,
and
this
water
in
men
and
women
breaths
forth
by
sweat
,
&
so
it
doth
in
a
child
,
and
is
contain'd
in
the
Lamb-skin
,
as
I
told
you
.
This
watry
substance
that
is
joined
with
the
blood
,
when
the
blood
comes
to
the
kidneys
,
parts
from
the
blood
,
and
is
sent
by
the
kidneys
,
that
make
their
separation
,
by
the
Ureters
to
the
bladder
;
nor
doth
the
infant
piss
as
he
lieth
in
the
womb
by
the
Yard
,
but
the
Urine
is
carryed
by
the
Vrachos
,
a
vessel
to
carry
it
,
which
is
long
and
without
blood
,
to
the
Allantois
,
●or
skin
that
is
made
to
hold
the
childs
water
in
,
so
long
as
it
remains
in
the
womb
;
this
Vrachos
or
passage
goeth
from
the
bottom
of
the
bladder
to
the
Allantois
,
and
hath
no
muscle
belongs
unto
it
,
that
the
child
may
void
the
Urine
when
nature
requires
,
but
when
the
child
is
born
it
hath
muscles
at
the
root
of
the
bladder
,
to
shut
and
open
that
we
may
make
it
not
a
meer
natural
,
but
partly
a
mixed
action
,
to
follow
our
business
,
and
make
water
,
not
alwayes
but
when
we
please
;
but
this
is
not
the
course
with
the
child
continually
,
for
the
first
month
the
childs
Urine
comes
out
through
the
passage
of
the
Navel
,
but
in
the
last
month
by
the
Yard
▪
but
it
never
goes
to
stool
in
the
womb
because
it
takes
no
nutriment
by
the
mouth
.
After
forty
five
days
,
the
child
lives
,
but
moves
not
,
commonly
he
moves
in
double
the
time
he
was
formed
,
and
is
born
in
thrice
the
time
after
he
began
to
move
.
If
the
child
be
fully
formed
in
forty
days
,
her
will
move
in
ninety
days
,
and
be
born
in
the
ninth
month
,
but
he
receives
daily
more
food
after
the
third
and
fourth
month
to
the
day
of
his
birth
.
A
child
born
in
six
months
is
not
perfect
and
must
die
,
but
one
born
in
seven
months
is
perfect
,
but
one
born
in
the
eight
month
cannot
live
,
because
in
the
seventh
month
the
child
useth
all
its
force
to
come
out
,
and
if
it
cannot
,
it
must
stay
two
months
longer
to
recover
the
strength
lost
upon
the
former
attempt
that
had
made
it
too
feeble
to
get
forth
in
the
eighth
month
,
for
if
it
come
not
forth
at
the
seventh
month
it
removes
its
station
and
changeth
it self
to
some
other
place
in
the
womb
;
these
two
motions
have
so
weakened
it
,
that
it
must
stay
behind
a
month
longer
,
for
if
it
come
forth
before
,
it
is
almost
impossible
for
it
to
live
.
But
Astrologers
determine
this
business
another
way
,
for
they
affirm
,
that
children
born
in
the
seventh
month
do
live
by
reason
of
the
compleating
of
the
motion
of
the
seven
planets
,
allowing
one
month
to
each
of
them
,
beginning
with
Saturn
thus
;
Saturn
,
Jupiter
,
Mars
,
Sol
,
Venus
,
Mercury
,
Luna
.
Now
if
the
child
come
not
forth
at
the
seventh
month
,
but
stay
till
the
eighth
month
,
the
Planets
having
ruled
every
one
his
month
,
Saturn
begins
to
rule
again
,
who
is
an
enemy
to
conception
in
all
his
qualities
,
and
so
the
child
born
in
the
eighth
month
will
be
born
dead
,
or
live
a
very
short
time
;
yet
other
Philosophers
maintain
,
that
Saturn
is
no
enemy
to
conception
,
but
ruling
in
the
first
month
▪
by
his
influence
and
retentive
faculty
,
the
child
is
fixed
in
the
womb
;
but
as
the
celestial
bodies
have
their
influence
upon
the
terrestial
and
upon
all
the
elements
,
they
cause
all
the
changes
here
below
,
and
are
not
changed
themselves
:
for
that
the
Heaven●
,
and
the
fixed
Stars
,
and
the
Planets
are
still
the
same
they
were
in
the
first
creation
,
and
that
the
twelve
Signs
and
Planets
do
rule
over
the
bodies
of
men
and
women
;
and
how
that
Scorpio
which
is
the
house
of
Mars
,
rules
over
the
womb
and
makes
it
fruitful
;
and
that
Leo
is
a
barren
Sign
,
because
Lions
seldom
bring
forth
young
,
and
so
is
Virgo
for
they
are
no
maids
that
conceive
with
child
.
But
then
why
should
not
Taurus
be
a
barren
but
a
fruitful
Sign
,
when
Bulls
never
bring
forth
any
.
But
not
to
trouble
the
reader
with
Astrological
dreams
.
I
think
it
is
not
the
seven
Planets
that
by
this
complement
of
seven
make
the
child
to
live
,
but
I
should
rather
impute
it
to
the
perfection
of
the
number
seven
,
which
is
easily
proved
by
Scripture
to
be
the
most
perfect
number
,
and
will
appear
so
to
be
by
the
Sabbath
the
seventh
day
of
the
week
commanded
for
rest
;
also
the
Sabbatical
or
every
seventh
year
,
and
the
year
of
Jubilee
seven
times
seven
.
So
that
Hippocrates
was
out
in
three
books
,
where
he
endeavours
to
prove
that
a
child
born
in
the
eighth
month
cannot
live
;
Aristotle
,
Plutarch
,
Galen
,
and
others
were
of
the
same
judgement
.
But
to
oppose
them
,
the
writers
of
Spain
,
Egypt
,
and
of
Nanas
prove
the
contrary
by
divers
examples
:
Hippocrates
might
be
also
misunderstood
,
whether
he
meant
Solar
months
that
consist
of
thirty
one
days
a
piece
,
or
very
near
,
being
the
time
the
Sun
is
passing
through
the
Zodiack
,
or
Lunar
months
,
the
time
the
moon
is
in
any
Sign
of
the
twelve
,
and
her
stay
there
which
is
but
twenty
seven
days
,
with
some
few
hours
and
minutes
;
besides
all
this
,
the
woman
,
Hippocrates
mentions
,
might
not
make
her
reckoning
right
;
for
if
you
trust
to
womens
account
you
can
be
at
no
certainty
,
scarce
one
of
a
hundred
can
tell
you
true
.
And
as
for
Saturn
,
who
is
so
much
blamed
for
playing
the
ill
Midwife
in
the
eighth
month
,
he
is
as
much
commended
for
his
good
office
in
the
first
month
;
but
there
is
no
man
,
or
Planet
that
can
alwayes
have
every
mans
good
word
;
yet
I
am
of
opinion
they
do
him
wrong
:
but
Astrologers
may
say
what
they
please
without
reason
,
for
they
never
prove
any
thing
but
one
dream
by
another
.
Aries
forsooth
is
not
fruitful
because
it
is
the
House
of
Mars
,
and
is
not
Scorpio
which
they
praise
for
fructifying
the
house
of
Mars
too
?
Every
Planet
is
maintained
by
them
to
rule
the
severai
parts
of
mans
body
,
and
that
by
degrees
according
to
their
signs
and
several
Houses
they
are
in
.
I
have
found
no
Table
concerning
this
business
to
have
any
truth
in
it
,
wherefore
I
have
drawn
forth
one
exactly
which
you
may
safely
rely
upon
,
if
upon
any
Table
at
all
,
and
by
this
Table
you
shall
find
that
every
Planet
when
he
is
in
Scorpio
,
which
signifies
fruitfulness
of
the
womb
,
rules
those
parts
of
the
body
which
are
under
the
same
Sign
:
the
two
great
Luminaries
,
I
mean
the
Sun
and
Moon
,
excepted
,
which
do
it
by
reception
;
a
clear
proof
that
they
have
a
great
influence
in
framing
the
child
in
the
womb
,
and
that
the
two
Luminaries
in
that
work
;
mingle
their
influence
one
with
the
other
.
The
Table
.
The
first
month
Authors
give
to
Saturn
to
retain
the
conception
,
for
he
,
say
they
,
fixes
the
seed
.
The
Second
month
to
Jupiter
,
and
upon
him
they
lay
the
foundation
of
encreasing
,
of
sense
and
reason
,
but
the
true
foundation
is
then
laid
,
when
the
Seed
of
both
man
and
woman
are
well
mingled
.
Mars
rules
the
third
month
to
give
heat
and
motion
to
the
infant
.
Any
Tooth
good
Barber
.
The
Sun
governs
the
fourth
month
to
give
the
child
vital
spirits
,
yet
Mars
gave
it
motion
a
month
before
without
any
spirits
at
all
:
I
cannot
understand
there
can
be
voluntary
motion
and
no
vital
spirits
.
Venus
in
the
fifth
month
adds
beauty
;
the
body
we
all
know
is
fashioned
in
thirty
or
forty
days
,
but
beauty
must
not
come
till
three
months
after
.
As
for
the
sixth
month
that
is
Mercuries
part
,
to
distinguish
the
parts
of
the
child
,
which
Venus
it
seems
could
never
do
with
all
her
beauty
,
as
if
the
child
were
but
a
Chaos
,
and
a
rude
mass
till
the
sixth
month
,
yet
it
was
very
beautiful
a
month
before
.
As
for
the
seventh
and
last
month
in
the
Planetary
revolution
,
that
is
the
Moons
part
,
to
make
the
child
complete
.
Here
is
much
ado
to
small
purpose
.
It
is
no
error
I
confess
to
impute
much
to
the
operation
of
the
Planets
;
But
they
are
much
mistaken
about
the
times
that
such
and
such
Planets
do
work
,
for
doubtless
the
Planets
do
not
operate
by
succession
as
some
would
have
it
,
so
that
when
one
rules
,
all
the
rest
are
idle
and
lie
still
,
but
they
cooperate
and
work
altogether
and
that
continually
.
Their
motion
causes
mutation
,
for
the
motion
of
the
Sun
,
saith
Potolomy
,
of
the
Earth
,
saith
Copernicus
,
distinguisheth
night
from
day
.
The
Sun
gives
heat
to
all
things
here
below
,
the
Moon
moisture
,
and
our
life
consists
in
heat
and
moisture
.
The
Sun
is
the
Sire
of
all
living
creatures
,
and
is
first
active
in
the
seed
of
both
sexes
,
in
the
very
middle
of
the
seed
,
and
so
he
enlivens
and
moves
every
part
to
its
proper
action
.
That
which
Aristotle
speaks
of
the
Heart
,
the
Microcosmical
Sun
in
man's
production
,
is
partly
true
both
in
and
after
conception
,
to
frame
vital
spirits
and
cause
motion
&
action
.
For
as
the
earth
is
preserved
by
the
element
of
water
from
being
scorched
and
burnt
up
by
the
beams
of
the
Sun
,
so
the
Microcosmical
Sun
,
the
Heart
;
but
which
is
the
Moon
,
the
brain
or
the
Liver
is
hard
to
say
,
adds
moisture
to
this
conception
from
first
to
last
,
I
mean
as
long
as
the
child
lives
,
and
thus
the
radical
moisture
is
preserved
.
Aristotle
thought
the
brain
by
its
coldness
tempered
the
heat
of
the
heart
,
and
for
my
part
I
think
he
said
very
true
,
I
see
no
man
give
a
sufficient
reason
to
the
contrary
.
There
must
yet
be
something
to
ballance
the
heat
and
moisture
of
the
Sun
and
Moon
,
and
that
they
say
is
Saturn
by
his
coldness
,
for
he
fixeth
them
both
in
the
work
of
conception
,
and
the
dry
bones
are
his
work
which
are
the
Pillars
and
supports
of
this
frail
building
.
But
because
there
is
no
Generation
but
first
there
must
be
corruption
,
for
the
corruption
of
one
is
the
generation
of
another
,
whereby
it
comes
to
pass
that
there
is
not
a
total
decay
in
the
world
:
the
beams
of
the
Sun
&
Moon
working
upon
the
seed
of
both
sexes
fixed
by
Saturn
are
purified
and
concocted
by
the
equal
temperament
of
heat
and
moisture
that
the
Planet
Jupiter
le
ts
fall
amongst
them
;
but
then
comes
Mars
with
his
heat
and
dryness
,
and
what
is
overplus
in
the
conception
,
as
there
must
needs
be
some
superfluities
,
that
Mars
draws
forth
and
turns
to
excrements
,
and
hardens
into
Coverings
and
Coats
for
the
child
by
his
calcining
heat
,
what
is
bred
by
moisture
and
heat
,
is
fixed
by
cold
and
dryness
.
Mars
heats
with
a
fiery
calcination
,
but
Venus
she
tempers
the
heat
of
Mars
by
her
moisture
,
for
she
is
a
cold
moist
Planet
,
and
fitly
added
to
abate
the
courage
and
violent
heat
of
warlike
Mars
:
there
is
a
great
sympathy
between
Mars
and
Venus
,
and
therefore
surely
the
Poets
speak
so
much
of
their
conjunction
,
for
they
are
eminent
in
this
of
mans
generation
.
You
may
by
this
find
out
the
causes
of
sympathy
and
antipathy
in
natural
things
;
and
seeing
all
things
are
made
up
of
such
contrary
qualities
,
what
is
generated
must
in
time
be
corrupted
,
nothing
is
eternal
in
this
world
;
but
a
perpetual
motion
breeds
mutation
,
and
not
man
nor
any
thing
else
can
continue
in
the
same
stay
.
Mars
and
Venus
do
here
play
their
parts
in
mans
production
,
for
they
are
the
nearest
of
the
five
Planets
to
the
earth
,
but
next
to
them
is
Mercury
,
of
a
changeable
disposition
,
and
applieth
himself
to
the
rest
of
the
Planets
with
several
aspects
,
and
he
causeth
the
desire
of
knowledge
in
man
;
sense
and
reason
also
some
maintain
to
be
the
work
of
Mercury
by
his
influence
upon
the
child
in
the
womb
.
It
is
not
denied
but
a
piercing
acute
humour
proceeds
from
him
,
which
is
most
likely
to
effect
not
alone
the
sensible
but
the
rational
part
in
man
.
CHAP.
IX
.
Of
the
Posture
the
child
holdeth
in
the
Womb
,
and
after
what
fashion
it
lieth
there
.
HEre
Physicians
are
at
a
stand
and
are
never
like
to
agree
about
it
,
not
two
in
twenty
that
can
set
their
horses
together
;
the
speculation
is
very
curious
,
insomuch
that
the
Prophet
David
ascribes
this
knowledge
as
more
peculiar
to
God
,
Psalm
139.
My
reins
are
thine
,
thou
hast
covered
me
in
my
mothers
womb
:
I
will
give
thanks
unto
thee
for
I
am
fearfully
and
wonderfully
made
:
marvellous
are
thy
works
,
and
that
my
soul
knoweth
right
well
;
my
bones
are
not
hid
from
thee
,
though
I
be
made
secretly
and
fashioned
beneath
in
the
earth
;
thine
eyes
did
see
my
substance
,
yet
being
unperfect
,
and
in
thy
Book
were
all
my
members
written
,
which
day
by
day
were
fashioned
,
whenas
yet
there
was
none
of
them
.
Yet
Anatomists
have
narrowly
enquired
into
this
secret
Cabinet
of
nature
,
and
Hippocrates
that
great
Physician
tells
us
in
his
Book
De
natura
Pueri
,
that
the
infant
lieth
in
the
womb
with
his
head
,
his
hands
,
and
his
knees
bending
downward
,
towards
his
feet
:
so
that
he
is
bended
round
together
,
his
hands
lying
upon
both
his
knees
,
the
thumbs
of
his
hands
,
&
his
eyes
meeting
each
with
other
,
&
so
saith
Bartholinus
the
younger
of
the
two
.
Likewise
Columbus's
opinion
is
,
that
the
child
lieth
round
in
the
womb
with
the
right
arm
bended
,
and
the
fingers
of
the
right
hand
lying
under
the
ear
of
it
,
above
the
neck
,
the
head
bowed
so
low
that
the
chin
meets
and
toucheth
the
breast
,
and
the
left
arm
bowed
lying
above
the
breast
and
the
face
,
and
the
right
elbow
bended
serves
to
underprop
the
left
arm
lying
upon
it
;
the
legs
are
lying
upwards
,
and
the
right
leg
is
lifted
so
high
that
the
infants
thigh
toucheth
its
belly
,
the
knees
touch
the
Navel
,
and
the
heel
toucheth
the
left
buttock
,
and
the
foot
is
turned
backward
and
hides
the
privy
members
;
as
for
the
left
thigh
,
that
toucheth
the
belly
,
and
the
left
leg
is
lifted
up
to
the
breast
;
the
stomach
lyeth
inward
.
But
the
expert
Spigelius
hath
the
fashion
of
a
child
near
the
birth
,
whose
figure
I
have
here
laid
down
,
and
I
believe
it
is
very
proper
,
for
,
as
well
as
I
am
able
to
judge
by
the
figure
,
it
is
the
very
same
with
that
of
a
child
that
I
had
once
the
chance
to
see
when
I
was
performing
my
office
of
Midwifry
.
Here
insert
the
Figure
of
the
Child
near
its
Birth
.
anatomical depiction of the child near its birth
The
Figure
Explained
:
Being
a
Dissection
of
the
WOMB
,
with
the
usual
manner
how
the
CHILD
lies
therein
near
the
time
of
its
Birth
.
BB.
The
inner
parts
of
the
Chorion
extended
and
branched
out
.
C.
The
Amnios
extended
.
DD.
The
Membrane
of
the
Womb
extended
and
branched
.
E.
The
Fleshy
substance
call'd
the
Cake
or
Placenta
,
which
nourishes
the
Infant
,
it
is
full
of
Vessels
.
F.
The
Vessels
appoint●d
for
th●
〈…〉
This
is
a
general
observation
,
that
the
Male
Child
most
commonly
lyeth
on
the
right
side
in
the
womb
,
and
the
Female
on
the
left
side
;
but
Hippocrates
layeth
it
down
as
the
most
universal
way
,
to
have
his
hands
,
knees
,
and
head
bending
down
toward
the
feet
,
his
nose
betwixt
his
knees
,
his
hands
upon
both
knees
,
and
his
face
between
them
,
each
eye
touching
each
thumb
;
but
he
is
wrapt
as
he
lieth
in
two
mantles
or
garments
,
as
I
said
,
for
a
boy
hath
no
more
;
that
which
immediately
covers
him
and
lieth
next
to
his
skin
,
is
called
Amnios
the
skirt
or
Lamb-skin
,
it
is
wonderful
soft
and
thin
,
and
is
loose
on
all
sides
,
only
it
grows
so
fast
to
the
Cake
,
that
it
can
hardly
be
parted
from
it
;
the
use
of
it
farther
is
to
receive
the
Childs
sweat
and
Urine
,
which
moisteneth
the
mouth
of
the
Matrix
also
and
makes
the
birth
more
easie
,
but
the
outward
coat
called
Chorion
,
is
very
strong
and
sinewy
,
and
encloseth
the
child
round
about
,
and
like
a
soft
pillow
or
bed
bears
up
all
the
veins
and
Arteries
of
the
Navel
,
which
would
have
been
in
danger
,
to
have
been
carried
so
far
,
without
some
soft
bolster
to
sustain
them
.
These
coats
growing
fast
together
seem
to
be
but
one
coat
,
or
one
to
be
the
beginning
of
the
other
,
and
this
altogether
taken
is
called
the
after-burden
or
Secundine
,
for
when
the
Child
is
grown
strong
enough
to
come
out
of
the
womb
,
and
the
time
of
his
birth
is
at
hand
,
he
breaks
through
these
coverings
,
and
the
coverings
come
forth
after
the
child
is
born
:
yet
sometimes
a
piece
of
the
Amnios
covers
the
childs
face
and
head
when
he
is
born
and
women
call
it
the
caule
,
and
hold
it
to
be
a
Sign
of
some
great
happiness
that
will
befall
the
child
in
the
following
part
of
his
life
,
but
some
think
it
is
neither
here
nor
there
,
one
born
without
this
caule
may
be
as
happy
as
he
that
is
born
with
it
.
There
belong
to
the
child
whilest
it
lieth
in
the
womb
some
things
that
are
proper
for
it
,
some
to
cloath
it
,
and
are
only
for
that
time
that
it
lieth
in
that
place
,
and
afterwards
of
no
known
use
,
though
some
have
tried
to
make
use
of
them
in
Physick
and
Chirurgery
,
but
commonly
they
cast
it
away
.
Some
things
again
serve
to
nourish
and
feed
it
in
the
womb
,
and
those
are
the
Navel-vessels
which
are
four
in
number
,
two
arteries
,
one
vein
,
and
that
vessel
which
is
called
Vrachos
,
which
carrieth
away
the
childs
water
in
the
womb
to
that
skin
that
is
prepared
to
hold
that
water
so
long
as
the
child
staies
in
the
womb
and
it
is
called
Allantois
.
The
vein
I
speak
of
comes
from
the
Infants
Liver
,
and
when
it
is
passed
the
navel
,
it
brancheth
into
two
branches
;
and
these
again
divide
and
subdivide
,
the
skin
called
Chorion
supporting
the
branches
of
it
,
and
these
are
joined
to
the
Veins
of
the
mothers
womb
,
and
serve
to
suck
and
to
carry
the
mothers
blood
from
thence
to
feed
the
infant
with
,
whilest
it
stays
there
.
This
Vein
is
for
that
end
that
the
infant
may
be
fed
from
the
first
time
of
conception
untill
it
be
born
,
and
then
its
use
is
over
as
to
the
first
intention
,
when
the
child
comes
to
feed
it self
,
for
then
it
hath
no
need
to
suck
blood
from
the
mother
as
it
did
before
.
The
Arteries
are
two
on
each
side
,
and
these
spring
from
the
branches
of
the
great
artery
of
the
mother
that
comes
from
the
small
Guts
and
these
serve
to
carry
vital
blood
to
feed
the
Infant
with
,
when
it
is
first
well
prepared
and
concocted
by
the
mother
.
The
next
part
for
servile
use
,
is
a
Nervous
production
called
Vrachos
,
and
it
comes
from
the
bottom
of
the
bladder
of
the
child
to
its
Navel
,
and
it
serves
,
as
the
name
also
implies
,
to
carry
the
childs
Urine
to
the
Allantois
or
skin
that
must
retain
it
.
But
Anatomists
are
not
all
of
one
mind
about
it
,
for
some
say
there
is
no
such
thing
to
be
found
in
the
after-burden
of
women
,
but
in
beasts
it
is
.
Let
their
ignorance
or
disputes
be
what
they
will
to
no
purpose
,
I
shall
satisfie
all
by
true
experience
,
which
cannot
be
contradicted
;
he
that
reads
the
Anatomy
Lecture
of
Montpelion
in
France
,
Bartholomew
Cabrolius
a
skilful
Chirurgion
professeth
that
he
saw
a
maid
whose
Urine
came
forth
at
her
Navel
,
the
ordinary
passage
of
her
water
being
obstructed
:
and
Dr.
John
Fernelius
tells
the
same
story
,
of
a
man
who
was
thirty
years
old
,
who
had
a
stopping
in
the
neck
of
his
bladder
so
that
for
many
months
continually
his
water
came
forth
by
his
Navel
,
yet
he
found
no
hurt
at
all
by
it
but
was
very
well
in
health
,
and
Fernelius
saith
,
the
reason
was
,
because
his
Navel-string
was
not
well
tied
,
and
the
passage
of
the
Vrachos
gave
way
because
it
was
not
well
dried
.
And
there
is
another
example
that
Valchier
Coiler
lays
down
of
a
German
maid
of
Noremberge
,
she
was
thirty
four
years
of
age
.
These
distempers
are
not
frequent
,
because
she
must
be
a
very
unskilful
Midwife
that
knows
not
how
to
tie
and
cut
the
Navel
string
,
yet
these
accidents
are
sufficient
in
such
a
dark
matter
to
prove
that
there
is
such
a
thing
as
a
Vrachos
or
Urine-carrier
from
the
Navel
in
both
sexes
,
men
as
well
as
women
.
These
four
vessels
,
as
I
said
,
namely
one
Vein
,
two
Arteries
,
and
the
Vrachos
,
join
together
near
the
Navel
,
and
they
are
tyed
by
a
skin
they
have
from
the
Chorion
or
outward
coat
of
the
Secundine
,
and
so
they
seem
to
be
a
Chord
or
Gut
without
any
feeling
,
this
is
that
that
all
People
call
the
Navel-string
,
if
woman
or
man
doubt
of
the
truth
of
this
relation
,
let
him
only
take
the
childs
Navel-string
when
it
is
cut
off
,
and
untwist
it
,
and
open
it
and
so
they
shall
be
able
to
satisfie
themselves
.
These
Vessels
are
so
joined
for
to
strengthen
them
that
they
will
not
be
broken
,
nor
yet
are
they
entangled
together
;
when
the
child
is
born
into
the
world
then
these
Vessels
as
they
hang
without
from
the
Navel
serve
for
no
other
use
but
to
be
knit
fast
and
to
make
a
strong
band
to
cover
the
Navel-hole
.
Yet
experience
hath
found
a
way
to
make
a
Physical
use
of
them
,
that
what
is
spar'd
from
tying
and
to
be
cut
off
,
may
not
be
thrown
away
;
as
for
the
Secundine
and
the
parts
of
it
,
the
parts
of
it
are
held
to
be
four
.
I
shall
shew
you
a
little
more
concerning
the
description
and
use
of
them
.
The
first
part
is
that
which
is
commonly
called
a
Sugar
cake
in
Latine
Placenta
,
and
indeed
it
is
very
like
a
cake
in
the
form
of
it
,
it
is
tied
both
to
the
Navel
and
to
the
strong
outward
,
sinewy
Coat
of
the
Child
in
the
womb
called
Chorion
;
and
this
is
that
which
makes
the
greater
part
of
the
after
burden
or
Secundine
;
the
flesh
hereof
is
soft
and
of
a
red
colour
,
much
like
the
spleen
or
milt
,
tending
somewhat
to
black
,
there
are
abundance
of
small
Veins
and
Arteries
in
it
,
and
it
should
be
probable
that
the
chief
use
it
serves
for
,
is
to
cloath
and
keep
the
infant
in
the
womb
.
Columbus
a
very
good
Anatomist
,
yet
was
much
deceived
when
he
affirms
the
Chorion
or
strongest
and
outward
membrane
that
wraps
the
Child
in
the
womb
to
be
no
skin
.
It
is
undoubtedly
known
,
that
the
Chorion
and
Amnios
do
compass
the
child
round
,
above
,
beneath
,
and
on
all
sides
,
but
the
Allantois
that
contains
the
childs
Urine
doth
not
so
.
Columbus
he
mistook
this
skin
for
the
Placenta
or
cake
,
but
Hippocrates
gives
this
name
Secundine
as
general
to
the
whole
,
in
that
book
he
hath
written
of
womens
diseases
:
for
the
Chorion
is
a
skin
very
white
,
and
thick
,
light
and
slippery
,
and
it
is
laced
,
and
adorned
,
and
branched
with
a
great
many
small
Veins
and
Arteries
,
and
we
must
not
think
that
it
serves
only
for
a
covering
of
the
child
in
the
womb
,
for
it
serves
farther
to
receive
and
to
bind
fast
the
roots
of
the
Veins
,
and
Arteries
or
Navel-Vessels
which
I
spake
of
before
.
The
Allantois
or
skin
to
contain
the
childs
Urine
in
the
womb
is
denied
by
many
that
there
is
any
such
Vessel
to
be
found
in
mans
body
,
I
must
confess
reason
must
help
us
to
discern
it
,
for
we
can
hardly
see
it
or
find
it
.
It
is
said
that
in
Holland
men
are
wont
to
be
present
at
their
wives
labours
as
well
as
women
,
and
that
few
of
the
women
use
stools
,
but
they
sit
in
their
Husbands
laps
when
they
are
delivered
;
and
they
say
there
is
such
a
a
thing
.
Galen
maintains
,
that
there
is
as
much
reason
and
experience
for
it
in
men
as
in
beasts
,
good
women
as
well
as
my self
have
done
,
may
look
for
it
,
and
find
it
too
if
they
please
,
a
very
fine
,
white
,
soft
,
exceeding
thin
skin
,
and
it
lieth
just
under
the
cake
or
Placenta
,
and
there
it
is
tied
to
the
Vrachos
from
which
it
takes
in
the
Urine
,
and
its
office
is
to
keep
the
Urine
apart
from
the
sweat
,
that
the
saltness
of
the
Urine
may
not
hurt
the
tender
Infant
,
which
it
must
needs
do
,
were
it
not
kept
up
in
a
place
by
its
self
.
The
Amnios
is
the
last
and
inmost
skin
,
and
it
is
wonderful
fine
,
soft
,
white
,
transparent
,
fed
and
interwoven
with
many
Veins
and
Arteries
;
this
skin
not
only
infolds
the
Infant
,
but
also
holds
the
sweat
that
comes
from
it
whilest
it
lieth
in
the
womb
.
BOOK
.
IV.
CHAP.
I.
Rules
for
Women
that
are
come
to
their
Labour
.
ALl
Women
,
Midwives
especially
should
be
well
seen
against
this
time
of
necessity
,
and
all
things
provided
that
may
cause
them
to
be
easily
delivered
,
and
Childbed
linnen
at
hand
,
having
first
invoked
the
Divine
assistance
by
whom
we
live
and
move
and
have
our
being
.
When
the
Patient
feels
her
Throws
coming
she
should
walk
easily
in
her
Chamber
,
and
then
again
lye
down
,
keep
her self
warm
,
rest
her self
and
then
stir
again
,
till
she
feels
the
waters
coming
down
and
the
womb
to
open
;
let
her
not
lye
long
a
bed
,
yet
she
may
lye
sometimes
and
sleep
to
strengthen
her
,
and
to
abate
pain
,
the
Child
will
be
the
stronger
.
Sometimes
the
Child
is
dead
in
the
womb
before
,
and
you
may
know
it
to
be
dead
,
when
the
Breasts
suddenly
hang
down
slack
,
Nature
makes
no
Milk
or
provision
for
them
,
for
there
is
no
reason
she
should
.
Secondly
,
she
is
cold
all
the
belly
over
,
chiefly
the
Navel
.
Thirdly
,
Her
water
is
thick
,
and
hath
a
stinking
substance
that
falls
to
the
bottom
.
Fourthly
,
The
Child
moves
not
though
you
wet
your
hand
in
warm
water
and
rub
it
over
her
belly
which
is
a
true
trial
,
and
it
will
stir
if
it
be
alive
.
Fifthly
,
She
dreams
of
dead
people
,
and
is
frightned
with
it
.
Sixthly
,
Her
breath
smels
filthily
.
Seventhly
,
She
longs
to
eat
strange
things
unfit
for
to
eat
.
Eightly
,
She
looks
ill
favouredly
,
and
sorrowfully
.
Ninethly
,
The
Child
falls
to
the
side
she
lyeth
on
like
a
lump
of
lead
:
But
Garden
Tansey
or
the
Eagle
stone
will
bring
the
Child
to
its
right
place
if
it
be
weak
onely
;
but
if
it
be
dead
there
is
no
way
to
help
that
but
to
hasten
delivery
as
fast
as
may
be
,
for
it
is
a
misery
beyond
expression
for
a
woman
to
go
with
a
dead
child
in
her
womb
;
as
for
two
Twins
to
be
born
that
grow
together
and
one
of
them
dead
,
the
living
Child
cannot
long
endure
.
Virgil
tells
us
of
Mezenius
a
Tyrant
,
Dead
bodies
to
the
living
he
did
place
,
Joyning
them
hand
to
hand
and
face
to
face
.
Tenthty
,
Corrupt
stinking
humours
run
from
the
womb
,
chiefly
if
she
have
had
some
ill
disease
.
Eleventhly
,
Her
eyes
look
hollow
,
and
her
nose
strangely
,
her
lips
wan
and
pale
.
Twelfthly
,
Her
breath
stinks
if
the
Child
have
been
dead
two
or
three
dayes
.
The
more
of
these
signs
appear
at
once
the
more
certainty
of
the
death
of
the
Child
.
Wherefore
presently
use
medicines
to
expel
it
forth
,
or
Manual
and
Chirurgical
operations
with
all
care
to
save
the
Mothers
life
,
for
she
is
in
great
danger
of
death
also
.
The
signs
of
greater
danger
to
her
are
.
-
1.
If
she
swoond
in
labor
,
or
be
in
a
trance
and
memory
be
gone
.
-
2.
If
she
be
extream
weak
.
-
3.
If
she
will
not
answer
when
you
call
,
or
very
hardly
.
-
4.
If
she
hath
Convulsion
fits
or
shrinking
together
in
travel
.
-
5.
If
she
loath
meat
.
-
6.
If
her
pulse
beat
high
and
quick
.
But
if
none
of
these
signes
appear
,
there
is
not
so
great
danger
;
wherefore
presently
hasten
by
medicaments
to
provoke
the
expulsive
faculty
to
cast
it
forth
,
but
the
physick
must
be
stronger
than
for
a
live
Child
,
for
a
dead
Child
makes
no
way
,
wanting
motion
,
but
a
living
Child
doth
.
The
vertue
of
the
Eagle
stone
in
such
cases
some
commend
,
but
I
fear
it
is
but
a
fansie
of
Miraldus
,
for
I
never
saw
it
tried
.
There
must
be
no
delay
at
such
times
especially
to
drive
the
dead
Child
forth
before
it
be
corrupted
,
for
then
the
Mother
can
scarcely
escape
,
Nature
is
sometimes
strong
and
able
to
call
forth
a
dead
Birth
without
helps
,
but
then
the
danger
is
the
more
when
help
wants
.
The
causes
that
some
Children
dye
in
the
womb
are
.
-
1.
Want
of
nutriment
.
-
2.
Corrupt
diet
.
-
3.
Gluttony
and
surfeiting
,
that
choke
the
Infant
.
-
4.
The
Cups
are
sometimes
broken
by
strokes
,
sudden
fears
,
much
sneesing
,
coughing
,
violent
motion
,
extream
joy
,
sorrow
,
or
trouble
of
mind
;
or
by
medicaments
that
corrode
,
or
bitter
drinks
the
infant
loaths
,
or
things
that
provoke
the
courses
,
or
by
acute
diseases
,
or
lasty
by
hard
labor
or
difficulty
in
bearing
of
Children
.
These
following
Medicaments
will
,
God
willing
,
cause
her
to
be
delivered
of
the
dead
Child
,
and
her self
escape
death
by
them
;
make
her
sneeze
with
powder
of
Pepper
and
white
Hellebore
snuft
up
into
her
nostrils
,
drink
a
dram
of
Basil
powdered
,
with
white
wine
,
it
makes
the
delivery
easy
,
&c.
But
if
it
fall
out
that
these
medicaments
prevail
not
,
as
sometimes
they
do
not
,
that
disease
is
beyond
the
power
of
medicine
or
ordinary
Midwifry
,
then
we
must
come
to
chirurgery
,
and
the
method
how
to
perform
it
is
thus
.
1.
Lay
the
woman
along
upright
,
the
middle
of
her
body
lying
highest
,
and
let
sufficient
help
keep
her
down
,
that
when
the
Child
is
drawn
forth
she
rise
not
with
it
.
2.
The
midwife
must
first
annoint
her
hands
with
Oyl
of
white
Lillies
,
Butter
,
or
Ducks
grease
,
then
holding
down
her
fingers
let
her
shut
her
hand
and
thrust
it
up
into
the
womb
to
feel
how
the
Child
lyeth
,
for
sometimes
it
may
be
drawn
forth
with
the
hand
,
but
if
it
cannot
be
done
so
,
then
use
Chirurgeons
Instruments
,
having
first
found
with
your
hand
the
posture
of
the
Child
.
1.
If
the
head
come
forward
,
fasten
a
hook
to
one
eye
of
it
,
or
under
the
chin
,
or
to
the
roof
of
the
mouth
,
or
upon
one
of
the
shoulders
,
which
of
these
you
find
best
,
and
then
draw
the
Child
out
gently
that
you
do
the
woman
no
hurt
.
2.
If
the
feet
come
first
fasten
the
hook
upon
the
bone
above
the
privy
parts
,
called
os
pubis
,
or
by
some
rib
or
back
bones
,
or
breast
bones
;
then
draw
it
not
forth
,
but
hold
the
Instrument
in
your
left
hand
,
and
then
fasten
another
hook
upon
some
other
part
of
the
Child
right
against
the
first
,
and
draw
gently
both
together
that
the
Child
may
come
equally
,
moving
it
from
one
side
to
another
until
you
have
drawn
it
forth
altogether
;
but
often
guide
it
with
your
fore-finger
well
annointed
;
if
it
stick
or
stop
any where
,
take
higher
hold
still
with
your
hooks
upon
the
dead
child
.
3.
If
but
one
arm
come
forth
and
you
cannot
well
put
it
back
again
,
the
passage
being
too
narrow
,
or
for
some
other
reason
,
then
tye
it
with
a
linnen
cloth
that
it
slip
not
up
again
,
and
draw
it
down
gently
till
the
who●e
arm
come
forth
,
and
then
cut
it
off
with
a
sharp
knife
from
the
body
,
do
so
also
if
both
hands
appear
together
,
or
one
leg
,
or
both
,
if
you
cannot
easily
put
them
back
or
take
them
forth
with
the
body
;
as
you
cut
the
arms
from
the
shoulders
,
so
you
must
cut
the
legs
from
the
thighs
,
your
instruments
being
very
sharp
for
quick
dispatch
;
when
some
parts
are
cut
off
from
the
body
,
then
turn
the
rest
to
draw
it
out
the
better
.
4.
If
the
childs
head
be
swollen
with
watry
humours
,
that
it
be
too
great
to
come
forth
at
so
narrow
a
passage
,
then
put
in
your
hand
,
holding
a
sharp
incision
knife
between
your
fingers
,
and
so
cut
open
the
head
,
that
the
humours
contained
in
it
may
come
forth
and
the
head
abate
;
but
if
it
be
too
great
of
it self
and
not
by
disease
,
you
must
divide
the
skull
and
take
it
out
by
pieces
with
instruments
,
for
that
purpose
;
if
when
the
head
is
come
out
the
breast
be
too
large
to
follow
,
then
cut
that
asunder
also
and
bring
it
forth
in
pieces
,
and
so
must
you
do
with
the
whole
body
,
or
any
parts
that
are
swollen
too
great
.
5.
If
the
child
come
sidelong
,
then
annoint
your
hand
and
her
secrets
,
and
turn
the
child
to
the
best
posture
you
can
;
the
womb
and
all
the
Privities
must
also
be
perfumed
with
such
things
as
may
dilate
the
place
and
make
it
slippery
;
there
are
many
medicaments
prescribed
in
this
book
will
be
very
proper
for
it
,
but
when
all
fails
you
must
cut
the
child
asunder
and
draw
it
out
by
pieces
.
6.
If
the
womb
be
diseased
or
hurt
so
that
it
be
ulcerated
,
'
whereby
the
parts
are
made
dryer
and
narrower
,
it
must
be
dilated
by
oyls
,
unguents
,
baths
and
fumes
,
such
you
will
find
set
down
to
help
delivery
for
a
living
child
,
and
you
must
use
them
for
a
child
that
is
dead
.
You
must
observe
in
this
work
,
that
if
by
violent
drawing
forth
the
child
,
the
Privy
parts
and
Genitals
of
the
mother
be
so
torn
that
her
Urine
and
excrements
come
out
against
her
will
,
which
often
happens
in
such
cases
,
the
cure
will
be
the
same
as
for
the
Palsie
,
and
wounds
of
these
parts
,
with
a
general
evacuation
of
her
body
;
also
make
a
Bath
of
all
these
herbs
and
roots
following
,
or
as
many
as
you
can
get
,
viz.
of
the
decoction
of
Bay-leaves
,
Sage
,
Betony
,
Brank
,
or
some
Hogs-Fennel
,
Origanum
,
Penni-Royal
,
Tannicle
,
Tormentil
,
Plantane
,
Rupture-wort
,
Mugwort
,
Mouseeare
,
Lady-Mantle
,
St.
Johns-wort
,
Cammomile
flowers
,
Oaken
leaves
,
Camphire-roots
.
The
woman
must
sit
in
this
Bath
,
and
presently
after
her
bathing
,
she
must
annoint
her
Privities
and
Fundament
with
this
following
Unguent
.
Take
Oyl
of
worms
,
of
Foxes
,
and
of
the
Lillies
of
the
Vallies
,
each
alike
,
boyl
a
young
blind
Puppey
in
them
,
so
long
that
his
flesh
part
from
the
bones
;
then
press
forth
all
strongly
,
and
add
to
the
straining
,
Styrax
,
Calamint
,
Benzoin
,
Opopanax
,
Frankincense
,
Mastick
,
of
each
one
dram
,
a
little
Aqua
Vitae
,
a
little
wax
;
mix
them
and
make
of
them
an
Ointment
;
then
let
her
drink
often
of
this
Potion
following
.
Take
Penniroyal
,
Balm
,
Motherwort
,
Mousear
,
Ladies
Mantle
,
of
each
one
handful
,
Mace
one
dram
,
boyl
all
in
a
Pottle
of
the
best
wine
,
strain
it
and
drink
a
little
draught
morning
and
evening
,
or
boil
nothing
but
Ladies
Mantle
in
her
broth
;
drink
a
pint
of
it
every
morning
fasting
;
or
if
her
stomach
will
not
bear
it
,
take
but
four
or
five
Ounces
at
a
draught
.
The
Cesarian
Birth
is
the
drawing
forth
of
the
child
either
dead
or
alive
,
by
cutting
open
the
Mothers
womb
,
it
was
so
called
because
Julius
Caesar
the
first
Roman
Emperor
was
so
brought
into
the
world
.
Physicians
and
Chirurgeons
say
it
may
be
safely
done
without
killing
the
Mother
,
by
cutting
in
the
Abdomen
to
take
out
the
child
;
but
I
shall
wish
no
man
to
do
it
whilest
the
Mother
is
alive
;
but
if
the
Mother
dye
in
child-bearing
,
and
the
child
be
alive
,
then
you
must
keep
the
womans
Mouth
and
Privities
open
that
the
child
may
receive
air
to
breath
,
or
it
will
be
presently
stifled
,
then
turn
the
woman
on
her
left
side
,
and
there
cut
her
open
and
take
out
the
Infant
.
This
is
also
a
Cesarian
Birth
,
but
it
is
not
like
that
which
is
used
whilest
the
Mother
is
alive
.
It
is
used
three
ways
.
-
1.
The
Mother
living
and
the
Child
dead
.
-
2.
The
Child
living
and
the
Mother
dead
.
-
3.
When
both
are
living
.
Mathias
Cornax
relates
of
a
woman
that
carried
a
dead
Child
in
her
womb
four
years
,
it
was
cut
out
of
the
belly
and
womb
,
and
the
Mother
lived
and
conceived
with
child
again
;
she
fainted
not
when
her
belly
and
womb
were
cut
,
and
they
grew
well
again
without
stitching
;
but
she
had
hard
labour
the
second
child
,
and
the
Chirurgeon
offered
to
cut
her
again
,
but
the
women
would
not
suffer
it
,
so
she
fainted
,
but
the
Chirurgeon
delivered
her
of
a
second
boy
,
but
this
last
was
dead
.
Roderigo
de
Carstro
saith
,
th
〈…〉
child
cannot
live
in
the
womb
when
〈◊〉
Mother
is
dead
,
if
it
be
not
presently
taken
forth
so
soon
as
her
breath
is
gone
,
or
vital
spirits
last
,
because
when
the
Mothers
life
and
motion
cease
,
the
childs
must
needs
cease
that
depends
upon
it
;
but
it
is
an
error
,
for
the
child
hath
a
Soul
and
life
of
its
own
,
and
may
live
a
while
without
the
Mother
;
but
the
Midwife
must
keep
the
womb
open
that
it
be
not
stifled
till
the
Chirurgeon
cuts
it
out
;
you
shall
feel
the
Child
leap
when
the
Mother
is
dead
.
Charles
Stephen
shews
how
to
cut
out
a
dead
Child
.
And
Francis
Ruset
saith
,
a
live
Child
may
be
cut
out
of
the
womb
&
both
child
&
Mother
do
well
;
it
is
possible
and
sometimes
necessary
to
be
done
,
and
it
stands
by
reason
,
for
women
receive
sometimes
wounds
in
the
Peritoneum
and
the
Muscles
of
the
lower
belly
,
more
dangerous
than
the
Cesarian
cut
,
and
yet
escape
well
enough
.
A
Child
may
be
sometimes
very
weak
,
yet
not
dead
,
take
heed
you
do
not
force
delivery
in
such
occasions
till
you
be
sure
it
is
time
,
for
children
may
be
sick
and
faint
in
their
Mothers
bellies
.
But
to
prevent
danger
▪
burn
half
a
pint
of
white-wine
adding
no
Spice
to
it
,
but
half
an
ounce
of
Cinnamon
and
drink
it
off
:
if
your
Travel
and
throws
come
upon
you
,
be
sure
it
is
dead
;
but
if
it
be
but
sick
and
weak
,
it
will
refresh
it
and
strengthen
it
.
If
the
Child
be
dead
in
the
womb
,
the
juyce
of
Garden
Tansey
annointed
on
the
secrets
,
or
an
oyl
made
in
Summer
with
the
herbs
before
it
run
to
flower
,
and
boil'd
in
oyl
till
the
juyce
be
wasted
,
and
set
in
the
Sun
a
moneth
before
you
boil
it
,
is
an
especial
oyl
for
Midwives
.
The
Eagle-stone
held
near
the
privy
parts
will
draw
forth
the
Child
,
as
the
Loadstone
draws
Iron
,
but
be
sure
so
soon
as
the
Child
,
and
after
burthen
are
come
away
,
that
you
hold
the
stone
no
longer
,
for
fear
of
danger
.
Any
of
these
herbs
half
a
dram
in
powder
drunk
in
white-wine
will
do
much
,
viz
of
Bettony
,
or
Sage
,
or
Penny-Royal
,
Fetherfew
or
Centory
,
Ivy-berries
and
leaves
,
or
drink
a
strong
decoction
of
Master-wort
,
or
of
Hysop
in
hot
water
,
it
soon
will
bring
the
dead
Child
forth
;
because
the
afterbirth
is
corrupted
in
such
cases
and
comes
forth
by
pieces
,
it
is
fit
to
drink
of
the
same
drink
till
all
be
come
away
,
or
the
roots
of
Polipody
stamped
and
warm'd
laid
to
the
soles
of
her
feet
presently
works
the
effect
.
The
same
things
almost
all
are
proper
when
the
Child
is
living
and
comes
to
be
born
,
but
if
her
Travel
be
long
,
the
Midwife
must
refresh
her
with
some
Chickens
broth
of
the
Yolk
of
a
potched
Egg
,
with
a
little
bread
,
or
some
wine
,
or
strong
water
,
but
moderately
taken
,
and
withal
to
cheer
her
up
with
good
words
,
&
stroaking
down
her
belly
above
her
Navel
gently
with
her
hand
,
for
that
makes
the
Child
move
downwards
:
She
must
bid
her
hold
in
her
breath
as
much
as
she
can
,
for
that
will
cause
more
force
to
bring
out
the
Child
.
Place
here
the
Picture
of
all
sorts
of
postures
of
Children
.
anatomical depiction of fetal postures in the womb
Take
notice
that
all
women
do
not
keep
the
same
posture
in
their
delivery
;
some
lye
in
their
beds
,
being
very
weak
,
some
sit
in
a
stool
or
chair
,
or
rest
upon
the
side
of
the
bed
,
held
by
other
women
that
come
to
the
Labor
.
If
the
Woman
that
lyeth
in
be
very
fat
,
fleshly
,
or
gross
,
let
her
ly
groveling
on
the
place
,
for
that
opens
the
womb
,
and
thrusts
it
downwards
.
The
Midwife
must
annoint
her
hands
with
Oyl
of
Lillies
,
and
the
Womans
Secrets
,
or
with
Oyl
of
Almonds
,
and
so
with
her
hands
handle
and
unloose
the
parts
,
and
observe
how
the
Child
lyeth
,
and
stirreth
,
and
so
help
as
time
and
occasion
direct
.
But
above
all
take
heed
you
force
not
the
birth
till
the
time
be
come
,
and
the
Child
come
forward
and
appears
ready
to
come
forth
.
Now
the
danger
were
much
to
force
delivery
,
because
when
the
woman
hath
laboured
sore
,
if
she
rest
not
a
while
,
she
will
not
be
able
presently
to
endure
it
,
her
strength
being
spent
before
.
Also
when
you
see
the
after-buthen
,
then
be
sure
the
Birth
is
at
hand
;
but
if
the
coats
be
so
strong
that
they
will
not
break
to
make
way
for
the
Child
to
come
forth
,
the
Midwife
must
gently
and
prudently
break
and
rend
it
with
her
nails
,
if
she
can
raise
it
,
she
may
cut
a
piece
of
it
with
a
knife
or
pair
of
Sciffers
,
but
beware
of
the
infant
.
Then
follows
presently
a
flux
of
humours
and
the
Child
after
that
,
but
if
all
the
humours
that
should
make
the
place
slippery
chance
to
run
forth
by
this
means
before
the
child
come
,
the
parts
within
and
without
must
be
annointed
with
Oyl
of
Almonds
or
Lillies
,
and
a
whole
Egg
Yelk
and
white
beaten
,
and
poured
into
the
privy
passage
to
to
make
it
glib
,
instead
of
the
waters
that
are
run
forth
too
soon
.
If
the
child
have
a
great
head
and
stick
by
the
way
,
the
Midwife
must
annoint
the
place
with
Oyl
as
before
,
and
enlarge
the
part
as
much
as
may
be
;
the
like
must
be
done
when
Twins
offer
themselves
;
if
the
head
comes
first
,
the
birth
is
natural
,
but
if
it
come
any
other
way
,
the
Midwife
must
do
what
she
can
to
bring
it
to
this
posture
.
Sometimes
the
infant
comes
with
the
legs
forwards
,
and
both
arms
downwards
close
to
the
sides
,
this
way
the
Midwife
may
endeavour
to
take
it
forth
if
it
continue
the
same
posture
,
by
annointing
and
gently
handling
the
place
;
but
it
is
safer
if
she
can
,
to
turn
the
Legs
upward
again
by
the
Belly
,
that
the
head
may
first
come
down
by
the
back
of
the
womb
for
that
is
the
natural
way
.
If
the
child
come
forth
with
both
legs
and
feet
first
,
and
the
Childs
hands
both
lifted
above
the
head
,
this
is
the
worst
for
danger
of
all
the
rest
;
she
must
strive
to
turn
the
Child
,
and
if
she
cannot
she
must
try
to
bring
the
hands
down
to
the
sides
,
and
to
keep
the
legs
close
that
it
may
come
forth
,
or
else
to
bind
the
feet
as
they
come
out
with
some
linnen
Cloath
,
and
tenderly
to
help
delivery
,
but
it
will
be
hard
to
it
.
Sometimes
the
Child
will
come
forth
with
one
foot
,
and
the
other
lifted
upward
.
Then
let
the
woman
in
Child-bed
be
laid
upright
on
her
back
&
hold
up
her
thighs
and
belly
,
that
her
head
be
lower
than
her
body
;
then
let
the
Midwife
with
her
hand
gently
put
back
the
leg
that
is
come
forth
into
the
womb
again
,
and
bid
the
labouring
woman
to
stir
and
move
her self
,
that
by
her
stirring
the
birth
may
offer
it self
the
head
downward
,
and
if
so
,
you
may
then
set
her
in
a
Chair
as
she
was
at
first
that
she
may
have
a
natural
delivery
,
but
if
this
cannot
be
done
,
then
the
Midwife
with
her
hand
must
discreetly
bring
forth
that
leg
that
is
not
yet
come
forth
;
but
beware
she
put
not
the
Childs
hands
that
lye
close
down
by
its
sides
out
of
their
place
;
if
the
side
of
the
child
come
towards
the
passage
,
she
must
turn
the
child
to
its
natural
posture
,
but
if
it
come
the
feet
forward
and
the
legs
abroad
,
she
must
joyn
the
legs
and
feet
together
,
taking
care
that
she
remove
not
the
hands
from
the
place
they
should
hang
down
close
by
the
side
.
If
the
infant
with
one
or
both
the
knees
first
strive
to
come
forth
,
she
must
put
them
back
that
both
feet
may
first
come
down
to
the
passage
.
If
the
child
come
headlong
with
one
hand
thrust
out
,
then
she
must
put
the
Child
back
with
her
hand
upon
the
shoulders
,
that
the
hand
may
goe
to
its
natural
place
;
if
this
will
not
prevail
,
lay
the
woman
upright
with
her
thighs
and
belly
upwards
that
it
may
pass
forth
as
it
should
do
.
If
both
hands
come
out
first
,
she
must
thrust
the
Child
back
by
the
shoulders
as
formerly
,
till
the
hands
hang
down
by
the
sides
of
the
Child
.
If
it
would
come
forth
arsewards
,
the
buttocks
first
,
she
must
return
it
back
with
her
hands
till
the
legs
and
feet
may
present
themselves
,
or
the
head
first
if
it
be
possible
,
which
is
most
natural
.
If
the
infant
present
both
hands
and
both
feet
together
to
come
forth
so
all
at
once
,
she
must
take
the
Child
carefully
by
the
head
and
put
the
legs
upward
to
take
it
forth
.
If
the
shoulders
come
first
,
she
must
put
it
back
by
the
shoulders
that
the
head
may
come
first
.
If
it
come
the
breast
forward
,
the
legs
and
hands
lying
behind
,
she
must
take
it
by
the
feet
or
by
the
head
as
she
finds
it
to
be
most
easy
,
putting
the
other
part
upward
that
it
may
come
forth
right
.
If
a
Woman
have
two
Children
at
once
that
come
together
headlong
,
she
must
take
forth
one
after
the
other
,
but
beware
the
other
retreat
not
back
in
the
mean
time
;
so
also
must
she
receive
them
both
that
come
together
with
the
feet
forward
,
taking
them
out
one
after
the
other
.
If
they
come
one
with
his
feet
,
the
other
with
the
head
forward
at
the
same
time
,
she
must
receive
that
first
which
is
most
likely
,
and
next
the
passage
,
and
that
which
cometh
with
the
feet
first
,
if
she
can
,
receive
last
,
taking
heed
that
they
do
not
hurt
one
the
other
.
But
let
this
general
rule
be
observed
,
still
to
annoint
the
passage
with
Ducks
grease
,
or
Oyle
of
Lillies
,
or
sweet
Almonds
,
or
such
things
as
may
smooth
the
passage
and
ease
womans
labour
,
and
Iikewise
when
she
toucheth
any
part
of
the
infant
,
this
will
help
much
if
there
should
be
any
aposthume
in
the
place
.
Particular
helps
to
delivery
,
are
to
lay
the
woman
first
all
along
on
her
back
,
her
head
a
little
raised
with
a
Pillow
,
and
a
pillow
under
her
back
;
and
another
pillow
larger
than
the
other
to
raise
her
buttocks
and
rump
;
lay
her
thighs
and
knees
wide
open
asunder
,
her
legs
must
be
bowed
backwards
toward
her
buttocks
and
drawn
upwards
,
her
heels
and
soles
of
her
feet
must
be
fixed
against
a
board
to
that
purpose
laid
cross
her
bed
.
Some
woman
must
have
a
swathe-band
above
a
foot
broad
four
double
,
this
must
be
put
under
her
Reins
,
and
two
women
standing
on
each
side
of
her
must
hold
it
up
straight
,
and
these
two
persons
must
lift
up
the
swathe-band
equally
,
just
when
her
throws
come
,
or
else
they
may
do
her
hurt
,
and
two
more
of
the
standers
by
must
lay
hold
on
the
upper
part
of
her
shoulders
,
that
she
may
with
more
ease
force
the
child
forth
.
The
woman
must
hold
her
breath
in
and
strive
to
be
delivered
,
and
the
Midwife
must
stroke
down
the
birth
from
above
the
Navel
easily
with
her
hand
,
for
that
will
,
as
I
said
before
,
make
the
Infant
move
downwards
.
CHAP.
II.
To
know
the
fit
time
when
the
Child
is
ready
to
be
born
.
I
Shall
desire
all
Midwives
to
take
heed
how
they
give
any
thing
inwardly
to
hasten
the
Birth
,
unless
they
are
sure
the
Birth
is
at
hand
,
many
a
child
hath
been
lost
for
want
of
this
knowledge
,
and
the
mother
put
to
more
pain
than
she
would
have
been
.
Let
not
therefore
the
child
be
forced
out
,
unless
there
fall
down
an
extreme
flux
of
blood
,
for
in
such
cases
it
is
best
to
save
the
Mothers
life
to
drive
forth
the
Child
,
but
there
is
great
skill
and
care
to
be
used
,
or
the
woman
were
as
good
be
set
upon
the
Rack
.
It
is
hard
to
know
when
the
true
time
of
her
travel
is
near
,
because
many
women
have
great
pains
many
weeks
before
the
time
of
delivery
comes
.
But
I
think
the
heat
of
their
Reins
is
the
cause
of
these
pains
,
but
you
may
know
whether
the
heat
of
their
reins
be
the
cause
of
it
or
not
,
for
if
their
legs
swell
their
reins
are
too
hot
,
and
the
cure
will
be
to
annoint
their
backs
,
to
cool
the
reins
with
Oyl
of
Poppies
,
water
Lillies
,
or
Violets
:
women
whose
reins
are
hot
have
alwaies
hard
labour
.
A
strong
decoction
of
Plantane
leaves
and
roots
in
water
,
then
strained
and
clarified
with
the
white
of
an
egg
,
boil'd
then
to
a
sirrup
with
its
weight
in
Sugar
is
excellent
,
take
a
spoonful
or
two
when
you
please
,
or
drink
often
the
water
and
sirrups
of
Violets
and
water
Lillies
.
But
if
the
birth
be
at
hand
,
you
shall
know
when
the
skins
Amnios
and
Allantois
,
which
as
I
told
you
serve
to
hold
the
sweat
and
urine
of
the
child
in
the
womb
,
and
by
the
means
of
which
skins
the
infant
is
also
supported
in
the
Matrix
,
do
break
by
the
violent
motion
of
the
child
,
so
that
these
excrements
fall
down
to
the
neck
of
the
womb
,
Midwives
call
it
the
water
,
and
when
that
runs
forth
then
the
Birth
is
near
;
this
is
the
truest
sign
that
is
,
for
when
those
skins
are
broken
,
the
Infant
can
no
longer
stay
there
than
a
naked
man
in
a
heap
of
snow
.
These
waters
make
the
parts
slippery
and
the
birth
easie
,
if
the
child
come
presently
with
them
,
but
if
it
stay
longer
till
the
parts
grow
dry
it
will
be
hard
,
therefore
Midwives
do
ill
to
rend
these
skins
open
with
their
nails
to
make
way
for
the
water
to
come
,
nature
will
make
it
come
forth
only
when
she
needs
it
and
not
before
;
but
if
the
water
breakaway
long
before
the
birth
,
it
is
safe
to
give
medicaments
to
drive
the
birth
after
the
water
.
But
there
are
other
signs
of
the
birth
approaching
,
let
the
Midwife
look
well
on
the
womans
belly
,
for
if
the
upper
part
of
it
be
sunk
and
hollow
,
and
the
lower
part
big
and
full
,
it
is
certain
the
child
is
sunk
down
;
again
,
if
the
womans
Throws
be
quick
and
strong
,
coming
from
the
reins
downward
all
along
the
belly
and
not
staying
at
the
Navel
but
falling
still
lower
to
the
groins
,
and
inwardly
to
the
bottom
of
the
belly
,
where
lieth
the
inmost
neck
of
the
womb
this
is
another
sure
sign
.
Then
let
the
Midwife
,
her
hand
annointed
with
fresh
butter
or
with
oyl
of
sweet
Almonds
,
put
up
her
hand
,
and
if
she
feel
the
inward
neck
of
the
womb
open
,
or
any
substance
to
push
forward
,
the
child
is
coming
;
but
if
the
skin
break
and
the
waters
come
down
,
that
is
the
last
and
surest
sign
,
as
I
said
,
when
the
waters
precede
and
the
child
doth
not
follow
presently
in
some
reasonable
time
,
these
things
following
hasten
and
ease
delivery
.
Featherfew
or
Mugwort
boil'd
in
white
wine
,
let
her
drink
a
draught
of
the
decoction
,
the
sirrups
of
either
may
be
made
in
summer
with
their
juice
clarified
and
boyled
to
a
sirrup
with
twice
as
much
Sugar
,
a
spoonful
at
a
time
to
be
taken
;
or
drink
a
dram
of
the
powder
of
Cinnamon
in
wine
or
the
distill'd
water
of
Mugwort
,
Betony
,
Dittander
,
Peniroyal
,
or
Featherfew
.
Tansie
bruised
and
applyed
,
or
the
Oyl
of
it
,
as
I
said
,
will
do
it
,
but
the
Eagle
stone
held
to
the
secrets
,
draws
out
both
Child
and
Secundine
,
hold
it
to
no
longer
for
it
will
draw
forth
Womb
and
all
;
Miraldus
tells
of
many
more
pretty
ways
.
But
for
more
assurance
take
this
powder
made
of
Dittany
,
of
Crele
,
Penni-royal
,
Roundbirthwort
,
of
each
ten
grains
,
Cinnamon
and
Saffron
of
each
twelve
grains
;
beat
them
to
fine
powder
,
and
let
her
drink
it
in
wine
,
or
some
fit
liquor
,
in
the
decoction
or
distill'd
waters
of
red
Pease
,
Penniroyal
,
Parsly
,
&c.
Outward
means
is
good
applied
to
the
secrets
;
take
Agrimony
leaves
and
roots
,
but
after
cast
it
away
lest
it
draw
forth
the
Matrix
;
Henbane
,
Polypody
,
or
Bistort
roots
are
commended
for
the
same
use
.
But
let
all
hot
and
violent
remedies
be
avoided
,
for
many
times
they
bring
the
woman
into
a
dangerous
Feaver
.
Also
too
much
fasting
,
or
too
much
eating
breed
peril
to
women
in
travel
,
a
woman
that
is
with
child
cannot
so
well
digest
her
meat
as
they
can
that
are
not
with
child
;
Midwives
therefore
must
ask
how
long
it
was
since
that
the
woman
did
eat
,
and
what
and
how
much
,
that
vpon
occasion
she
may
give
her
something
to
strengthen
her
in
her
labour
if
need
be
,
as
warm
broth
,
or
a
potched
egg
;
and
if
her
delivery
be
long
in
doing
,
give
her
an
ounce
of
Cinnamon
water
to
comfort
her
,
or
else
a
dram
of
Confectio
Alkermes
at
twice
in
two
spoonfuls
of
Claret
wine
,
but
give
her
but
one
of
these
three
things
,
for
you
may
soon
cast
her
into
a
feaver
by
too
much
hot
administrations
,
and
that
may
stop
her
purgations
,
and
breed
many
mischiefs
.
CHAP.
III.
What
must
be
done
after
the
woman
is
delivered
.
IT
will
be
profitable
when
a
woman
hath
had
sore
travel
,
to
wrap
her
back
with
a
sheep-skin
newly
flead
off
,
and
let
her
ly
in
it
,
and
to
lay
a
Hare-skin
,
rub'd
over
with
Hares
blood
newly
prepared
,
to
her
belly
;
let
these
things
be
worn
two
hours
in
winter
,
and
but
one
hour
in
Summer
,
for
these
will
close
up
the
parts
too
much
dilated
by
the
childs
birth
,
and
will
expel
all
ill
melancholly
blood
from
those
parts
.
This
being
done
,
swathe
the
woman
with
a
Napkin
about
nine
inches
broad
,
but
annoint
her
belly
with
Oyl
of
St.
Johns
wort
,
and
then
raise
up
the
womb
with
a
linnen
cloth
many
times
folded
,
cover
her
flanks
,
with
a
little
pillow
about
a
quarter
of
a
Yard
long
,
then
swathe
her
,
beginning
a
little
a-above
the
hanches
,
rather
higher
than
lower
,
winding
it
even
;
lay
warm
cloths
to
her
breasts
,
forbearing
those
that
repulse
the
milk
till
longer
time
,
and
the
body
be
setled
,
lest
repercussives
should
do
her
hurt
,
let
then
her
blood
be
first
setled
ten
or
twelve
hours
,
and
that
the
blood
which
was
cast
upon
the
lungs
by
violent
labour
may
return
to
its
own
place
;
but
you
may
ease
the
pains
of
her
breasts
and
comfort
them
,
laying
a
linnen
cloth
doubled
and
not
warm'd
,
dipt
in
Oil
of
St.
Johns
wort
and
of
Roses
,
with
the
yolk
and
white
of
an
egg
beat
together
,
of
each
an
ounce
,
with
an
ounce
of
Rose-water
,
and
as
much
of
Plantan-water
.
Let
her
not
sleep
till
about
four
hours
after
she
is
delivered
,
but
first
give
her
some
nourishing
broth
or
Cawdle
to
comfort
her
;
let
her
eat
no
flesh
till
two
dayes
at
least
be
over
,
for
she
may
not
use
a
full
diet
after
so
great
loss
of
blood
suddenly
,
as
she
grows
stronger
she
may
begin
with
meats
of
easie
digestion
,
as
Chickens
,
or
Pullets
;
she
may
drink
small
wines
with
a
little
Saffron
,
Mace
and
Cloves
infused
,
equal
parts
,
all
tied
in
a
piece
of
linnen
,
and
let
them
lie
in
the
wine
so
close
stopt
,
she
may
drink
a
small
draught
of
it
at
dinner
and
supper
for
the
whole
month
,
and
besides
her
ordinary
food
she
may
if
she
will
take
nourishing
broths
and
Aleberries
;
with
bread
,
butter
,
and
Sugar
.
Let
her
drink
her
Beer
or
Ale
with
a
tost
,
she
may
drink
a
decoction
of
Liquorish
,
Raisins
of
the
Sun
and
a
little
Cinnamon
:
if
the
child
be
a
boy
she
must
lye
in
thirty
dayes
,
if
a
girl
forty
daies
,
and
remember
that
it
is
the
time
of
her
purification
that
her
husband
must
abstain
from
her
.
CHAP.
IV.
When
and
how
to
cut
off
the
Childs
navel-string
,
and
what
is
the
Consequent
thereof
.
THe
Navel-string
is
twisted
that
it
might
be
the
stronger
,
and
that
the
blood
by
that
delay
might
be
better
prepared
:
had
the
Vein
in
the
Navel
,
or
the
Arteries
,
or
Vrachos
that
carrye
the
piss
being
single
,
the
different
postures
of
the
child
in
the
womb
,
or
the
difference
of
the
womans
standing
,
sitting
,
or
lying
,
might
press
a
single
vessel
,
and
stop
the
passage
of
the
blood
in
the
Vein
,
spirit
in
the
Arteries
,
or
water
in
the
Vrachos
,
but
the
twisting
hath
prevented
that
.
The
cutting
of
the
Navel-string
helps
much
,
for
it
keeps
the
blood
and
spirits
in
,
after
the
Child
is
born
.
A
Midwives
skill
is
seen
much
if
she
can
perform
this
rightly
.
The
time
to
do
it
is
so
soon
as
ever
the
Child
is
born
,
whether
he
bring
a
part
of
the
Secundine
out
with
him
or
not
,
for
sometimes
the
infant
brings
a
piece
of
the
Coat
Amnios
upon
his
head
,
and
that
they
name
the
caule
.
I
know
no
wonders
this
Caule
will
work
,
but
if
you
find
this
Caule
on
the
childs
head
you
shall
miss
it
in
the
after-birth
,
if
it
be
in
the
after-birth
it
will
not
be
on
his
head
.
The
reason
why
some
Children
bring
it
with
them
on
their
head
into
the
world
is
weakness
,
and
it
signifies
a
short
life
,
and
proves
seldome
otherwise
:
But
if
it
come
with
it
or
without
it
,
so
soon
as
it
is
come
forth
,
consider
whether
the
Child
be
strong
or
weak
,
for
by
the
Navel-string
the
Mother
gives
both
vital
and
natural
blood
to
the
Child
;
wherefore
if
the
Child
be
weak
,
you
must
gently
put
back
part
of
the
vital
and
natural
blood
into
the
childs
body
by
the
Navel
,
for
that
will
refresh
a
weak
child
;
if
the
child
be
strong
you
need
not
do
it
.
Many
children
seem
to
be
born
dead
that
recover
by
this
meanes
,
as
very
weak
children
often
do
;
but
you
must
crush
out
six
or
seven
drops
of
blood
out
of
the
navel-string
,
I
mean
that
part
which
is
cut
off
,
&
give
it
the
child
by
the
mouth
to
drink
.
But
in
what
place
this
string
must
be
cut
,
Midwives
and
Physicians
can
scarce
agree
.
Elias
lib.
4.
c.
3.
saith
,
it
must
be
cut
four
fingers
breadth
from
the
body
,
but
what
is
this
,
Midwives
fingers
are
not
equal
,
I
suppose
he
means
four
inches
,
for
that
was
the
opinion
of
the
Antients
.
Miraldus
was
critical
in
this
point
,
and
from
him
some
errors
were
begotten
about
it
in
late
writers
,
and
Midwives
.
Hence
it
is
,
if
Spigelius
speak
truth
,
that
Midwives
cut
the
Females
Navel-string
shorter
than
they
doe
the
Males
,
for
Boys
privy
parts
must
be
longer
than
womens
,
but
it
Females
are
cut
short
they
say
it
will
make
them
modest
,
and
their
secrets
narrower
.
Spigelius
and
others
laugh
at
this
conceit
,
for
if
Midwives
by
cutting
their
Navel-strings
can
make
their
secrets
wider
,
all
women
that
have
hard
labour
have
good
reason
to
complain
of
their
Midwives
for
cutting
their
Navel-string
so
short
.
Miraldus
bids
cut
the
navel-string
long
in
both
sexes
,
for
that
the
Instruments
of
Generation
in
both
follow
this
proportion
,
if
womens
Navel-strings
be
cut
too
short
,
it
will
hinder
their
Childbearing
.
Taisner
an
excellent
Astrologer
was
of
this
mind
.
If
Nature
framed
the
child
by
the
Navel-string
in
the
womb
,
there
is
no
small
use
of
it
afterward
.
Miraldus
saith
,
that
if
a
childs
Navel-string
be
cut
off
and
let
fall
to
touch
the
ground
,
that
child
shall
never
hold
its
water
sleeping
nor
waking
.
Also
if
you
carry
a
piece
of
a
Childs
Navel-string
about
you
,
you
may
,
saith
Miraldus
,
wear
it
for
a
foil
in
a
Ring
,
you
shall
never
be
troubled
with
convulsion
fits
,
nor
the
Falling
sickness
.
I
have
known
all
this
tried
,
but
he
saith
farther
that
it
will
defend
those
that
carry
it
from
Devils
and
Witch-crafts
,
and
one
may
try
this
if
they
please
.
If
the
Child
be
very
weak
when
it
is
born
,
put
back
gently
the
natural
blood
by
the
Navel
vein
,
and
the
vital
by
the
Navel
arteries
and
you
shall
see
the
child
almost
dead
before
,
to
revive
like
one
awak'd
out
of
sleep
;
if
the
child
seem
full
of
life
and
spirits
,
then
stop
the
navel-string
near
the
Navel
that
no
blood
nor
vital
spirits
go
back
,
and
that
will
keep
the
child
strong
as
it
is
;
having
done
this
bind
the
Navel-string
with
a
strong
ligature
,
and
cut
it
not
off
too
near
to
the
string
,
least
it
unloose
;
you
need
not
fear
to
bind
the
Navel-string
very
hard
,
because
it
feels
not
,
and
that
piece
of
the
Navel-string
you
leave
on
will
fall
off
in
a
very
few
days
;
for
the
whole
course
of
Nature
is
soon
changed
in
the
Child
,
and
another
way
ordain'd
to
feed
it
.
It
is
no
matter
what
you
cut
it
off
with
,
so
it
be
sharp
to
do
it
neatly
.
The
reason
of
so
many
nodes
or
knots
in
the
childs
Navel-string
is
,
that
the
blood
and
vital
spirits
might
not
come
in
too
fast
to
choke
the
child
,
Nature
is
a
careful
Nurse
,
but
Midwives
say
,
these
knots
in
number
signifie
so
many
Children
,
the
reddish
boys
,
the
whitish
Girls
;
and
the
long
distance
between
knot
and
knot
,
long
time
between
child
and
child
;
but
all
false
,
for
all
women
almost
have
equal
knots
,
and
more
knots
with
their
last
Children
than
with
the
first
.
When
the
Navel-string
is
cut
off
,
apply
a
little
Cotten
or
lint
to
the
place
to
keep
it
warm
,
least
the
cold
get
in
,
and
that
it
will
do
,
if
it
be
not
hard
enough
bound
,
and
if
it
do
you
cannot
think
of
a
greater
mischief
for
the
Child
;
when
part
of
the
Navel-string
left
is
fallen
off
,
Midwives
use
to
burn
a
rag
to
tinder
and
to
apply
to
the
place
,
a
little
powder
of
Bolearmoniack
were
better
,
because
it
drieth
;
Beasts
can
lick
the
Navel-string
round
enough
to
keep
out
the
air
,
but
the
curse
lyeth
heavier
on
women
for
our
Grand-Mothers
first
sin
,
than
it
doth
upon
beasts
.
CHAP.
V.
What
is
best
to
bring
away
the
Secundine
,
or
after-burden
.
WOmen
are
in
as
great
danger
if
not
more
,
after
the
young
is
born
,
but
Beasts
are
not
;
the
Caule
or
inward
chamber
of
the
womb
the
child
did
lye
in
,
stayeth
oft-times
long
after
the
child
is
born
,
which
should
presently
follow
it
,
&
when
it
so
happens
,
if
it
begins
especially
to
corrupt
as
it
will
soon
do
,
it
causeth
grievous
pains
and
ofttimes
death
,
wherefore
make
hast
to
drive
it
forth
,
but
be
sure
the
means
you
use
be
very
gentle
,
for
the
woman
is
now
grown
weak
and
her
womb
is
quick
of
feeling
but
the
Secundine
is
dead
,
let
the
quick
then
cast
forth
the
dead
.
Midwives
long
nails
may
do
mischief
,
I
grant
delays
are
dangerous
,
for
if
it
be
retain'd
till
it
corrupt
,
it
will
cause
Feavers
,
Imposthumes
,
Convulsions
,
and
such
like
;
know
this
,
that
what
brings
away
the
birth
,
will
also
do
good
to
call
forth
the
after-birth
;
then
comfort
the
woman
,
let
her
snuff
up
a
little
white
Hellebore
in
powder
to
make
her
sneefe
;
but
put
the
woman
to
as
little
trouble
as
you
can
,
for
she
hath
endured
pain
enough
already
.
The
herb
Vervain
boil'd
in
wine
,
or
a
sirrup
made
with
the
clarified
juice
,
as
I
told
you
,
of
Tansie
,
Featherfew
,
and
mugwort
do
the
same
but
hardly
so
forcibly
;
Alexanders
boiled
in
wine
,
and
the
wine
drunk
is
excellent
,
Sweet-Cecely
,
Angelica
roots
,
or
Master-wort
doe
the
same
so
used
.
The
smoke
of
Mary-Gold
flowers
taken
in
by
a
Tunnel
at
the
secrets
,
will
easily
bring
forth
the
Secundine
though
the
Midwife
have
let
go
her
hold
.
Mugwort
boil'd
soft
in
water
&
applied
like
a
Poultess
to
the
Navel
,
brings
birth
,
and
after-birth
away
,
but
then
remove
it
least
it
bring
the
womb
after
all
.
Women
suffer
great
pains
in
Child-birth
,
because
the
womb
that
hath
many
Nerves
and
Sinews
,
by
which
the
body
feels
,
is
strait
till
time
of
delivery
,
and
then
it
is
stretched
,
which
causeth
great
pain
;
and
some
women
have
more
pain
in
bearing
than
others
have
,
because
some
womens
passages
are
narrower
,
and
their
wombs
more
full
of
Nerves
as
Anatomy
will
shew
;
and
some
think
the
reason
of
the
great
soreness
of
some
women
is
,
because
the
share-bone
and
os
sacrum
,
or
holy-bone
do
part
or
give
way
in
hard
travel
;
it
was
that
excellent
Anatomist
Doctor
Reads
opinion
,
and
I
believe
it
to
be
true
;
for
nature
strives
to
the
utmost
in
such
times
.
Crook
,
and
Columbus
deny
this
,
but
the
bones
are
joyned
with
Cartilages
,
and
Ligaments
,
which
being
wet
with
much
moisture
may
give
way
though
the
bones
open
not
,
but
in
all
labour
,
the
Nerves
that
carrry
feeling
through
the
whole
body
,
are
then
stretcht
and
cause
soreness
till
they
have
rest
and
be
settled
again
.
CHAP.
VI.
Of
the
great
pains
and
throws
some
Women
suffer
after
they
are
delivered
.
SOmetimes
a
woman
delivered
shall
for
two
of
three
days
after
,
and
now
and
then
longer
,
feel
such
bitter
pains
in
her
belly
and
above
the
Groin
as
if
she
should
be
delivered
again
,
these
pains
are
not
in
the
body
and
bottom
of
the
womb
,
but
in
the
Vessels
and
Ligatures
by
which
the
womb
hangs
,
and
so
it
passeth
to
the
sides
and
belly
.
The
causes
are
,
the
cold
air
that
is
got
in
by
her
sore
travel
in
child-birth
,
or
sharp
or
clotted
blood
sticking
in
the
womb
and
pricking
for
expulsion
;
these
pains
make
the
woman
weak
and
very
troublesome
,
wherefore
you
must
strive
to
abate
them
.
Some
women
are
so
hardy
,
that
to
hinder
this
,
they
will
drink
cold
water
so
soon
as
they
are
delivered
;
if
the
woman
be
cholerick
she
may
do
it
with
a
crust
of
tosted
bread
,
otherwise
it
is
dangerous
.
CHAP.
VII
.
Of
the
Chollick
some
women
are
afflicted
within
the
time
of
their
travel
.
SOme
women
have
the
Chollick
at
the
time
they
should
bring
forth
a
child
,
which
hinders
the
delivery
,
and
the
pains
surpass
the
pain
of
their
travel
,
you
can
scarce
distinguish
one
of
these
pains
from
the
other
,
but
whilst
the
chollick
lasts
the
birth
comes
not
forward
at
all
,
the
causes
of
this
disease
are
,
great
crudities
,
and
indigestions
of
the
stomach
.
Let
her
take
Cinnamon
water
one
ounce
,
with
two
ounces
of
Oyl
of
sweet
Almonds
newly
drawn
;
if
this
do
it
not
,
then
give
her
a
Glister
against
wind
,
or
use
fomentations
against
wind
,
both
are
good
in
this
cases
.
More
remedies
there
are
against
wind
for
Child-bed
Women
,
but
these
may
suffice
.
CHAP.
VIII
.
Of
Womens
Miscarriage
or
Abortment
with
the
Signs
thereof
.
THere
are
abundance
of
causes
whereby
women
are
driven
to
abort
,
or
miscarry
;
and
I
have
spoken
somewhat
of
this
before
;
I
shall
add
a
little
more
to
it
,
the
better
to
know
the
signs
,
causes
,
and
remedies
against
it
;
it
is
the
bringing
forth
an
untimely
birth
or
fruit
before
it
be
ripe
,
if
it
happen
in
seven
daies
after
conception
it
is
but
an
effluxion
,
but
if
in
fourteen
daies
after
it
is
an
untimely
birth
;
sometimes
an
untimely
birth
may
be
alive
,
but
it
is
very
seldom
that
it
continues
,
the
elder
and
stronger
it
is
the
more
hopes
for
life
;
some
women
have
such
large
wombs
,
or
slippery
,
&
full
of
slimy
humours
that
the
Seed
cannot
be
contain'd
but
slips
away
;
sometimes
it
is
an
imposhumation
causing
pain
,
that
hinders
retention
,
but
this
is
rather
Effluxion
than
abortment
.
But
sometimes
the
Cups
or
Veins
whereby
the
conception
is
tied
to
the
womb
,
through
which
also
nourishment
passeth
to
it
,
as
we
said
before
;
are
stopt
with
viscous
ill
humours
,
and
so
swollen
with
wind
,
or
inflamed
that
the
Cups
break
and
the
fruit
is
lost
for
want
of
food
;
this
happens
commonly
in
the
second
or
third
month
;
so
Hippocrates
tells
us
,
that
this
is
the
certain
cause
,
if
the
woman
that
miscarries
be
of
a
good
state
of
body
,
not
too
fat
nor
too
lean
.
Sometimes
the
right
Gut
or
the
womb
may
have
an
Ulcer
,
or
Piles
,
or
the
Bladder
or
Ureters
swollen
with
the
Stone
or
Strangury
,
and
the
pains
thereof
may
break
the
Cups
;
or
if
she
have
a
Tenasmus
,
great
provocation
to
stool
and
can
do
nothing
,
she
brings
forth
her
birth
by
straining
downward
,
and
that
before
she
should
.
Also
great
coughs
make
the
woman
feeble
and
consumptive
,
and
the
child
consumes
within
her
,
great
bleeding
at
the
nose
,
or
any
great
loss
of
blood
,
or
too
great
flux
of
her
courses
after
conception
cause
miscarriage
,
if
they
flow
in
in
the
third
month
,
else
not
.
Also
opening
of
a
vein
may
cause
it
if
the
woman
want
blood
,
but
such
as
are
sanguine
may
let
blood
after
the
fourth
month
and
before
the
seventh
month
,
but
it
is
good
to
see
there
be
cause
for
it
,
else
not
.
Violent
purging
before
the
fourth
month
,
or
after
the
seventh
causes
abortment
.
But
gentle
purging
between
the
fourth
and
the
seventh
month
are
safe
.
Violent
fluxing
,
or
vomiting
make
women
strain
too
much
,
especially
lean
folks
,
and
may
perish
the
child
and
break
the
Cups
.
If
the
woman
hunger
much
for
want
of
food
,
Nature
hath
nothing
to
spare
to
keep
the
child
alive
;
it
is
the
same
thing
with
Beasts
,
and
Plants
,
that
want
nutriment
,
and
too
much
will
choak
it
.
Sharp
diseases
or
Pestilential
Feavers
,
Imposthumes
in
the
breast
,
Palsies
,
falling-sicknes
kill
the
child
,
and
sometimes
the
child
is
sick
in
the
womb
.
Also
change
of
weather
may
cause
miscarriage
,
saith
Hippocrates
,
when
the
winter
is
hot
and
moist
,
and
the
Spring
cold
and
dry
that
follows
it
,
the
women
that
conceive
in
that
Spring
will
easily
abort
,
and
if
they
do
not
,
they
will
suffer
hard
labour
in
child-birth
,
and
the
child
will
be
weak
and
short
liv'd
;
the
reason
may
be
because
the
body
is
opened
and
made
more
tender
by
the
foregoing
heat
and
moist
weather
,
and
then
the
succeeding
cold
makes
it
more
dangerous
.
Great
labour
,
as
dancing
,
leaping
,
falls
or
bruises
,
great
passions
suddenly
coming
not
lookt
for
,
may
make
a
woman
miscarry
;
let
all
women
beware
of
it
for
it
is
more
painful
than
a
true
delivery
,
because
one
is
natural
and
the
other
against
nature
,
nature
helps
the
one
but
not
the
other
.
Signs
of
Abortment
I
have
spoken
of
in
part
,
but
commonly
about
the
third
and
fourth
month
womens
bodies
that
will
swell
and
puff
up
with
hardness
and
stiffness
,
stitches
and
windiness
running
about
her
,
yet
she
feels
no
more
weight
in
her
body
,
this
is
a
sign
of
miscarriage
if
it
be
not
prevented
.
There
is
nothing
better
after
conception
,
to
prevent
abortment
than
good
natural
food
moderately
taken
,
and
to
use
all
things
with
moderation
,
to
avoid
violent
passions
,
as
care
,
and
anger
,
joy
,
fear
,
or
whatsoever
may
too
much
stir
the
blood
;
use
not
Phlebotomy
without
great
cause
,
nor
yet
violent
purgatives
.
If
the
Matrix
be
too
much
dilated
,
use
things
that
contract
and
fasten
,
as
Baths
prepared
,
Unguents
,
Ointments
,
Fumes
,
Odours
,
Plaisters
.
Some
remedies
are
specifical
against
miscarriage
,
and
if
the
woman
be
in
danger
she
may
use
them
,
and
that
in
divers
ways
that
she
may
take
them
;
as
thus
,
take
red
Coral
in
powder
two
drams
,
shavings
of
Ivory
one
dram
and
a
half
,
Mastick
half
a
dram
,
and
one
Nutmeg
in
powder
,
give
half
a
dram
in
a
rear
egg
,
&c.
A
Powder
to
hinder
Abortion
.
Take
Bistort-roots
one
scruple
,
Kermes
berries
,
Plantane
,
and
Purslain
seeds
,
of
each
one
dram
,
Coriander
prepared
two
scruples
,
Sugar
all
their
weight
,
take
every
day
one
scruple
with
a
little
Maligo
Wine
if
the
body
be
not
costive
.
For
an
Ague
.
Sometimes
women
with
Child
fall
into
an
Ague
,
then
take
Barley
meal
,
juice
of
Sloes
,
and
of
Housleek
a
sufficient
quantity
,
and
with
Vinegar
make
a
Cataplasme
,
and
lay
it
upon
a
double
cloth
,
and
lay
it
often
upon
the
womans
belly
,
and
this
will
preserve
the
child
from
it
.
For
the
wind
.
Some
are
much
troubled
with
wind
that
will
cause
them
to
miscarry
,
then
take
Cumminseed
and
boyl
it
in
water
,
give
her
four
spoonful
of
it
twice
a
week
with
a
dram
of
Methridate
.
Against
sudden
frights
.
Take
Mastick
,
Frankincence
,
of
each
one
dram
,
Dragons
blood
,
Myrtles
,
Bolearmoniak
,
Hermes
berries
,
of
each
half
a
scruple
,
make
them
into
powder
and
give
half
a
dram
at
once
with
White
Wine
or
Chicken
broth
.
To
strengthen
the
Child
in
the
Womb.
Take
two
pound
of
the
crumbs
of
the
inward
part
of
white
Bread
,
Cammomile
flowers
one
handful
,
Mastick
two
drams
,
Cloves
half
a
dram
,
bruise
them
and
mingle
them
well
with
some
Maligo
Wine
and
two
ounces
of
rose
Vinegar
,
boil
them
to
a
Pultiss
and
lay
it
on
a
double
Cloth
to
the
Os
pubis
.
Purgations
may
not
be
used
unless
the
belly
be
bound
,
and
then
a
gentle
Glister
,
or
some
Manna
or
Cassia
about
half
an
ounce
is
safe
to
give
by
Potion
.
Slipperiness
of
the
womb
is
cured
by
an
injection
made
of
Pomegranate
pills
boil'd
in
Oyl
of
Lillies
.
Or
take
Mastick
,
Myrtle
,
Gallia
moscala
of
each
half
a
dram
,
mix
them
with
Goose-grease
,
and
Sheeps-Wool
,
and
sew
them
in
a
linnen
cloth
and
make
a
pastry
and
tye
a
string
to
it
to
pull
it
out
again
when
you
have
put
it
up
into
the
place
.
To
strengthen
the
Matrix
.
Take
four
ounces
of
the
Oyl
of
Nuts
,
Barrows-grease
one
ounce
and
half
,
Cypress-nuts
,
Mastich
of
each
one
dram
and
half
,
boyl
them
all
about
five
hours
,
and
with
this
annoint
her
belly
,
womb
,
and
reins
of
her
back
.
BOOK
.
V.
CHAP.
I.
How
women
after
Child-birth
must
be
governed
.
THere
is
great
differences
in
Womens
constitutions
and
education
;
you
may
kill
one
with
that
which
will
preserve
the
other
;
tender
women
that
are
bred
delicately
must
not
be
governed
after
the
same
manner
that
hardy
Country
women
must
,
for
one
is
commonly
weak
stomach'd
,
but
the
other
is
strong
,
if
you
should
give
the
weak
woman
presently
after
delivery
strong
broth
,
or
Eggs
,
or
milk
,
it
will
cast
her
into
a
Feaver
,
but
the
other
that
is
strong
will
bear
it
,
but
tender
women
must
be
tenderly
fed
,
and
nothing
given
them
that
is
of
hard
digestion
nor
yet
what
they
have
no
mind
to
,
provided
that
what
she
desires
be
not
offensive
;
but
for
the
first
week
she
lies
in
,
let
her
have
boil'd
and
not
roast
,
Jellies
,
and
Juice
of
Veal
,
or
Capon
,
but
no
mutton
Broth
for
that
may
make
her
Feaverish
,
let
her
drink
barley
water
,
or
boyl
one
dram
of
Cinnamon
in
a
pint
of
water
,
dissolving
two
ounces
of
fine
Sugar
in
it
,
if
she
will
drink
wine
,
mingle
twice
as
much
water
or
two
third
parts
with
it
,
but
let
it
be
white
wine
in
the
morning
,
and
Claret
in
the
after-noon
;
she
may
sometimes
drink
Almond-milk
,
but
beware
of
crudities
.
Some
women
when
they
lie
in
are
still
sleeping
,
some
cannot
sleep
;
if
she
cannot
sleep
let
her
drink
barley
water
well
boyled
not
straining
it
at
all
,
but
let
her
forbear
it
after
the
first
week
,
lest
it
nourish
too
much
,
and
stop
the
Liver
.
Baths
for
Child-bed
Women
.
For
the
first
week
let
her
Womb
and
Privities
be
bathed
with
a
decoction
of
Chervil
,
a
good
handful
boiled
in
a
good
quantity
of
water
,
adding
to
it
after
it
is
boiled
one
ounce
of
Honey
of
Roses
,
this
will
draw
away
the
purgations
,
and
cleanse
and
heal
the
parts
;
and
it
will
take
away
all
inflammations
.
For
the
second
week
boil
Province
Roses
,
put
in
Bays
,
Wine
,
and
water
,
and
with
this
decoction
bath
her
secrets
.
Keep
her
not
too
hot
,
for
that
weakens
nature
,
and
dissolves
her
strength
,
nor
too
cold
,
for
cold
getting
in
will
cause
torments
,
hurt
the
Nerves
,
and
make
the
womb
swell
▪
Let
her
diet
be
hot
,
and
eat
but
little
at
once
;
some
Nurses
perswade
them
to
eat
apace
because
they
have
lost
much
blood
,
but
they
are
simple
that
say
so
,
for
the
blood
voided
doth
not
weaken
but
unburden
nature
,
for
if
it
had
not
come
away
,
long
diseases
,
or
death
would
have
succeeded
;
some
say
Oat-meal
Candles
are
good
for
them
,
but
oat-meal
makes
people
troubled
with
the
green
sickness
by
its
binding
quality
,
boyling
will
never
make
a
binding
thing
to
purge
ill
humours
as
they
say
it
doth
Child-bed
Women
,
but
purging
things
by
boyling
may
sometimes
be
made
to
bind
.
Let
her
for
three
daies
keep
the
room
dark
,
for
her
eyes
are
weak
and
light
offends
them
;
let
all
great
noises
be
forborn
,
and
all
unquietness
,
remembering
to
be
praising
God
for
her
safe
delivery
.
First
then
,
so
soon
as
she
is
laid
,
give
her
a
draught
of
white
wine
burnt
,
with
a
dram
of
Sperma●cety
melted
in
it
.
Vervain
is
an
herb
that
fortifies
the
womb
,
it
is
fit
to
gather
in
May
and
June
;
you
may
dry
it
in
the
Sun
,
and
keep
it
to
boil
with
her
meat
,
and
drinks
;
you
shall
profit
more
in
two
daies
with
it
than
in
two
weeks
without
it
.
If
the
woman
be
Feaverish
,
boil
Plantane
leaves
and
roots
with
it
,
and
if
she
be
not
,
yet
they
will
do
well
together
,
for
the
heat
of
the
one
is
tempered
by
the
coldness
of
the
other
.
But
if
her
purgations
stop
,
for
Plantane
take
Mother
of
tyme.
If
her
purgations
be
clotted
,
and
smell
filthily
,
or
the
after-burden
be
not
quite
come
away
,
boyl
Featherfew
,
Mugwort
,
Penniroyal
,
Mother
of
time
in
white
wine
sweetened
with
Sugar
,
let
her
drink
that
;
new
laid
eggs
and
Sugar
Penides
are
best
for
her
to
eat
often
of
moderately
,
and
boyl
Cinnamon
in
all
her
meats
and
drinks
.
Let
her
talk
little
,
nor
stir
much
,
especially
if
she
be
weak
,
for
six
or
seven
dayes
after
she
is
delivered
;
is
a
decoction
of
Mallows
with
a
little
red
Sugar
is
a
good
Glister
if
she
be
too
costive
Crato
prescribes
Coleworts
,
and
Chrysippus
makes
them
to
be
a
universal
remedy
for
all
diseases
,
but
they
are
too
windy
for
women
in
Child-bed
.
After
the
first
week
if
she
be
near
clean
of
her
purgations
,
she
may
use
Comfry
and
knot-grass
in
broths
to
close
the
womb
that
hath
been
so
much
opened
,
you
may
use
a
little
purging
with
them
.
Therefore
put
in
some
Po●ypody
,
of
the
Oak
that
is
best
,
leaves
and
roots
both
being
bruised
,
the
quantities
are
almost
at
your
discretion
.
Sometimes
pains
encrease
after
delivery
,
Hippocrates
saith
,
women
are
most
subject
to
them
after
the
birth
of
their
first
child
;
some
Physicians
think
it
is
by
reason
of
the
thinness
and
sharpness
,
others
from
the
thickness
and
sliminess
of
the
blood
,
but
if
you
use
the
former
directions
these
pains
may
be
prevented
.
What
I
said
of
Vervain
before
is
a
good
remedy
,
or
else
boil
an
egg
soft
,
and
mingle
the
yelk
with
a
spoonful
of
water
of
Cinnamon
and
let
her
drink
it
;
also
a
fume
of
the
powder
of
bay-berries
cast
on
a
chafing
dish
of
coals
received
at
her
secrets
is
a
great
help
.
And
for
present
ease
boyl
an
equal
quantity
of
tar
and
barrows
grease
together
;
when
it
boyls
put
in
a
little
pidgeons
dung
to
it
,
spread
it
on
a
linnen
cloth
and
lay
it
hot
to
her
reins
:
she
may
drink
half
a
dram
of
Bay-berries
in
powder
in
a
quarter
of
a
pint
of
Muskadel
;
you
may
see
by
this
that
cold
and
wind
cause
these
pains
.
For
Excoriation
of
the
Privities
.
Annoint
them
with
Oyl
of
sweet
Almonds
,
or
Oyl
of
St.
John's
-
wort
,
which
is
better
.
Against
the
Piles
or
Hemorrhoids
.
Take
Polypody
bruised
and
boyl
it
with
your
drinks
or
meats
.
Let
her
be
let
blood
in
the
Saphena
vein
.
Cut
a
great
hole
in
an
onion
,
fill
the
hole
with
Oyl
,
roast
it
and
stamp
it
and
lay
it
warm
to
the
Fundament
.
Also
take
snails
without
or
with
shells
,
I
mean
either
kind
,
and
bruise
them
with
some
Oyl
,
warm
it
and
lay
it
to
the
place
;
Sows
or
wood-lice
called
Hog-lice
so
bruised
with
Oyl
are
as
effectual
.
The
Menstrual
blood
stopt
.
We
read
Levit.
12.
that
a
woman
delivered
of
a
Boy
,
must
continue
in
her
purification
thirty
three
dayes
,
and
for
a
girl
sixty
six
days
.
Hippocrates
de
Natura
pueri
,
saith
,
a
woman
must
continue
purging
her
blood
forth
so
long
as
the
child
was
forming
in
the
womb
that
is
thirty
dayes
for
a
Male
and
forty
two
dayes
for
a
Female
.
Hippocrates
rules
may
be
calculated
chiefly
for
his
own
Country
of
Greece
,
and
the
Levitical
Law
most
concerns
the
seed
of
Abraham
;
but
this
is
to
be
observed
though
not
so
precisely
to
a
day
by
all
women
after
delivery
,
for
women
that
give
their
own
children
suck
,
have
their
purgations
not
so
long
as
those
that
do
not
.
It
is
not
good
for
a
woman
presently
to
suckle
her
child
because
those
unclean
purgations
cannot
make
good
milk
,
the
first
milk
is
naught
,
for
even
the
first
Milk
of
a
Cow
is
salt
and
brackish
and
will
turn
to
curds
and
whey
.
You
shall
know
if
a
woman
be
well
cleansed
by
her
health
,
for
if
she
be
not
,
she
cannot
be
well
and
lusty
.
I
shewed
you
before
what
herbs
will
bring
her
purgations
down
.
She
may
if
she
please
take
every
morning
two
or
three
spoonfuls
of
Briony
water
to
be
had
at
the
Apothecaries
;
or
a
dram
of
the
powder
of
Gentian
roots
every
morning
in
a
cup
of
Wine
;
the
roots
of
Birth-wort
are
as
good
,
or
take
twelve
Peony
seeds
powdered
in
a
little
Carduus
posset
drink
to
sweat
,
and
if
it
cures
not
do
it
again
three
hours
after
.
Against
the
too
great
running
down
of
the
Menstrual
blood
.
This
disease
seldom
troubles
women
after
delivery
,
if
it
should
,
Comfrey
,
and
Knot-grass
are
good
remedies
;
or
else
take
Shepherds-pouch
boyled
in
drink
and
powdered
,
or
bramble
leaves
,
a
dram
of
either
every
morning
in
a
little
wine
,
or
a
decoction
made
of
the
same
.
Women
when
they
ly
in
use
to
be
cost
;
ive
because
they
keep
their
bed
,
and
some
foolish
Nurses
are
so
bold
as
to
purge
them
with
Sena
before
nature
be
setled
,
whereby
many
sad
accidents
have
followed
,
but
neither
loosning
broths
,
nor
Prune
broths
,
nor
bak'd
Apples
are
then
good
,
but
rather
gentle
Glisters
and
suppositories
taken
twice
a
week
will
prevent
mischief
and
make
the
breasts
abound
with
good
milk
.
CHAP.
II.
Of
looseness
of
the
Womb.
THis
may
proceed
from
sundry
causes
,
as
when
great
fluxes
of
humours
take
the
ligaments
and
relax
them
;
falls
or
great
burdens
carried
in
the
womb
will
unloosen
them
;
or
chiefly
when
women
travel
before
their
time
,
they
overstrein
themselves
because
the
passage
is
then
shut
,
but
unskilful
Midwives
often
make
it
so
,
when
they
thrust
in
their
hand
to
pull
forth
the
Secundine
,
they
tear
part
of
the
womb
a
way
with
it
,
for
the
Secundine
is
fastened
to
its
bottom
;
sometimes
they
cause
the
woman
to
cast
out
the
Secundine
by
strong
vomit
,
or
by
holding
Bay
salt
in
her
mouth
.
All
causes
,
except
those
that
come
from
strong
defluxions
which
must
first
be
removed
,
will
be
cured
by
the
same
remedies
.
Take
Nuts
of
Cypress
,
and
Galls
,
and
flowers
of
Pomegranates
,
and
Roch
Allum
two
ounces
of
each
,
Province
Roses
four
ounces
,
Scarlet
,
Grains
,
Rinds
of
Pomegranates
,
and
Cassia
Rinds
of
each
three
ounces
,
waters
of
Myrtles
,
of
Sloes
,
an
ounce
and
half
,
Smiths
water
&
wine
of
each
4
ounces
and
a
half
,
then
boil
two
little
bags
,
each
a
quarter
of
a
yard
long
,
in
the
said
waters
in
a
new
pot
,
then
hold
the
womans
head
and
Reins
low
,
and
apply
these
bags
first
one
and
then
the
other
upon
the
os
pubis
,
and
chafe
her
often
.
Let
her
take
in
the
morning
a
little
Mastick
in
an
egg
or
some
Plantan
seed
;
but
if
the
disease
be
long
confirmed
,
then
make
a
Pessary
half
round
and
half
oval
of
a
thick
Cork
with
a
great
hole
in
the
middle
for
her
Terms
and
ill
vapours
to
come
out
by
,
tye
a
pack
threed
to
the
end
of
it
to
pull
it
out
by
,
cover
it
over
with
white
wax
that
it
may
not
be
offensive
,
dip
it
in
sallet
Oyl
to
make
it
go
in
,
it
must
be
strait
that
it
may
not
quickly
fall
out
,
when
she
doth
her
need
let
her
hold
it
with
her
hand
,
take
it
not
away
till
her
purgations
be
over
;
the
thickness
of
the
Cork
makes
the
Matrix
mount
higher
;
if
she
be
in
Child-bed
,
the
Midwife
or
Nurse
must
not
suffer
the
woman
to
strain
,
but
must
keep
her
with
her
hand
or
finger
to
keep
back
the
Matrix
,
laying
her
head
low
and
her
Reins
high
with
a
pillow
under
her
hips
.
Women
that
are
troubled
with
this
disease
must
not
lace
themselves
too
strait
for
that
thrusts
down
the
womb
,
makes
the
woman
gor-bellied
,
makes
her
carry
her
Child
upon
her
hips
,
hinders
it
from
lying
as
it
should
in
the
womb
,
and
though
the
womans
wast
may
be
made
slender
by
it
,
her
belly
is
as
great
and
ill
favoured
.
But
somtimes
there
happens
a
relaxation
of
the
skin
that
covers
the
right
gut
,
when
the
head
of
the
child
,
when
the
woman
begins
to
travel
,
falls
downward
and
draws
it
low
;
lacing
Childing
women
too
hard
is
a
frequent
cause
of
it
also
,
for
this
makes
so
much
wind
fly
to
those
parts
,
that
some
are
deceived
and
think
it
is
the
head
of
the
child
,
and
the
women
can
hardly
stand
or
go
;
let
her
then
be
kept
soluble
and
eat
Annis
,
&
Coriander
seed
to
dispell
wind
,
a
fume
of
Sage
,
Agrimony
,
Balm
,
Motherwort
,
wormwood
,
Rue
,
Marjoram
,
a
little
Time
,
and
Cammomile
,
pick
out
the
stalks
,
cut
the
herbs
small
,
mingled
,
put
them
into
a
maple
platter
,
put
hot
cinders
upon
them
and
another
handful
of
herbs
upon
them
,
cover
the
platter
close
with
a
cloth
,
and
let
her
take
the
fume
beneath
.
The
womb
falls
out
of
its
place
when
the
ligaments
by
which
it
is
bound
to
other
parts
of
the
body
are
by
any
means
relaxed
,
it
is
bound
with
four
ligaments
,
two
broad
membraces
and
above
,
that
spring
from
the
Peritoneum
,
and
two
round
hollow
nervous
productions
below
;
also
it
is
tied
to
the
great
vessels
by
veins
and
Arteries
,
and
to
the
back
by
Sinews
,
but
the
Bottom
of
the
womb
is
not
tied
,
the
ligaments
being
onely
upon
the
sides
of
it
;
sometimes
it
falls
forward
quite
out
of
the
Privities
,
but
whether
it
can
ascend
and
go
upward
is
doubted
by
some
;
Physicians
say
it
will
if
sweet
things
be
held
to
the
nose
,
if
to
the
secrets
it
will
fall
downward
;
if
stinking
things
be
put
to
them
it
flyes
from
them
,
it
may
be
discerned
by
their
breathing
and
by
some
meats
the
womb
greedily
accepts
.
But
Galen
saith
,
it
is
very
little
that
the
womb
can
go
upward
,
it
cannot
reach
the
stomach
the
ligaments
are
so
strong
that
tye
it
down
,
and
the
falling
of
it
down
is
onely
by
reason
of
moisture
that
relax
the
ligaments
,
but
that
will
not
make
it
ascend
;
and
though
it
be
enlarged
in
conception
,
that
is
not
presently
but
by
degrees
,
nor
are
the
ligaments
always
much
relaxed
in
Childbearing
;
but
what
is
that
if
it
be
not
,
the
womb
that
may
sometimes
be
felt
to
move
above
the
womans
navel
as
round
as
a
Ball
,
that
round
ball
is
the
womans
stones
together
with
that
blind
Vessel
Fallopius
found
out
,
like
to
the
great
end
of
a
Trumpet
,
and
is
therefore
called
Fallopius
hi●
Trumpet
:
the
stones
they
hang
,
and
the
body
of
the
Trumpet
is
like
a
pipe
that
is
loose
and
moving
,
and
when
they
are
full
swoln
with
vapours
and
corrupt
seed
,
they
stir
to
and
fro
,
and
come
up
to
the
navel
;
and
Riolanus
saith
,
this
Trumpet
and
the
stones
make
this
great
round
Ball.
Whasoever
fills
them
with
corrupt
seed
and
venemous
windy
vapours
causeth
this
moving
,
and
from
thence
suffocation
of
the
womb
;
when
these
poysonous
vapours
are
freely
carried
by
the
Nerves
,
veins
,
and
arteries
to
all
the
principal
parts
,
the
Brain
,
the
Heart
,
the
Liver
,
and
the
rest
,
it
is
not
extream
dangerous
,
yet
it
may
turn
to
the
strangling
of
the
womb
if
means
be
not
used
;
such
as
are
good
against
suffocations
of
the
womb
,
when
they
seem
to
be
strangled
,
but
of
that
afterwards
.
Sometimes
it
falls
as
low
as
the
middle
of
the
thighs
,
and
sometimes
near
the
knees
,
when
the
ligaments
are
loose
;
it
falls
by
its
own
weight
,
when
the
Terms
are
stopt
,
and
the
Veins
and
arteries
are
full
that
go
to
the
womb
;
it
is
drawn
on
one
side
,
if
there
be
a
Mole
on
one
side
,
the
Liver
veins
too
full
on
the
right
side
,
or
the
spleen
on
the
left
,
are
the
cause
of
it
.
But
how
it
comes
to
be
loose
is
questioned
,
H●ppocrates
saith
,
great
heat
,
or
cold
of
the
feet
or
loyns
,
violent
causes
external
,
leaping
or
dancing
may
do
it
,
for
these
moisten
and
soke
the
ligaments
,
if
the
woman
take
cold
after
she
is
delivered
and
the
Terms
flow
.
Platerus
ascribes
it
to
the
loosening
of
the
fibrous
neck
the
adjacent
parts
by
the
weight
of
the
Matrix
falling
down
,
but
then
the
ligatures
must
be
loose
or
broken
;
but
when
a
woman
is
so
in
a
dropsie
,
it
is
the
salt
water
that
causeth
it
and
that
drieth
more
than
it
moisteneth
.
The
signs
to
know
it
are
,
that
the
womb
is
only
fallen
down
,
if
there
be
a
little
swelling
within
or
without
the
privities
,
like
a
skin
stretched
,
but
if
the
swelling
be
like
a
Goose
egg
,
and
a
hole
at
the
bottom
,
there
is
then
a
great
pain
in
the
Os
sacrum
,
the
bottom
of
the
belly
,
the
loyns
and
secrets
to
which
the
womb
is
tied
,
because
the
ligaments
are
relaxed
or
broken
,
but
the
pain
will
abate
soon
and
the
woman
can
hardly
go
,
sometimes
the
vessels
breaking
blood
comes
forth
,
the
woman
falls
into
Convulsions
and
a
Feaver
,
and
cannot
void
her
excrements
by
stool
nor
Urine
;
at
first
it
may
be
easily
helpt
,
but
hardly
afterwards
,
yet
it
is
not
mortal
,
though
it
be
filthy
and
troublesome
,
if
it
come
with
a
Feaver
or
convulsion
it
is
mortal
in
women
with
child
,
if
the
ligaments
be
corroded
the
danger
is
the
more
.
The
cure
is
,
thrust
it
up
gently
before
the
air
change
it
or
it
swell
and
inflame
;
first
administer
a
gentle
Glister
to
void
the
excrements
,
then
lay
the
woman
on
her
back
,
her
head
downwards
,
her
legs
abroad
and
thighs
lifted
up
and
with
your
hand
thrust
it
in
gently
,
remove
the
humours
with
a
decoction
of
Mallows
,
Marsh-mallows
,
Cammomile
flowers
,
Bay
berries
,
Linseed
,
and
Fenugreek
,
and
annoint
it
with
Oil
of
Lillies
and
Hens-greafe
;
if
it
be
inflamed
,
stay
a
while
before
you
put
it
up
;
you
may
fright
it
in
with
a
hot
Iron
presented
near
it
as
if
you
would
burn
it
,
sprinkle
on
it
the
powder
of
Mastick
,
Frankincense
,
and
the
like
;
when
it
is
put
up
,
let
her
ly
stretcht
out
with
her
legs
,
and
one
leg
upon
the
other
for
eight
or
ten
dayes
,
and
a
Pessary
with
a
Sponge
or
Cork
dipt
in
astringent
wine
,
with
powder
of
Dragons-blood
,
Bole
,
or
the
ointment
called
the
Caunlesses
at
the
Apothecaries
;
apply
a
large
cupping
glass
to
the
Navel
or
breasts
,
or
both
kidneys
;
use
astringent
Plaisters
to
her
back
,
&
fomentations
,
baths
,
&
injections
;
if
evil
humors
cause
it
to
fall
out
,
purge
them
first
away
because
they
sob
the
ligaments
,
and
then
use
drying
drinks
of
Guaicum
,
China
,
Forta
,
use
Pessaries
and
ligaments
,
as
for
the
Rupture
to
keep
it
in
its
place
,
of
which
see
Francis
Rauset
;
you
may
use
circles
or
balls
in
place
of
Pessaries
,
made
of
Briony
roots
cut
round
,
or
of
Virgins
wax
,
with
white
Rosin
and
Turpentine
when
they
are
dried
,
if
it
gangrene
cut
it
off
,
or
bind
it
fast
that
it
may
fall
of
it self
.
Rauset
shews
when
you
may
ty
it
or
cut
it
off
without
danger
:
her
diet
must
be
drying
and
astringent
,
and
astringent
red
wine
to
drink
.
If
it
encline
to
either
side
,
apply
Cupping
Glasses
to
the
other
side
,
and
the
Midwife
may
annoint
her
finger
with
the
oyl
of
sweet
Almonds
,
and
by
degrees
draw
it
to
its
place
.
CHAP.
III.
Of
Feavers
after
Child-bearing
.
THis
disease
frequently
follows
when
she
is
not
well
purged
of
her
burden
or
the
purgations
are
corrupt
that
stay
behind
,
about
the
third
or
fourth
day
they
will
be
Feaverish
also
by
the
turning
of
the
blood
from
the
womb
to
the
breasts
to
make
milk
,
but
this
lasts
not
long
,
nor
is
it
any
danger
:
but
you
may
mistake
a
putrid
Feaver
for
a
Feaver
that
comes
from
the
milk
;
for
the
humours
may
be
inflamed
from
her
labour
in
travel
,
and
corrupt
,
though
they
appear
not
presently
to
be
so
,
the
next
day
after
she
is
delivered
,
but
from
thence
you
must
reckon
the
beginning
of
the
Feaver
;
it
is
probable
then
that
this
Feaver
comes
from
some
other
cause
,
especially
if
her
purgings
be
stopt
,
it
may
proceed
from
ill
humours
gathered
in
her
body
whilst
she
went
with
child
,
and
are
only
stirred
by
her
labour
;
if
she
be
not
well
purged
after
travel
,
the
blood
and
ill
humours
retreat
to
the
Liver
by
the
great
veins
and
cause
a
putrid
Feaver
,
but
if
they
flow
too
much
the
Feaver
may
come
long
after
.
A
feaver
from
milk
will
come
on
the
fourth
day
with
pains
in
the
shoulders
and
the
back
,
and
the
terms
may
flow
well
;
if
she
kept
an
ill
diet
when
she
was
big
with
child
,
the
Feaver
comes
from
ill
humours
if
it
come
not
from
milk
,
if
it
do
it
will
end
about
eight
or
ten
dayes
after
;
but
if
it
come
from
stoppage
of
purgations
,
if
she
have
not
a
loosness
it
is
very
dangerous
;
if
black
and
ill
savouring
matter
purge
by
the
womb
it
is
safe
.
But
if
the
Feaver
come
from
ill
humours
and
the
body
be
Cacochymical
it
is
worse
,
for
that
shews
the
ill
humours
are
many
which
nature
cannot
send
forth
by
the
after-purgings
,
and
the
woman
is
weak
already
by
her
travel
.
Good
diet
and
gentle
sweating
cure
a
Milk-Feaver
,
but
there
must
be
purging
and
many
remedies
used
for
the
other
,
as
bleeding
in
the
foot
,
cupping
of
the
thighs
to
provoke
the
after
purgations
;
but
if
the
time
of
after-purging
be
over
,
if
she
be
strong
then
open
a
vein
in
the
Arm.
It
is
dangerous
to
purge
the
woman
after
the
seventh
day
as
some
do
,
when
she
hath
a
Pleurisie
,
because
of
her
weakness
after
travel
,
and
because
purges
hinder
the
after-flux
;
but
you
may
if
the
flux
of
blood
cease
,
if
need
be
,
give
a
gentle
purge
with
Cassia
or
Manna
,
sirrup
of
roses
or
Sena
or
Rhubarb
.
Too
cold
and
sharp
things
are
naught
,
take
heed
of
cold
drink
,
or
too
much
drink
;
let
her
diet
by
degrees
increase
from
thin
to
thicker
.
If
the
Feaver
came
from
too
much
milk
or
terms
stopt
,
open
a
vein
in
her
foot
,
then
purge
a
way
the
gross
humours
with
sirrup
of
Maidenhair
,
Endive
of
each
one
ounce
,
waters
of
Succory
and
Fennel
an
ounce
and
half
a
piece
.
Sharp
and
putrified
humours
must
be
purged
away
with
proper
medicaments
,
as
water
of
Succory
,
and
violets
,
of
each
two
ounces
,
sirrup
of
the
same
of
each
one
ounce
;
cooling
Glisters
are
good
here
;
if
there
be
need
you
may
purge
stronger
,
but
this
is
not
usual
.
I
shall
give
you
one
example
,
take
two
drams
of
Rhubarb
in
powder
,
Diagridium
four
grains
,
let
them
infuse
all
night
in
Succory
and
Anniseed
water
,
two
ounces
and
half
of
each
,
and
one
ounce
of
Borrage
flower
water
,
warm
them
gently
in
the
morning
,
and
strain
them
well
through
a
linnen
cloth
;
add
to
the
strained
liquor
one
ounce
of
sirrup
of
Succory
,
Cinnnamon
water
two
spoonfuls
,
drink
it
warm
.
Then
after
you
have
well
purged
away
the
ill
humours
you
may
gently
sweat
her
to
open
the
passages
of
the
body
and
womb
,
you
will
find
examples
of
them
in
the
Treatise
of
the
Courses
stopt
.
CHAP.
IV.
Of
the
looseness
of
the
belly
in
child-bed
Women
.
THis
may
be
thought
a
small
matter
in
respect
of
other
infirmities
,
yet
this
is
one
of
the
most
dangerous
distempers
and
hardest
to
help
in
child-bed
women
,
for
stop
the
flux
&
you
will
stop
her
purgations
;
if
you
stop
it
not
she
will
perish
by
weakness
,
nothing
almost
is
safely
given
.
Physicians
are
at
a
stand
in
such
a
case
,
but
it
is
good
be
wary
and
moderate
in
what
is
done
,
and
it
may
be
helpt
God
willing
.
It
is
not
safe
to
stop
it
presently
,
and
if
it
continue
it
may
cause
a
Tenesmus
or
a
dysentury
,
if
it
come
from
ill
diet
let
her
mend
that
,
and
strengthen
her
stomach
outwardly
if
yet
it
continue
,
use
inward
remedies
that
corroborate
the
stomach
yet
hurt
not
the
womb
,
as
Barley
water
,
Honey
and
sirrup
of
roses
,
cleansing
Glisters
are
good
and
to
temper
sharp
cholerick
humours
.
But
the
best
way
is
,
to
observe
what
loosenes
of
the
belly
she
is
molested
with
,
for
if
it
be
that
they
call
Diarrhoea
,
that
will
only
discharge
her
body
of
ill
humours
,
therefore
do
nothing
in
that
case
but
let
her
take
strengthening
food
,
for
when
nature
hath
eased
her self
sufficiently
she
will
stay
both
the
looseness
of
the
belly
and
her
purgations
from
the
womb
,
and
so
no
ill
accidents
will
come
;
but
if
the
flux
be
Lienteria
that
the
food
comes
away
with
the
stools
undigested
,
annoint
her
belly
with
Oil
of
Mastick
and
of
Myrtles
,
and
give
her
some
sirrup
of
dried
Roses
,
pulp
of
Tamarinds
,
or
some
torrified
Rhubarb
,
to
purge
the
belly
and
not
hurt
the
womb
:
But
if
it
rise
to
a
Dysentery
called
the
bloody
flux
,
then
so
soon
as
her
Terms
are
purged
away
,
try
to
stay
it
.
1.
By
purging
,
as
take
half
a
dram
of
bark
of
yellow
Mirobolans
,
&
of
rosted
Rubarb
as
much
,
finely
powdered
,
sirrup
of
Roses
,
or
of
Quinces
one
ounce
,
pulp
of
Cassia
or
of
Tamarinds
with
Sugar
half
an
ounce
,
Plantane
or
Oaken
water
four
ounces
,
let
her
drink
this
at
once
.
2.
Abstersives
are
good
,
as
of
whey
,
or
barley
water
,
or
Glisters
of
Mallows
,
Mellilot
,
Wheat-bran
and
Oyl
of
sweet
Almonds
.
3.
Narcoticks
to
ease
great
pains
,
Philonium
Romanum
two
scruples
,
Rose-water
two
ounces
,
Maligo
wine
one
ounce
,
give
it
when
she
goes
to
sleep
,
this
is
excellent
.
In
this
case
astringents
are
to
be
used
but
not
in
the
former
distempers
,
here
they
profit
,
there
they
are
dangerous
.
Of
Womens
vomiting
in
Child-Bed
.
Women
both
before
they
fall
in
labour
,
and
at
the
time
of
their
travel
,
and
also
afterwards
will
sometimes
fall
to
vomiting
,
and
it
may
proceed
from
ill
diet
or
raw
humors
,
or
from
weakness
of
their
stomach
,
or
consent
of
the
womb
when
the
after
flux
is
stopt
,
and
sometimes
they
will
vomit
blood
,
for
the
blood
that
is
stopped
below
,
runs
back
to
the
great
veins
and
liver
,
and
being
much
and
sharp
finds
a
way
into
the
stomach
and
so
comes
forth
at
the
mouth
.
It
is
ill
after
child-birth
;
especially
the
food
being
vomited
there
will
be
nothing
to
make
milk
for
the
child
,
and
sometimes
in
hard
labour
a
Vein
is
broken
and
this
may
cause
a
dropsie
;
if
ill
diet
cause
vomit
,
rectifie
that
;
if
ill
humours
,
stop
it
not
presently
but
purge
gently
;
if
blood
come
,
pull
back
by
rubbing
,
or
cupping
,
or
bleeding
,
opening
a
Vein
in
the
foot
,
ham
,
or
ankle
,
and
urging
the
after
flux
.
Sometimes
the
woman
is
costive
,
then
give
her
a
suppository
,
with
Castle
sope
or
Honey
,
and
then
stay
four
or
five
days
till
you
may
give
a
Glister
with
Manna
or
,
Cassia
.
If
her
Urine
run
away
against
her
will
,
bath
her
parts
with
a
decoction
of
Betony
,
Bays
,
Sage
,
Rosemary
,
Origanum
,
Stoechas
,
and
Penni-royal
;
for
her
vomiting
,
give
her
three
spoonfuls
of
Cinnamon
water
,
one
ounce
and
half
of
juice
of
Quinces
,
about
a
spoonful
at
a
time
.
The
leaves
of
Rosemary
dried
and
brought
into
powder
,
and
so
drank
about
a
scruple
or
half
a
dram
at
a
time
in
a
cup
of
wine
will
stay
vomiting
;
preserve
or
Marmalade
of
Quinces
,
or
Medlars
eaten
,
or
Pears
or
sowr
Apples
do
strengthen
the
stomach
,
juice
of
Barberries
,
or
of
Pomegranates
or
sowr
Cherries
with
Mint
water
.
There
are
many
topical
applications
to
be
made
to
the
pit
of
the
stomach
,
which
being
laid
on
and
so
continued
prevail
much
,
as
thus
;
take
the
crum
of
the
inside
of
a
white
loaf
,
and
tost
it
and
steep
it
in
good
Maligo
Wine
,
and
strew
it
lightly
over
with
the
powder
of
Cloves
and
Nutmegs
,
or
sirrup
of
Roses
,
Rhubarb
,
or
pulp
of
Tamarinds
,
and
astringents
,
of
Roses
,
Plantane
,
Coral
,
Tormentil
,
if
the
Terms
flow
not
at
all
the
belly
must
be
kept
loose
,
but
vomiting
is
so
perillous
that
it
ought
to
be
stopt
,
alwaies
provided
it
be
done
no
sooner
than
it
is
needful
and
with
good
provisoes
.
CHAP.
V.
Of
Womens
diseases
in
general
.
WHosoever
rightly
considers
it
will
presently
find
,
that
the
Female
sex
are
subject
to
more
diseases
by
odds
than
the
Male
kind
are
,
and
therefore
it
is
reason
that
great
care
should
be
had
for
the
cure
of
that
sex
that
is
the
weaker
and
most
subject
to
infirmities
in
some
respects
above
the
other
.
The
Female
sex
then
that
it
may
be
more
nearly
provided
for
wheresoever
it
is
deficient
must
be
considered
under
three
several
considerations
,
that
is
,
as
maids
,
as
wives
,
as
widows
,
and
their
several
distempers
that
befall
them
almost
commonly
respect
either
the
womb
or
their
breasts
or
both
,
and
many
of
these
diseases
and
distempers
are
common
to
all
the
Female
sex
,
I
mean
they
sometimes
happen
to
them
in
any
of
the
foresaid
three
estates
of
life
,
but
Virgins
,
or
Maids
diseases
that
are
more
peculiar
to
them
,
though
not
essential
,
because
many
of
them
are
incident
to
the
rest
,
the
causes
may
be
the
same
;
they
are
that
wich
is
called
the
white
Feaver
,
or
green
Sickness
,
fits
of
the
Mother
,
strangling
of
the
Womb
,
Rage
of
the
Matrix
,
extreme
Melancholly
,
Falling-sickness
,
Head-ach
,
beating
of
the
arteries
in
the
back
and
sides
,
great
palpitations
of
the
heart
,
Hypochondriacal
diseases
from
the
Spleen
,
stoppings
of
the
Liver
,
and
ill
affections
of
the
stomach
by
consent
from
the
womb
.
But
that
I
may
make
as
perfect
an
enumeration
as
may
be
of
all
diseases
incident
to
our
sex
,
&
give
you
some
of
the
best
remedies
that
are
prescribed
by
the
most
Authentick
authors
,
or
what
I
my self
have
proved
by
long
experience
.
Know
then
that
there
are
some
diseases
that
happen
about
the
secrets
of
women
,
as
when
the
mouth
of
the
Matrix
is
too
narrow
,
or
too
great
,
when
there
is
a
Yard
in
the
womb
like
a
mans
Yard
,
when
the
secrets
are
full
of
Pimples
or
very
rugged
,
when
there
are
swellings
or
small
excrescenses
in
the
Womb
,
or
else
Warts
in
the
neck
of
it
,
or
the
Piles
or
Chaps
,
Ulcers
,
or
Fistulaes
,
or
Cancers
,
or
Gangreens
,
and
Sphacelus
,
or
Mortification
:
all
these
and
more
that
may
be
reduced
to
these
heads
,
are
found
in
the
entrance
or
mouth
of
the
womb
.
2.
As
to
the
womb
it self
it
is
frequently
offended
with
ill
distempers
,
being
either
too
hot
or
too
cold
,
too
dry
,
or
too
moist
,
and
of
these
are
many
more
compounded
,
as
too
hot
and
too
dry
,
too
moist
and
too
cold
;
these
are
all
to
be
cured
by
their
contraries
,
cold
by
heat
,
moist
by
driers
.
Or
the
womb
is
sometimes
ill
shaped
and
strange
things
are
found
in
it
,
some
women
have
two
wombs
,
and
some
again
have
none
at
all
.
Again
the
vessels
of
the
womb
sometimes
will
open
preternaturally
,
and
blood
run
forth
in
abundance
,
sometimes
the
womb
swells
and
grows
bigger
than
it
should
be
:
It
may
be
troubled
with
a
Dropsie
,
with
swelling
of
its
veins
from
too
much
blood
,
also
it
may
be
inflamed
,
displaced
,
broken
,
and
it
may
fall
out
of
the
body
.
It
may
be
rotten
,
or
else
cancerated
,
and
sometimes
womens
stones
and
vessels
for
generation
are
diseased
.
Further
the
womb
may
be
troubled
with
an
itch
,
it
may
be
weak
or
painful
,
or
suffer
by
sympathy
and
antipathy
from
sweet
or
stinking
smells
.
Moreover
the
terms
sometimes
flow
too
soon
,
sometimes
too
late
,
they
are
too
many
or
too
few
,
or
are
quite
stopt
that
they
flow
not
at
all
.
Sometimes
they
fall
by
drops
,
and
again
sometimes
they
overflow
;
sometimes
they
cause
pain
,
sometimes
they
are
of
an
evil
colour
and
not
according
to
nature
;
sometimes
they
are
voided
not
by
the
womb
but
some
other
way
;
sometimes
strange
things
are
sent
forth
by
the
womb
,
and
sometimes
they
are
troubled
with
flux
of
seed
or
the
whites
.
As
for
women
with
child
they
are
subject
to
miscarry
,
to
hard
labour
,
to
disorderly
births
of
their
children
;
sometimes
the
child
is
dead
in
the
womb
;
sometimes
alive
,
but
must
be
taken
forth
by
cutting
or
the
woman
cannot
be
delivered
;
sometimes
she
is
troubled
with
false
conceptions
,
with
ill
formations
of
the
child
,
with
superfetations
,
another
child
begot
before
she
is
delivered
of
her
first
;
with
monsters
or
Moles
,
and
many
more
such
like
infirmities
.
And
as
for
women
in
child-bed
,
sometimes
the
Secundine
or
after-birth
will
not
follow
,
their
purgations
are
too
few
or
too
many
,
they
are
in
great
pains
in
their
belly
,
their
privities
are
rended
by
hard
delivery
as
far
as
their
Fundament
,
also
they
are
inflamed
many
times
and
ulcerated
and
cannot
go
to
stool
but
their
fundament
will
fall
forth
.
They
have
swoonding
and
epileptick
fits
,
watching
and
dotings
;
their
whole
body
swels
,
especially
their
belly
,
legs
and
feet
:
they
are
subject
to
hot
sharp
Feavers
and
acute
diseases
,
to
vomiting
and
costiveness
,
to
fluxes
,
to
incontinence
of
Urine
,
that
they
cannot
hold
their
water
.
As
for
their
breasts
that
hold
the
greatest
consent
with
the
womb
of
all
the
parts
of
the
body
,
they
are
sometimes
exceeding
great
or
swelled
with
milk
,
or
increased
in
number
,
more
breasts
than
there
should
be
by
nature
;
sometimes
the
breasts
are
inflamed
and
trouble
with
an
Erisipelas
,
or
hard
swellings
,
or
Scirrhus
,
or
full
of
kernels
,
or
tumors
called
the
Kings
evil
,
or
strange
things
may
be
bred
in
the
breasts
;
besides
this
some
breasts
are
diseased
with
Ulcers
,
and
Fustulaes
or
Cankers
and
some
have
no
nipples
,
or
are
chopt
or
Ulcerated
,
and
sometimes
women
have
breasts
will
breed
no
milk
to
suckle
the
child
with
.
To
speak
then
particularly
to
all
these
diseases
that
belong
to
our
sex
might
be
thought
to
be
over
tedious
;
however
I
shall
so
handle
the
matter
,
that
I
may
not
troubled
the
Reader
with
impertinences
,
that
I
shall
apply
my self
to
what
is
most
needful
for
the
knowledge
and
cure
of
them
all
;
but
because
many
diseases
may
be
refered
to
the
chief
in
that
kind
,
and
the
remedies
that
will
cure
one
may
be
sufficient
to
cure
the
rest
,
the
judicious
Reader
may
,
according
as
he
shall
have
occasion
,
make
a
more
special
application
.
For
it
is
in
vain
for
any
one
to
make
use
of
what
is
written
if
they
have
no
Judgement
in
the
things
they
use
,
in
such
cases
it
will
be
best
for
them
to
ask
counsel
of
others
first
,
till
they
may
attain
to
some
farther
insight
themselves
,
and
then
no
doubt
but
when
they
shall
meet
with
sufficient
remedies
to
cure
the
greatest
distempers
,
they
will
be
able
to
make
use
of
the
same
without
farther
direction
in
the
cure
of
those
diseases
that
are
lesse
;
not
that
I
intend
to
omit
any
thing
that
is
material
in
the
whole
,
but
that
I
may
not
trouble
the
Reader
with
needless
repetitions
of
the
same
things
,
as
too
many
authours
doe
,
which
breeds
tediousness
,
and
can
give
little
or
no
satisfaction
at
all
.
CHAP.
VI.
Of
the
Green-sickness
,
some
call
it
Leucophlegmatia
,
or
Cachexia
,
an
ill
habit
or
white
Feaver
.
THough
both
wives
and
widows
are
sometimes
troubled
with
this
disease
,
yet
it
is
more
common
to
maids
of
ripe
years
when
they
are
in
love
and
desirous
to
keep
company
with
a
man
.
It
comes
from
obstruction
of
the
vessels
of
the
womb
,
when
the
humours
corrupt
the
whole
mass
of
blood
and
over
cool
it
,
running
back
into
the
great
veins
.
For
so
soon
as
Maids
are
ripe
,
their
courses
begin
to
flow
,
Nature
sending
the
menstrual
blood
from
the
Liver
to
the
veins
about
the
womb
,
but
those
veins
and
vessels
being
very
narrow
,
and
not
yet
open
,
if
the
blood
be
stopt
,
in
that
it
cannot
break
forth
,
it
will
corrupt
,
and
runs
back
again
by
the
passages
of
the
hollow
vein
and
great
Artery
,
to
the
Liver
,
the
heart
and
the
Midriff
,
and
stops
the
whole
body
,
which
may
be
easily
known
,
for
their
faces
will
look
green
and
pale
,
and
wan
;
they
have
trembling
of
the
heart
,
pains
of
the
head
,
short
breathing
,
the
arteries
in
the
back
,
the
neck
,
and
the
Temples
will
beat
very
thick
;
and
though
not
alwayes
,
yet
sometimes
they
will
fall
into
a
Feaver
by
reason
of
these
corrupt
humours
,
but
it
is
alwayes
almost
attended
with
disgust
and
loathing
of
good
nutriment
,
and
longing
after
hurtful
things
.
The
whole
Body
especially
the
Belly
,
legs
,
and
thighs
swelling
with
abundance
of
naughty
humours
,
the
Hypocondriacal
parts
are
extended
by
reason
of
the
menstrual
blood
runing
back
to
the
greater
vessels
,
and
they
are
much
given
to
vomit
;
but
all
these
signs
are
not
found
in
all
persons
alike
,
but
they
are
common
to
most
,
and
in
some
you
shall
find
all
these
meet
.
The
cause
is
the
Terms
stopt
,
and
from
thence
ill
humours
abound
,
for
when
the
natural
channel
is
stopt
,
the
blood
must
needs
return
to
the
great
vessels
whence
it
came
and
choak
them
up
,
and
so
spoil
the
making
of
blood
,
nothing
but
raw
and
corrupt
humors
are
bred
which
can
never
turn
to
good
nutriment
,
or
be
ever
perfectly
joyned
to
the
parts
of
the
body
;
the
blood
is
flegmatick
slimy
stuff
,
and
sometimes
it
is
bred
from
corrupt
meats
and
drink
that
maids
will
long
after
as
well
as
Childing
women
;
they
will
be
alwayes
eating
Oatmeal
,
scrapings
of
the
wall
,
earth
,
or
ashes
,
or
chalk
,
and
will
drink
Vinegar
:
they
are
strangly
affected
with
an
inordinate
desire
to
eat
what
is
not
fit
for
food
,
whereupon
their
natural
heat
is
choaked
,
and
their
blood
turns
to
water
,
their
body
grows
loose
and
spongy
,
and
they
grow
lazy
,
and
idle
,
and
will
hardly
stir
;
their
pulse
beats
little
and
faint
,
as
the
vapours
fly
to
several
parts
so
they
are
ill
affected
by
them
;
the
heart
faints
,
the
head
is
dried
and
pained
,
and
the
animal
actions
are
hurt
when
melancholy
is
mixed
with
the
humours
in
too
great
proportion
.
Sometimes
this
white
Feaver
turns
to
a
Dropsie
,
or
the
liver
grows
hard
like
a
stone
that
it
can
make
no
blood
;
some
fall
dead
suddenly
when
the
heart
is
choaked
by
ill
vapours
and
humours
flying
to
it
;
if
the
stomach
be
affected
the
danger
is
the
greater
,
but
if
onely
the
womb
be
out
of
frame
the
remedy
is
much
more
easy
.
The
best
time
of
the
year
to
cure
Maids
and
those
that
are
sick
of
the
green
sickness
is
the
spring
,
and
the
way
of
cure
is
,
to
heat
the
cold
humours
,
and
make
the
thick
gross
blood
thin
,
and
this
cannot
be
all
performed
by
one
work
,
to
draw
away
and
to
correct
the
whole
mass
of
humours
at
once
;
wherefore
you
must
purge
gently
and
often
,
mingling
things
that
heat
and
attenuate
,
as
well
as
purgatives
to
carry
the
ill
humours
forth
.
But
first
it
will
be
good
to
give
a
Glister
,
and
next
to
open
a
Vein
in
the
foot
or
ancle
.
Moreover
your
physick
must
vary
according
to
the
parts
of
the
body
that
are
most
stopt
,
and
where
the
humors
float
.
If
they
lye
above
the
stomach
and
mesentery
,
then
vomit
,
if
you
find
the
Person
fitted
for
vomit
;
likewise
the
Spleen
,
or
liver
,
or
womb
must
be
respected
in
their
several
kinds
with
Physick
accordingly
;
and
to
save
you
the
labour
of
much
reading
,
and
me
of
writing
too
often
of
the
same
thing
,
under
several
heads
,
you
may
find
what
is
to
be
done
almost
in
all
respects
,
where
I
write
of
the
stopping
of
the
Terms
,
and
by
this
rule
I
wish
the
Reader
to
apply
the
rest
when
he
stands
in
need
,
which
he
can
never
well
do
,
as
I
said
,
till
he
have
some
judgement
in
it
,
and
then
it
will
become
familiar
to
him
.
But
in
this
Disease
principally
for
the
cure
respect
the
Liver
,
the
Spleen
,
and
the
Mesentery
,
or
Midriff
,
for
these
are
certainly
obstructed
and
must
be
opened
;
and
above
all
be
sure
to
keep
a
sparing
diet
and
of
a
thin
substance
.
Secondly
,
Let
blood
in
the
arm
first
,
though
the
courses
be
stopt
,
and
after
that
in
the
foot
.
If
the
disease
be
of
long
standing
,
you
shall
do
well
to
give
a
gentle
Purge
.
First
of
all
to
purge
the
humours
;
as
Take
powdered
Rhubarb
two
drams
,
Chicory
and
Anniseed-water
three
ounces
apiece
;
Infuse
the
Rhubarb
all
night
,
then
let
them
boyl
one
walm
onely
,
and
then
strain
it
forth
,
and
in
the
strained
liquor
,
dissolve
sirrup
of
Damask
Roses
one
ounce
and
a
half
,
Diacassia
half
an
ounce
,
Cinnamon-water
half
an
ounce
,
five
grains
of
Diagridium
,
let
her
drink
it
in
the
morning
.
Next
after
this
use
opening
decoction
of
Succory
and
Madder
,
and
Liquorish
roots
of
each
half
an
handful
,
Anniseeds
and
Fennel
seeds
two
drams
a
piece
,
a
handful
of
Harts-tongue
Leaves
,
Borrage
Flowers
and
pale
Roses
of
each
half
a
handful
,
one
ounce
of
the
roots
of
Sassafras
,
stoned
Rasins
one
ounce
and
a
half
,
and
half
a
dram
of
Cinnamon
.
Boyl
all
these
in
Fountain
water
to
a
third
part
onely
wasted
,
and
then
sweeten
it
with
sirrup
of
Lemmons
,
she
may
drink
it
when
she
pleaseth
.
An
Electuary
made
of
the
rob
or
pulp
of
Elder-berries
boyl'd
to
a
just
substance
four
ounces
with
one
ounce
of
bay
berries
dried
and
powdered
,
two
Nutmegs
,
and
one
dram
of
burnt-hartshorn
,
half
a
scruple
of
Amber
,
and
four
scruples
of
species
Diarrhoda
,
mingled
all
with
sirrup
of
Succory
one
ounce
and
half
,
is
excellent
.
And
finally
,
it
will
not
be
from
the
purpose
,
but
very
useful
,
to
anoint
the
womb
and
Liver
with
such
Oyntments
,
as
will
open
their
obstructions
,
made
with
Oyl
of
Spike
,
and
bitter
Almonds
,
of
each
two
ounces
;
and
juyces
of
Rue
and
Mugwort
half
as
much
,
and
Vinegar
a
fourth
part
;
waste
the
watery
part
of
these
by
boiling
:
then
add
Spikenard
,
Camels
Hay
,
Roots
of
Asarum
,
of
each
one
dram
;
Cypress
half
a
dram
,
Wax
,
sufficient
to
make
an
Unguent
.
To
provoke
the
Termes
.
And
that
is
effected
with
one
ounce
of
the
Five
opening
Roots
,
and
with
Madder
,
Elecampane
,
Orris
Roots
,
Eryngo
,
dried
Citron
Pills
,
and
Sarfa
,
of
each
half
an
ounce
;
Germander
,
Mugwort
,
Agrimony
,
of
each
a
handful
;
two
small
handfuls
of
Savin
,
an
ounce
of
wilde
Saffron
seeds
,
two
ounces
of
Senna
;
Agarick
and
Mechoachan
,
of
each
half
an
ounce
;
two
Pugils
of
Stoechas
Flowers
;
of
Galingal
,
Anniseeds
,
and
Fennel
,
of
each
two
drams
:
Boil
all
this
to
a
Pint
and
half
,
sweeten
it
for
your
Pallat
,
and
add
to
it
a
spoonful
of
Cinnamon
water
.
Quercetans
Pills
of
Tartar
,
and
Gum
Amoniacum
are
commended
;
Take
of
each
half
a
dram
,
Spike
a
scruple
,
three
drops
of
Cinnamon
,
Extract
of
wormwood
half
a
scruple
;
take
a
scruple
,
or
twenty
grain
weight
in
pills
an
hour
before
Meat
:
Conserve
of
Marigold
Flowers
is
very
good
.
Some
,
after
good
preparatives
,
use
Steel
powder
to
much
effect
;
giving
first
a
vomit
,
if
need
require
.
This
Medicament
is
good
for
all
stoppings
;
but
,
if
the
Liver
be
stopt
,
let
the
Steel
be
finely
powdered
.
Take
prepared
steel
two
ounces
,
Agarick
,
Species
Diacrocuma
,
and
Darrhodon
of
each
a
dram
;
two
drams
of
Carthamus
seed
;
Cloves
one
dram
,
Carrot
seed
,
and
red
Dock
Roots
of
each
one
dram
and
a
half
.
If
the
woman
vomit
,
stop
it
not
:
but
I
approve
not
so
well
of
steel
taken
in
substance
,
as
by
infusion
,
I
am
sure
it
must
needs
be
the
safest
way
.
Take
steel
(
in
powder
)
three
ounces
;
three
pints
of
white
wine
,
and
half
an
ounce
of
Cinnamon
,
let
all
stand
in
the
sun
eight
dayes
,
stopt
close
in
a
Glass
;
and
every
day
stir
them
well
:
the
Dose
is
six
or
eight
ounces
for
twenty
daies
together
,
four
hours
before
dinner
.
Steel
is
best
used
in
the
Spring
and
in
the
Fall
:
but
alwaies
you
must
purge
the
body
,
and
exercise
both
before
and
after
the
use
of
it
;
and
you
must
change
the
form
of
your
Medicaments
,
or
the
Patient
will
loath
,
and
grow
weary
of
it
:
Sweating
and
bathing
are
good
.
Either
Baths
(
by
Nature
,
or
Art
)
made
with
Mugwort
,
Calamints
,
Niss
,
Danewort
,
Rosemary
,
Sage
,
Bays
,
Elecampane
,
Mercury
,
Briony
Roots
,
Ivy
:
When
the
Obstructions
are
opened
,
and
the
body
purged
,
you
shall
see
all
the
former
symptomes
flie
a
way
:
But
let
the
diet
be
meats
of
good
digestion
,
and
good
nourishment
;
The
air
must
be
temperately
hot
;
all
crude
raw
things
must
be
avoided
:
as
green
fruit
,
Lettice
,
Milk
,
watry
Fish
:
Wine
is
good
drink
:
Sage
and
Cinnamon
are
good
Sawce
:
put
Fennel
seed
into
your
bread
,
and
let
it
be
well
leavened
:
Sleep
moderately
:
Marriage
is
a
Soveraign
Cure
for
those
that
cannot
abstain
.
Maids
must
not
be
suffered
to
eat
Oatmeal
,
or
ashes
,
or
such
ill
trumpery
,
though
they
desire
them
never
so
much
;
for
they
will
breed
and
increase
the
disease
:
but
Child-bearing
women
,
if
they
cannot
be
perswaded
,
must
have
what
they
long
for
,
or
they
will
miscarry
.
Exercise
,
I
say
,
is
alwayes
good
to
keep
maids
from
this
disease
,
and
to
cure
it
when
it
is
come
:
For
idleness
causeth
crudities
;
but
motion
makes
heat
,
and
helps
to
distribute
the
Nutriment
through
the
body
:
Yet
moderation
must
be
used
;
for
it
will
weaken
faint
people
if
it
be
too
much
.
First
,
therefore
onely
rub
and
chafe
the
body
,
then
by
degrees
,
keep
them
from
sleeping
too
much
;
then
increasing
the
labour
,
after
that
the
body
hath
been
well
cleansed
by
purging
.
Hippocrates
commends
marriage
,
as
the
chiefest
remedy
for
Virgins
sick
of
this
disease
,
if
they
once
conceive
,
that
is
their
cure
:
or
as
saith
Johannes
Langius
,
for
this
disease
never
comes
till
they
are
fit
for
Copulation
,
and
then
commonly
it
hasteneth
;
and
it
is
cured
by
opening
of
Obstructions
,
and
heating
the
womb
;
which
nothing
can
so
soon
,
and
well
perform
,
as
the
Venereal
acts
,
to
make
the
courses
come
down
;
but
yet
it
is
very
dangerous
,
when
these
people
are
grown
weak
with
this
disease
,
and
their
bodies
are
full
of
corrupt
humours
;
therefore
they
must
purge
them
away
before
they
marry
:
for
I
have
known
some
that
have
been
so
far
from
being
cured
,
that
they
died
by
it
;
perhaps
sooner
than
they
would
have
done
otherwise
:
It
may
be
good
sometimes
,
when
the
disease
is
new
,
and
the
blood
plentiful
,
to
open
a
vein
,
when
the
courses
are
stopt
;
and
are
not
changed
into
some
corrupt
humour
,
you
may
then
b●eed
freely
;
this
was
the
right
judgment
of
Hippocrates
:
but
when
the
passages
are
stopt
,
and
the
whole
body
is
chilled
with
raw
slimy
humours
,
there
is
no
time
to
bleed
then
;
for
that
will
augment
the
disease
.
And
because
we
are
now
upon
this
remedy
of
marriage
,
for
the
cure
of
this
infirmity
;
though
I
touch'd
it
before
,
I
shall
a
little
further
discusse
the
matter
:
Whether
all
maids
have
that
sign
of
their
Maiden-head
,
which
by
Moses's
Law
(
Deut.
22.
.
)
was
so
much
to
be
taken
notice
of
,
and
Physicians
call
Hymen
,
which
signifies
a
Membrane
,
some
do
absolutely
deny
,
that
there
is
any
such
Membrane
,
or
skin
;
and
maintain
also
,
that
if
any
maid
have
it
,
it
is
only
the
closeness
of
the
womb
,
a
disease
in
the
Organ
,
and
not
common
to
all
:
And
some
of
the
best
Anatomists
maintain
the
contrary
;
affirming
that
there
is
a
skin
in
all
,
or
should
be
,
that
is
wrinkled
with
Caruncles
,
like
Myrtle-berries
,
or
a
rose
half
blown
:
and
this
makes
the
difference
between
maids
and
wives
:
but
it
is
broken
at
the
first
encounter
with
man
,
and
it
makes
a
great
alteration
;
it
is
painful
,
and
bleeds
when
it
is
broken
:
but
what
it
is
,
is
not
certainly
known
.
Some
think
it
is
a
nervous
Membrane
interwoven
with
small
veins
,
that
bleed
,
at
the
first
opening
of
the
Matrix
by
copulation
:
Some
think
they
are
four
Caruncles
fastened
together
with
small
Membranes
:
Some
observe
a
Circle
that
is
fleshy
about
the
Nimphe
,
with
little
dark
veins
;
so
that
the
skin
is
rather
fleshy
than
nervous
.
Doubtless
there
is
a
main
difference
between
Virgins
and
Wives
,
as
to
this
very
thing
,
though
Anatomists
agree
not
about
it
;
because
,
though
all
have
it
,
yet
there
may
be
causes
whereby
it
may
be
broken
before
marriage
,
as
I
instanced
formerly
:
and
sometimes
it
is
broken
by
the
Midwives
.
Leo
Africanus
writes
that
the
African
custome
was
,
whilest
the
wedding
dinner
was
preparing
,
to
shut
the
married
Pair
into
a
room
by
themselves
,
and
there
was
some
old
woman
appointed
to
stand
at
the
Door
to
take
the
bloody
sheet
from
the
Bridegroom
,
to
shew
it
to
the
Guests
;
and
if
no
blood
appeared
,
the
Bride
was
sent
home
to
her
friends
with
disgrace
,
and
the
Guests
dismissed
without
their
dinner
.
But
the
sign
of
bleeding
perhaps
is
not
so
generally
sure
;
it
is
not
so
much
●n
maids
that
are
elderly
,
as
when
they
are
very
young
;
bleeding
is
an
undoubted
token
of
Virginity
:
But
young
wenches
(
that
are
lascivious
)
may
lose
this
,
by
unchast
actions
,
though
they
never
knew
man
;
which
is
not
much
inferior
,
if
not
worse
than
the
act
it self
.
Amongst
those
signs
of
Maidenhead
preserved
,
is
the
straightness
of
the
privy
passage
;
which
differs
according
to
several
ages
,
Habit
of
body
,
and
such
like
circumstances
:
But
it
can
be
no
infallible
sign
,
because
unchast
women
will
(
by
astringent
medicaments
)
so
contract
the
parts
,
that
they
will
seem
to
be
maids
again
;
as
she
did
,
who
being
married
,
used
a
bath
of
Comfrey
roots
.
Some
judge
(
but
falsely
)
that
if
a
maid
have
milk
in
her
breasts
,
she
hath
lost
her
Maidenhead
:
There
can
be
no
milk
,
say
they
,
till
she
hath
conceived
with
child
.
Maids
want
both
the
cause
,
and
the
end
,
for
which
nature
sends
milk
;
namely
to
provide
food
for
the
child
to
be
born
:
If
a
maids
courses
stop
,
they
corrupt
,
and
turn
not
to
milk
.
The
Breasts
have
a
natural
quality
to
make
milk
;
but
they
do
it
not
,
unless
convenient
matter
be
sent
to
make
it
of
;
and
that
is
not
done
,
but
for
the
foresaid
end
.
Hippocrates
,
Galen
,
&
there
followers
say
,
that
maids
may
have
milk
in
their
brests
:
True
it
is
,
that
it
is
a
certain
sign
of
a
living
child
in
the
womb
,
when
there
is
milk
in
the
Breasts
;
and
of
a
mole
or
false
conception
,
when
there
is
no
milk
:
But
that
milk
that
maids
sometimes
have
in
their
breasts
,
is
only
a
watry
humour
,
when
their
courses
are
stopt
,
and
cannot
get
forth
of
the
womb
;
then
the
Breasts
by
their
faculty
make
whey
,
but
cannot
make
milk
,
without
there
be
first
carnal
copulation
:
it
is
white
as
milk
is
;
but
not
so
white
,
nor
so
thick
:
neither
comes
it
to
the
breasts
by
the
same
veins
that
that
blood
that
makes
Milk
comes
into
them
by
;
for
this
breeds
in
the
veins
of
maids
from
the
superfluous
nutriment
of
their
breasts
.
But
to
enlarge
a
little
more
concerning
that
distinction
of
Maids
from
Wives
,
by
the
straitness
of
the
Orifice
of
the
womb
:
There
are
three
diseases
in
this
part
of
the
secrets
;
either
the
mouth
is
too
strait
,
or
too
wide
,
or
sometimes
there
hangs
forth
the
Yard
of
a
woman
.
The
Privity
is
too
strait
when
there
is
not
room
for
the
Fore-man
to
enter
;
Such
persons
seldom
child
,
and
are
delivered
with
great
danger
and
difficulty
:
and
if
this
come
from
ill
conformation
,
that
nature
hath
made
them
so
,
it
will
be
hard
to
cure
them
by
any
thing
but
copulation
,
and
bringing
forth
of
Children
,
to
enlarge
the
place
:
yet
sometimes
this
straitness
comes
from
the
use
of
astringent
Medicaments
,
when
whores
desire
to
appear
to
be
maids
;
sometimes
the
passage
is
so
close
shut
up
on
the
outside
,
that
nothing
can
come
forth
but
water
and
the
courses
,
and
sometimes
neither
of
them
;
because
they
are
attracted
not
bored
nor
pierced
by
nature
.
This
disease
is
threefold
;
it
is
either
in
the
mouth
,
neck
,
or
middle
body
of
the
womb
;
it
is
never
good
for
copulation
,
conception
,
or
for
the
courses
to
be
voided
by
:
I
remember
I
saw
a
woman
that
had
the
Orifice
of
the
matrix
so
little
,
that
nothing
but
the
Urine
and
her
courses
could
pass
through
;
yet
she
conceived
with
child
,
no
man
can
suppose
how
she
received
the
mans
seed
,
but
by
attraction
of
the
Matrix
:
the
midwives
(
when
she
was
to
be
delivered
)
discovered
the
difficulty
;
and
a
Chirurgeon
made
the
Orifice
wider
,
and
she
was
by
that
means
happily
brought
a
bed
of
a
Son
:
The
cleft
may
be
also
close
stopt
,
by
reason
of
some
wound
or
Ulcer
cured
in
that
part
.
I
saw
a
woman
which
by
the
French
disease
,
had
been
much
eaten
off
,
yet
when
it
was
healed
,
it
grew
close
together
,
that
there
was
no
passage
left
,
but
for
her
Urine
to
come
forth
by
:
either
proud
flesh
,
in
foul
diseases
,
or
else
some
membrane
,
by
evil
conformation
may
stop
the
passage
:
if
it
be
in
the
mouth
of
the
secrets
,
it
is
visible
,
but
if
in
the
neck
it
lieth
concealed
;
Unless
it
be
when
the
courses
are
flowing
,
or
Copulation
is
used
,
it
is
not
painful
:
and
maids
are
supposed
to
be
with
child
;
for
the
belly
tumifies
,
and
the
body
is
discoloured
.
The
terms
cannot
well
come
forth
of
the
neck
,
or
the
Veins
of
the
womb
,
if
there
be
an
Ulcer
or
inflammation
,
you
may
know
almost
whence
it
came
;
but
if
a
membrane
stop
it
,
the
place
is
white
:
if
the
flesh
be
red
,
and
you
touch
it
,
the
touch
will
discover
it
;
for
a
membrane
is
harder
than
the
Flesh
:
the
hazards
are
great
for
childing
women
.
CHAP.
VII
.
Of
the
Straitness
of
the
womb
.
SOmetimes
there
are
superfluous
Excrescences
,
that
fill
up
the
Privites
,
and
are
like
a
tail
:
I
spoke
something
before
of
a
Clitoris
;
but
these
are
not
that
:
for
a
Clitoris
,
if
it
be
rubbed
,
increases
pleasure
in
copulation
;
but
these
fleshy
excrescensces
are
painful
to
be
touched
,
and
hinder
copulation
:
you
may
safely
cut
them
off
,
if
you
can
come
at
them
,
because
they
are
redundant
.
There
are
a
kind
of
wings
in
a
womans
secrets
,
much
like
to
the
comb
of
a
cock
for
colour
and
shape
;
it
swells
like
a
Yard
sometimes
(
in
lust
it
is
full
of
spirits
)
and
is
hard
and
Nervous
at
the
top
of
it
;
sometimes
it
is
no
less
than
the
Yard
of
a
man
,
and
some
women
by
it
have
been
suspected
to
be
men
;
it
proceeds
from
much
nutriment
,
and
frequent
handling
of
the
part
that
is
loose
.
To
cure
it
you
must
first
discuss
,
and
dry
it
with
easie
astringents
;
then
you
may
go
on
to
Causticks
,
that
are
not
dangerous
;
as
burnt
Allum
,
or
Egyptiac
:
if
these
cure
it
not
,
then
you
may
at
last
cut
it
off
;
or
tie
it
with
a
horse
hair
,
or
piece
of
Silk
,
till
it
fall
off
;
but
cut
it
not
at
first
for
fear
of
pain
and
inflammation
:
The
way
to
cut
it
off
is
taught
by
Aetius
,
to
cut
it
neatly
between
both
the
wings
,
causing
as
little
pain
as
possible
may
be
;
and
after
that
,
foment
the
place
with
an
astringent
Decoction
of
wine
with
Pomegranate
Flowers
,
Cypress
nuts
,
Bay
Berries
,
Roses
and
Myrtles
.
Some
call
this
disease
Tentigro
,
when
the
Clitoris
grows
bigger
by
odds
than
it
should
be
;
it
is
a
nervous
piece
of
flesh
,
which
is
lapt
in
by
the
lips
of
the
Privitie
,
and
it
riseth
in
the
act
of
Copulation
;
it
hangs
below
the
Privy
parts
,
outwardly
,
like
a
Gooses
Neck
in
bigness
;
and
it
comes
from
a
great
Flux
of
humours
to
the
part
,
being
loose
,
and
often
handled
:
The
way
to
cure
it
,
is
to
purge
superfluous
humours
forth
,
and
to
draw
blood
,
and
use
a
spare
diet
,
and
very
cooling
,
and
to
discuss
with
the
leaves
of
Mastich
tree
,
or
of
the
Olive
:
You
may
take
away
the
excrescence
by
Sope
,
being
boiled
with
Roman
Vitriol
;
and
last
of
all
,
add
a
little
Opium
,
make
some
Troches
,
and
sprinkle
the
powder
upon
the
superfluous
part
;
and
after
that
cut
it
off
,
or
cure
it
by
ligature
as
I
said
before
.
There
is
another
fleshy
substance
,
that
sometimes
fills
up
the
privy
parts
,
coming
from
the
mouth
of
the
womb
,
and
hangs
oftentimes
out
,
like
a
Tail
;
it
may
be
easier
taken
a
way
than
the
former
,
by
the
same
means
of
cutting
or
binding
with
a
thread
,
or
silk
dipt
in
sublimate
water
.
There
are
many
other
infirmities
that
stop
up
the
secrets
of
the
womb
,
of
which
I
shall
briefly
speak
;
but
the
straitness
of
the
neck
of
the
womb
it self
is
not
so
usual
,
as
too
much
wideness
is
;
you
may
know
when
it
is
too
strait
,
by
the
stopping
of
the
Courses
,
and
a
weighty
pain
bearing
down
:
It
proceeds
partly
from
ill
conformation
by
nature
,
and
partly
from
Diseases
;
sometimes
it
is
so
shut
up
outwardly
,
that
neither
the
courses
can
come
forth
,
nor
the
mans
Yard
enter
in
;
that
it
is
not
possible
for
her
to
be
with
child
:
if
the
straitness
be
in
the
inward
Orifice
,
the
courses
run
back
again
for
want
of
passage
,
and
hinder
conception
.
It
may
happen
when
the
caule
lieth
to
that
,
and
presseth
upon
the
neck
of
the
womb
;
the
stone
in
the
bladder
,
or
swelling
in
the
straight
Gut
,
may
cause
it
also
;
if
the
parts
cling
together
naturally
,
either
soft
red
flesh
,
or
a
white
hard
skin
causes
this
straitness
as
I
said
:
But
the
straitness
of
the
womb
it self
,
and
its
vessels
are
sometimes
natural
by
ill
conformation
;
and
such
women
will
miscarry
in
the
fourth
or
fifth
month
,
because
the
womb
that
naturally
stretcheth
,
as
the
child
grows
in
bigness
,
&
will
after
the
woman
is
delivered
,
shrink
as
small
as
it
was
before
,
in
some
women
will
not
be
extended
.
But
if
the
straitness
be
in
the
vessels
or
neck
of
the
womb
,
Conception
is
hindered
,
because
the
terms
cannot
flow
;
gross
humours
,
especially
when
the
womb
is
cold
and
weak
,
stop
the
mouths
of
the
veins
and
arteries
.
Inflammations
;
or
Swellings
,
or
Scars
,
or
Schirrhus
,
or
the
like
,
may
be
the
causes
;
sometimes
thick
Flegm
abounds
,
if
there
were
a
wound
or
the
after-burden
were
forcibly
pulled
out
.
If
the
terms
be
stopt
,
from
an
old
obstruction
of
grown
humors
,
the
cure
is
hard
;
a
Schirrhus
,
or
humour
that
shuts
up
the
vessels
,
cannot
be
cured
;
what
is
to
be
cured
,
must
first
be
done
by
general
evacuations
of
purging
and
bleeding
;
then
use
means
to
provoke
the
terms
:
if
the
straitness
come
from
diseases
,
first
cure
them
.
Sometimes
the
Secrets
of
women
are
full
of
pushes
,
and
scurf
,
with
itching
and
pain
,
wheals
rising
in
the
neck
of
the
womb
:
They
are
of
two
sorts
;
some
are
gentle
,
but
most
commonly
they
are
venemous
,
and
come
from
the
foul
disease
,
and
will
impart
it
unto
men
:
They
proceed
from
burnt
,
sharp
,
cholerick
,
malignant
humours
,
hard
to
be
cured
;
Sirrup
of
Fumitory
is
very
good
in
such
cases
:
it
is
also
profitable
to
wash
the
parts
with
wine
and
Salt-Peter
.
Draw
blood
,
if
it
abound
,
first
in
the
arm
then
in
the
ancle
:
but
first
if
be
the
disease
,
drink
the
decoction
of
Sarsa
and
Guaicum
for
it
:
Avoid
sharp
sowr
meats
;
it
is
good
to
purge
with
Confectio
Hamech
,
or
Fumitory
Pills
.
You
may
see
the
cause
of
this
great
itching
,
and
scurf
,
if
you
search
with
Speculum
Matricis
,
an
instrument
Chirurgeons
use
.
Sometimes
Tubercles
grow
in
the
neck
of
the
womb
,
with
heat
and
pain
;
you
may
see
them
them
,
for
they
are
a
kind
of
swelling
wrinkles
,
like
the
wrinkles
you
see
when
you
close
your
Fist
,
but
they
are
much
larger
;
and
when
they
swell
they
make
these
Tubercles
:
they
are
usual
in
the
secrets
,
or
Fundament
,
and
come
from
the
same
malignant
causes
with
the
former
;
and
some
are
more
enflamed
,
and
painful
,
than
others
are
:
The
swellings
are
hard
,
proceeding
from
thick
burnt
humours
;
Powder
of
egg-shels
burnt
is
good
to
strew
upon
them
to
dry
them
up
,
if
they
be
new
,
and
there
be
no
inflammation
;
but
if
they
be
old
and
dry
,
they
must
first
be
softened
.
These
wrinkled
skins
,
when
they
are
many
,
resemble
a
bunch
of
Grapes
:
Cure
the
Pox
first
,
for
usually
that
is
the
cause
,
and
then
they
will
vanish
of
themselves
.
If
Medicaments
prevail
not
,
some
old
authors
bid
us
to
use
an
actual
Cautery
,
and
to
burn
them
away
.
Likewise
Warts
in
the
secrets
are
bred
by
a
gross
dreggy
ill
humour
,
and
is
of
kind
with
the
forementioned
;
Nature
sends
it
forth
to
the
outward
skin
,
and
there
it
becomes
Warts
:
if
they
be
hard
or
blew
,
and
painful
,
you
may
know
what
they
are
,
the
Pox
is
in
them
,
and
hard
to
be
got
out
,
and
they
lie
where
medicines
can
scarce
be
applied
to
them
to
remain
:
if
you
apply
sharp
Topicals
,
use
a
defensative
of
Bole
and
Vinegar
,
that
you
hurt
not
the
parts
;
and
so
you
may
touch
them
with
Aqua
fortis
,
or
Spirit
of
Vitriol
,
or
of
Brimstone
.
There
are
several
sorts
of
these
Excrescences
;
there
are
those
that
are
called
Myrmeciae
,
leave
an
Ulcer
;
if
you
cut
them
off
Thymi
,
&
Clavi
will
grow
again
,
but
Acrocordanes
leave
no
root
,
if
they
be
once
cut
away
.
The
powder
of
Mulberries
is
good
to
cure
Warts
and
swellings
upon
the
privities
of
men
;
and
I
recommend
it
to
women
in
the
same
cases
:
Sometimes
women
have
the
piles
of
the
womb
,
like
those
in
the
Fundament
;
they
proceed
from
gross
blood
,
that
staies
about
the
ends
of
these
veins
,
in
the
neck
of
the
womb
.
Women
that
are
thus
troubled
,
look
pale
,
and
are
very
faint
and
weary
:
this
may
come
from
too
long
flowing
of
the
courses
,
and
grow
thick
,
and
cannot
get
forth
;
they
are
painful
,
and
bleed
disorderly
;
you
may
see
them
,
by
the
help
of
Speculum
Matricis
,
and
touch
them
:
The
cure
is
by
revulsion
of
the
humour
,
by
letting
blood
in
the
arm
or
heel
;
and
by
gentle
applications
if
the
pains
be
great
:
if
nature
open
them
and
they
bleed
moderately
,
you
may
give
way
to
nature
;
but
if
they
run
violently
,
open
a
vein
in
the
arm
two
or
three
times
:
Purge
with
Rhubarb
,
Tamarinds
,
and
Mirobolans
mingled
:
and
use
Topicals
to
stay
the
blood
.
The
blind
Piles
bleed
not
at
all
:
they
are
cured
by
letting
young
women
bleed
freely
;
and
by
softening
the
parts
with
emollient
Fomentations
,
to
open
the
veins
,
and
to
dispel
the
humour
,
made
with
mallows
,
Marshmallows
,
Cammomile
,
Melilot
,
Ma●lius
,
Linseed
,
Fenugreek
:
Anoint
where
the
pain
is
,
with
butter
,
Populeon
and
Opium
;
if
the
pain
be
gone
,
and
they
bleed
not
,
use
Driers
,
of
Bole
,
Ceruss
,
Allum
,
burnt
Lead
,
wash'd
;
if
the
veins
swell
with
blood
rub
them
with
Fig
leaves
,
or
with
Horse
Leeches
applied
draw
blood
from
them
.
This
disease
of
the
Piles
of
the
womb
differs
from
the
flowing
of
the
courses
,
because
this
is
with
great
pain
;
and
moreover
the
courses
run
from
the
veins
of
the
womb
,
and
the
neck
of
it
;
but
the
Piles
are
caused
when
the
blood
runs
too
much
to
the
veins
that
force
the
secrets
,
and
either
stops
there
,
or
comes
forth
sometimes
by
them
:
but
some
say
they
differ
from
the
courses
,
namely
,
by
their
great
pain
;
but
that
they
make
the
body
lean
,
if
they
last
long
,
and
the
blood
comes
not
forth
so
orderly
,
nor
at
certain
periods
,
and
set
times
,
as
the
courses
use
to
do
:
Sometimes
the
womb
hath
Ulcers
bred
there
,
some
are
cleaner
,
and
some
again
are
sordid
and
malignant
,
all
hard
to
be
cured
.
They
proceed
generally
from
a
virulent
Gonorrhoea
,
or
the
Pox
;
but
they
may
rise
from
inflammation
,
by
abundance
of
sharp
corroding
humors
,
from
abortion
,
or
hard
labour
,
or
sharp
medicines
,
or
when
the
after-birth
is
pulled
out
by
force
,
and
rends
the
womb
.
The
pain
of
Ulcers
is
biting
,
and
increased
by
sharp
injections
of
Wine
or
Honey
and
Water
:
All
Ulcers
are
hard
to
heal
there
,
because
of
the
sensibility
,
and
moistness
of
the
part
:
and
a
light
Excoriation
,
or
rawness
,
will
not
easily
be
healed
;
but
eating
Ulcers
never
are
cured
there
almost
but
by
Death
.
Ulcers
by
Venery
,
if
they
be
cured
,
you
must
first
cure
the
Pox.
All
Ulcers
in
the
secrets
of
Wombs
may
be
cured
,
if
they
be
not
Cankered
:
and
the
way
to
cure
them
is
by
Purging
and
bleeding
,
to
cleanse
and
carry
away
,
and
divert
the
ill
Humours
and
moisture
from
the
Womb
:
if
there
be
great
pain
,
abait
that
with
Mucilage
of
Fleabane
,
and
whites
of
Eggs
;
or
,
an
Emulsion
of
Poppey
Seeds
.
Warm
Injections
into
the
Womb
will
help
forward
the
Cure
,
made
of
Barley
,
Lentils
,
Beanes
,
Lupines
,
of
each
one
Ounce
;
and
two
drams
of
Orris
Roots
;
and
of
Horehound
,
Wormwood
,
and
a
little
Centry
,
of
each
half
a
handful
,
boil
all
in
Whey
,
strain
it
,
and
put
some
Honey
of
Roses
,
or
Hydromel
to
it
.
Turpentine
washed
and
with
Liquorish
swallowed
is
good
:
Drink
Sheeps
milk
sweetened
with
Sugar
.
Fumes
made
with
Frankincence
,
Myrrh
,
Mastich
,
Storax
Calamita
,
Juniper
Gum
,
received
by
a
Tunnel
do
good
;
if
there
be
a
jealousie
of
the
Pox
,
add
a
little
Cinnabar
;
but
Pessariers
with
Opium
must
not
be
held
in
above
half
an
hour
,
for
it
will
hurt
the
Nervous
part
of
the
womb
:
a
scruple
of
the
Pills
of
Bdellium
,
taken
thrice
a
week
,
may
be
profitable
:
Vulnerary
Potions
drunk
,
and
astringent
powders
cast
upon
the
Ulcers
must
not
be
neglected
.
Sometimes
there
are
long
Ulcers
in
the
neck
of
the
womb
,
like
to
those
that
eat
the
skin
,
and
are
seen
upon
some
mens
hands
and
feet
in
Winter
;
sometimes
they
are
bleeding
,
and
sometimes
very
dry
,
and
have
hard
lips
;
much
labour
and
sharp
humours
to
the
parts
may
cause
them
:
when
they
are
new
they
are
easier
cured
;
use
a
good
moistening
diet
:
if
sharp
humours
cause
them
,
purge
them
forth
;
and
anoint
the
Ulcers
with
Oil
of
Linseed
and
Roses
,
mingle
them
in
a
Leaden
Mortar
with
juice
of
Plantane
,
and
the
Yolk
of
an
egg
;
when
they
are
hard
anoint
them
with
deers
Marrow
,
Turpentine
,
wax
,
and
oil
of
Lillies
;
when
they
are
malignant
they
are
cured
,
as
Fistulaes
are
;
if
they
itch
,
or
cause
pain
,
make
an
unguent
of
Populeum
and
Diapompholix
,
of
either
one
ounce
;
Camphire
&
Sugar
of
Lead
of
each
a
scruple
:
when
there
is
a
great
itching
of
the
womb
it
is
somewhat
like
the
rage
of
it
,
then
eat
Sallets
of
cooling
herbs
,
Purslain
and
Lettice
,
with
a
few
Spearmints
,
&
oil
and
vinegar
,
or
take
conserve
of
Mints
,
and
of
Water-Lilly-Flowers
,
of
each
an
ounce
,
Lettice
candied
six
drams
,
Agnus
Castus
seeds
one
dram
and
a
half
,
Coral
one
dram
,
Rue
feeds
half
a
dram
,
Camphire
a
scruple
,
with
sirrup
of
Purslain
,
make
an
Electuary
;
annoint
the
Reins
and
secrets
with
Galen's
cold
ointment
,
with
a
little
Camphire
.
As
for
the
womb
,
it
is
soon
ulcerated
,
because
the
parts
are
soft
,
and
easily
corroded
,
and
hard
to
be
healed
:
and
these
ulcers
are
of
many
kinds
;
hollow
,
crooked
or
strait
;
if
the
sharp
humors
be
retained
,
it
makes
furrows
and
divides
the
parts
;
which
growing
hard
with
a
callous
cannot
join
again
;
thus
it
degenerates
into
a
Fistula
;
it
may
be
without
pain
,
with
hard
Lips
,
and
an
ill
matter
may
be
pressed
forth
of
it
:
sometimes
it
corrodes
the
bladder
,
and
then
the
water
passeth
forth
by
the
Fistula
,
and
sometimes
to
the
Fundament
,
and
the
Dung
is
voided
by
it
:
An
old
Fistula
is
harder
to
cure
than
a
new
;
and
a
crooked
than
a
streight
.
General
remedies
,
and
a
good
Diet
may
do
much
;
and
so
leave
the
rest
to
nature
to
evacuate
the
excrements
:
but
use
a
palliative
cure
by
often
Sweating
,
and
purging
twice
a
year
;
and
by
Injections
and
Corroboratives
,
laying
on
a
Plaister
of
Diapalma
:
After
general
meanes
,
if
it
be
not
past
hopes
,
Vulnerary
Decoctions
may
help
,
made
with
Centaury
,
Bettony
,
Agrimony
,
Ladies
mantle
,
and
roots
of
male
Fern.
Topicks
are
useful
,
first
dilating
the
Orifice
with
Gentian
Roots
,
or
with
a
Sponge
;
then
make
soft
the
Callous
with
Turpentine
,
wax
,
Deers
Marrow
,
and
Oyl
of
Lillies
;
then
consume
the
Callous
,
which
may
be
effected
:
For
a
new
narrow
Fistula
use
black
Hellebore
,
Egyptiac
,
or
Vigo
's
powder
,
carried
to
it
with
a
Pencil
,
or
Aqua
Falopii
;
or
take
Rose
,
and
Plantane
water
,
of
each
six
ounces
,
put
to
it
Sublimate
half
a
scruple
,
set
it
on
the
Embers
in
a
Glass
;
but
if
the
Fistula
be
toward
the
womb
,
beware
of
violent
means
:
if
it
be
foul
,
and
a
hard
Callous
withall
,
a
Potential
Caustick
may
do
good
,
but
a
Horrion
is
best
;
all
these
are
safe
in
the
outward
part
of
the
Neck
of
the
womb
,
but
in
the
inward
there
is
greater
danger
.
A
Cancer
in
the
womb
is
seldome
seen
,
nor
can
it
be
ever
cured
:
but
that
which
is
in
the
Neck
of
the
womb
I
shall
instance
in
;
which
is
either
with
an
Ulcer
,
or
without
an
Ulcer
.
First
,
It
comes
without
an
Ulcer
;
but
when
long
Applications
are
used
to
them
,
hard
schirrhus
Tumours
,
which
spring
from
burnt
black
humours
,
and
Terms
,
that
flow
to
those
parts
,
chang
to
an
Ulcerated
Cancer
.
Secondly
,
It
may
be
in
the
part
not
Ulcerated
a
long
time
,
and
not
be
known
,
because
it
is
without
pain
;
but
at
length
there
will
be
a
pain
felt
in
the
Loins
,
and
bottom
of
the
belly
:
the
swelling
looks
blew
,
and
loathsome
;
when
it
becomes
Ulcerated
it
is
worse
,
and
a
thin
black
stinking
matter
comes
from
it
.
If
much
blood
flow
from
it
,
that
is
dangerous
;
there
will
be
a
soft
Feaver
,
red
cheeks
and
loathing
,
by
reason
of
the
vapours
that
rise
from
it
:
Mild
Remedies
are
not
felt
,
and
strong
meanes
make
it
worse
;
it
growes
harder
daily
:
keep
it
from
being
Ulcerated
,
and
you
may
live
long
with
it
.
Prepare
and
Purge
Melancholy
,
from
whence
it
proceeds
:
Use
no
sharp
biting
applications
at
first
,
but
onely
Diapompholyx
,
or
juice
of
night
shade
,
Plantane
,
or
Purslane
.
Give
every
day
three
or
four
Grains
of
a
Powder
made
of
Oriental
Bezoar
stone
,
Saphyrs
and
Emeralds
,
of
each
one
dram
,
in
waters
of
Scabius
,
or
Carduus
;
take
also
juice
of
Nightshade
six
ounces
,
burnt
Lead
washt
,
and
Tutty
,
of
each
two
drams
,
Camphire
half
a
dram
,
put
Cray-fish
powder
to
them
,
and
stir
them
well
in
a
leaden
Mortar
.
An
Injection
made
with
a
Decoction
of
Cray-fish
is
held
to
be
very
good
;
and
,
make
a
Cataplasm
,
and
a
Fomentation
with
milk
,
Saffron
,
water
Lillies
,
Mallowes
,
Marsh-mallowes
,
Coriander
,
Dill
,
and
Fleabane
seed
.
Arsenick
and
Antimony
may
be
good
in
some
remote
parts
,
but
are
dangerous
here
.
There
was
a
Noble
woman
who
had
a
Cancer
Ulcerated
upon
her
Face
,
and
sought
for
help
from
all
Countries
;
at
last
a
Barber
cut
a
Chicken
in
the
midst
,
and
often
applyed
that
,
and
it
drew
forth
the
Ulciome
,
and
the
Lady
was
cured
.
The
womb
is
very
soon
corrupted
by
the
many
ill
humours
that
flow
thither
,
and
it
will
quickly
Gangreen
,
and
the
parts
mortifie
,
the
natural
heat
being
extinguished
;
by
reason
of
some
preceding
Ulcer
,
the
neck
of
the
womb
will
feel
an
unusual
heat
,
and
a
Feaver
runs
through
the
body
;
the
part
is
discoloured
,
and
neither
beats
nor
feels
any
thing
;
prick
it
,
or
cut
it
,
it
stinks
:
The
Party
that
hath
it
faints
and
decayes
,
wherefore
strengthen
the
heart
with
cordials
,
and
the
principal
parts
,
least
the
Spirits
be
infected
;
cut
off
the
dead
flesh
:
stop
the
corruption
by
scrarifying
it
,
if
you
can
come
at
it
,
then
wash
the
part
with
a
decoction
of
wormwood
,
and
Lupines
,
and
Egyptiac
;
apply
Epithems
to
the
heart
:
it
is
worse
when
it
goes
to
the
womb
,
than
when
it
comes
outward
.
Some
have
had
their
womb
fall
out
and
yet
recovered
,
as
to
life
,
which
was
before
endangered
.
The
Neck
of
the
womb
is
onely
subject
to
Ulcers
:
yet
sometimes
the
substance
of
the
womb
hath
been
Ulcerated
,
and
rotted
away
.
A
dead
child
in
the
womb
may
cause
an
Ulcer
;
but
all
these
Ulcers
and
Rottenness
are
to
be
dealt
withal
as
I
have
shewed
before
:
Sometimes
there
may
be
a
Rupture
of
the
womb
;
I
never
saw
but
one
,
and
that
was
exceeding
rare
,
it
happens
so
seldome
.
The
womb
is
so
fenced
by
the
adjacent
parts
,
that
it
is
seldom
wounded
,
unless
the
Chirurgeon
chance
to
do
it
,
in
cutting
the
Child
forth
of
the
womb
.
There
is
more
pain
in
the
neck
of
the
womb
,
than
in
the
bottom
of
it
:
but
this
cutting
may
be
cured
by
Injections
and
Glisters
for
the
womb
,
made
with
Decoctions
of
round
Birthwort
,
Cypress
Nuts
,
boiled
in
Steel
water
,
and
Astringent
Wine
,
and
a
little
Honyed
water
,
and
Agrimony
,
Mugwort
,
Plantane
,
Roses
,
Camels
Hay
,
Horehound
;
If
the
pain
be
great
use
Anodynes
,
or
Pessaries
,
made
with
a
wax
candle
dipt
in
Vulnerary
Oyntments
;
as
,
take
Turpentine
,
Goose
Grease
,
wax
and
Butter
,
of
each
a
dram
;
Bulls
Grease
,
Deers
Marrow
,
Honey
,
Oyl
of
Roses
,
of
each
two
drams
.
I
have
refer'd
all
the
foresaid
Diseases
to
a
natural
,
or
Accidental
straitness
of
the
mouth
,
or
neck
,
or
Middle
of
the
womb
;
all
of
them
being
a
hinderance
to
Copulation
,
and
making
compression
upon
the
parts
.
CHAP.
VIII
.
Of
the
Largeness
of
the
womb
.
THe
opposite
to
straitness
of
the
womb
is
the
largeness
of
the
Orifice
;
and
sometimes
more
Cuts
than
nature
makes
;
which
may
proceed
from
Copulation
,
or
bearing
of
Children
.
By
the
largeness
of
the
Orifice
women
are
often
barren
,
and
sometimes
the
womb
falls
out
,
as
Hippocrates
saith
:
Nor
do
men
desire
to
keep
company
with
such
women
.
The
cure
after
Child-birth
is
with
Astringent
Fomentations
,
and
Bathes
of
Allum
water
;
binding
things
of
Bole
,
Dragons
blood
,
Comfrey
Roots
,
Pomegranat
Flowers
,
Mastick
,
Allum
,
Galls
,
of
each
half
a
dram
;
powder
all
,
and
make
a
Pessary
to
thrust
into
the
Orifice
,
dipt
in
this
Mixture
,
made
fit
with
steel'd
water
.
Hard
Labour
doth
sometimes
cleave
the
Privy
parts
as
low
as
the
Fundament
;
whereby
the
rent
is
made
so
wide
,
that
it
goeth
from
one
to
the
other
hole
;
a
long
piece
of
Allum
(
put
into
the
cleft
)
may
do
good
to
help
it
:
but
if
there
be
many
passages
in
the
secret
parts
,
it
comes
from
an
error
in
nature
,
there
being
a
passage
open
from
the
womb
to
the
straight
gut
.
There
are
some
diseases
whereby
Physicians
are
much
deceived
,
thinking
the
cause
to
lye
in
the
womb
when
it
doth
not
;
for
womens
stones
,
and
Vessels
of
procreation
,
may
be
sorely
distempered
,
and
their
womb
be
no
wayes
affected
with
it
.
Gasper
Bauhin
,
and
John
Scenkius
,
tell
us
of
a
Maid
whose
belly
was
swoln
,
as
though
she
had
been
with
child
;
but
when
she
died
,
she
desired
to
be
opened
,
to
let
the
World
know
her
innocency
,
and
it
did
so
appear
;
for
her
stones
were
swelled
as
big
as
a
white
penny
Loafe
,
they
were
blew
,
and
spungy
,
and
full
of
water
.
The
womb
is
sometimes
subject
to
great
paines
,
besides
what
proceed
from
the
former
Diseases
,
for
there
is
that
which
is
called
the
Cholick
of
the
womb
;
it
is
usual
to
women
with
child
,
as
the
Inflammation
of
the
womb
is
,
it
binds
the
belly
and
stops
the
veins
;
all
women
are
subject
to
it
,
either
from
sharp
humours
,
or
from
clotted
blood
,
that
sticks
to
the
hollow
of
the
womb
;
Drinking
of
cold
drink
may
cause
it
:
sometimes
it
comes
from
retention
,
and
corruption
of
the
seed
,
that
is
cured
as
fits
of
the
Mother
;
If
it
come
from
ill
humours
that
lye
there
,
purge
them
forth
;
if
from
windy
vapours
,
that
rise
from
the
heat
of
ill
humours
,
these
must
be
discussed
;
give
a
Glister
of
Maligo
wine
,
and
Nut
oyl
,
of
each
three
ounces
,
Aquavitae
one
ounce
,
oyl
of
Juniper
and
Rue
distiled
,
of
each
two
drams
,
apply
it
warm
:
lay
on
a
plaister
to
the
Navel
,
of
Tacamahac
,
and
Gum
Caranna
.
CHAP.
IX
.
Of
the
Termes
.
THe
Monthly
courses
of
women
are
called
Termes
;
in
Latin
Menstrua
:
quasi
Monstrua
,
for
it
is
a
Monstrous
thing
,
that
no
creature
but
a
women
hath
them
;
or
else
Menstrua
because
they
should
flow
every
Moneth
:
and
they
are
named
Flowers
because
Fruit
follows
;
and
so
would
theirs
if
they
came
down
orderly
:
they
are
then
a
sign
that
such
people
are
capable
of
Children
;
it
preserves
health
to
have
them
naturally
,
but
if
they
be
stopt
there
must
be
danger
;
when
the
woman
is
conceived
,
then
they
stop
:
they
begin
commonly
at
fourteen
years
old
,
and
stop
at
fifty
,
or
in
some
at
sixty
years
old
;
they
are
of
no
ill
quality
naturally
,
but
are
onely
superfluous
moisture
and
blood
the
Female
sex
abounds
withal
;
for
when
they
stop
,
the
Child
in
the
womb
is
supplied
by
them
.
The
Termes
run
longer
two
or
three
dayes
with
some
women
than
with
others
,
for
they
differ
as
women
do
,
according
to
plenty
,
or
less
plenty
of
good
diet
,
and
labour
,
or
idleness
,
or
the
like
,
Hippocrates
saith
,
They
should
bleed
in
all
but
two
pints
at
most
,
or
a
pint
and
a
half
,
the
colour
of
the
blood
and
substance
differs
,
according
to
divers
tempers
;
it
should
not
be
too
thick
nor
too
thin
,
without
any
ill
scent
,
and
of
a
red
or
reddish
colour
:
and
the
veins
of
the
womb
are
the
passages
,
which
are
double
from
the
Spermatick
and
Hypogastrick
double
branch
on
both
sides
,
to
send
forth
superfluous
menstrual
blood
from
all
parts
of
the
body
;
some
say
this
blood
is
venomous
,
and
will
poison
plants
it
falls
upon
,
discolour
a
fair
looking
glass
by
the
breath
of
her
that
hath
her
courses
,
and
comes
but
near
to
breath
upon
the
Glass
;
that
Ivory
will
be
obscured
by
it
:
It
hath
strong
qualities
indeed
,
when
it
is
mixed
with
ill
humours
.
But
were
the
blood
venomous
it self
,
it
could
not
remain
a
full
month
in
the
womans
body
,
and
not
hurt
her
;
nor
yet
the
Infant
,
after
conceprion
,
for
then
it
flows
not
forth
,
but
serves
for
the
childs
nutriment
.
We
read
of
a
child
but
five
years
old
,
that
had
her
monthly
purgations
:
and
John
Fernelius
writes
of
one
that
was
but
eight
years
old
that
had
them
;
but
certainly
it
must
be
a
sign
of
a
lascivious
disposition
,
and
of
a
short
life
.
Some
womens
courses
stop
not
only
by
conception
,
but
from
other
causes
,
that
have
come
again
very
well
seven
or
eight
months
after
;
but
if
the
terms
fail
,
there
is
either
want
of
blood
,
or
the
blood
is
stopt
:
but
some
refer
the
causes
of
stopping
the
courses
to
four
heads
,
viz.
-
1.
Corruption
of
the
blood
.
-
2.
The
Womb
ill
disposed
.
-
3.
An
ill
habit
of
the
body
.
-
4.
An
ill
Custome
of
the
faculties
of
the
Body
.
1.
If
the
Womb
be
diseased
,
as
it
is
subject
;
to
many
,
the
Terms
will
increase
or
diminish
wherefore
the
womb
must
be
first
healed
.
2.
If
the
blood
be
corrupt
,
it
will
be
too
thick
,
or
too
thin
,
by
reason
of
ill
humours
and
ill
diet
.
3.
If
the
body
be
ill
disposed
,
it
sends
not
blood
as
it
should
do
:
some
laborious
Country
Women
become
so
hot
and
dry
like
Men
,
that
they
have
hardly
any
courses
at
all
;
as
the
Indian
women
have
none
:
but
they
are
barren
,
if
they
abound
with
no
more
blood
than
will
nourish
their
body
:
Blood
is
wanting
either
because
it
is
not
made
,
or
not
dispersed
where
it
should
,
but
turned
to
other
uses
:
Old
age
,
cold
constitutions
,
diseased
bodies
,
will
not
make
blood
;
also
often
bleeding
of
the
great
vessels
,
and
much
loss
of
blood
,
or
from
Issues
to
make
diversions
,
the
womb
is
not
supplied
with
it
.
Nature
spends
the
blood
in
Nurses
that
give
suck
for
an
other
end
;
and
fat
women
wear
it
on
their
backs
:
sadness
and
fear
not
only
wast
,
but
cool
and
corrupt
the
blood
.
4.
The
weakness
of
the
woman
hinders
the
courses
;
and
so
long
as
she
continues
weak
,
she
will
have
no●
.
But
all
these
things
must
be
judged
of
by
the
relation
of
the
party
,
whether
the
whole
body
be
diseased
,
or
the
defect
be
in
the
womb
or
vessels
,
or
the
mouth
of
the
womb
turned
aside
:
If
the
cause
be
from
heat
that
her
courses
are
stopt
,
her
Pulses
are
swift
and
strong
,
she
is
very
thirsty
,
and
her
head
aketh
,
and
such
like
signs
of
heat
:
If
from
cold
,
the
woman
is
drowsie
and
sleepy
,
her
Pulse
beats
slow
,
and
she
is
not
thirsty
,
the
Veins
are
ill
coloured
;
if
the
woman
be
fat
or
lean
that
will
discover
the
inward
cause
of
it
.
The
usual
cause
of
obstruction
of
the
courses
is
thick
slimy
humours
;
or
from
thick
gross
melancholly
blood
proceeding
from
a
cold
distemper
of
the
Spleen
and
Liver
,
by
drinking
cold
Water
,
or
eating
gross
Food
.
The
Roman
women
drank
snow
water
,
and
that
was
the
reason
(
said
Galen
)
that
they
had
few
or
no
courses
;
but
in
such
cases
they
could
not
be
very
fruitful
:
It
will
seem
strange
,
that
some
women
are
so
hot
of
constitution
,
that
they
have
conceived
,
yet
never
had
their
courses
at
all
.
Courses
stopt
in
maids
,
are
not
the
same
as
they
are
in
women
,
for
the
effects
are
very
different
;
Maids
,
they
pr●●●ntly
fall
into
the
Green
sickness
by
it
,
the
blood
going
to
and
fro
all
the
body
over
,
and
is
corrupted
:
but
in
women
,
it
runs
to
the
womb
commonly
,
and
causes
them
to
vomit
,
and
to
loath
their
meat
,
or
to
desire
unnatural
things
:
You
shall
know
a
woman
with
child
,
when
her
courses
are
stopt
,
from
a
maid
that
hath
hers
stopt
;
for
the
one
looks
wan
and
pale
,
the
other
lively
and
well
:
the
one
is
sad
,
the
other
merry
:
the
womans
pains
daily
decrease
,
and
the
others
increase
.
This
obstruction
causeth
not
only
barrenness
,
but
strange
distempers
,
Suffocations
,
Swellings
,
Imposthumes
,
Coffing
,
Dropsies
,
difficulty
of
breathings
,
urine
supprest
,
Costiveness
,
Heaviness
,
Megrims
,
Vertigoes
,
Head
ach
,
and
many
more
fearful
distempers
.
Hippocrates
tells
us
,
that
when
the
terms
are
long
stopt
,
the
Womb
is
diseased
,
with
humours
,
imposthumes
,
ulcers
,
barrenness
,
Leucophlegmacy
,
vomiting
of
blood
,
heart-ach
and
head-ach
,
if
the
symptomes
be
great
there
is
danger
of
death
.
The
best
way
to
move
the
courses
in
weak
women
is
to
forbear
Physick
,
and
to
feed
them
high
with
nourishing
meats
and
drinks
;
this
is
where
the
Woman
is
lean
,
her
Liver
weak
,
and
blood
is
wanting
:
but
if
blood
abound
,
then
give
a
gentle
purge
,
or
Glister
:
then
open
a
vein
to
draw
down
the
blood
to
the
womb
;
open
a
vein
in
the
foot
,
or
ancle
,
one
day
,
one
leg
,
and
another
day
the
other
,
four
or
five
daies
before
the
time
the
courses
should
come
down
:
use
Frictions
and
binding
of
the
parts
below
,
but
Issues
,
and
opening
of
the
Emrods
do
hurt
,
and
draw
from
the
womb
:
you
may
first
loosen
the
belly
with
Hiera
Picra
,
or
Pills
de
tribus
.
For
Phlegmatick
bodies
use
the
Decoction
of
Guaicum
,
or
Sarsa
and
Sassafras
,
and
Dittany
fifteen
drops
,
without
sweating
:
purge
with
Agarick
,
Mechoachan
,
Turbith
,
and
Scamony
;
or
drink
wine
of
their
infusions
:
if
the
stomach
be
foul
,
give
a
vomit
,
lest
it
get
into
the
Reins
.
Things
that
provoke
the
terms
are
hot
and
thin
:
take
sirrup
of
Mugwort
,
and
of
the
Fierwort
of
each
one
ounce
and
a
half
;
Oximel
simple
,
one
ounce
;
Water
of
Motherwort
and
Mugwort
,
of
each
two
ounces
;
Pennyroyal
and
Nip
,
of
each
one
ounce
,
sweeten
it
with
a
spoonful
or
two
of
Cinnamon
water
,
make
a
Julip
to
drink
at
thrice
.
Pessaries
are
not
fit
for
maids
,
but
Fumes
may
be
used
;
if
she
be
no
maid
bruise
Mercury
,
with
Centaury
Flowers
put
in
a
bag
for
a
pessary
;
begin
with
the
mildest
remedies
:
if
it
be
from
a
humour
provoke
not
the
Terms
,
but
cure
the
swelling
.
Some
say
that
the
blood
going
to
other
parts
cause
the
Terms
to
stop
;
but
that
is
contrary
,
for
the
blood
goes
to
other
parts
because
the
Terms
are
stopt
.
Authors
agree
not
what
veins
must
be
opened
to
move
the
Terms
;
Galen
thinks
the
Ancle
Vein
,
and
most
men
conclude
the
same
because
it
opens
obstructions
,
and
brings
down
the
blood
;
open
the
ancle
twice
or
thrice
rather
than
the
arm
once
:
but
in
other
diseases
of
the
womb
it
is
best
to
open
a
vein
in
the
arm
;
as
when
the
Terms
are
too
many
,
or
drop
,
or
the
womb
,
is
inflamed
.
The
Saphaena
is
opened
by
putting
the
foot
into
warm
water
,
few
terms
flowing
,
if
the
blood
be
but
little
there
is
no
harm
:
Diseases
grow
when
they
are
stopt
by
thick
blood
,
as
the
Cancer
,
Schirrhus
,
and
Erisipelas
;
when
the
time
is
near
,
then
use
the
stronger
remedies
,
the
weaker
having
made
a
way
for
them
.
Tender
natures
(
as
maids
)
must
have
but
gentle
remedies
;
as
Aloes
one
dram
and
a
half
,
Agarick
and
Rhubarb
of
each
one
dram
;
Myrrh
,
Gum
Ammoniack
dissolved
in
Vinegar
,
Gentian
Root
,
Asarum
,
of
each
half
a
dram
;
Cinnamon
,
Mastich
,
Spikenard
,
of
each
one
scruple
;
five
grains
of
Saffron
,
make
a
mass
of
the
fine
powder
,
with
sirrup
of
Mugwort
,
the
Dose
is
one
dram
.
To
urge
the
terms
in
strong
Country
people
,
take
pills
Aureae
and
Aggregativae
,
of
each
two
drams
;
pill
Felid
and
Hiera
,
of
each
four
scruples
,
at
the
Apothecaries
,
Diagrid
one
scruple
,
Trochischi
Alhandal
half
a
scruple
,
with
a
hot
pestle
mix
them
well
in
a
Mortar
;
adding
sirrup
of
Damask
Roses
,
one
dram
,
oil
of
Anniseed
olympical
half
a
scruple
;
dissolve
Gum
Dragant
in
Cinnamon
water
and
make
your
pills
,
and
let
the
woman
take
two
scruples
every
morning
,
before
the
time
of
their
terms
,
at
least
three
or
four
drops
.
Ointments
and
Plaisters
are
good
also
,
and
pessaries
made
of
Aromatical
things
,
and
sweet
smells
,
and
Fumes
;
as
take
Benzoin
,
Storax
Calamita
,
Bdellium
,
Myrrh
,
what
you
please
;
mingle
them
,
and
strew
some
on
a
pan
of
Coles
;
the
woman
so
placed
,
that
she
may
receive
the
Fume
by
a
Tunnel
,
broad
at
the
lower
end
,
to
keep
the
smoke
in
:
but
lest
these
Fumes
cause
the
head-ach
,
keep
the
Fumes
down
with
clothes
about
the
woman
,
that
they
come
not
to
her
head
:
But
do
none
of
these
things
to
women
with
child
,
for
that
will
be
Murder
:
give
your
remedy
a
little
before
the
Full
Moon
,
or
between
the
New
and
the
full
,
for
then
blood
increaseth
:
but
never
in
the
Wane
of
the
Moon
,
for
it
doth
no
good
:
Sometimes
,
but
seldome
the
courses
stop
with
Fulness
;
such
must
,
saith
Riolanus
,
be
let
blood
in
the
arm
,
but
with
great
care
.
CAHP.
X.
Of
the
overflowing
of
the
Courses
,
or
immoderate
flux
thereof
.
THis
distemper
is
contrary
to
the
former
,
and
Women
are
often
subject
to
it
;
and
it
brings
many
diseases
,
great
weakness
,
loss
of
appetite
,
ill
digestion
,
dropsies
,
consumptions
,
pains
in
the
back
and
stomach
:
Their
ordinary
continuance
should
be
two
or
three
daies
,
or
four
or
five
daies
in
large
People
;
but
if
they
stay
longer
it
is
not
good
;
or
if
they
come
oftener
than
once
a
month
,
I
mean
the
Moons
Month
,
passing
through
the
twelve
Signs
,
that
is
twenty
seven
daies
and
odd
minutes
.
The
causes
may
be
falls
,
or
blows
,
or
strains
,
or
hard
labour
,
over-heating
the
body
,
which
makes
the
blood
thin
;
or
from
weakness
of
the
retentive
faculty
,
and
too
much
strength
of
the
expulsive
faculty
;
or
from
crude
raw
blood
and
weakness
,
or
too
much
moisture
:
and
this
is
the
cause
that
some
women
have
their
terms
by
drops
,
and
it
lasts
long
,
and
there
is
pain
,
and
the
secrets
are
alwaies
wet
;
if
this
be
not
remedied
it
may
cause
Ulcers
and
inflammations
:
if
the
blood
be
superfluous
open
the
arm
,
not
the
ancle
vein
;
if
it
be
Cacochymical
correct
it
;
if
too
thin
and
sharp
,
correct
and
amend
it
,
by
coolers
and
thickeners
;
and
strengthen
the
wombs
retentive
faculty
by
astringents
,
and
convenient
driers
.
Many
think
that
the
overflowing
of
the
Terms
and
Issues
in
women
are
the
same
diseases
,
but
that
is
not
so
(
as
Galen
shews
)
for
by
superfluous
Flux
of
the
courses
only
blood
is
voided
,
but
in
too
great
a
measure
:
But
women
continual
Issues
send
forth
not
only
blood
,
at
certain
periods
,
but
various
humours
,
that
cause
the
disease
.
The
Terms
exceed
when
they
flow
in
too
great
abundance
in
a
short
time
or
continue
longer
than
is
needful
;
the
one
resembles
violent
rain
,
the
other
flow
rain
,
but
lasts
long
:
If
too
much
blood
be
the
cause
of
this
superfluity
,
the
blood
will
be
whitish
and
pale
;
if
choller
,
the
terms
will
be
yellow
:
if
melancholly
,
they
will
be
dark
coloured
,
black
or
blew
:
it
weakeneth
all
the
body
,
and
the
Liver
and
Bowels
;
dip
a
clout
in
the
blood
,
and
dry
it
in
the
shade
,
and
then
the
colour
of
the
blood
will
shew
the
humour
that
offendeth
,
and
accordingly
prepare
your
remedies
:
Sometimes
it
causeth
swounding
,
paleness
,
the
whites
or
the
dropsie
:
If
fulness
be
the
cause
,
abate
blood
,
opening
the
Liver
vein
of
the
right
arm
;
repel
,
cool
,
bind
,
bleed
little
,
but
often
;
use
cuppings
to
the
back
and
breast
against
the
Liver
,
below
the
paps
,
to
draw
the
blood
back
;
but
scarifie
not
under
the
breasts
:
upon
the
Salvatella
,
bind
and
rub
the
arms
and
shoulders
.
Waters
of
Plantane
,
Purslain
,
Shepherds
Purse
,
Sorrel
,
sirrup
of
Pomegranates
or
dried
Roses
,
will
cool
and
thicken
the
blood
;
and
so
will
Bole
or
Sealed
Earth
,
sirrup
of
Poppeys
,
Philonium
,
Laudanum
are
good
.
If
it
proceed
from
choller
,
purge
with
sirrup
of
Roses
,
of
Rhubarb
,
or
with
Senna
,
or
Manna
:
if
watry
blood
be
the
cause
,
the
Reins
and
Liver
are
out
of
temper
,
sweat
with
China
,
and
strengthen
those
parts
.
Do
not
force
veins
,
but
use
astringents
;
take
the
juice
of
ass
dung
,
sirrup
of
Myrtles
,
of
each
half
an
ounce
,
with
an
ounce
of
Plantane
water
,
let
the
woman
drink
it
and
not
know
what
she
takes
,
lest
it
offend
her
;
or
give
every
day
a
dram
of
the
powder
of
Mulberry
tree
roots
.
When
you
use
cold
astringents
temper
them
so
,
that
you
stop
not
the
Veins
;
use
no
Pessaries
,
except
the
Veins
of
the
neck
of
the
womb
be
open
.
Cold
and
binding
fomentations
are
better
than
baths
,
for
baths
make
the
humours
to
flow
more
:
wash
the
legs
and
hips
in
cold
water
.
If
choller
persist
,
Rhubarb
powder
in
conserve
of
Roses
is
very
good
.
The
principal
causes
of
this
overflowing
are
but
four
;
viz.
-
1.
Some
of
the
Vessels
broken
,
or
much
dilated
.
-
2.
Violent
Purgation
.
-
3.
Corroding
humours
.
-
4.
Hard
travel
in
Childbed
,
or
the
Midwives
unkind
handling
.
First
,
if
the
Vessels
be
broken
,
the
blood
gusheth
forth
in
heaps
;
if
flowing
of
humors
they
come
with
much
pain
,
though
the
quantity
be
small
.
Secondly
,
All
Physicians
almost
wish
to
stop
the
Courses
first
that
are
too
many
,
before
you
strengthen
the
woman
:
But
I
think
it
more
reasonable
to
strengthen
nature
first
,
and
nature
will
help
her self
with
less
means
;
but
strengthen
the
womb
,
and
annoint
the
reins
and
back
with
oils
of
roses
,
Myrtles
,
Quinces
;
do
this
every
night
,
lay
a
piece
of
white
bays
then
next
your
reins
,
upon
the
bare
skin
,
and
keep
it
there
constantly
;
inject
the
juice
of
Plantane
into
the
Matrix
,
it
seldome
fails
:
You
may
drink
of
the
decoctions
of
Sage
,
Bistort
,
Tormentil
,
Knotgrass
,
Sannicle
,
Ladies-mantle
,
Golden
Rod
,
Loos-strife
,
Meadow
Sweet
,
Archangel
,
Solomons
Seal
,
Purslane
,
Shepherds
Purse
,
red
Beets
,
Bark
,
and
Cups
of
Oak
and
Acorns
:
But
I
commend
this
medicine
;
take
of
Comfry
leaves
or
roots
,
of
either
a
handful
,
and
of
Clowns
all-heal
the
same
,
bruise
them
and
boil
them
well
in
Ale
,
drink
a
good
draught
when
you
please
,
and
it
will
help
you
,
though
the
mouths
of
the
Vessels
be
open
.
Too
much
blood
is
lost
in
the
overflowing
of
the
courses
when
the
faculty
is
hurt
by
it
,
otherwise
the
quantity
cannot
be
defined
.
The
immediate
causes
are
the
opening
of
the
Vessels
;
but
the
mediate
cause
is
the
blood
offending
in
quantity
or
quality
:
Vessels
are
opened
three
or
four
wayes
by
Anastomosis
,
when
the
mouthes
lye
open
,
by
reason
of
a
moist
distemper
,
or
use
of
Aloes
or
hot
and
moist
bathes
;
or
from
Diapedesis
,
when
the
blood
sweats
through
the
Coats
,
this
is
not
often
;
or
from
Diaeresis
,
when
the
sharpness
of
the
blood
eates
the
Vessels
in
sunder
;
if
a
Vein
be
broken
,
Coral
;
Bole
,
Myrtles
,
Comfrey
,
are
good
to
bind
;
or
a
Poultis
with
astringent
powders
,
and
the
White
of
an
Egg.
Thirdly
,
If
a
vessel
be
Corroded
,
a
dram
of
the
roots
of
Dropwort
in
a
new
Egg
will
glutinate
:
Sleep
long
,
use
little
Exercise
,
nor
Venery
;
but
eat
little
:
if
it
come
from
Plethory
,
use
thin
Nutriment
,
beware
of
hot
things
,
alwayes
purge
the
humour
that
offends
;
vomits
are
good
to
stay
,
and
turn
the
course
of
the
humours
:
Take
Conserve
of
Roses
two
ounces
,
of
water
Lillies
one
ounce
,
prepared
Pearls
and
burnt
Harts-horn
,
of
each
half
an
ounce
,
Bole
Armoniac
,
and
Terra
Lemnia
,
of
each
half
a
scruple
,
make
an
Electuary
with
sirrup
of
Plantane
,
this
is
cooling
,
thickning
and
binding
:
or
,
in
case
of
great
necessity
take
a
Bolus
made
with
old
conserve
of
Roses
,
half
anounce
,
Philonium
,
or
Requies
Nicolai
two
scruples
,
or
but
a
scruple
of
each
;
let
them
drink
Red
Wine
,
or
quench
steel
in
their
drink
,
or
bloil
Plantane
Seeds
,
Leaves
and
Roots
in
their
drink
.
CHAP.
XI
.
Of
the
whites
,
or
Womens
Disease
,
from
corruption
of
humors
.
WHen
the
body
grows
Cacochymical
,
womens
Courses
stop
,
or
run
very
slowly
,
and
sometimes
they
abound
;
sometimes
all
humours
run
thither
to
a
general
vent
,
and
the
whole
body
is
purged
by
it
:
but
the
womb
is
not
affected
,
it
is
a
filthy
disorderly
Evacuation
,
either
before
or
after
Terms
,
or
when
they
are
wholly
stopt
,
the
colour
of
the
matter
is
blew
,
or
green
,
or
reddish
,
few
maids
have
this
Disease
,
women
with
child
may
:
it
is
not
the
running
of
the
Reins
,
for
that
is
in
less
quantity
,
whiter
and
thicker
;
nor
from
nightly
Pollutions
,
which
come
onely
in
sleep
:
The
cause
is
some
excrementitious
humor
,
sometimes
like
watry
blood
;
a
cold
and
moist
womb
breeds
this
Disease
:
or
,
when
ill
humors
are
gathered
in
the
whole
body
,
or
Liver
,
Spleen
or
stomach
,
they
are
sometimes
thus
voided
;
nature
,
that
useth
to
send
forth
good
blood
by
the
Veins
,
casts
forth
these
ill
humours
by
them
;
they
are
of
divers
colours
,
and
stink
:
If
it
be
from
a
Phlegmatick
humor
,
the
Ligaments
of
womb
grow
loose
,
and
the
womb
falls
out
in
time
;
they
make
thick
veins
,
and
they
are
discoloured
in
their
Faces
,
short
breathed
:
if
the
humor
be
not
bred
in
the
womb
,
it
comes
from
a
Cacochymy
of
the
whole
body
;
if
it
comes
from
the
whole
,
it
is
more
in
quantity
;
if
onely
from
the
womb
it
is
but
little
:
Many
have
had
this
Disease
long
,
and
found
no
great
hurt
,
but
if
it
be
not
timely
looked
to
,
it
will
do
mischief
;
causing
Consumptions
,
Faintings
,
and
Convulsions
,
when
the
matter
is
sent
to
the
nerves
and
brain
:
You
must
not
stop
it
suddenly
,
for
so
it
will
find
a
way
to
the
nobler
parts
.
Bleeding
is
naught
in
this
case
:
general
Evacuations
,
are
good
;
and
after
particulars
,
according
to
the
part
diseased
:
The
whites
,
and
over-flowing
of
the
Terms
,
I
say
,
are
a
disease
;
and
although
it
resemble
the
Gonorrhaea
,
it
is
not
the
same
;
it
is
also
like
the
matter
that
flows
from
an
Ulcer
of
the
womb
,
but
it
is
not
that
neither
.
The
running
of
the
Reins
in
Men
&
women
is
not
the
same
disease
with
this
;
the
running
of
the
Reins
is
peculiar
to
unchast
women
:
but
this
flux
of
whites
may
proceed
from
too
much
cold
,
or
too
much
heat
,
and
hath
many
differences
,
as
will
appear
by
the
colour
of
the
matter
sent
forth
;
the
colour
shews
the
peccant
humor
;
it
is
necessary
for
the
cure
to
search
whether
it
be
a
Gonorrhaea
or
involuntary
flux
of
seed
,
which
both
women
and
Men
are
subject
to
,
and
the
remedies
are
the
same
,
as
the
causes
are
in
both
.
Women
commonly
call
the
whites
the
running
of
the
Reins
;
but
the
running
of
the
Reins
comes
most
commonly
by
unlawful
Venery
,
or
excess
in
that
Act
:
but
the
proper
cause
of
the
whites
is
too
much
superfluity
of
Excrement
;
but
where
those
Excrements
are
bred
,
is
doubted
:
Some
say
these
corrupt
humours
are
daily
bred
in
the
principal
parts
;
others
say
they
come
onely
from
the
womb
,
and
seed
Vessels
;
others
say
from
the
Reins
onely
,
and
the
womb
is
unaffected
:
But
Galen
plainly
shews
that
the
whole
body
is
affected
,
that
dischargeth
it self
by
the
womb
,
and
therefore
weak
and
flegmatick
women
are
most
subject
to
have
the
whites
.
To
cure
it
,
first
observe
a
strict
Diet
;
cleanse
the
whole
body
by
purging
;
letting
blood
,
Sweating
,
and
Diureticks
:
in
very
moist
bodies
prepare
the
humours
three
or
four
dayes
before
purging
;
or
take
Cassia
new
drawn
one
ounce
,
powder
of
Rhubarb
one
dram
,
with
sirrup
of
water
Lillies
or
Violets
,
take
it
in
the
morning
,
dissolve
it
if
you
please
in
Posset
drink
,
and
about
two
hours
after
take
some
broth
:
You
may
take
every
day
a
dram
of
Trochisci
de
Carabe
in
Plantane
water
;
or
give
every
second
or
third
day
a
dram
of
the
filings
of
Ivory
in
Plantane
water
,
a
very
laudable
remedy
.
To
sweat
also
is
very
laudable
in
this
case
;
take
Barley
water
three
ounces
,
strong
wine
two
ounces
,
drink
it
warm
,
and
lie
and
sweat
.
Conserve
of
Roses
and
Marmalade
are
excellent
for
this
disease
:
drink
the
decoction
of
Comfrey
Roots
,
with
Sugar
to
sweeten
it
,
take
three
or
four
ounces
at
a
draught
.
Whites
of
eggs
well
beaten
with
red
Rose
water
,
and
made
with
Cotton
,
or
Linnen
into
a
Pessary
,
and
put
into
the
Matrix
,
with
a
string
tied
to
it
to
pull
it
out
again
,
is
commended
.
Diureticks
are
not
good
till
the
body
be
well
purged
,
and
then
they
will
help
to
drive
the
ill
humour
forth
by
Urine
:
Lest
the
womb
be
hurt
with
ill
humours
,
inject
a
decoction
of
Barley
,
Honey
of
Roses
,
and
Whey
with
sirrup
of
dried
Roses
.
Take
red
Saunders
two
drams
and
a
half
,
yellow
Saunders
one
dram
and
a
halfe
,
red
Roses
three
drams
,
fine
Bole
a
quarter
of
an
ounce
,
burnt
Ivory
one
dram
,
Camphire
half
a
dram
,
white
wax
one
ounce
,
oil
of
Roses
three
ounces
,
make
an
ointment
:
This
is
not
only
good
to
anoint
the
secrets
,
but
also
to
cool
the
inflammation
of
the
kidneys
,
stomach
,
liver
and
other
parts
.
If
the
Whites
flow
from
abundance
of
superfluous
humours
,
you
may
evacuate
much
through
the
skin
,
by
often
rubbing
of
the
body
;
but
first
rub
easily
,
and
by
degrees
rub
harder
.
Of
these
fluxes
there
are
three
sorts
,
White
,
Red
and
Yellow
;
and
there
are
three
kinds
of
Archangel
,
or
dead
nettles
to
cure
them
.
First
,
The
White
Flowers
helps
the
Whites
.
Secondly
,
The
Red
are
to
cure
the
Reds
.
Thirdly
,
And
the
Yellow
flux
is
cured
by
the
Yellow
.
Half
a
dram
of
Myrrh
taken
every
morning
is
commended
,
or
a
scruple
of
the
Pills
of
Amber
at
night
,
often
taken
;
they
will
not
work
till
the
day
following
.
Many
strange
things
are
oftentimes
voided
by
the
Womb
,
as
Stones
and
Gravel
:
And
Peter
Diversas
relates
,
that
a
Nun
voided
a
rugged
Stone
as
large
as
a
Ducks
Egg
,
and
it
gave
her
some
ease
;
but
there
followed
a
foule
flux
of
the
Womb
that
killed
her
.
Garcias
Lopius
saw
a
Woman
that
voided
many
Ascarides
,
or
small
Worms
by
the
Womb.
When
stinking
humors
are
cast
forth
this
way
it
is
not
properly
the
Running
of
the
reins
,
for
both
sexes
have
sometimes
the
running
of
the
reins
;
and
most
commonly
it
comes
from
a
foul
course
,
whereas
the
whites
come
from
a
corruption
of
humours
:
if
it
run
white
,
and
little
;
and
thick
,
it
is
a
true
flux
of
seed
;
if
it
last
,
and
be
not
cured
,
it
brings
a
wasting
of
body
and
barrenness
:
if
this
flux
grow
from
fulness
of
Seed
,
the
buds
of
willow
steept
in
wine
will
cure
it
:
if
it
proceed
from
a
weak
retention
,
give
half
a
scruple
of
Castor
,
and
use
astringents
to
the
reins
and
belly
;
or
a
bath
of
willow
leaves
,
Myrtles
,
Quinces
,
each
two
handfuls
;
red
Roses
,
Rosemary
each
a
handful
,
Cypress
Nuts
three
ounces
;
let
her
sit
up
to
the
Navel
,
apply
bags
of
the
same
to
the
Loins
and
Privities
,
and
anoint
the
said
parts
with
oil
of
Mastich
and
Myrtles
.
CHAP.
XII
.
Of
the
Swelling
and
Puffing
up
of
the
Body
,
especially
the
Belly
and
the
Feet
of
Women
after
Delivery
.
THe
Swellings
of
these
parts
in
Childbed
women
come
either
from
a
depraved
diet
,
used
whilest
they
were
with
child
,
or
else
drinking
immoderately
after
delivery
;
or
it
may
be
they
abound
with
more
blood
than
the
child
could
retain
,
or
her
purgations
discharge
;
wherefore
it
grows
crude
,
being
superfluous
,
and
makes
the
parts
swell
so
much
that
a
man
would
think
she
were
with
child
again
:
but
it
commonly
ceaseth
if
the
woman
be
once
largely
purged
,
either
by
the
womb
or
the
belly
.
Hysterical
,
or
Mother
fomentations
are
sufficient
oftentimes
to
cure
it
;
or
take
a
Sheeps
skin
of
a
Sheep
new
killed
,
and
wet
it
with
sharp
Wine
,
and
lay
it
on
.
If
in
travel
they
keep
ill
diet
,
the
humours
turn
to
Wind
,
and
they
fall
down
to
the
legs
,
and
make
them
swell
:
take
heed
of
drink
;
and
when
the
purgations
are
over
,
use
things
that
expel
wind
:
take
worm
wood
,
Betony
,
Southernwood
,
Origanum
,
Cammomile
Flowers
,
Calamint
,
Annis-seed
,
Rue
,
Carroway
seeds
,
boil
them
,
and
make
a
fomentation
for
the
feet
.
If
too
much
drinking
be
the
cause
,
let
her
abstain
from
that
;
Medicaments
that
heat
and
resolve
,
and
are
good
for
Dropsies
,
are
very
good
in
this
distemper
:
the
infusion
of
Rhubarb
is
much
commended
,
especially
if
the
humour
proceed
from
ill
habit
and
course
of
life
.
Hippocrates
prescribes
a
Goats
or
Sheeps
Liver
made
into
powder
and
taken
with
wine
of
the
infusion
of
Elecampane
;
also
Treacle
taken
with
Fumitory
and
Fennel
waters
:
and
to
abate
the
swelling
of
the
Feet
,
make
a
decoction
of
Rose
stalks
and
Cammomile
Flowers
,
excellent
to
bath
them
in
:
and
for
her
belly
swelled
,
lay
on
a
Plaister
of
Bay
berries
,
or
of
Melilot
;
or
take
Bay
berries
and
Juniper
berries
,
of
each
one
handful
,
Goats
Dung
four
ounces
,
Cammomile
Flowers
powdered
half
a
handful
,
Cummin
seed
two
drams
,
pour
spirit
of
wine
upon
them
as
you
bruise
them
in
a
Mortar
,
make
a
Plaister
with
a
little
oil
of
Spike
added
,
and
lay
it
over
the
womans
belly
.
For
the
swellings
of
the
Bellies
of
maids
,
if
it
come
not
by
a
masculine
blow
,
take
Dittany
root
,
and
Cubebs
,
bruise
them
,
and
Cummin
seeds
,
and
Cow
Dung
,
and
lay
it
to
their
bellies
as
hot
as
can
be
endured
.
Women
after
Delivery
,
are
also
subject
to
have
their
Wombs
inflamed
,
when
the
birth
is
very
great
,
and
their
labour
hard
,
and
the
mouth
of
their
Womb
narrow
,
so
that
great
violence
stretcheth
it
wider
than
they
can
suffer
;
and
sometimes
there
is
great
loss
of
blood
,
and
the
womb
is
torn
by
putting
forth
of
the
child
;
it
must
be
cured
by
such
things
as
ease
pains
,
as
Baths
and
Fomentations
;
and
such
softening
things
as
are
proper
for
the
belly
:
This
following
Anodyne
is
very
effectual
;
take
Flowers
of
Mallows
,
Marshmallows
,
Vervain
,
and
Rue
of
each
a
handful
,
Self
heal
,
Agrimony
,
Cammomile
Flowers
,
Melilot
tops
,
red
Roses
,
of
each
a
handful
;
cut
them
very
small
,
sew
them
up
in
fine
linnen
bags
,
boil
them
in
Goats
milk
,
or
equal
parts
of
Plantane
water
and
Wine
,
press
them
well
between
two
Trenchers
,
and
make
application
of
one
after
the
other
hot
to
the
place
affected
;
but
first
anoint
the
part
with
Poplar
ointments
,
or
with
oil
of
Roses
:
after
this
cleanse
all
the
secret
parts
with
a
spunge
dipt
in
water
of
Oaken
Leaves
,
Self
Heal
,
and
of
Plantane
made
luke
warm
,
and
injections
put
up
with
a
Syring
,
are
effectual
also
,
of
Mel
Passarum
,
and
Plantane
water
mingled
,
and
cast
in
warm
;
or
take
Galls
,
Lentils
,
Flowers
of
Pomegranates
,
Seeds
of
Kneeholm
,
Saunders
and
Roses
,
of
each
a
like
quantity
;
boil
all
in
water
,
and
strain
it
,
and
with
a
Syring
inject
the
decoction
,
and
it
will
cleanse
the
Womb.
When
the
Mother
is
cleansed
it
will
be
proper
to
make
the
flesh
incarnate
,
if
it
be
corroded
;
as
take
Centaury
six
ounces
,
Orris
,
Comfrey
Roots
,
Agrimony
,
of
each
three
handfuls
,
Gum
Tragant
,
Sarcocolla
,
Dragons
Blood
,
Frankincence
,
Hypocistis
,
Mummy
,
of
each
a
dram
,
boil
all
in
a
sufficient
quantity
of
water
to
the
consumption
of
half
;
then
put
to
it
Iron
refuse
prepared
one
ounce
and
a
quarter
,
boil
it
a
while
longer
,
and
bath
the
part
with
it
.
If
the
womb
be
too
hard
,
and
she
feel
pain
between
the
Navel
and
the
Matrix
,
then
take
Ducks
grease
,
Deers
,
or
Ox
marrow
,
Neats
Foot
oil
,
Yolks
of
eggs
,
Bdellium
,
of
each
a
like
proportion
;
two
drams
of
Saffron
,
dissolve
all
in
wine
,
and
mix
oil
of
Lillies
with
them
,
and
dip
a
tent
of
Linnen
or
Cotten
in
this
,
and
thrust
it
up
into
the
place
;
use
this
often
,
for
this
will
ease
it
and
take
away
the
pain
.
And
if
the
womb
be
foul
with
Ulcers
,
or
the
like
,
take
half
an
ounce
of
Oxymel
of
Squils
,
sirrup
of
Vinegar
and
Bizantine
of
each
three
quarters
of
an
ounce
,
Agrimony
and
Lovage
Waters
of
each
one
ounce
,
water
of
Cichory
two
ounces
,
let
her
drink
this
every
morning
early
,
and
sleep
upon
it
,
and
fast
four
hour
after
it
;
the
Urine
will
in
a
weeks
time
,
or
somewhat
longer
,
become
clean
,
and
well
cleansed
,
and
the
party
cured
.
Womens
bellies
use
to
be
mightily
stretched
in
Child-bearing
,
in
so
much
that
they
will
be
plaighted
,
and
full
of
wrinkles
ever
after
,
that
were
plain
and
smooth
before
,
growing
lank
when
they
are
delivered
;
but
if
it
be
but
four
months
past
it
may
be
helped
by
laying
a
linnen
cloth
over
the
belly
dipt
in
oils
of
sweet
Almonds
,
Lillies
,
Jessamine
;
and
if
the
belly
be
already
wrinkled
,
then
take
Goats
and
Sheeps
Suet
,
and
oil
of
sweet
Almonds
,
of
each
one
ounce
,
Sperma
Ceti
two
drams
,
and
with
a
little
wax
make
an
ointment
:
when
the
Flux
is
past
you
may
lay
on
the
Cataplasie
of
Aetius
,
or
anoint
with
oils
of
Mastich
and
of
Roses
.
CHAP.
XIII
.
Of
Cold
,
Moist
,
Hot
,
Dry
,
and
of
all
the
several
Distempers
of
the
Womb.
THe
wombs
of
Women
should
be
alwaies
kept
temperate
,
that
they
exceed
not
in
any
preternatural
quality
;
if
they
do
,
the
mans
Seed
will
be
like
corn
sowed
upon
sand
,
and
will
prove
unfruitful
,
if
the
womb
be
too
hot
,
or
cold
,
or
moist
,
or
dry
.
Those
that
have
hot
wombs
have
but
few
courses
,
and
those
are
either
yellow
,
or
black
,
or
burnt
,
and
fiery
,
that
come
disorderly
;
and
such
persons
will
fall
into
Hypochondriacal
Melancholly
,
and
rage
of
the
womb
;
if
this
be
from
their
birth
,
it
will
be
hard
to
cure
:
yet
it
may
,
by
good
Diet
,
and
proper
means
be
much
mended
by
Medicaments
,
that
cool
and
asswage
Choler
;
but
take
heed
you
do
not
cool
too
fast
,
and
stop
the
courses
:
you
may
safely
use
conserve
of
Succory
,
Violets
,
Water
Lillies
,
Borage
of
each
one
Ounce
,
Conserve
of
Roses
half
an
ounce
,
Diamargariton
Frigidum
,
and
Diatrion
Santalon
,
of
each
half
a
dram
,
with
sirrup
of
Lemmons
or
Oranges
,
or
juice
of
Citrons
;
take
a
Nutmeg
in
quantity
at
once
,
twice
or
thrice
in
a
day
:
and
anoint
the
back
and
loins
with
Poplar
Unguent
,
or
oyl
of
water
Lillies
,
Roses
,
Venus
Navel
wort
.
Let
her
wear
thin
cloaths
and
use
the
cold
Air
;
let
her
avoid
hot
and
salt
meats
,
Wine
,
and
strong
drink
;
eat
Lettice
,
and
Endive
,
and
cooling
herbs
,
that
she
may
sleep
well
.
The
contrary
to
this
is
a
cold
womb
;
and
these
are
not
fruitful
,
they
are
too
cold
to
nourish
the
seed
of
Man
:
it
is
from
the
birth
in
some
,
but
in
others
by
accident
;
from
cold
Air
,
cold
Diet
and
Medicaments
,
or
from
too
much
idleness
:
the
signs
are
quite
contrary
to
the
former
,
for
the
other
are
extreme
desirous
of
Venery
;
and
,
these
abhor
it
,
and
take
no
pleasure
in
it
:
they
have
few
or
no
hairs
about
their
Secrets
;
and
their
seed
is
watry
and
Slimy
,
their
wombs
are
windy
,
and
they
are
subject
to
Gonorrhaeas
,
and
the
Whites
:
The
Cure
is
long
,
and
hard
to
be
done
;
but
,
they
must
use
such
things
as
warm
the
womb
,
with
drinking
good
wine
,
and
sometimes
Cordial
Waters
,
and
good
warm
nourishing
Meats
,
and
of
easie
digestion
;
with
Anniseed
,
Fennel
seed
,
and
Time
:
And
Fumigations
are
good
,
of
Myrrh
,
Frankincence
,
Mastick
,
Bay
berries
,
of
each
a
dram
;
Labdanum
two
drams
,
Storax
and
Cloves
of
each
a
dram
,
Gum
Arabick
and
wine
,
make
Troches
;
put
one
or
two
upon
a
Pan
of
coles
,
and
let
her
receive
the
Fume
at
the
Matrix
.
Then
take
Labdanum
two
ounces
,
Frankincence
,
Mastick
,
Liquid
Storax
,
of
each
half
an
ounce
,
oyl
of
Cloves
and
of
Nutmegs
of
each
half
a
scruple
,
oyl
of
Lillies
and
Rue
of
each
one
ounce
,
Wax
sufficient
,
make
a
Plaister
,
and
lay
it
over
the
Region
of
the
womb
.
But
if
the
womb
be
moist
(
and
this
is
commonly
joyned
with
a
cold
distemper
)
it
drowns
the
seed
,
like
as
if
a
Man
should
sow
Corn
in
a
quagmire
.
The
causes
are
almost
the
same
as
of
cold
;
for
it
is
Idleness
that
is
the
cause
in
most
women
that
are
troubled
with
it
,
and
such
women
have
abundance
of
Courses
,
but
they
are
thin
and
waterish
,
and
the
whites
also
;
their
Secrets
are
alwayes
wet
:
they
cannot
retain
the
mans
seed
,
but
it
slips
out
again
.
This
must
be
cured
as
the
cold
distemper
,
by
a
heating
and
drying
Diet
,
and
Medicaments
,
Baths
,
Injections
,
Fomentations
,
wherein
Brimstone
is
mingled
;
but
take
heed
of
Astringents
,
for
they
will
make
the
Disease
worse
,
by
stopping
the
ill
humours
in
.
The
fourth
is
a
dry
Distemper
of
the
womb
,
this
is
natural
to
some
,
but
to
most
it
comes
when
they
are
old
,
and
past
childing
,
when
the
womb
grows
hard
;
if
it
be
from
any
other
drying
causes
,
such
women
will
be
barren
before
they
be
old
:
It
may
proceed
from
diseases
,
as
Feavers
,
Inflammations
,
Obstructions
,
when
the
blood
goes
not
to
the
Matrix
to
moisten
it
;
so
that
if
they
void
any
blood
,
it
comes
from
the
Veins
in
the
neck
of
the
womb
,
and
not
from
the
bottom
;
they
have
but
few
courses
,
little
seed
,
they
are
of
a
lean
,
dry
Constitution
;
their
lower
Lip
is
of
a
blackish
red
,
and
commonly
chapt
:
This
Distemper
,
if
it
be
long
,
is
seldom
cured
;
moistning
things
must
do
it
,
as
Borage
,
Bugloss
,
Almonds
,
Dates
,
Figs
,
Raisins
:
Moistning
and
nourishing
Diet
is
good
,
and
to
forbear
salt
and
dry
meats
;
avoid
anger
,
sadness
,
fasting
,
and
use
to
sleep
long
,
and
labour
but
little
:
rub
the
parts
with
oyl
of
sweet
Almonds
,
Lillies
,
Linseed
,
sweet
Butter
,
Jesamine
,
Hens
or
Ducks
Grease
.
Besides
these
four
,
there
are
compound
distempers
,
as
cold
and
moist
wombs
,
and
hot
and
dry
;
but
I
presume
I
need
not
in
particular
speak
of
them
,
because
I
have
given
sufficient
remedies
in
the
several
qualitis
already
,
which
will
be
easie
to
apply
:
I
confess
a
compound
distemper
is
harder
to
be
cured
than
a
simple
;
therefore
I
shall
add
one
or
two
remedies
more
.
First
,
If
then
the
Womb
be
cold
and
moist
,
cure
this
with
surrup
of
Mugwort
,
Bettony
,
Mints
,
or
Hyssop
;
then
purge
the
cold
humor
with
Agarick
,
Mechoachan
,
Turbith
and
Sena
:
Sudorificks
of
Guaicum
,
Sarfa
,
and
China
are
very
good
.
Secondly
,
If
the
womb
be
subject
to
a
hot
and
dry
distemper
,
you
must
put
away
choler
from
the
Liver
,
and
from
the
whole
body
:
those
things
that
will
do
it
are
Manna
,
and
Tamarinds
,
sirrup
of
Roses
,
Rhubarb
,
Senna
,
Cassia
,
and
the
like
,
which
are
very
safe
,
gentle
,
and
effectual
Remedies
.
BOOK
.
VI.
CHAP.
I.
Of
the
Strangling
of
the
womb
,
and
the
effects
of
it
,
with
the
Causes
and
Cure
.
THe
womb
,
by
its
consent
with
other
parts
of
the
Body
,
as
well
as
by
its
own
nature
,
is
subject
to
multitudes
of
diseases
;
and
it
is
not
to
be
uttered
almost
what
Miseries
women
in
general
,
by
meanes
thereof
,
be
they
Maids
,
Wives
,
or
widowes
,
are
affected
with
:
But
amongst
all
diseases
,
those
that
are
,
called
Hysterical
Passions
,
or
strangling
of
the
womb
,
are
held
to
be
the
most
grievous
:
Swounding
and
Falling
Sickness
are
from
hence
,
by
the
consent
the
womb
hath
with
the
heart
and
brain
;
and
sometimes
this
comes
to
pass
by
stopping
of
the
Terms
,
which
load
the
heart
,
the
brain
and
Womb
with
evil
humors
:
and
sometimes
it
ariseth
from
the
stopping
in
of
the
seed
of
Generation
,
as
is
seen
in
Antient
Maids
and
widowes
;
for
by
reason
hereof
,
ill
vapors
and
wind
rise
up
from
the
womb
to
the
Midriff
,
and
so
stops
their
breath
:
it
is
most
commonly
the
widowes
disease
,
who
were
wont
to
use
Copulation
,
and
are
now
constrained
to
live
without
it
;
when
the
seed
is
thus
retained
it
corrupts
,
and
sends
up
filthy
vapours
to
the
brain
,
whereby
the
Animal
Spirits
are
clouded
,
and
many
ill
consequents
proceed
from
it
,
as
Falling
Sicknesses
,
Megrims
,
Dulness
,
Giddiness
,
Drowsiness
,
Shortness
of
breath
,
Head-ache
,
beating
of
the
Heart
,
Frenzy
and
Madness
,
and
indeed
what
not
.
The
same
woman
may
be
tormented
with
several
of
these
at
the
same
time
,
when
the
seed
and
the
Courses
are
mingled
with
ill
humours
,
being
once
corrupted
.
The
Menstrual
blood
and
seed
are
noble
parts
;
but
the
best
things
once
corrupted
,
become
the
worst
,
and
degenerate
into
a
venemous
nature
,
and
are
little
better
than
Poyson
.
When
the
Vessils
of
the
womb
lye
near
the
Vessels
of
other
parts
of
the
body
,
or
there
is
near
affinity
of
one
part
with
the
womb
;
then
,
by
consent
,
are
many
grievous
Diseases
produced
.
The
womb
is
of
a
membranous
nature
;
and
for
that
reason
it
consents
exceedingly
with
the
nerves
and
membranes
,
and
so
the
parts
that
are
near
are
soon
offended
by
it
;
and
it
conveys
its
ill
qualities
to
the
whole
body
,
by
Nerves
,
Veins
and
Arteries
,
the
Brain
hath
it
by
the
membranes
of
the
marrow
of
the
Back
,
and
by
Nerves
;
the
arteries
they
carry
it
to
the
Heart
,
and
the
veins
to
the
Liver
,
and
these
are
large
in
the
womb
;
and
by
them
all
the
noxious
blood
,
and
poisonous
vapours
return
.
The
Veins
of
the
Mesentery
give
it
a
consent
with
the
stomach
;
and
so
do
the
arteries
carry
all
to
the
Spleen
,
which
is
the
cause
that
some
women
in
age
grow
hypochondriacal
by
heat
of
their
blood
,
because
their
courses
did
not
flow
sufficient
when
they
were
young
:
It
will
be
hard
to
distinguish
these
two
diseases
in
women
,
or
to
cure
the
one
,
and
not
cure
the
other
,
The
Breasts
they
consent
with
the
womb
by
Nerves
and
Veins
,
that
go
from
it
to
them
:
so
then
it
is
clear
that
it
holds
a
correspondence
with
the
heart
,
the
Midriff
,
the
Brain
and
Head
,
and
all
the
instruments
of
motion
and
sense
;
likewise
with
the
Stomach
,
Liver
,
Spleen
,
Bladder
,
Belly
,
Mesentery
,
Hips
,
Back
,
straight
Gut
,
Legs
and
arms
,
and
is
the
cause
of
strange
symptomes
in
them
all
.
For
Galen
saith
well
,
the
strangling
of
the
Mother
,
or
Hysterical
Passion
,
is
but
one
by
name
but
the
symptomes
are
scarce
to
be
numbered
.
It
alters
womens
complexions
,
&
they
grow
sandy
,
or
pale
and
yellow
,
or
swarthy
,
and
now
and
then
their
eyes
and
faces
shew
red
,
and
very
sanguine
.
When
this
strange
affection
falls
upon
them
,
they
will
gnash
theit
teeth
,
and
become
speechless
,
for
their
breath
is
stopt
:
and
it
hath
been
often
observed
that
they
have
been
supposed
to
be
dead
;
neither
breath
,
nor
Pulse
,
nor
Life
,
to
be
found
for
that
time
:
and
sometimes
their
breath
is
stopt
so
close
and
it
holds
so
long
,
that
they
have
died
of
it
.
The
causes
of
this
disease
are
very
many
;
for
a
sudden
fear
,
a
bad
news
related
,
hath
cast
divers
women
into
these
fits
;
for
by
this
Melancholly
gets
the
mastery
of
them
:
it
were
but
reason
therefore
for
men
to
forbear
relating
any
sad
accident
to
them
,
but
with
great
proviso
.
When
the
womb
is
strangled
,
no
one
disease
can
determine
it
;
for
that
seldome
comes
alone
:
sometimes
only
the
breath
is
stopt
,
sometimes
the
speech
and
animal
actions
of
the
brain
fail
,
and
the
whole
body
is
chill
,
and
almost
dead
by
ill
vapors
that
choke
it
rising
from
the
womb
.
The
Malignant
Vapors
then
sent
from
thence
by
the
Nerves
,
Veins
and
arteries
,
are
the
immediate
causes
of
all
the
hurt
that
is
done
;
and
these
vapors
are
much
like
the
wind
,
very
powerful
,
and
almost
unperceived
;
they
are
so
subtil
and
thin
,
that
they
pass
in
a
moment
of
time
through
the
whole
body
:
it
will
choke
the
Patient
when
they
flie
to
the
Throat
,
as
people
are
that
eat
White
Hellebore
,
or
venomous
mushromes
.
Ofttimes
you
shall
see
the
woman
to
loth
and
vomit
,
and
draw
her
breath
short
,
and
her
heart
akes
;
if
the
vapour
strike
the
heart
first
,
it
will
cease
from
moving
,
and
she
falls
into
a
swound
:
but
if
it
flie
to
the
brain
,
she
is
void
of
all
sense
and
motion
.
There
is
nothing
worse
than
corrupt
seed
to
offend
the
Body
,
Women
with
Child
are
not
free
from
this
disease
when
corrupt
humours
rise
from
an
unclean
womb
.
The
chief
seat
of
this
ill
humour
lieth
in
the
Trumpet
of
the
womb
,
and
in
her
stones
;
for
the
substance
of
it
is
loose
and
hollow
,
and
the
Stones
lie
in
bladders
full
of
water
;
and
women
that
have
strangling
of
the
womb
,
have
this
water
of
a
yellow
colour
,
and
grosser
than
it
should
be
.
Many
Physicians
have
mistook
the
stones
and
the
Trumpet
for
the
womb
it self
,
when
putrified
rotten
seed
makes
them
swell
,
and
windy
humours
cause
them
to
rise
as
far
as
the
Navel
;
but
I
spoke
of
this
before
,
when
I
shewed
the
reason
how
the
womb
is
thought
to
ascend
higher
than
nature
hath
placed
it
:
It
hath
sometimes
a
long
time
to
breed
in
,
and
sometimes
it
comes
suddenly
,
according
as
the
corruption
of
the
humours
is
,
which
sometimes
also
lie
still
;
and
so
soon
as
they
are
but
moved
they
evacuate
,
and
send
a
poisonous
fume
into
other
parts
of
the
body
:
And
nothing
will
sooner
stir
these
vapours
and
humours
in
women
(
who
are
subject
to
this
disease
)
than
anger
,
or
fear
,
or
such
like
passions
;
or
sweet
scents
,
and
smells
applied
to
their
noses
,
which
is
an
argument
that
the
womb
is
delighted
with
sweet
scents
,
but
cannot
away
with
stinking
things
;
for
let
Musk
or
Civet
be
held
to
such
womens
noses
,
they
are
presently
sick
till
they
be
taken
away
.
What
Distemper
this
strangling
of
the
womb
is
,
Physicians
agree
not
;
some
say
it
is
a
cold
distemper
:
but
coldness
is
not
the
chief
symptome
,
though
cold
be
great
;
others
say
it
is
a
convulsion
,
or
Syncope
,
or
breathing
stopt
:
but
it
cannot
be
set
forth
by
any
one
symptome
;
for
though
the
venomous
vapor
be
small
that
breeds
it
,
it
goes
many
waies
,
and
spreads
through
all
the
body
.
But
the
true
causes
of
this
Disease
are
the
poisonous
vapours
that
rise
from
the
womb
:
it
is
not
an
apparent
quality
that
this
vapour
works
by
,
but
a
secret
quality
;
as
the
Torpedo
or
Scorpion
small
creatures
prevail
with
to
do
great
mischief
,
as
they
are
enemies
to
the
natural
heat
and
vital
spirits
:
and
when
the
heart
suffers
,
there
can
be
no
good
animal
spirits
bred
,
because
the
vital
are
corrupted
;
but
blood
and
seed
,
whilest
they
are
in
their
own
proper
vessels
,
hurt
not
,
unless
they
are
mingled
with
ill
humors
.
Fernelius
saith
,
that
the
womb
and
seed
,
the
place
and
matter
of
life
,
are
the
breeding
of
the
most
deadly
poisons
.
Hipp●crates
,
in
these
fits
,
bids
give
them
wine
to
refresh
their
weakness
:
Avicenna
bids
give
them
no
wine
,
but
water
,
and
forbids
eating
flesh
,
because
they
ingender
more
seed
and
blood
:
but
when
she
is
in
the
fit
,
wine
is
best
;
for
a
little
wine
will
not
presently
get
to
the
womb
.
Sometimes
both
maids
and
widdows
,
from
such
like
causes
,
are
troubled
with
the
rage
of
the
womb
,
that
they
will
grow
even
mad
with
carnal
desire
,
and
entice
men
to
lie
with
them
;
they
are
hot
,
but
not
feaverish
,
and
they
are
inclined
to
madness
.
Modest
women
will
die
of
consumptions
,
when
they
have
this
rage
of
the
womb
,
rather
than
declare
their
desire
,
but
some
women
are
shameless
.
The
cause
is
great
store
of
sharp
hot
seed
,
that
is
not
natural
,
but
the
next
degree
to
it
,
that
bites
,
and
swells
,
and
provokes
nature
to
expulsion
:
the
brain
suffers
by
consent
;
the
womb
in
the
Nymphe
is
most
affected
,
which
swells
with
heat
,
but
the
Clitoris
,
and
not
the
Nymphe
is
the
seat
of
lust
:
hot
blood
and
humours
in
the
womb
breed
this
,
and
they
are
increased
by
hot
spiced
meats
and
drinks
,
idleneness
and
bawdy
acts
and
objects
;
at
first
it
may
be
cured
,
but
the
end
of
it
is
frenzy
and
madness
if
it
be
neglected
.
Maids
must
marry
that
cannot
live
chast
,
or
draw
blood
to
abate
the
heat
and
sharpness
of
it
;
let
them
purge
these
humours
gently
,
and
use
cooling
and
moistening
meats
and
drinks
,
and
all
with
moderation
.
Lettice
,
Violets
,
and
water-Lillies
,
and
Purslain
are
good
coolers
,
and
take
away
the
windiness
of
the
parts
:
the
seed
,
leaves
and
flowers
of
Agnus
Castus
strewed
in
their
beds
,
or
Camphire
smelt
unto
are
very
good
in
such
cases
.
Let
them
use
this
Electuary
;
take
conserve
of
water
Lillies
,
Violets
,
tops
of
Agnus
Castus
,
of
each
one
ounce
;
of
red
Roses
half
an
ounce
;
of
red
Coral
,
and
emralds
in
powder
,
of
each
half
a
dram
;
of
Coleworts
,
and
Lettice
candid
,
of
each
one
ounce
,
with
sirrup
of
Violets
and
water-Lillies
,
make
an
Electuary
:
lay
a
plate
of
lead
to
their
backs
.
Nuns
,
and
such
as
cannot
marry
,
may
use
t●ings
,
●hat
by
a
hidden
quality
diminish
seed
,
but
they
cause
barrenness
:
let
them
eat
no
eggs
,
nor
much
nourishing
meats
,
and
sleep
little
.
Camphire
,
that
is
so
much
commended
against
this
preternatural
desire
,
is
hot
and
sharp
,
and
bitter
,
it
will
burn
and
flame
,
and
being
of
thin
parts
penetrates
deep
;
but
it
hath
cold
operations
,
for
it
will
cure
burns
and
hot
swellings
,
and
head-ach
that
comes
of
heat
,
by
a
likeness
and
affinity
it
hath
to
draw
hot
vapours
to
it
;
so
Linseed
oil
is
good
against
burnings
.
Scaliger
affirms
that
Camphire
increaseth
Venery
;
it
may
do
so
if
it
be
used
seldome
,
but
often
used
,
it
is
certain
that
it
will
destroy
it
.
There
is
moreover
(
from
ill
tempered
seed
,
and
melancholly
blood
,
in
the
vessels
near
the
Heart
,
which
contaminates
the
Vital
and
Animal
Spirits
)
a
melancholy
distemper
,
that
especially
Maids
and
Widows
are
often
troubled
with
,
and
they
grow
exceeding
pensive
and
sad
:
for
melancholy
black
blood
abounding
in
the
Vessels
of
the
Matrix
,
runs
sometimes
back
by
the
great
arteries
to
the
heart
,
and
infects
all
the
spirits
:
when
this
blood
lieth
still
,
they
are
well
;
but
if
it
be
stirred
,
or
urged
,
then
presently
they
fall
into
this
distemper
,
they
know
not
why
:
and
the
arteries
of
the
spleen
and
back
beat
strongly
,
and
melancholly
vapours
fly
up
.
They
are
sorely
troubled
,
and
weary
of
all
things
;
they
can
take
no
rest
,
their
pain
lieth
most
on
their
left
side
,
and
sometimes
on
the
left
breast
:
in
time
they
will
grow
mad
,
and
their
former
great
silence
turns
to
prating
exceedingly
,
crying
out
that
they
see
fearful
spirits
,
and
dead
men
;
when
it
is
gone
so
far
,
it
is
hard
to
cure
:
it
is
vain
then
to
try
to
make
them
merry
,
they
despair
and
wish
to
die
;
and
when
they
find
an
opportunity
,
they
will
kill
,
or
drown
,
or
hang
themselves
:
At
first
when
the
blood
is
hot
and
fiery
,
open
a
vein
in
the
arm
,
if
they
have
their
courses
;
if
not
,
in
the
foot
or
ancle
to
bring
the
courses
down
.
Cooling
,
moistening
cordials
,
and
such
things
as
revive
the
spirits
,
and
conquer
melancholy
,
wil
do
much
;
driers
are
naught
,
for
melancholly
is
dry
.
Confectio
Alkermes
is
commended
for
those
that
can
away
with
it
;
but
Confectio
de
Hyacintho
is
better
:
use
a
moistening
diet
.
To
breed
mirth
,
give
her
waters
of
Balm
and
Borage
,
of
each
three
ounces
;
sirrup
of
the
juices
of
Borage
and
Bugloss
of
each
one
ounce
and
a
half
;
take
this
at
twice
,
and
use
it
often
.
To
purge
melancholly
,
take
six
drams
of
Senna
,
Agarick
one
dram
and
a
half
;
Borage
and
violet
flowers
of
each
a
small
handful
,
two
drams
of
Citron
peels
;
infuse
all
six
hours
in
good
Rhenish
wine
,
strain
them
,
and
put
to
them
sirrup
of
Violets
one
ounce
.
CHAP.
II.
Of
the
Falling
Sickness
.
WHen
Women
,
by
reason
of
the
ill
affections
of
the
womb
,
fall
into
Epilepsies
,
and
Falling
sickness
,
it
is
worse
than
any
other
cause
,
as
the
symptomes
prove
:
for
the
poisonous
vapor
is
not
only
in
the
Nerves
as
when
it
is
from
the
brain
,
but
also
in
the
membranes
,
veins
,
and
arteries
.
The
same
foul
vapour
that
causeth
strangling
of
the
womb
,
produceth
this
;
for
it
causeth
divers
diseases
,
according
to
the
parts
it
takes
hold
on
:
but
when
it
lights
forcibly
on
the
Nerves
,
then
it
causeth
the
Falling-sickness
.
Sometimes
there
is
a
convulsion
of
the
whole
body
,
and
sometimes
but
of
some
parts
;
as
of
the
head
,
or
tongue
,
hands
,
or
legs
,
eyes
,
or
ears
;
some
cannot
hear
,
others
cannot
see
,
all
lose
the
sense
of
feeling
:
some
cry
out
,
but
know
not
wherefore
.
They
that
fall
,
if
the
vapour
be
not
too
strong
,
when
they
rise
,
they
go
to
their
work
again
,
as
if
they
had
no
harm
:
but
here
is
not
only
convulsions
,
as
in
those
that
have
the
Falling-sickness
from
other
parts
,
but
stopping
the
breath
,
as
in
the
strangling
of
the
womb
;
but
these
seldome
some
at
the
mouth
,
as
those
do
,
for
the
brain
is
entire
,
or
not
much
offended
;
nor
is
their
hearing
taken
away
quite
by
the
vapour
fastening
upon
the
roots
of
the
Nerves
of
the
ears
.
Rue
and
Castor
that
cure
fits
of
the
Mother
,
are
good
here
;
the
cure
is
almost
the
same
,
only
you
must
add
some
things
that
respect
the
nerves
and
the
Brain
:
Use
these
Pills
twice
in
a
week
,
before
supper
one
hour
,
and
take
a
scruple
,
or
half
a
dram
;
Take
Senna
and
Peony
root
,
of
each
half
an
ounce
,
Mugwort
,
Rue
,
Betony
,
Yarrow
,
half
a
handful
of
each
;
boil
them
,
&
then
clarifie
the
decoction
;
put
to
it
Aloes
one
ounce
and
a
half
,
of
juice
of
the
herb
Mercury
one
ounce
let
it
stand
and
settle
,
pour
off
the
clear
liquor
,
then
add
two
drams
of
Rhubarb
,
sprinkled
with
water
of
Cinnamon
,
Agarick
half
an
ounce
,
Mastick
and
Epileptick
powder
,
of
each
half
a
dram
,
make
the
pills
with
sirrup
of
Mugwort
.
To
mend
the
distemper
of
the
head
and
Womb
,
take
conserve
of
Rosemary
flowers
,
and
of
the
Tile
tree
,
of
Balm
and
Lillies
of
the
valley
,
of
the
root
Scorzonera
Candied
,
of
each
one
ounce
,
Diamoschu
dulce
one
dram
with
two
drams
of
the
roots
of
Peony
,
and
seeds
of
Agnus
Castus
,
and
sirrup
of
Stoechas
,
make
an
Electuary
to
take
at
your
pleasure
.
Nor
are
these
all
the
ill
consequences
of
the
wombs
distempers
,
but
sometimes
violent
head-ach
springs
from
it
,
which
is
the
greatest
pain
of
all
the
rest
;
and
sometimes
it
is
all
over
the
head
,
or
but
upon
one
side
,
or
in
the
eyes
,
the
ill
vapours
rising
by
the
veins
and
arteries
of
the
Womb
to
the
membranes
and
films
of
the
brain
;
when
the
vessels
are
full
of
a
thin
sharp
blood
,
that
is
carried
from
the
womb
to
the
membranes
,
it
stretcheth
and
rends
them
,
and
corrodes
and
bites
so
,
that
the
pain
is
intollerable
:
the
cure
is
to
purge
away
the
peccant
humour
that
lieth
in
the
Womb
;
for
this
is
not
as
other
head-ach
is
,
that
comes
from
other
causes
:
the
pain
runs
also
to
the
Loins
and
the
Membranes
there
,
by
some
capillary
veins
from
the
womb
.
The
pain
of
the
head
by
affection
with
the
womb
,
is
in
all
the
head
commonly
,
but
is
chiefly
i●
the
hinder
part
of
the
head
,
because
the
womb
being
Nervous
consents
with
the
membranes
of
the
brain
,
by
the
membrane
of
the
Marrow
of
the
back
:
&
hence
it
is
that
women
are
more
subject
to
the
head-ach
than
men
are
,
because
of
the
womb
that
holds
such
affinity
with
the
Nerves
of
the
head
.
The
violent
beating
of
the
heart
and
Arteries
both
in
the
Sides
and
Back
,
is
by
consent
from
the
womb
,
when
evil
humors
therein
contained
,
pass
by
the
Arteries
,
and
Poysonous
vapours
arise
to
those
parts
;
Cordials
are
good
,
as
Cinnamon
Water
,
and
Aqua
Monefardi
,
or
Mathiolas
his
water
:
the
Disease
seems
small
,
but
it
is
not
safe
,
because
the
cause
of
it
is
very
ill
.
In
this
Disease
the
Artery
that
beats
in
the
Back
beats
strongly
,
because
it
is
part
of
the
great
Artery
;
but
the
Arteries
that
beat
in
the
Hypochondrion
beat
not
so
strongly
,
for
they
are
smaller
branches
from
the
Spleen
and
Mesentery
,
but
the
cause
is
the
same
.
The
Arteries
are
inflamed
by
the
ill
vapours
and
humours
sent
from
the
womb
,
and
the
heart
is
exceedingly
heated
by
them
:
but
this
hot
humor
sometimes
beats
by
reason
of
the
great
Artery
quite
over
the
whole
body
,
but
it
lasts
not
long
,
for
there
is
little
corruption
of
the
humors
.
Some
say
the
blood
in
the
Veins
is
too
hot
,
and
over-heats
the
Artery
;
but
if
this
heat
of
the
Artery
affect
the
Brain
,
the
Patient
will
be
mad
;
if
it
go
over
the
whole
body
she
falls
into
a
Consumption
:
lay
your
hand
on
the
left
side
,
and
you
shall
feel
the
Arteries
beat
much
.
So
then
,
this
Disease
hath
several
considerations
,
and
must
be
cured
partly
as
hypochondriacal
Melancholy
,
partly
as
in
the
cure
for
stopping
of
the
Courses
,
and
partly
as
Melancholy
,
arising
from
the
womb
.
Physitians
can
hardly
tell
which
way
to
proceed
oftentimes
in
these
Distempers
,
because
it
is
hard
to
say
what
Disease
the
woman
is
sick
of
,
when
the
Spleen
and
left
Hypochondry
are
afflicted
from
the
womb
.
The
womb
hath
two
Arteries
,
the
one
from
the
Hypogastrick
Artery
,
and
another
from
the
preparing
Arteries
;
that
which
comes
from
the
Hypogastrick
runs
almost
through
the
whole
Abdomen
:
when
the
foul
corrupt
blood
in
the
womb
runs
backward
to
the
Hypogastrick
Artery
,
it
passeth
to
the
Caeliac
Artery
,
and
so
to
the
Spleen
,
and
the
parts
near
it
:
and
it
is
Natures
present
way
to
thrust
ill
humors
to
the
ignoble
parts
.
When
the
courses
are
stopt
,
these
ill
humors
are
thought
to
be
onely
in
the
Veins
,
but
the
veins
and
Arteries
mouthes
are
so
joyned
,
that
they
pass
from
the
Veins
to
the
Arteries
,
and
that
is
the
reason
that
elderly
women
,
whose
courses
were
stopt
when
they
were
young
,
are
troubled
oftentimes
with
the
Spleen
,
&
hypochondriack
Melancholy
;
These
cannot
endure
to
smell
to
sweet
Scents
:
they
are
short
breathed
,
Costive
,
and
Belch
often
;
they
have
pain
in
the
left
side
,
and
are
very
sad
,
when
the
thin
part
of
the
blood
is
inflamed
they
grow
very
hot
,
and
red
in
the
Face
,
but
that
lasts
not
long
;
the
disease
it
will
produce
(
if
not
cured
)
is
chiefly
a
Schirrhus
of
the
Spleen
;
open
a
Vein
,
if
the
blood
be
hot
,
and
the
Courses
stopt
,
use
Leeches
to
the
haemorroids
;
and
Purge
often
,
but
very
gently
,
with
Quercetan's
Pill
of
Tartar
,
or
Fernelius
his
Cum
Ammoniaco
,
and
Birth-wort
;
or
prepared
Steel
to
open
the
Courses
,
and
to
cure
Melancholy
that
ariseth
from
the
womb
.
When
the
liver
is
hurt
by
the
gross
blood
running
back
to
the
holow
vein
from
the
womb
,
as
it
often
doth
if
the
courses
be
stopt
,
&
blood
abound
;
it
breeds
raw
flegmatick
blood
,
and
causeth
the
Green-sickness
:
for
there
are
many
more
great
veins
in
the
womb
than
in
any
other
part
of
the
body
,
and
they
are
often
obstructed
:
and
sometimes
,
by
this
stopping
,
not
onely
sundry
Diseases
,
but
Hair
will
grow
over
the
whole
body
;
for
hairs
grow
from
the
Excrementitious
part
of
the
blood
,
and
if
that
Excrement
be
sent
over
the
body
,
it
will
produce
hair
:
So
Hippocrates
tells
us
of
a
woman
with
a
great
beard
;
and
it
is
not
long
since
there
was
a
woman
to
be
seen
here
in
England
which
had
not
onely
a
long
beard
,
but
her
whole
Body
covered
with
hair
.
It
is
also
by
reason
of
the
womb
,
or
by
consent
from
it
,
that
many
women
have
no
stomach
,
others
have
a
very
large
Appetite
;
and
sometimes
a
desire
to
eat
strange
things
,
not
fit
for
Food
:
they
Vomit
,
and
have
the
Hiccough
,
&
many
such
ill
symptomes
:
as
the
vapors
are
,
so
are
the
Diseases
;
if
Cold
,
then
they
breed
cold
diseases
;
if
hot
,
such
diseases
as
proceed
of
heat
:
For
these
filthy
vapors
,
when
the
way
is
large
,
easily
ascend
from
the
Arteries
of
the
womb
,
and
get
into
the
Hypogastrick
,
and
Caeliac
Arteries
:
hot
vapors
cause
Thirst
,
cold
vapors
destroy
concoction
,
and
are
the
cause
of
many
cruel
diseases
by
their
Malignity
.
When
the
stomach
is
hurt
by
the
womb
,
it
is
easily
perceived
,
for
the
signes
of
it
go
away
sometimes
,
and
come
again
,
onely
when
the
Fumes
fly
to
the
stomach
:
There
is
no
cure
for
this
,
but
by
first
curing
the
womb
;
for
this
disease
is
worse
than
if
the
stomach
were
originally
the
cause
of
the
distemper
:
Cure
the
womb
,
and
if
there
be
no
other
cause
,
the
stomach
is
cured
;
first
give
a
vomit
to
cleanse
the
stomach
,
and
use
often
to
take
pills
of
Aloes
and
Mastick
,
for
these
fortifie
the
stomach
.
If
one
womb
in
a
woman
be
the
cause
of
so
many
strong
and
violent
diseases
,
she
may
be
thought
a
happy
woman
of
our
sex
that
was
born
without
a
womb
:
Columbus
reports
that
he
saw
such
a
woman
,
and
that
her
secrets
were
as
the
secrets
of
other
women
;
and
part
of
the
neck
out
.
It
will
be
needless
to
tell
you
what
some
have
written
,
that
it
hath
been
often
seen
,
that
worms
,
and
Hair
,
and
Fat
,
and
Stones
,
and
many
other
strange
things
have
been
found
in
womens
wombs
;
but
what
a
miserable
case
is
she
in
that
was
born
with
two
wombs
?
Such
a
woman
Julius
Obsequeus
related
that
he
saw
:
and
Bauhinus
speaks
of
a
maid
who
had
a
Matrix
like
that
of
a
Bitch
divided
in
two
parts
:
But
some
perhaps
may
think
these
things
fabulous
;
I
confess
they
are
monstrous
,
and
out
of
the
ordinary
course
of
nature
;
and
I
know
no
cure
for
them
,
if
such
things
should
happen
:
I
forbear
therefore
to
speak
any
more
of
them
,
and
shall
proceed
to
some
things
more
material
to
be
known
,
and
such
things
as
few
women
living
but
have
frequent
occasion
to
be
provided
with
remedies
for
.
CHAP.
III.
Of
Womens
Breasts
and
Nipples
.
NAture
,
within
some
convenient
time
after
the
Child
is
conceived
in
the
womb
,
begins
to
provide
nourishment
for
it
so
soon
as
it
shall
be
born
.
The
breasts
are
two
in
number
,
lest
by
accident
one
Breast
should
fail
,
and
sometimes
women
have
Twins
,
and
more
children
than
one
to
give
suck
to
.
Some
women
saith
Gardan
,
have
been
seen
with
more
than
two
breasts
for
they
have
had
two
breasts
on
each
side
,
but
that
is
very
rare
.
The
form
of
the
breast
is
round
,
and
sharp
at
the
Nipple
;
yet
these
differ
in
many
women
,
for
some
have
breasts
no
bigger
than
men
,
and
some
have
huge
overgrown
swoln
breasts
,
by
reason
of
much
blood
abounding
,
and
strong
heat
to
draw
and
to
concoct
it
.
The
breasts
should
be
of
a
moderate
size
,
neither
too
great
nor
too
small
;
not
too
soft
nor
too
hard
;
it
is
not
necessary
to
have
them
over-big
;
though
they
can
hold
but
little
milk
,
thee
may
hold
sufficient
:
but
large
breasts
are
in
danger
to
be
cancerated
and
inflamed
;
besides
that
the
milk
is
not
so
good
,
because
their
wants
a
moderate
heat
.
The
immediate
causes
of
great
Breasts
is
partly
natural
by
birth
,
the
passages
being
loose
and
large
;
and
sleep
and
idleness
furthers
it
,
and
much
handling
of
them
heats
and
draws
the
blood
thither
:
their
causes
are
not
many
.
It
is
best
to
prevent
their
growing
too
big
at
first
,
for
it
is
not
easily
done
afterward
:
Cooling
Diet
,
and
drying
and
astringent
repercussive
Topical
means
are
the
best
.
Binding
things
help
loose
breasts
,
and
make
them
hard
;
all
cold
Narcotick
stupefying
Medicaments
are
forbidden
,
they
will
bind
the
Vessels
,
but
they
abate
Natural
heat
,
and
will
let
no
milk
breed
.
When
children
are
weaned
,
Discussers
and
Driers
will
do
well
to
consume
the
Moisture
that
is
superfluous
.
Take
the
Meal
of
Beans
and
Orobus
,
of
each
two
ounces
and
a
half
;
Powder
of
Comfrey
roots
half
an
ounce
,
Mints
three
drams
;
Wormwood
,
Cammomile
Flowers
,
Roses
,
of
each
two
drams
;
when
they
are
boiled
with
two
ounces
of
oil
of
Mastick
,
make
a
Cataplasme
:
or
take
red
Roses
,
Myrtle
leaves
,
Horstail
,
Mints
,
Plantain
,
a
handful
of
each
;
Flowers
of
sowr
Pomegranates
two
Pugils
,
boil
all
in
Vinegar
and
red
wine
,
and
with
a
spunge
lay
it
warm
to
the
breasts
,
and
let
it
dry
on
.
If
Milk
be
too
much
in
the
breasts
after
the
child
is
born
,
and
the
child
be
not
able
to
suck
it
all
,
the
breasts
will
very
frequently
inflame
,
or
Imposthumes
breed
in
them
;
they
swell
and
grow
red
,
and
are
painful
,
being
over-stretched
,
whence
hard
tumours
grow
:
too
much
blood
is
the
cause
of
it
,
or
the
child
is
too
weak
,
and
cannot
draw
it
forth
.
Sometimes
it
goeth
away
without
any
remedies
,
but
if
you
need
help
then
hinder
the
breeding
of
more
milk
,
and
try
to
consume
that
which
is
bred
;
if
the
child
cannot
draw
it
forth
,
Glasses
are
made
to
suck
it
forth
.
The
woman
must
eat
and
drink
with
moderation
,
and
use
a
drying
diet
:
if
she
nurse
not
the
child
her self
,
or
if
the
child
be
weaned
,
to
dry
up
the
milk
,
take
a
good
quantity
of
Rozin
,
mingle
it
with
Cream
,
and
being
luke-warm
lay
it
all
over
the
breasts
;
or
make
a
plaister
to
dry
up
the
Milk
,
with
Bean
meal
,
red
Vinegar
,
and
oil
of
Roses
,
lay
it
on
warm
.
If
the
Breasts
be
inflamed
,
keep
a
good
reasonable
cooling
Diet
,
moistening
and
comfortable
;
it
is
blood
and
not
milk
that
causeth
inflamation
:
for
milk
,
when
it
grows
hot
,
makes
pain
;
and
thereby
the
blood
that
staies
in
the
small
capillar
veins
,
being
out
of
the
vessels
is
inflamed
and
corrupt
:
it
may
also
come
from
Falls
or
bruises
,
or
strait
lacing
of
the
breasts
;
if
there
be
a
Feaver
and
a
throbbing
pain
,
and
a
red
hard
swelling
,
the
breasts
are
inflamed
.
Inflammations
may
be
without
danger
,
but
the
breasts
that
are
loose
and
full
of
Kernels
,
will
soon
turn
to
a
Schirrhus
,
or
a
Cancer
:
If
the
body
then
be
full
of
blood
open
a
vein
,
but
if
the
Courses
be
stopt
open
a
vein
in
the
Ancle
,
and
after
that
in
the
arm
.
You
may
purge
bad
humors
easily
with
Manna
or
Senna
:
if
the
blood
be
over
hot
,
eat
Endive
,
Lettice
,
Water-Lillies
,
Plantane
,
Purslain
,
use
repercussives
,
and
moderate
cooling
things
.
Apply
a
cloth
dipt
in
oil
of
Roses
,
with
Honey
and
Water
;
when
the
strength
of
the
inflammation
is
past
use
Discussers
as
well
as
repercussives
;
as
,
take
white-bread
Crumbs
,
Barley-flour
,
of
each
one
ounce
and
a
half
;
Flour
of
Beans
,
and
Fenugreek
of
each
half
an
ounce
;
Powder
of
Cammomile
Flowers
,
and
red
Roses
,
of
each
tow
drams
,
boil
them
,
then
mingle
Rose
Vinegar
one
ounce
,
and
as
much
of
oyle
of
Roses
and
Camomil
,
lay
it
over
the
breasts
;
then
use
onely
Discutients
,
as
take
Bean
Meal
,
Lupines
,
Fenugreek
,
Linseed
,
and
Powder
of
Camomil
Flowers
,
each
an
ounce
,
make
a
Cataplasme
;
if
the
Matter
begin
to
grow
hard
,
use
things
that
soften
and
attenuate
;
as
take
a
handful
of
Mallowes
and
boil
them
soft
,
Powder
of
Linseed
,
Marshmallows
and
Camomil
Flowers
each
one
ounce
,
boil
all
again
,
and
with
an
ounce
of
oyl
of
Jessamine
make
a
Cataplasme
:
If
you
find
that
it
will
come
to
suppuration
,
lay
on
a
Plaister
of
Diachylon
,
if
it
turn
to
Matter
,
and
the
Impostume
break
;
otherwise
open
it
with
a
Lancet
,
and
let
out
the
Matter
,
then
c●eanse
it
thus
;
Take
Turpentine
,
and
Honey
of
Roses
,
of
each
one
ounce
,
Myrrh
a
scruple
;
it
will
be
hard
to
cure
the
Ulcer
unless
you
dry
the
Milk
in
the
other
breast
,
because
much
blood
will
run
thither
to
breed
Milk
.
An
Erisipelas
of
the
breasts
comes
from
great
Anger
,
or
some
Fright
,
which
turns
to
an
inflammation
,
and
is
cured
as
the
former
:
apply
no
fat
things
nor
cold
repercussives
to
discuss
the
thin
blood
that
makes
the
inflammation
;
lay
on
a
clout
dipt
in
Elder-water
,
and
give
her
Harts-horn
,
Terra
Sigillata
,
and
Carduus
,
with
Elder-water
to
make
her
sweat
.
Some
womens
breasts
are
too
small
,
when
the
blood
cannot
find
a
way
to
the
breasts
,
but
is
repelled
,
and
forced
some
other
way
;
or
when
the
Liver
is
dry
,
and
the
woman
Feaverish
,
toils
over
much
,
or
watcheth
,
or
from
some
cause
that
wasts
the
body
:
Therefore
feed
well
,
and
foment
the
breasts
with
Warm
water
and
white-wine
,
wherein
softning
things
have
been
boiled
,
then
anoint
them
with
oyl
of
sweet
Almonds
,
and
rub
the
Breasts
often
to
attract
the
blood
.
Sometimes
hard
cold
swellings
will
breed
in
womens
breasts
,
and
Phlegmatick
swellings
,
as
we
see
in
persons
that
have
the
Green-sickness
,
their
breasts
will
pill
,
for
the
part
is
loose
and
spungy
;
it
is
larger
when
the
terms
are
like
to
flow
,
and
when
they
are
gone
it
abateth
for
a
while
:
If
it
come
from
an
ill
habit
of
the
body
,
derived
from
the
womb
,
it
is
to
be
feared
;
otherwise
it
may
be
discust
,
or
dissolved
:
dry
,
and
hot
meats
and
means
are
best
.
If
the
Courses
be
stopt
open
them
,
and
cure
the
ill
habit
,
then
use
Topicks
to
discuss
,
and
strengthen
the
part
;
they
must
be
temperately
hot
,
otherwise
you
will
cause
a
Schirrhus
by
resolving
the
thin
parts
,
and
leave
the
thick
to
grow
harder
.
Make
a
ly
of
Colewort
and
vine
Ashes
,
and
brimstone
;
or
a
decoction
with
Hyssop
,
Sage
,
Origanum
,
and
Camomile
Flowers
,
then
anoint
with
oyl
of
Lillies
,
Bays
,
and
Camomile
;
or
take
four
ounces
of
Barley
Meal
,
and
half
an
ounce
of
Linseed
,
and
of
Fenugreek
,
Dill
and
Camomile
Flowers
as
much
,
:
one
ounce
of
Marshmallow
Roots
,
with
oyl
of
Dill
and
Camomile
,
make
an
application
.
These
Phlegmatick
swellings
must
be
discust
at
first
,
or
they
may
turn
into
Cancers
:
She
must
eat
Bread
well
baked
,
parched
Almonds
,
dryed
Raisins
;
let
her
drink
a
decoction
of
China
Roots
,
Sassafras
and
Sarsa
;
forbear
Milk-meats
,
unleavened
Bread
and
Sleeping
presently
after
meat
.
Besides
watry
and
Hydropick
humours
,
there
are
Kernels
growing
in
the
breasts
,
which
are
small
round
spungy
bodies
,
and
sometimes
swell
by
humors
flowing
thither
:
there
grow
sometimes
other
hard
swellings
caused
by
that
they
call
the
Kings-evil
;
it
is
engendred
of
gross
Phlegm
,
or
thick
mattery
blood
,
and
grows
hard
under
the
skin
;
the
stopping
of
the
Courses
is
the
ordinary
cause
,
when
the
Menstrual
blood
runs
back
to
the
breasts
,
this
will
soon
become
a
Cancer
,
if
it
be
not
prevented
by
softning
means
,
and
a
moderate
thin
Diet
,
keeping
her self
warm
,
and
using
good
exercise
before
Meats
;
avoid
idleness
,
and
meats
of
hard
digestion
;
Baths
of
Brimstone
are
good
to
be
prescribed
against
windy
and
watry
swellings
.
But
Celsus
saith
,
That
the
Scrofula
of
the
Breasts
is
seldome
seen
,
for
that
must
proceed
from
a
thick
Phlegmatick
humor
,
mixt
with
a
melancholy
humors
it
is
sometimes
painful
,
and
somewhat
like
a
Cancer
,
or
will
soon
be
turned
to
one
,
but
stands
often
times
at
the
same
pass
for
many
years
:
It
comes
from
disorder
,
or
stopping
of
the
Terms
,
there
being
so
great
consent
betwixt
the
breasts
and
the
womb
;
you
may
feel
the
small
kernels
of
the
breast
,
but
that
I
speak
of
now
is
one
unmoveable
humor
,
but
the
other
are
small
:
If
it
lye
near
the
skin
it
is
soon
dissolved
,
but
if
it
lye
deep
it
will
hardly
be
dissolved
,
because
the
substance
of
it
is
so
earthy
:
first
Purge
,
then
bleed
,
after
that
apply
softning
and
discussing
remedies
that
are
strong
,
as
you
must
do
for
a
Schirrhus
humor
;
Take
Orris
Roots
and
boil
them
in
Oxynel
,
and
stamp
them
,
mix
them
with
Oyntment
of
Marshmallowes
and
Turpentine
,
of
each
three
ounces
,
and
one
ounce
of
Mucilage
of
the
seed
of
Fenugreek
;
If
you
cannot
discuss
it
,
ripen
it
,
or
cut
it
open
,
but
take
heed
how
you
do
it
for
this
is
troublesome
and
dangerous
.
All
these
humors
,
if
they
be
unskilfully
handled
will
soon
turn
to
a
Schirrhus
,
from
melancholy
in
the
veins
flowing
to
the
breasts
,
and
it
is
thick
flegm
dried
;
there
are
two
kinds
of
it
,
one
is
bred
of
Melancholy
blood
,
which
is
gross
&
feculent
,
or
thick
flegm
mixed
with
it
,
and
this
feels
no
pain
:
but
the
other
is
not
so
hard
,
for
it
is
not
yet
fully
come
to
its
perfection
;
and
it
is
probable
that
it
is
mingled
with
other
humors
.
A
perfect
Schirrhus
grows
from
the
stoppings
of
the
Spleen
,
whereby
the
Melancholy
blood
is
retained
,
and
being
in
great
quantity
falls
upon
the
Breasts
,
or
else
the
courses
stopt
fly
thither
.
There
is
a
double
intention
for
the
cure
:
First
,
Use
emollient
means
to
soften
all
that
is
hard
and
knotty
in
the
breasts
,
then
keep
a
good
Diet
;
and
beware
of
salt
Meats
,
and
such
as
are
smoak'd
,
and
hard
of
digestion
,
and
moreover
all
things
of
a
sharp
corroding
faculty
;
use
moderate
Exercise
and
Mirth
,
provoke
the
courses
if
they
be
stopt
,
and
set
on
Leeches
,
or
bleed
in
the
foot
.
Sena
and
Rhubarb
are
good
to
purge
the
body
well
;
and
when
you
have
purged
,
do
so
no
more
till
you
have
used
some
Cordials
,
as
Conserve
of
Bugloss
,
and
Orange
Flowers
,
Confectio
Alkermes
,
Electuarium
Degemus
,
and
Triosantules
.
Sometimes
flegm
and
melancholy
are
mingled
to
cause
this
Schirrhus
,
but
then
it
is
but
a
bastard
Schirrhus
;
if
burnt
humors
abound
most
it
will
be
a
Schrrhus
,
if
Melancholy
a
cancer
.
Secondly
,
The
perfect
signs
of
a
Schirrhus
are
,
that
it
is
very
hard
,
and
feels
no
pain
;
if
it
feel
any
it
is
not
yet
fixed
:
it
is
coloured
according
to
the
humor
,
white
,
or
black
,
or
blew
;
a
bastard
Schirrhus
is
hot
and
painful
,
if
it
go
on
it
will
be
a
Cancer
,
and
the
Veins
will
swell
and
look
blew
:
if
hairs
once
grow
upon
it
there
is
no
hopes
of
cure
;
and
the
bigger
and
harder
it
is
the
more
incurable
.
Let
general
medicaments
proceed
,
and
cure
the
cause
from
the
Matrix
and
from
the
whole
body
:
soften
,
attenuate
,
and
discuss
the
hardness
,
but
take
heed
of
hot
things
that
will
discuss
the
thin
parts
,
and
leave
the
thick
behind
;
neither
use
too
many
moistning
softning
means
,
for
that
will
ferment
the
matter
,
and
change
the
Schirrhus
to
a
Cancer
,
that
is
far
worse
,
but
either
soften
,
and
moisten
,
and
digest
together
,
or
by
turns
:
A
Fomentation
of
Mallows
,
Marshmallows
,
brank
Ursine
,
Camomile
Flowers
,
Linseed
and
Fenugreek
are
good
;
anoint
afterwards
with
oyl
of
sweet
Almonds
Hens
grease
,
Marrow
of
a
Calf
,
oyntment
of
Marshmallowes
,
lay
on
the
great
Diachylon
,
or
the
Plaister
of
Frogs
,
take
the
Fume
of
a
hot
stone
,
sprinkling
wine
upon
it
;
lay
on
a
Plaister
of
Gum
Ammoniacum
dissolved
in
Vinegar
of
Squills
,
a
bastard
Schirrhus
will
soon
Cancerate
.
Bleed
,
&
purge
away
the
humor
that
breeds
black
blood
;
to
hinder
humors
from
flowing
to
it
,
anoint
with
oyl
of
Roses
,
and
juyce
of
Plantane
if
it
be
hot
,
beat
them
well
in
a
mortar
of
Lead
till
they
shew
another
colour
;
then
mix
Ceruss
,
and
Litharge
of
silver
one
ounce
,
with
wax
make
an
oyntment
:
or
take
one
ounce
of
Mallow
Roots
,
boil
&
bruise
them
,
let
Sheeps
Suet
,
and
Capons
greese
,
of
each
two
ounces
,
be
added
to
it
,
with
wax
sufficient
to
make
an
Oyntment
.
But
the
disease
(
worse
than
a
Schirrhus
)
is
a
Cancer
of
the
breasts
:
and
William
Fabricius
saith
,
that
if
it
be
not
an
Ulcerated
Cancer
,
the
woman
may
live
above
forty
years
with
it
,
and
no
pain
molest
her
;
but
if
you
lay
on
any
thing
to
soften
and
ripen
these
swellings
,
she
will
dye
in
half
a
year
.
Many
orderly
women
have
lived
long
with
Cancers
as
if
they
ailed
nothing
.
Hippocrates
bids
not
to
cure
an
occult
Cancer
,
if
you
do
,
the
person
will
dye
of
the
cure
:
because
the
breasts
are
loose
and
spungy
,
Cancers
are
soon
bred
there
.
Burnt
blood
flowing
from
the
womb
of
one
who
is
of
a
hot
and
dry
Constitution
,
and
the
Terms
stopping
,
after
a
Tumor
,
they
make
an
Internal
or
External
Cancer
.
A
Cancer
that
comes
naturally
undiscerned
,
is
hardly
known
at
first
,
being
no
greater
than
a
Pease
,
and
daily
increaseth
with
roots
spreading
,
and
Veins
about
it
;
when
the
skin
is
eaten
through
it
becomes
a
loathsome
Ulcer
:
the
Matter
is
black
,
and
the
lips
are
hard
;
it
is
scarce
curable
,
because
it
is
bred
of
black
burnt
blood
that
is
malign
:
and
the
Vessels
are
loosned
and
relapsed
by
softners
and
ripeners
misapplyed
to
it
;
so
that
the
passage
is
made
for
the
humors
to
pass
to
and
fro
,
and
serve
to
infect
the
rest
.
Purge
melancholy
,
and
draw
blood
,
but
use
no
Topicks
to
ripen
or
rot
the
part
;
onely
Anodynes
that
will
take
away
pain
;
as
oyl
of
Frogs
and
Snails
,
with
Frogs
ashes
made
to
an
oyntment
,
with
Nightshade
water
.
Ash●●
of
Crayfish
,
or
of
the
herb
Robert
,
or
the
i●ward
Rind
of
an
Ash-Tree
.
Arceas
shewes
the
way
to
cut
them
for
〈◊〉
and
to
burn
the
part
if
the
Ulcer
be
deep
.
●…bricius
bids
burn
the
roots
first
,
and
afte●wards
to
consume
the
Reliques
,
and
to
sto●
the
blood
when
the
root
is
cut
up
.
You
must
often
Purge
away
melancho●●●
humors
,
and
provoke
the
Courses
,
or
th●
Cancer
will
return
.
Mithridate
and
Treacle
,
with
juyces
of
Sorrel
and
Borrage
,
and
Cray-fish
Broth
,
and
Asses
milk
are
approved
good
to
palliate
the
Cure
,
and
to
keep
it
from
going
farther
,
and
ease
pain
.
This
water
is
commended
;
Take
Scrofularia
roots
and
herb
Robert
,
of
each
one
handful
,
Lambs
Tongue
,
Nightshade
,
Bugloss
,
Borage
,
Purslane
,
Bettony
,
Eybright
,
of
each
half
a
handful
,
one
Frog
,
two
whites
of
Eggs
,
with
Quince
seeds
,
and
Fenugreeck
,
each
one
ounce
,
a
pint
of
rose
water
,
&
as
much
of
Eybright
water
,
distil
them
in
a
Leaden
still
.
Cancers
must
not
be
handled
like
other
Ulcers
,
for
softners
,
Drawers
and
healers
exasperate
,
and
kill
the
woman
with
great
dolour
.
Fichsius
his
blessed
powder
against
a
Cancer
is
this
;
take
white
arsenick
that
shineth
like
Glass
one
ounce
,
pour
on
Aquavitae
on
the
powder
of
it
,
pour
it
off
again
,
and
put
on
●●●sh
Aquavitae
every
third
day
,
for
fifteen
●yes
together
;
then
take
roots
of
great
Dra●on
gathered
in
August
or
July
,
slice
them
,
●●d
dry
them
in
the
wind
,
two
ounces
;
and
●ake
three
drams
of
clear
Chimney
Soot
,
make
a
powder
,
keep
it
close
stopt
in
a
glass
,
to
use
●fter
one
year
,
and
not
before
.
For
the
cure
of
any
other
Ulcers
;
or
Fistulaes
of
the
breasts
,
first
try
to
dry
up
the
milk
,
and
when
the
breasts
hang
down
bind
them
up
,
that
the
humours
fall
not
down
to
them
;
cleanse
them
with
a
decoction
of
Rhapontick
,
Agrimony
,
and
Zedoary
,
to
heal
take
six
quarts
of
strong
wine
,
and
boil
in
it
Rhus
Obsoniox
,
Cypress
Nuts
,
of
each
four
ounces
,
and
two
ounces
of
Green
Galls
,
to
the
thickness
of
Honey
:
If
the
Fistula
be
Callous
,
and
hard
about
the
edges
,
open
the
Orifice
with
a
Gentian
root
,
and
take
the
redness
away
,
then
cleanse
and
heal
as
ordinary
Ulcers
.
Sometimes
stones
,
hair
,
or
worms
are
bred
in
the
breasts
from
corrupt
blood
,
or
milk
,
and
so
they
may
breed
in
the
back
,
or
Navel
,
Sometimes
the
Veins
and
Arteries
of
the
breasts
are
so
streight
that
they
can
contain
no
blood
to
make
milk
;
it
is
either
gross
humors
that
stop
them
,
as
they
do
the
Vessels
of
the
womb
,
or
they
are
made
so
by
the
wombs
vessels
being
stopt
,
or
from
hard
humors
bred
there
.
Sometimes
the
Nipple
hath
no
hold
for
the
child
to
draw
forth
the
milk
by
,
and
it
was
so
made
at
first
;
or
else
it
is
from
a
wound
or
ulcer
that
leaves
a
scar
that
stops
it
:
The
breasts
then
must
needs
pine
away
;
but
if
the
milk
cannot
be
suck'd
forth
,
&
the
breasts
are
swoln
,
the
reason
is
that
the
Paps
,
or
veins
for
the
milk
are
not
as
they
should
be
.
When
gross
humours
only
obstruct
,
that
may
be
cured
,
but
a
Nipple
naturally
without
a
hole
,
or
the
hole
stopt
by
a
Schirrhus
,
or
Scar
,
after
an
ulcer
is
cured
,
cannot
be
healed
;
often
rubbing
of
the
breasts
will
open
the
veins
for
milk
:
but
the
Nipples
for
the
child
to
suck
by
are
oftentimes
deficient
or
lie
tied
,
either
one
or
both
,
that
women
can
hardly
give
suck
;
if
an
ulcer
have
eaten
away
the
Nipple
,
or
it
was
not
made
at
her
birth
,
it
will
never
be
otherwise
;
if
the
hole
be
never
so
small
,
so
there
be
a
hole
,
often
sucking
will
make
it
larger
,
especially
by
a
sucking
instrument
Clefts
and
Chaps
of
the
breasts
are
troublesome
,
and
usual
to
Nurses
;
and
in
time
those
Chaps
grow
to
foul
Ulcers
,
and
hinder
giving
of
suck
:
You
may
prevent
this
mischief
if
in
the
two
last
months
they
go
with
child
you
lay
two
cups
of
wax
made
up
with
a
little
Rozin
,
to
cover
the
Nipples
.
To
cure
the
Nipples
take
oil
of
Myrtles
,
of
wax
,
ointment
of
Lead
and
Tutty
,
or
take
Tutty
prepared
one
scruple
,
and
half
a
dram
of
Allum
,
Camphire
six
grains
,
with
ointment
of
Roses
,
and
Capons
grease
make
it
up
;
or
take
Pomatum
one
ounce
and
a
half
,
Mastick
a
scruple
,
Powder
of
red
roses
,
and
Gum
Traganth
of
each
half
a
scruple
;
before
the
child
sucks
wash
the
breasts
with
Rose
water
and
White-wine
;
and
that
it
may
suck
without
pain
,
cover
the
sore
pap
with
a
silver
Nipple
covered
with
the
pap
of
a
Cow
new
killed
:
You
may
take
what
quantity
you
please
of
Mutton
Suet
,
or
Lambs
Suet
,
and
wash
it
in
Rose
water
,
when
it
is
melted
and
clarified
,
and
annoint
the
paps
with
it
.
CHAP.
IV.
Directions
for
Nurses
.
BUt
there
is
one
consideration
more
for
the
Nurse
before
I
leave
this
;
and
that
is
,
that
she
may
not
want
good
milk
in
her
breasts
,
for
if
she
do
,
the
child
will
suffer
more
than
the
Nurse
,
because
he
draws
it
from
her
to
feed
him
:
Those
that
are
fretful
,
lean
,
or
sickly
,
have
bad
Livers
and
Stomachs
,
and
ill
digestion
,
that
they
can
have
neither
much
,
nor
yet
good
milk
,
and
bad
diet
hinders
much
.
Such
as
want
milk
should
drink
milk
wherein
Fennel
Seed
hath
been
soked
,
and
feed
on
good
nourishment
,
and
drink
good
drink
,
Barley
Water
and
Almond
milk
are
good
for
hot
cholerick
people
;
let
her
eat
Lettice
,
Borrage
,
Spuriache
,
and
Lamb
sodden
,
and
eaten
with
Vervine
,
Calves
or
Goats
milk
nourish
and
breed
milk
in
the
breasts
;
the
eating
of
Anniseeds
,
Cummin
seeds
,
Carraway
seeds
or
their
decoction
drank
will
help
well
,
all
things
that
increase
seed
ripen
milk
:
when
you
go
to
bed
drink
two
drams
and
a
half
of
bruised
Anniseeds
in
the
decoction
of
Coleworts
.
Use
this
Plaister
,
take
Deers
suet
half
an
ounce
,
Parsley
herb
and
root
the
like
quantity
,
barley
meal
one
ounce
and
a
half
,
red
Storax
three
drams
,
boil
the
roots
and
herbs
well
,
and
beat
them
to
Pap
,
and
incorporate
all
with
three
ounces
of
oyl
of
sweet
Almonds
,
and
lay
them
to
the
breasts
and
nipple
.
There
are
many
things
hinder
milk
,
either
little
blood
to
breed
it
,
or
the
faculty
of
the
breasts
is
deficient
and
cannot
do
it
,
or
the
Organs
are
not
right
as
they
should
be
;
also
much
watching
,
&
fasting
,
&
labour
,
&
sweating
,
and
great
evacuations
by
stool
or
Urine
,
strong
passions
,
or
great
pains
,
sorrows
,
cares
,
or
strong
Feavers
,
and
other
discussers
may
destroy
or
hinder
milk
in
the
breasts
,
so
may
also
the
childs
great
weakness
who
cannot
draw
it
thither
;
it
is
easily
known
by
any
of
these
causes
;
when
the
breasts
swell
not
but
flag
,
and
lie
wrinkled
,
you
know
there
is
no
great
store
of
milk
in
them
:
if
the
fault
be
in
the
Liver
,
that
it
breeds
not
good
blood
,
you
must
rectify
the
Liver
;
yet
she
may
be
in
good
health
,
sufficient
as
to
other
things
,
but
then
the
infant
will
be
ruined
by
it
:
and
it
is
for
that
end
that
nature
provides
milk
that
the
child
may
be
fed
.
The
usual
way
for
rich
people
is
to
put
forth
their
children
to
nurse
,
but
that
is
a
remedy
that
needs
a
remedy
,
if
it
might
be
had
;
because
it
changeth
the
natural
disposition
of
the
child
,
and
oftentimes
exposeth
the
infant
to
many
hazards
,
if
great
care
be
not
taken
in
the
choice
of
the
nurse
.
There
are
not
many
Women
that
want
milk
to
suckle
their
own
children
;
so
there
are
some
that
may
well
be
excused
,
because
of
their
weakness
,
that
they
cannot
give
suck
to
their
own
children
:
but
multitudes
pretend
weakness
when
they
have
no
cause
for
it
,
because
they
have
not
so
much
love
for
their
own
,
as
Dumb
creatures
have
.
Nature
indeed
hath
provided
some
helps
where
milk
is
wanting
for
the
child
,
but
those
are
not
many
;
to
shew
women
that
nature
commonly
doth
her
part
with
most
mothers
,
to
furnish
them
with
milk
without
farther
means
than
by
good
wholesome
meats
and
drinks
:
but
there
are
abundance
of
things
that
will
hinder
milk
,
or
destroy
it
.
For
all
things
that
are
cold
,
or
else
hot
and
dry
,
are
enemies
to
womens
milk
;
but
none
will
breed
it
but
such
things
as
are
hot
and
moist
,
or
not
very
dry
,
and
of
such
things
there
are
no
great
plenty
.
Also
they
must
be
of
easie
digestion
,
and
that
will
breed
good
blood
,
that
the
milk
that
is
bred
may
have
no
strong
qualities
with
it
to
offend
the
infant
.
You
may
lay
a
plaister
of
Mustard
all
over
the
breasts
,
and
change
it
often
,
and
lay
on
another
;
all
such
things
as
being
eaten
(
breed
milk
)
will
do
the
like
if
you
lay
them
on
outwardly
:
or
foment
the
breasts
with
this
decoction
,
as
Fennel
,
Smallage
,
Mints
,
pound
them
,
and
lay
them
on
,
with
Barley
meal
half
an
ounce
,
the
seeds
of
Gith
one
dram
,
and
with
two
drams
of
Storax
Calamita
,
and
two
ounces
of
the
oil
of
Lillies
to
make
a
Poultis
.
Some
say
that
by
sympathy
a
Cows
Udder
dried
in
an
oven
,
first
cut
into
pieces
,
and
then
powdered
,
half
a
pound
of
this
powder
to
an
ounce
of
Anniseed
,
and
as
much
of
sweet
Fennel-seed
,
with
two
ounces
of
Cummin
seed
,
and
four
ounces
of
Sugar
,
will
make
milk
increase
exceedingly
;
or
boil
a
handful
of
Green
Parsly
,
and
a
handful
of
Fennel
,
with
a
small
handful
of
Barley
,
and
half
an
ounce
of
red
Pease
in
chicken
broth
,
or
sweeten
the
former
decoction
with
fine
Sugar
,
and
so
drink
it
:
Dill
,
and
Basil
,
and
Rochet
,
and
Chrystal
also
,
but
this
must
be
warily
taken
,
not
too
often
nor
too
much
,
are
good
to
cause
milk
in
the
breasts
:
some
prescribe
the
hoofs
of
a
Cows
forefeet
dried
and
powdered
,
and
a
dram
taken
every
morning
in
Ale
;
I
think
it
should
be
the
hoofs
of
the
hinder
feet
,
for
they
stand
nearest
the
Udder
,
where
milk
is
bred
.
I
mislike
not
the
experiment
,
but
our
Ladies
thistle
is
by
Signature
,
and
(
the
white
milky
veins
it
hath
)
well
known
to
be
a
very
good
help
to
women
that
want
milk
.
A
woman
may
be
of
a
good
complexion
,
and
yet
want
milk
in
her
breasts
:
and
there
is
a
Royal
Person
now
living
,
that
I
will
not
be
so
bold
to
name
here
,
that
when
his
Nurse
wanted
milk
,
the
Physicians
,
Doctor
Mayhern
and
others
,
were
desirous
to
put
her
off
from
being
nurse
,
because
(
they
said
)
she
had
not
milk
sufficient
to
supply
the
child
with
;
but
his
Sacred
Majesty
of
Blessed
and
Glorious
Memory
spoke
in
the
womans
behalf
:
when
the
Physicians
confest
,
That
the
milk
she
had
was
very
good
;
What
saith
his
Majesty
,
is
not
a
pint
of
Cream
as
good
as
a
quart
of
Milk
?
Some
women
there
are
that
are
full
of
blood
,
lusty
,
and
strong
,
and
so
well
tempered
to
increase
milk
,
that
they
can
suckle
a
child
of
their
own
,
and
another
for
a
friend
;
and
it
will
not
be
amiss
for
them
when
they
have
too
great
plenty
to
do
so
,
if
they
be
poor
,
for
it
will
help
them
with
food
,
and
not
hurt
their
own
child
:
for
if
a
child
suck
too
much
milk
,
it
will
soon
fall
into
Convulsion
fits
,
if
the
children
be
full
bodied
;
and
if
milk
be
too
much
in
the
breasts
,
it
will
clodder
and
corrupt
,
and
inflame
the
blood
if
it
be
not
drawn
forth
.
When
blood
first
comes
to
the
breasts
to
make
milk
,
though
it
come
in
great
plenty
we
may
not
stop
it
,
but
afterwards
labour
to
diminish
it
by
a
slender
diet
,
and
eating
things
that
breed
small
nourishment
;
or
else
lay
repercussive
medicaments
to
the
veins
under
the
arms
,
and
above
the
breasts
,
to
drive
the
blood
back
;
you
may
also
open
a
vein
:
Calamints
and
Agnus
Castus
,
Coriander
seed
and
Hemlock
are
enemies
to
breeding
of
milk
.
When
you
suspect
that
the
blood
will
be
inflamed
by
too
great
plenty
of
milk
,
then
make
a
Poultiss
of
Housleek
,
Lettice
,
Poppies
,
and
Water
Lillies
,
this
will
drive
it
back
.
They
that
are
desirous
to
put
forth
their
Children
to
Nurse
may
use
this
decoction
;
of
Bays
,
Mallows
,
Fennel
,
Smallage
,
Parsley
,
Mints
,
half
a
handful
of
each
,
to
foment
the
breasts
,
and
afterwards
they
must
anoint
them
with
oyl
Omphacine
made
of
sowr
grapes
;
then
take
Turpentine
washt
with
Wine
and
Rose-water
three
ounces
,
and
two
or
three
Eggs
,
with
one
scruple
of
Saffron
,
and
a
sufficient
quantity
of
wax
to
make
a
Plaister
;
lay
this
on
upon
the
breasts
fresh
every
day
before
Supper
,
but
leave
a
hole
in
the
middle
of
the
Plaister
for
the
Nipple
to
come
forth
.
If
the
milk
be
much
,
and
stay
long
in
the
breasts
,
it
does
curdle
,
when
the
thinner
part
evaporates
,
and
the
thick
stayes
behind
and
turns
into
kernels
and
hard
swellings
,
which
being
the
Cheesy
part
of
the
milk
will
soon
grow
hard
,
and
this
will
easily
inflame
and
impostumate
;
besides
the
plenty
,
it
may
be
salt
or
sharp
,
or
exceed
in
many
other
ill
qualities
:
when
milk
is
too
much
it
will
cause
pain
in
the
breasts
,
and
clefts
;
but
to
hinder
it
from
clotting
and
congealing
,
make
a
pap
of
grated
white
bread
,
new
milk
,
and
oyl
of
Roses
,
seethe
them
all
together
,
and
lay
it
warm
over
the
breasts
;
let
her
use
to
eat
Saffron
,
Cinnamon
,
and
Mints
with
her
Meats
,
and
observe
a
moderate
Diet
with
moist
Meats
,
which
breed
but
thin
milk
:
but
if
the
milk
be
clodded
and
inflamed
,
pound
Chickweed
and
lay
it
warm
over
the
breasts
,
or
annoint
them
with
the
mucilage
of
Fleawort
,
Purslane
seeds
,
and
Fenugreek
,
made
up
with
wax
to
an
ointment
.
But
sometimes
the
woman
takes
cold
,
and
falls
into
an
Ague
,
then
lay
on
a
Poultis
to
the
breasts
made
with
Melilot
,
Camomile
,
Fennel
seeds
,
Anniseeds
,
Dill
seeds
,
Linseeds
,
Fenugreek
,
Southernwood
,
Basil
,
and
Ginger
,
with
oyl
of
Camomile
;
to
hinder
the
curdling
,
take
two
ounces
of
Coriander
seed
,
and
as
much
of
Mints
,
and
one
ounce
of
oyl
of
Dill
made
to
a
Livint
,
with
a
little
wax
:
and
to
dissolve
what
is
already
curdled
,
take
an
ounce
of
each
of
these
roots
,
Fennel
,
and
Eringos
,
and
half
a
handful
of
green
Fennel
tops
,
and
one
dram
of
Anniseeds
,
boil
all
to
a
pint
,
add
Oxymel
Simple
two
ounces
,
and
as
much
of
the
sirrup
of
the
two
opening
roots
at
the
Apothecaries
.
It
is
a
thing
to
be
wondered
at
,
how
Nature
sometimes
will
find
strange
conveniences
&
passages
that
are
not
ordinary
in
some
women
;
for
some
have
voided
their
breasts
milk
by
their
Urine
,
and
sometimes
by
the
womb
;
and
it
hath
been
a
great
Dispute
by
which
of
the
two
the
milk
came
forth
:
the
shortest
way
for
the
milk
to
return
,
is
the
way
the
blood
came
to
the
breasts
to
make
the
milk
,
not
from
the
veins
of
the
breasts
to
the
hypogastrick
Veins
,
and
next
to
the
womb
,
but
from
the
breast
veins
to
the
epigastrick
veins
,
and
from
them
to
the
hypogastrick
,
and
so
to
the
womb
;
but
this
is
seldome
seen
or
heard
of
:
but
strange
things
have
come
forth
of
the
breasts
,
and
sometimes
the
menstrual
blood
unchanged
runs
forth
this
way
at
certain
seasons
.
Hippocrates
Writes
that
when
the
blood
comes
out
of
the
Nipples
,
those
women
are
Mad
:
yet
Ama●us
Lusitanus
tells
us
,
of
his
own
experience
,
that
he
saw
two
women
at
whose
Paps
their
Monthly
Terms
came
forth
and
yet
neither
of
them
was
Mad.
But
we
must
rightly
understand
Hippocrates
meaning
,
for
he
doth
mean
of
her
fiery
blood
that
flies
up
and
enflames
the
party
;
whereof
part
goes
to
the
breasts
,
and
much
to
the
the
brain
;
causing
pain
and
inflammations
,
and
that
is
a
forerunner
of
Madness
:
but
it
is
not
menstrual
blood
will
do
this
,
unless
it
be
endued
with
some
extraordinary
malignant
quality
;
for
that
is
ordained
to
go
to
the
breasts
to
make
milk
,
which
is
the
reason
that
Nurses
have
few
or
no
Courses
,
because
the
blood
goes
to
the
breasts
to
make
milk
,
as
I
said
.
But
if
this
accident
fall
out
,
that
the
blood
runs
forth
at
the
breasts
undigested
,
not
changed
by
the
faculty
of
the
breasts
into
Milk
,
as
it
ought
to
be
,
then
open
the
Saphaena
vein
in
the
Foot
,
and
that
will
pull
it
back
again
;
and
cure
this
Distemper
.
There
is
so
near
agreement
between
the
breasts
and
the
womb
,
that
any
distemper
of
the
womb
will
change
the
very
colour
of
the
Nipples
;
and
therefore
it
is
not
well
to
prejudicate
,
and
to
think
they
are
not
Maids
when
their
Nipples
change
colour
,
when
it
is
onely
a
sign
that
their
wombs
are
distempered
.
The
Nipples
are
red
after
Copulation
,
red
(
I
say
)
as
a
Strawberry
,
&
that
is
their
natural
colour
:
but
Nurses
Nipples
,
when
they
give
Suck
,
are
blew
,
and
they
grow
black
when
they
are
old
.
If
there
be
pain
in
the
breasts
from
abundance
of
milk
onely
,
the
pain
is
not
very
great
,
it
is
onely
by
overstretching
them
;
but
if
the
milk
be
sowr
,
or
sharp
,
or
salt
,
or
corroding
,
the
pain
is
more
,
and
will
be
greater
if
there
be
inflammation
;
but
when
there
is
an
Ulcer
,
or
a
Cancer
;
the
pains
are
out
of
measure
great
:
you
may
know
the
c●use
of
the
pain
by
the
greatness
of
it
;
and
you
have
sufficient
directions
before
how
to
cure
them
.
But
having
made
way
for
it
,
I
shall
now
proceed
to
speak
a
few
words
of
Nurses
,
and
Nursing
of
Children
.
CHAP.
V.
How
to
Chuse
a
Nurse
.
THis
dispute
about
Nurses
,
who
are
fit
for
it
,
and
who
are
not
,
is
much
handled
by
Physicians
;
and
some
there
be
that
will
tye
every
woman
to
Nurse
her
own
Child
,
because
Sarah
,
the
wife
to
so
great
a
Man
as
Abraham
was
,
nursed
Isaac
:
And
indeed
if
there
be
no
other
obstacle
the
Argument
may
carry
some
weight
with
it
;
for
doubtless
the
mothers
milk
is
commonly
best
agreeing
with
the
child
;
and
if
the
mother
do
not
Nurse
her
own
Child
,
it
is
a
question
whether
she
will
ever
love
it
so
well
as
she
doth
that
proves
the
Nurse
to
it
as
well
as
Mother
:
and
without
doubt
the
child
will
be
much
alienated
in
his
affections
by
sucking
of
strange
Milk
,
and
that
may
be
one
great
cause
of
Childrens
proving
so
undutiful
to
their
Parents
.
The
Lacedemonians
chose
the
youngest
son
after
his
Father
to
succeed
in
the
Kingdom
,
&
rejected
all
the
rest
;
because
the
mother
gave
suck
onely
to
the
youngest
.
Tacitus
gives
a
reason
why
the
Germans
are
so
exceeding
strong
;
because
(
saith
he
)
they
are
commonly
sucked
by
their
own
Mothers
.
Yet
Alcibiades
,
a
strong
and
valiant
Captain
,
was
thought
to
have
come
to
his
great
strength
,
by
sucking
the
breasts
of
a
Spartan
woman
:
for
they
are
great
,
vigorous
,
and
usually
very
strong
women
.
I
cannot
think
it
alwayes
necessary
for
the
mother
to
give
her
own
Child
suck
;
she
may
have
sore
breasts
,
and
many
infirmities
,
that
she
cannot
do
it
.
Moreover
a
Nurse
ought
to
be
of
a
good
Complexion
and
Constitution
;
and
if
the
Mother
be
not
so
,
it
will
be
good
to
change
the
milk
by
chosing
a
good
wholesome
nurse
,
that
may
correct
the
natural
humors
of
the
Child
drawn
from
the
ill
complexion
of
the
Mother
.
Many
children
dye
whilest
they
are
sucking
the
breasts
,
or
else
get
such
Diseases
(
if
the
milk
be
naught
)
that
they
can
hardly
ever
be
cured
,
and
the
chief
cause
is
the
Nurses
milk
.
If
a
Nurse
be
well
complexioned
her
milk
cannot
be
ill
;
for
a
Fig-Tree
bears
not
Thistles
:
a
good
Tree
will
bring
forth
good
Fruit.
But
few
can
tell
,
when
they
see
a
Nurse
,
whether
her
complexion
be
good
or
not
:
wherefore
I
shall
give
you
such
Rules
whereby
you
may
be
able
to
know
that
;
and
I
have
gained
most
of
it
by
my
own
experience
.
Many
Physicians
have
troubled
themselves
and
others
with
unnecessary
directions
,
but
the
chifest
is
to
choose
a
nurse
of
a
sanguine
complexion
,
for
that
is
most
predominant
in
children
;
and
therefore
that
is
most
agreeing
to
their
age
:
but
beware
you
choose
not
a
woman
that
is
crooked
,
or
squint-eyed
,
nor
with
a
mishapen
Nose
,
or
body
,
or
with
black
ill-favoured
Teeth
,
or
with
stinking
breath
,
or
with
any
notable
depravation
;
for
these
are
signs
of
ill
manners
that
the
child
will
partake
of
by
sucking
such
ill
qualified
milk
as
such
people
yield
;
and
the
child
will
soon
be
squint-eyed
by
imitation
,
for
that
age
is
subject
to
represent
,
and
take
impression
upon
every
occasion
:
but
a
sanguine
complexioned
woman
is
commonly
free
from
all
these
distempers
,
unless
by
accident
it
fall
out
otherwise
;
and
her
milk
will
be
good
,
and
her
breasts
and
nipples
handsome
,
and
well
proportioned
;
she
is
of
a
mean
stature
,
not
too
tall
,
nor
too
low
;
not
fat
,
but
well
flesht
;
of
a
ruddy
,
merry
,
cheerful
,
delightsome
countenance
,
and
clear
skin'd
that
her
Veins
appear
through
it
;
her
hair
is
in
a
mean
between
black
,
and
white
and
red
,
neither
in
the
extream
,
but
a
light
brown
,
that
partakes
somewhat
of
them
all
:
Such
a
woman
is
sociable
,
not
subject
to
melancholy
,
nor
to
be
angry
and
fretful
;
nor
peevish
and
passionate
;
but
jovial
,
and
will
Sing
and
Dance
,
taking
great
delight
in
children
;
and
therefore
is
the
most
fit
to
Nurse
them
:
whereas
all
the
other
tempers
,
except
sanguine
,
as
Flegm
,
or
Choler
,
or
melancholy
,
breed
milk
that
will
agree
well
with
no
child
;
and
their
own
constitutions
are
not
agreeable
to
the
nursing
of
children
:
though
her
complexion
then
be
not
exactly
sanguine
,
for
that
is
seldom
found
,
let
it
suffice
if
blood
be
predominant
above
the
rest
.
Moreover
,
be
her
temper
naturally
never
so
good
,
yet
if
she
be
diseased
she
is
not
for
your
turn
;
or
if
she
be
above
fourty
years
old
,
or
under
eighteen
years
:
she
must
be
of
ability
to
live
well
,
that
there
be
no
want
;
and
one
that
hath
had
good
Education
to
instruct
her
;
for
if
she
be
not
well
bred
,
she
will
never
breed
the
child
well
:
she
must
have
prudence
and
care
to
see
to
it
.
But
there
is
one
rule
from
the
Sex
;
That
a
female
Child
must
suck
the
breasts
of
a
Nurse
that
had
a
Girl
the
last
child
she
had
,
and
a
Boy
must
suck
her
that
lately
had
a
boy
.
But
the
Nurse
must
not
company
with
Man
so
long
as
she
gives
suck
to
the
child
,
for
if
she
conceive
,
the
child
will
suffer
by
it
:
she
must
live
in
a
well-tempered
pure
,
Air
;
she
must
sleep
well
when
she
is
sleepy
,
that
she
may
soon
wake
if
the
child
cry
.
She
must
use
moderate
exercise
,
and
indeed
the
Dancing
and
Rocking
of
the
child
will
hardly
suffer
her
to
be
idle
:
and
therefore
all
such
as
put
their
children
to
Nurse
,
should
do
well
to
consider
the
great
care
and
pains
of
the
Nurse
,
by
well
rewarding
them
,
when
they
have
made
a
good
choice
:
for
,
if
the
Nurse
be
not
good
,
they
had
better
be
without
them
.
Nor
is
it
onely
a
present
Gratification
from
the
Parents
that
is
answerable
to
the
Nurses
pains
:
But
children
should
remember
,
when
they
come
to
years
,
to
be
thankful
to
their
Nurses
that
bred
them
up
,
and
to
requite
their
great
care
and
pains
,
having
them
in
little
less
esteem
than
their
own
Mothers
that
bore
them
.
The
Nurse
on
the
other
side
must
not
neglect
her
Duty
,
and
doubtless
some
nurses
are
as
fond
of
their
nurse
Children
as
if
they
were
their
own
.
If
the
nurse
use
good
Diet
and
Exercise
,
it
will
breed
good
blood
,
and
good
blood
makes
good
milk
:
but
let
her
forbear
all
sharp
,
sowr
,
fiery
,
melancholy
meats
;
or
Mustard
,
and
Onyons
,
or
Leeks
and
Garlick
:
and
let
her
not
drink
much
strong
drink
,
for
that
will
enflame
the
Child
,
and
make
it
cholerick
:
all
Cheese
breeds
melancholy
,
and
Fish
is
Flegmatick
.
Gross
and
thick
air
make
gross
blood
,
and
heavy
bodies
,
and
dull
wits
.
Places
that
are
near
the
Sea
side
,
and
Bogs
,
are
very
sickly
and
unwholsome
;
but
a
clear
air
,
that
is
pure
,
is
as
needful
as
Meat
and
Drink
,
it
makes
the
body
sprightful
,
and
the
reason
and
understanding
ready
,
good
vital
and
animal
spirits
are
bred
by
it
,
whereby
all
things
to
reason
become
more
subservient
;
opinion
,
fancy
,
judgement
,
resolution
,
apprehension
,
imagination
,
memory
,
knowledge
,
mirth
,
hope
,
trust
,
joy
,
urbanity
,
and
what
can
be
said
almost
are
produced
:
Meats
and
Drinks
feed
the
body
,
but
the
air
guides
the
mind
in
almost
all
its
actions
;
and
life
and
health
,
sickness
and
death
depend
most
upon
it
.
If
the
nurses
milk
be
too
hot
,
Succory
,
Purslain
are
good
herbs
for
her
to
eat
;
and
if
it
be
too
cold
,
then
Vervain
,
and
Mother
of
time
,
Cinnamon
,
Borrage
and
Bugloss
,
and
all
wholesome
Herbs
and
Meats
and
Drinks
,
that
a
little
exceed
in
heat
mend
her
milk
.
If
the
child
be
ill
the
Nurses
milk
is
commonly
the
cause
of
it
;
if
wind
oppress
the
child
,
let
the
Nurse
but
put
Fennel
seed
,
and
Anniseed
into
her
meats
or
broths
,
and
the
child
will
be
well
;
but
of
that
more
by
and
by
,
as
I
pass
on
to
speak
of
the
diseases
and
infirmities
of
children
:
but
before
I
part
with
the
Nurse
it
will
be
but
reason
to
enquire
when
the
Nurse
should
part
with
her
child
,
and
wean
it
from
the
breasts
.
I
know
there
can
be
no
general
rule
for
all
,
because
some
children
are
weak
,
and
must
stay
longer
before
they
be
weaned
.
Avicenna
saith
two
years
is
the
time
children
should
suck
:
I
have
seen
some
in
England
that
have
kept
their
children
sucking
near
four
years
,
who
would
carry
their
stool
after
their
Nurses
to
sit
down
on
to
give
them
suck
;
but
a
year
old
is
sufficient
to
most
children
;
yet
they
are
loth
to
leave
the
Dug
till
they
be
driven
from
it
.
Breast
milk
is
very
sweet
,
&
of
good
digestion
and
therefore
some
that
are
fallen
into
consumptions
in
their
riper
years
,
are
cured
by
sucking
a
wholesome
womans
breasts
:
but
sucking
is
not
proper
for
children
so
soon
as
they
can
concoct
other
nutriment
.
Milk
is
for
Babes
,
but
strong
meat
for
men
.
I
have
known
some
women
so
fond
of
their
children
,
that
they
would
never
wean
them
by
their
good
will
:
But
when
children
suck
so
over-long
,
as
three
or
four
years
,
I
seldome
hear
of
any
of
them
that
ever
come
to
good
;
insomuch
that
many
women
have
repented
of
their
folly
when
it
was
too
late
.
Their
children
by
overcockering
,
growing
so
stuborn
and
unnatural
,
that
they
have
proved
a
great
grief
to
their
parents
.
It
seems
God
sometimes
thus
punishes
women
for
their
folly
;
and
the
children
thus
tenderly
bred
,
for
want
of
stronger
meat
than
breast
milk
in
their
child-hood
,
grow
lame
,
and
weak
,
and
sick
of
the
Rickets
.
Some
women
will
not
be
contented
with
such
children
as
God
sends
them
,
but
they
will
be
mending
the
feature
of
their
noses
,
and
their
bodies
,
till
they
make
them
very
ill
favoured
,
that
would
have
grown
in
good
shape
:
and
some
though
they
have
Daughters
,
will
not
be
contented
unless
they
may
have
a
son
.
God
sometimes
hears
their
prayers
,
and
sends
them
a
Boy
,
it
may
be
a
Fool
,
that
will
be
a
boy
as
long
as
he
lives
.
I
have
shewed
you
that
children
,
be
they
Boys
or
Girls
,
unless
they
be
weak
,
should
not
suck
the
breast
above
a
year
;
and
if
it
be
a
nurses
breasts
,
and
not
the
own
mother
that
they
suck
,
it
is
the
same
thing
for
time
;
yet
the
Nurse
should
be
chosen
as
near
to
the
constitution
of
the
mother
as
possibly
you
can
,
for
then
there
will
not
be
so
great
alteration
in
the
constitution
and
manners
of
the
child
;
a
Nurse
is
best
after
her
second
child
,
if
she
be
but
between
twenty
and
thirty
years
of
age
,
her
milk
must
not
be
above
ten
months
old
when
you
chuse
her
;
nor
under
two
months
old
,
for
that
will
be
too
new
.
If
the
nurses
milk
prove
ill
,
she
must
take
a
gentle
purgation
;
but
if
it
be
to
purge
the
child
,
it
must
be
very
gentle
indeed
,
for
that
purging
quality
of
the
Medicament
passeth
to
the
milk
,
and
will
operate
upon
the
Child
,
which
cannot
otherwise
be
purged
by
Physick
.
It
hath
been
much
argued
whether
the
mother
or
some
other
women
be
best
to
nurse
the
child
;
surely
I
should
think
the
mother
,
in
all
respects
,
if
she
be
sound
and
well
,
because
it
agrees
better
with
the
childs
temper
;
for
the
milk
of
the
mother
is
the
same
with
that
nutriment
the
child
drew
in
,
in
the
Womb.
But
yet
it
will
do
good
sometimes
to
change
the
nurse
,
if
the
mothers
milk
contract
any
ill
qualities
,
or
be
too
sharp
,
or
salt
,
or
otherwise
offensive
to
the
child
;
for
if
the
child
do
not
take
rest
well
,
or
cry
and
complain
,
doubtless
the
milk
it
feeds
on
is
distempered
:
Good
milk
is
neither
too
thick
nor
too
thin
;
too
thin
is
raw
and
breeds
crudities
;
too
thick
is
hardly
concocted
by
the
infant
:
it
must
be
white
and
sweet
scented
;
if
it
smell
sowr
,
or
burnt
,
it
will
corrupt
in
the
stomach
;
and
so
it
will
if
it
taste
salt
,
or
sowr
,
or
bitter
,
or
have
any
ill
tast
:
drop
a
drop
of
breast
milk
on
your
nail
,
or
upon
a
Glass
,
and
if
it
shew
very
white
,
and
neither
stick
like
glew
nor
run
off
like
water
,
but
be
off
a
middle
nature
,
you
may
conclude
that
it
is
good
.
When
the
blood
is
too
full
of
Whey
it
breeds
thin
milk
,
which
gives
little
nourishment
,
and
the
children
by
sucking
of
it
fall
into
Fluxes
,
and
looseness
of
the
belly
;
and
sharp
milk
makes
them
scabby
:
purge
away
the
whey
of
the
blood
if
it
be
too
hot
&
cholerick
with
Rhubarb
,
otherwise
with
Mechoachan
,
or
sirrup
of
Roses
:
cold
and
moist
breasts
are
mended
by
the
contraries
,
that
is
by
hot
and
dry
things
:
If
wheyish
humours
come
from
the
Liver
,
that
must
be
mended
:
hot
and
dry
things
(
that
profit
)
are
bread
,
well
baked
with
Anniseed
,
and
Fennel
seed
;
Roast-meat
,
Rice
,
sweet
Almonds
:
but
broth
,
and
Fish
and
Sallets
,
and
Summer
fruits
must
be
avoided
:
good
exercise
breeds
good
blood
;
gross
diet
makes
thick
and
gross
milk
;
and
sometimes
a
hot
and
dry
distemper
of
the
breasts
will
burn
up
the
thin
part
of
the
milk
:
purge
away
thick
humours
from
the
blood
,
&
eat
meats
of
good
digestion
,
as
Veal
,
Chickens
,
Kids
flesh
;
and
use
a
moistening
and
attenuating
Diet
;
Fryed
Onions
,
and
all
sowr
spiced
meats
,
will
communicate
their
qualities
to
the
milk
,
that
you
may
find
both
by
smell
and
tast
.
Strong
passions
of
anger
,
or
fear
will
cause
chollerick
and
melancholly
milk
,
which
makes
the
child
lean
,
that
it
cannnot
thrive
:
Hence
come
gripings
,
and
wringing
pains
in
the
belly
,
Thrush
in
the
mouth
,
and
Falling-sickness
;
good
wine
moderately
drank
sometimes
,
will
help
the
ill
smell
and
taste
of
the
milk
.
Let
the
Nurse
be
sure
to
observe
a
Diet
that
is
most
proper
for
her
milk
,
and
may
not
corrupt
it
;
and
also
to
avoid
all
passions
and
venereous
actions
during
the
time
she
is
a
nurse
;
and
if
for
all
this
the
milk
prove
ill
,
she
must
purge
away
evil
qualities
,
according
to
my
former
prescriptions
.
CAAP.
VI.
Of
the
Child
.
CHildren
that
look
white
and
pale
when
they
are
born
,
are
weak
and
sickly
,
and
seldome
live
long
;
but
if
it
be
of
a
reddish
colour
all
over
the
body
,
when
it
is
first
born
,
and
this
colour
change
by
degrees
to
a
Rose
colour
,
there
is
no
doubt
of
the
child
but
it
may
do
well
:
if
it
cry
strongly
and
clear
,
it
argues
a
great
strength
of
the
breast
.
Take
notice
of
all
the
parts
of
it
,
and
see
all
be
right
;
and
the
Midwife
must
handle
it
very
tenderly
and
wash
the
body
with
warm
wine
,
then
when
it
is
dry
roul
it
up
with
soft
cloths
,
and
lay
it
into
the
Cradle
:
but
in
the
swadling
of
it
be
sure
that
all
parts
be
bound
up
in
their
due
place
and
order
gently
,
without
any
crookedness
,
or
rugged
foldings
;
for
infants
are
tender
twigs
,
and
as
you
use
them
,
so
they
will
grow
straight
or
crooked
:
wipe
the
childs
eyes
often
,
to
make
them
clean
,
with
a
piece
of
soft
linnen
,
or
silk
;
and
lay
the
arms
right
down
by
the
sides
,
that
they
may
grow
right
,
and
sometimes
with
your
hand
stroke
down
the
belly
of
the
child
toward
the
neck
of
the
bladder
,
to
provoke
it
to
make
water
:
But
the
first
work
to
be
done
,
so
soon
as
it
is
born
,
is
to
cut
the
Navel-string
,
and
to
bind
that
up
right
;
I
shewed
you
how
to
do
it
before
;
when
the
Navel-string
is
cut
off
,
strew
upon
it
a
powder
of
Bole
,
Sarcocolla
,
Dragons
blood
,
Cummin
and
Myrrh
,
of
each
the
same
quantity
,
and
bind
a
piece
of
Cotton
,
or
Wool
over
it
,
to
keep
it
from
falling
off
again
;
and
if
the
child
be
weak
after
this
,
anoint
the
childs
body
over
with
oil
of
Acorns
,
for
that
will
comfort
and
strengthen
it
,
and
keep
away
the
cold
;
wash
the
child
next
with
warm
water
;
pare
your
nails
,
and
pick
out
the
filth
from
the
childs
nostrils
;
open
the
Fundament
that
it
may
encline
to
go
to
stool
,
and
keep
it
neither
too
hot
nor
too
cold
,
nor
in
a
place
that
is
too
light
;
let
not
the
beams
of
the
Sun
or
Moon
dart
upon
it
as
it
lieth
in
the
Cradle
especially
,
but
let
the
cradle
stand
in
a
darkish
and
shadowy
place
,
and
let
the
head
lie
a
little
higher
than
the
body
;
for
a
child
that
is
very
young
to
look
upon
the
light
of
a
candle
will
make
them
pore
blind
,
or
squint-eyed
:
so
will
the
light
of
the
Sun
;
set
not
a
candle
behind
the
head
of
it
,
for
the
child
will
turn
its
eyes
to
the
light
.
Take
heed
the
child
be
not
frighted
,
for
it
will
soon
be
fearful
if
you
let
it
sleep
alone
,
so
soon
as
it
awakes
and
misseth
the
Nurse
;
keep
it
not
waking
longer
than
it
will
,
but
use
means
to
provoke
it
to
sleep
,
by
rocking
it
in
the
cradle
,
and
singing
Lullabies
to
it
;
carry
it
often
in
the
arms
,
and
dance
it
,
to
keep
it
from
the
Rickets
and
other
diseases
:
let
it
not
suck
too
much
at
once
,
but
often
suckle
it
as
it
can
digest
it
.
After
four
months
let
loose
the
arms
,
but
still
roul
the
breast
,
and
belly
,
and
feet
to
keep
out
cold
air
for
a
year
,
till
the
child
have
gained
more
strength
.
Shift
the
childs
clouts
often
,
for
the
Piss
and
Dung
,
if
they
lie
long
in
it
,
will
fetch
on
the
skin
,
and
put
the
child
to
great
pain
:
you
may
suffer
the
child
to
cry
a
little
,
for
it
is
better
for
the
brain
and
lungs
,
that
are
thus
opened
and
discharged
of
superfluous
humours
,
and
natural
heat
is
raised
by
it
,
it
doth
most
good
before
they
suck
,
and
when
the
former
suck
is
digested
;
but
too
much
crying
will
cause
rheums
to
fall
,
and
oftentimes
the
child
will
be
broken
bellied
by
its
overstraining
:
change
the
breasts
as
you
give
suck
;
sometimes
let
it
draw
one
,
sometimes
another
;
and
for
the
first
month
let
it
suck
as
much
as
it
can
,
so
the
stomach
be
not
too
full
.
Give
it
some
pap
of
barley
bread
steeped
a
while
in
water
,
and
then
boiled
in
milk
;
children
that
are
lusty
may
be
fed
with
this
betimes
,
but
they
must
not
suck
till
it
be
a
full
hour
after
it
,
and
thus
they
should
be
dieted
till
they
breed
teeth
.
So
soon
as
the
teeth
come
forth
,
let
it
eat
more
substantial
meat
,
that
is
easily
chewed
and
of
quick
digestion
;
also
give
it
Cows
milk
and
broths
:
let
not
the
child
rest
too
soon
upon
its
legs
,
for
if
the
legs
be
weak
they
will
grow
crooked
,
by
reason
of
the
weight
of
their
bodies
.
When
the
child
is
seven
months
old
you
may
(
if
you
please
)
wash
the
body
of
it
twice
a
week
with
warm
water
till
it
be
weaned
,
Let
the
teeth
come
forth
most
part
,
especially
the
eye-teeth
,
before
the
child
be
weaned
,
for
those
teeth
cause
great
pains
when
they
are
breeding
,
and
Feavers
,
and
grievous
a
king
of
their
Gums
proceed
from
them
:
the
stronger
the
child
is
,
the
sooner
he
is
ready
to
be
weaned
;
some
at
twelve
months
old
,
and
some
not
till
fifteen
or
eighteen
months
old
;
you
may
stay
two
years
if
you
please
,
but
use
the
child
to
other
Food
by
degrees
,
till
it
be
acquainted
with
it
.
Let
the
child
drink
but
little
wine
,
that
it
do
not
over-heat
the
blood
:
the
best
time
to
wean
the
child
is
either
the
Spring
or
the
Fall
of
the
Leaf
,
the
Moon
increasing
.
For
seven
years
give
the
child
nourishing
meats
and
an
indifferent
plentiful
diet
to
make
it
grow
;
cocker
them
not
over
much
,
nor
provoke
them
to
passions
:
I
cannot
tell
which
may
do
most
hurt
.
Too
much
play
,
as
children
are
prone
to
,
will
over-heat
the
blood
;
and
want
of
play
and
idleness
will
make
them
dull
:
Some
Parents
are
too
fond
of
their
children
,
and
leave
them
to
their
own
wills
:
some
are
too
froward
,
and
dishearten
their
children
;
the
mean
is
best
for
them
both
,
and
so
they
shall
be
sure
to
find
it
.
I
have
as
briefly
as
I
could
,
touched
upon
all
occasions
for
women
and
their
children
;
and
some
things
may
seem
to
be
needless
to
to
tell
those
that
knew
them
before
:
but
by
their
leave
,
they
that
know
some
things
may
be
ignorant
of
other
things
:
what
one
knew
before
,
it
may
be
another
knew
not
:
and
what
she
knew
not
,
another
might
know
.
There
are
many
things
here
that
most
women
desire
to
know
:
the
reason
is
the
same
why
all
meats
are
eaten
,
and
all
Maids
may
be
married
:
for
if
we
all
were
taken
with
the
same
thing
,
there
could
be
no
living
in
the
world
.
CHAP.
VII
.
Of
the
Diseases
that
Infants
and
children
are
often
troubled
with
.
I.
SOmetimes
the
child
,
so
soon
almost
as
it
is
but
new
born
,
will
fall
into
strange
throws
and
convulsions
.
Hippocrates
divides
childrens
diseases
according
to
their
several
ages
:
Children
(
new
born
)
are
subject
to
inflammation
of
the
navel
after
it
is
cut
,
to
moistness
of
the
Eares
,
to
Coughs
and
Vomitings
,
and
Ulcers
in
the
mouth
;
to
Feares
and
watchings
.
When
the
Teeth
begin
to
breed
,
there
are
Feavers
,
Convulsions
,
and
Fluxes
of
the
Belly
,
chiefly
when
the
Eye-Teeth
breed
:
when
they
grow
older
the
Tonsils
are
enflamed
,
the
Turnbones
of
the
neck
are
laxated
inwardly
,
they
have
short
breath
,
and
are
troubled
with
the
stone
in
the
bladder
,
round
wormes
,
and
Ascarides
,
Strangury
,
Kings-evil
,
and
standing
Yards
;
as
they
grow
,
still
new
diseases
come
on
:
as
the
Measels
,
Small-pox
;
some
are
Tongue-tyed
until
the
Ligament
be
cut
that
is
too
short
,
and
hinders
their
Speech
.
Use
no
strong
Vomitings
,
or
purgings
,
or
Glisters
to
children
,
nor
bleed
them
;
but
give
them
gentle
means
,
such
are
Suppositories
,
and
mild
Glisters
,
with
a
little
Sugar
and
Milk
:
give
stronger
Physick
to
the
Nurse
,
if
need
require
,
to
purge
the
child
:
strong
medicaments
given
to
the
nurse
may
endanger
the
child
that
sucks
the
breasts
;
but
weak
purges
are
sufficient
to
do
it
good
.
You
may
give
the
child
a
Glister
thus
;
take
Mallows
,
and
violet
leaves
,
of
each
one
handful
,
flowers
of
violets
and
camomile
of
each
a
small
handful
,
boil
them
,
and
take
four
or
five
ounces
of
the
decoction
,
and
with
four
or
six
drams
of
sirrup
of
roses
,
and
half
an
ounce
of
oyl
of
Violets
,
make
it
ready
to
give
luke-warm
,
or
something
more
hot
,
as
it
may
well
endure
.
II.
If
a
Child
be
troubled
with
flegme
,
lay
it
not
on
the
back
,
for
you
may
soon
choak
it
;
but
turn
it
to
lie
on
one
side
or
the
other
.
Keep
the
belly
loose
;
thrust
up
a
suppository
of
Castle
sope
,
rubbed
over
with
fresh
butter
,
to
make
it
more
smooth
&
gentle
to
pass
into
the
body
;
a
spoonful
of
sirrup
of
Violets
afterwards
will
force
down
the
flegme
:
you
may
,
if
the
child
be
temperate
in
heat
,
mingle
half
the
quantity
of
sweet
Almond
oyl
,
with
half
so
much
sirrup
of
Violets
;
but
rub
the
belly
down
with
sweet
butter
,
as
often
as
it
is
undressed
.
III.
If
the
childs
Codds
be
swoln
,
observe
whether
wind
or
water
be
the
cause
of
it
;
the
water
will
sweat
out
if
you
chafe
the
part
with
fresh
butter
:
if
it
be
wind
swing
the
child
well
and
dance
it
,
and
put
the
decoction
of
Anniseeds
in
their
drink
:
but
there
may
be
many
causes
of
the
swelling
of
the
Codds
;
if
wind
be
the
cause
,
the
Codds
will
shew
thin
as
a
horn
,
and
be
as
stiff
as
a
Drums
head
▪
too
much
crying
may
cause
an
inflammation
,
or
bursting
.
If
the
swelling
arise
from
heat
▪
cooling
herbs
will
cure
it
;
but
for
wind
,
boil
a
handful
of
bay
leaves
,
of
Dill
,
Camomile
,
and
Fennel
,
of
each
a
handful
,
Rue
half
a
handful
boil
all
in
a
quart
of
Beer
wort
to
a
pint
:
strain
it
out
hard
,
and
with
the
liquor
boil
as
much
Bean
meal
as
will
make
a
poultis
putting
to
it
two
or
three
spoonfuls
of
oyl
of
Camomile
,
apply
it
hot
to
the
Codds
.
IV.
If
the
childs
Fundament
slip
forth
,
as
it
will
oftentimes
in
many
children
,
when
they
are
bound
,
and
strain
to
go
to
stool
,
or
have
taken
cold
,
or
the
Muscles
are
relaxed
by
moisture
,
when
there
is
a
looseness
of
the
Belly
,
and
a
Tenesmus
or
Needing
,
then
the
Muscle
that
bindes
up
the
hole
will
come
forth
;
if
it
come
from
straining
it
is
easily
cured
at
first
;
but
too
much
moisture
causing
it
,
will
be
hard
to
overcome
,
especially
when
the
belly
is
loose
,
for
then
the
Medicaments
are
driven
off
.
For
the
cure
then
;
if
it
be
swoln
,
and
will
not
be
put
in
,
bath
it
first
with
a
decoction
of
Mallows
,
and
Marshmallows
;
or
annoint
it
with
oyl
of
Lillies
,
then
try
to
put
it
up
,
having
cast
some
astringents
upon
it
;
or
take
Galls
,
Acorn
cups
,
Myrtle
berries
,
dryed
red
Roses
,
burnt
Harts-horn
,
burnt
Allum
,
and
flowers
of
sowr
.
Pomegranates
,
of
each
a
like
quantity
;
make
a
strong
decoction
in
water
,
and
whilest
it
is
warm
bath
the
Gut
with
it
,
and
put
it
into
its
place
:
and
,
to
make
it
flag
up
,
spread
a
little
melted
wax
,
Frankincense
and
Mastick
together
,
upon
a
Linnen
Clout
,
and
lay
it
to
the
Fundament
,
so
bind
it
on
,
and
take
it
off
onely
when
the
child
goes
to
stool
:
sprinkle
the
Gut
with
this
following
powder
:
Of
red
roses
and
sowr
Pomegranate
flowers
,
of
each
half
a
dram
;
Frankincense
and
mastick
of
each
one
dram
.
V.
If
the
Infant
be
too
loose
bellyed
,
and
cannot
contain
its
Excrements
;
this
proceeds
either
from
breeding
of
Teeth
,
and
that
is
usually
with
a
feaver
,
or
from
concoction
depraved
,
and
the
nourishment
corrupted
,
or
from
much
waking
,
or
great
pain
,
or
Feaverish
humors
stirring
in
the
body
:
or
when
they
drink
or
suck
too
much
,
being
over-hot
:
taking
cold
may
also
bring
a
Looseness
;
if
the
Excrements
be
yellow
,
and
green
,
and
stink
,
some
sharp
humor
is
the
cause
of
it
:
When
children
breed
teeth
it
is
good
to
have
the
belly
somewhat
loose
;
but
if
it
exceed
it
must
be
stopt
,
for
the
child
will
consume
.
If
the
Excrements
be
black
,
and
the
child
feaverish
,
it
is
an
ill
sign
.
But
a
Sucking
child
needs
not
be
cured
so
much
as
the
Nurse
;
mend
her
milk
,
or
get
another
Nurse
;
and
let
her
avoid
green
fruit
,
and
Meats
of
hard
digestion
.
When
the
child
is
past
sucking
,
then
purge
,
things
that
leave
a
binding
quality
behind
will
do
it
;
such
are
sirrup
or
honey
of
red
Roses
:
You
may
give
a
Glister
of
two
or
three
ounces
of
the
decoction
of
Milium
and
Myrobolans
,
with
an
ounce
or
two
of
sirrup
of
dried
red
Roses
.
If
it
proceed
from
a
hot
cause
,
cleanse
first
,
then
give
sirrup
of
dried
roses
,
Quinces
,
Myrtles
,
Currants
,
Coral
,
Mastick
,
Harts-horn
,
or
powder
of
Myrtles
,
with
a
little
Dragons
blood
,
and
annoint
the
belly
with
oyl
of
roses
,
of
Mastick
,
of
Myrtles
.
In
a
cold
cause
the
Excrements
will
be
white
;
then
give
sirrup
of
mastick
and
Quinces
,
with
mint
water
;
and
take
half
a
scruple
of
Frankincense
,
and
of
Nutmeg
as
much
,
temper
it
with
the
juyce
of
a
Quince
,
and
give
it
the
child
:
Lay
a
plaister
to
the
childs
belly
made
with
the
seeds
of
red
Roses
,
Cummin
,
Anniseed
,
and
Smallage
,
Barley
meal
,
and
juyce
of
Plantane
,
with
a
little
Vinegar
,
boil
all
together
:
When
the
stools
are
red
,
or
yellow
,
a
spoonful
or
two
of
red
Rose
sirrup
,
or
of
Pomegranates
,
with
Mint
water
,
may
do
much
good
;
or
beat
some
Sorrel-seeds
to
powder
,
and
give
it
to
eat
with
the
yolk
of
a
roasted
Egg
;
or
bruise
the
seed
,
and
boil
it
in
fountain
water
,
and
let
the
child
drink
of
it
twice
a
day
.
If
the
child
be
costive
and
cannot
go
to
stool
,
this
comes
oftentimes
from
a
cold
and
dry
distemper
of
the
Guts
,
from
the
birth
,
or
form
slimy
flegme
that
sticks
to
the
Guts
,
and
wraps
up
the
Dung
:
this
last
comes
from
the
milk
,
when
the
Nurse
drinks
little
,
or
eates
hard
meats
,
or
astringent
diet
;
or
else
it
may
come
from
a
hot
distemper
of
the
Kidneys
and
Liver
,
that
drieth
the
excrements
;
or
want
of
choler
to
provoke
expulsion
.
A
dry
distemper
of
the
Guts
is
not
easily
helped
:
when
there
wants
choler
the
body
looks
yellow
,
and
the
dung
is
white
,
because
the
choller
is
gone
some
other
way
.
When
the
child
is
bound
,
the
Head
will
ache
,
and
there
is
pain
in
the
belly
:
wherefore
it
is
more
healthful
if
the
belly
be
loose
,
so
it
be
moderate
.
A
hot
distemper
is
remedied
by
bathing
it
often
in
a
bath
of
boiled
Lettice
and
Succory
,
to
mosten
and
cool
it
:
In
a
hot
cause
use
coolers
,
in
a
moist
drying
things
;
let
the
nurse
abstain
from
binding
meats
in
dry
causes
,
as
from
Quinces
,
Medlars
,
Pease
,
Beans
;
and
annoint
the
stomach
and
belly
of
the
child
with
fresh
butter
,
oyl
of
Lillies
,
hens
grease
;
if
the
child
be
grown
give
it
the
decoction
of
red
Coleworts
,
with
a
little
Honey
and
salt
:
Flegme
is
cured
with
sirrup
of
Roses
,
or
with
Honey
;
and
to
cool
,
sirrup
of
Violets
is
effectual
,
or
emulsions
of
the
four
cold
seeds
:
When
choler
will
not
come
from
the
Gall
to
the
guts
,
to
move
the
expulsive
faculty
,
let
it
drink
a
decoction
of
Grass
roots
,
Maiden-hair
,
Fennel
,
and
Sparagus
;
if
it
will
not
yet
void
the
Excrements
,
make
a
suppository
of
Honey
boiled
hard
,
let
it
be
as
big
as
a
date
stone
,
or
a
little
bigger
,
and
as
long
as
your
little
finger
,
or
you
may
make
it
of
the
stalks
,
or
roots
of
Beets
,
or
flower
de
Luce
,
dip
them
in
oyl
,
and
thrust
it
up
into
the
Fundament
;
lay
a
piece
of
wool
dipt
in
oyl
to
the
childes
navel
,
and
give
it
the
quantity
of
a
Pease
of
good
honey
:
When
the
child
sucks
give
the
Nurse
a
gentle
purge
to
loosen
the
belly
,
if
soluble
meats
will
not
do
it
;
you
may
safely
lay
a
plaister
over
the
childes
belly
,
made
of
Mallowes
and
Marshmallowes
,
of
each
one
handful
,
Holyhocks
two
ounces
,
ten
Figs
,
Fenugreek
and
Linseed
of
each
one
ounce
,
boil
all
in
water
and
then
stamp
them
in
a
mortar
,
make
it
up
with
butter
and
hens-grease
,
of
each
two
ounces
,
Saffron
one
scruple
,
spread
it
on
a
Linnen
Cloath
;
or
apply
to
the
navel
a
walnut
shell
full
of
hens-grease
and
Oxe
Gall
,
and
anoint
the
belly
with
softning
things
,
as
with
oyl
of
sweet
Almonds
and
of
Linseed
;
bran
,
with
the
juyce
of
Dwarf
Elder
will
make
a
loosning
Poultis
for
the
belly
.
VI.
The
child
may
be
troubled
with
worms
that
breed
in
their
Guts
,
some
like
mites
of
Cheese
,
and
some
like
earth
worms
;
and
some
children
have
been
observed
to
have
them
in
their
Mothers
bellies
,
for
they
have
voided
them
so
soon
almost
as
they
were
born
:
but
the
chief
cause
is
by
mingling
milk
with
other
meats
,
when
the
constitution
is
hot
and
moist
;
or
from
Summer
Fruits
,
and
sweet
Meats
that
worms
love
.
These
worms
are
broad
and
small
,
or
round
and
long
:
you
may
know
when
they
have
worms
,
when
their
Mouthes
water
much
,
and
their
breath
stinks
when
they
gnash
their
teeth
,
and
start
in
their
sleep
,
and
cry
,
when
they
have
a
dry
cough
,
loath
their
meat
,
are
very
thirsty
,
when
they
vomit
and
hicket
,
when
their
bellies
swell
,
and
they
are
much
bound
,
or
very
loose
,
when
they
make
thick
white
water
with
pain
:
when
their
belly
is
empty
,
and
the
worms
want
meat
,
their
face
is
covered
with
a
cold
sweat
,
and
their
cheeks
flush
with
red
colour
,
and
suddenly
become
pale
;
by
this
you
may
know
what
worms
they
are
,
for
these
signs
shew
round
worms
commonly
rather
than
flat
:
sometimes
children
have
no
great
hurt
by
it
when
they
have
worms
,
till
the
worms
grow
too
strong
,
and
then
dangerous
symptomes
follow
.
Long
round
worms
are
worst
,
for
they
will
eat
quite
through
the
belly
;
and
when
there
is
a
Feaver
the
danger
is
greater
:
Those
that
do
least
hurt
are
white
,
but
the
fewer
and
smaller
the
worms
are
,
the
less
is
the
danger
.
It
is
best
to
eat
meats
of
good
juice
,
with
Oranges
and
Pomegranates
,
forbearing
all
slimy
sweet
fat
meats
,
Fish
,
and
milk
,
and
Summer
fruits
;
and
to
take
some
powder
of
harts-horn
,
and
drink
thin
wine
mingled
with
Grass
and
Sorrel
waters
;
these
will
keep
worms
that
they
breed
not
,
which
is
better
than
to
let
them
breed
,
and
drive
them
out
afterwards
.
Keep
the
childs
belly
loose
with
Glisters
,
when
you
know
they
have
worms
;
or
give
them
the
decoction
of
Sebestens
before
meat
;
Scordium
and
Wormwood
are
good
,
but
children
will
not
be
perswaded
to
take
bitter
medicaments
;
wherefore
you
may
give
them
Grass
water
,
with
juice
of
Lemmons
,
or
one
or
two
drops
of
Spirit
of
Vitriol
.
These
things
following
will
kill
Worms
,
and
cast
them
forth
;
eight
grains
of
Mercurius
Dulcis
steept
all
night
in
Couch-grass
water
,
strain
it
finely
,
and
give
nothing
but
the
water
:
Wormseed
,
Harts-horn
,
or
Coralline
are
good
;
lay
Peach-leaves
bruised
to
the
Navel
,
or
a
little
Ox
Gall
,
Saint
Johns
wort
,
and
Wormwood
;
Knot-grass
water
drank
with
milk
;
Ox
Gall
and
Cummin-seed
laid
to
the
Navel
are
good
against
great
worms
;
mingle
with
your
juice
,
of
Wormwood
,
and
Ox
Gall
of
each
two
ounces
,
of
Coloquintida
one
ounce
,
made
into
a
Cataplasme
with
Wheat
meal
,
lay
it
over
the
Belly
and
Navel
.
If
there
be
a
Feaver
withal
use
such
cooling
remedies
as
are
here
prescribed
against
a
Feaver
;
you
must
use
several
medicaments
,
for
the
worms
will
quickly
grow
familiar
with
any
medicament
,
and
will
not
stir
for
it
:
the
best
time
to
administer
your
remedies
is
about
the
new
,
or
full
of
the
Moon
,
for
then
they
will
sooner
move
than
in
the
quarters
;
let
the
child
be
fasting
,
and
go
to
stool
first
if
he
can
,
and
give
the
medicament
to
destroy
the
Worms
when
they
are
hungry
,
,
and
the
time
the
child
(
that
is
of
age
)
is
wont
to
eat
his
breakfast
,
for
the
worms
will
look
for
it
.
VII
.
Sometimes
children
have
Convulsion
Fits
,
and
the
Falling-sickness
;
it
is
natural
to
some
from
their
birth
,
but
others
have
it
by
accident
;
the
nurses
ill
milk
may
breed
it
,
let
her
cleanse
her
body
,
and
not
use
too
much
moist
and
cooling
diet
;
nor
let
the
child
suck
too
much
at
one
time
,
to
over-charge
the
stomach
.
The
Male-Peony
root
hanged
about
the
childs
neck
,
and
a
small
quantity
of
the
powder
of
the
same
given
to
the
child
(
in
any
convenient
way
)
with
milk
,
or
pap
,
or
broth
,
or
drink
is
much
commended
,
and
so
is
the
seed
:
it
is
good
for
the
child
to
smell
to
Rue
,
and
Assafaetida
,
and
sometimes
rub
the
Nostrils
with
a
drop
of
oil
of
Castor
,
or
of
Costus
;
it
may
proceed
from
ill
milk
in
the
childs
stomach
,
or
by
consent
from
other
parts
,
or
from
worms
in
the
Guts
,
or
from
ill
vapours
that
ascend
where
bad
humours
abound
:
These
prick
the
Films
of
the
brain
,
and
cause
the
childs
distemper
;
it
may
be
originally
bred
in
the
brain
,
or
arise
from
some
sudden
fright
,
or
from
breeding
of
teeth
;
this
last
will
be
gone
when
the
pain
of
the
teeth
is
over
.
Many
young
children
die
of
this
disease
:
it
may
come
with
the
Small
Pox
or
Measles
,
and
when
they
come
forth
it
will
be
cured
,
if
nature
be
strong
;
the
Nurses
good
diet
is
a
great
furtherer
to
the
cure
:
in
the
fit
you
may
give
Peony
or
Lavender
Water
,
and
rub
the
Nape
of
the
neck
with
a
drop
of
oil
of
Amber
,
and
touch
the
Nose
with
it
;
an
Elks
hoof
,
or
an
Emrald
are
useful
to
hang
about
the
neck
,
and
may
be
given
inwardly
.
If
it
proceed
from
corrupt
milk
in
the
stomach
,
dip
a
feather
in
oil
of
Almonds
,
and
thrust
it
down
the
Throat
to
cause
vomit
.
The
Florentines
with
a
hot
Iron
burn
the
child
in
the
nape
of
the
neck
to
dry
the
brain
;
and
Celsus
maintains
it
to
be
the
very
last
remedy
.
But
Paulus
Aequineta
saith
,
It
would
be
sure
to
kill
him
with
waking
pain
;
he
would
scarce
be
able
to
sleep
after
it
.
To
prevent
this
mischief
,
so
soon
as
the
child
is
born
give
him
this
following
powder
;
male-Peony
roots
,
one
scruple
,
gathered
in
the
Moons
decreasing
,
magistery
of
Coral
half
a
scruple
,
with
Leaf
God
.
VIII
.
Convulsion
Fits
come
when
the
brain
labours
to
cast
off
what
offends
its
many
die
of
it
,
for
the
cause
lieth
in
the
nerves
and
marrow
of
the
back
;
wherefore
wash
the
body
and
back
with
a
decoction
of
Marsh-mallows
,
Lilly
roots
,
Peony
and
Cammomile
flowers
:
The
Sun-flower
boiled
in
water
is
good
to
wash
the
Infant
with
,
and
annoint
the
back
with
mans
grease
,
or
Goose
grease
,
or
with
oils
of
Foxes
,
or
of
worms
,
or
of
Lillies
,
or
of
Mastick
,
or
Turpentine
:
This
disease
comes
either
of
indigestion
,
or
of
weakness
of
the
attractive
faculty
,
especially
in
such
children
as
are
fat
and
moist
;
the
back
may
be
anointed
with
oils
of
Rue
,
or
of
Flower
de
Luce
;
or
bath
the
Limbs
with
a
decoction
of
Primroses
,
or
of
Cowslips
,
or
Cammomile
flowers
;
if
you
find
great
heat
then
mingle
oil
of
Violets
,
and
oil
of
sweet
Almonds
,
and
anoint
with
that
.
IX
.
Sometimes
the
childs
navel
swells
,
and
sticks
out
,
that
should
lie
in
;
the
reason
may
be
because
the
navel-string
was
not
well
tied
,
and
too
much
of
it
was
left
behind
which
sticks
forth
,
sometimes
it
may
come
from
the
childs
crying
,
or
coughing
,
and
that
looseneth
the
Peritonaeum
,
it
is
without
inflammmation
:
but
sometimes
the
navel
hath
an
Ulcery
and
the
Guts
fall
into
it
.
It
falls
out
often
so
soon
as
the
string
is
cut
,
wherefore
take
Spike
and
●eeth
it
in
oil
of
sweet
Almonds
,
mingle
a
little
Turpentine
with
it
,
dip
in
a
piece
of
Wool
,
and
bind
it
on
the
part
:
but
if
crying
,
or
coughing
,
or
bruise
,
or
tall
,
be
the
cause
of
it
,
then
use
bitter
Lupines
mingled
with
the
powder
of
an
old
Linnen
cloth
burnt
to
ashes
,
mingle
all
with
red
wine
,
dip
in
Cotton
and
apply
it
to
the
Navel
:
if
the
navel
be
inflamed
the
Navel
feels
hard
,
else
it
will
feel
soft
,
and
is
neither
hot
nor
red
,
but
will
last
longer
than
when
it
is
enflamed
:
if
the
Peritonaeum
be
loose
only
,
and
not
broken
,
it
will
be
no
bigger
when
he
cryeth
,
nor
doth
the
Navel
come
forth
much
;
but
it
will
increase
if
it
be
broken
,
if
he
either
cry
or
stir
much
,
but
it
will
not
be
seen
when
he
lieth
on
his
back
:
ill
outting
of
the
Navel
string
is
not
so
much
dangerous
,
as
it
is
troublesome
to
the
child
;
it
may
be
cured
at
first
,
though
it
be
too
long
,
or
hath
an
Ulcer
:
but
in
time
,
if
it
be
neglected
,
the
guts
will
fall
into
it
,
and
cause
inflammation
,
and
an
Iliack
passion
,
which
will
kill
the
child
:
wind
puffs
up
the
Navel
when
the
Peritonaeum
is
loose
;
then
take
the
powder
of
Cummin-seed
,
Bay
berries
and
Lupines
,
with
red
wine
;
or
a
bag
of
●…ike
and
Cummin-seeds
boiled
in
red
wine
for
a
Cataplasme
,
and
roul
it
on
.
If
the
Peritonaeum
be
broken
,
let
the
gut
be
first
put
in
,
then
lay
on
astringent
Powders
of
Cypress-nuts
,
Mirrh
,
Frankincense
,
Sarcocolla
,
Mastick
,
Allum
,
and
Isinglass
,
of
each
a
like
quantity
,
and
make
a
Poultiss
of
it
with
Whites
of
eggs
:
give
the
child
inwardly
such
remedies
as
are
good
against
Ruptures
.
When
the
Navel
is
inflamed
,
it
looks
red
,
and
is
hard
,
hot
and
pants
much
;
this
shews
it
was
not
well
tied
,
for
the
pain
draws
the
blood
to
it
:
If
it
turns
to
an
Imposthume
and
break
,
the
guts
will
come
out
,
and
kill
the
child
.
To
ease
the
pain
take
two
ounces
of
Mallows
boiled
and
stampt
,
Barley
meal
half
an
ounce
,
with
two
drams
of
Lupines
and
Fenugreek
,
make
a
Cataplasme
of
them
with
oil
of
Roses
;
drive
back
the
blood
with
an
application
,
made
of
one
dram
of
Frankincense
,
with
Fleabane
seed
,
and
Acacia
of
each
half
a
dram
,
incorporated
with
the
white
of
an
egg
:
Keep
it
if
possible
,
from
imposthumation
:
but
if
it
cannot
be
kept
,
then
take
half
an
ounce
of
Turpentine
,
two
ounces
of
oil
of
Roses
,
and
with
the
Yolk
of
an
Egg
lay
it
on
.
X.
If
the
child
be
burst
,
as
young
children
often
are
,
it
may
be
easily
cured
at
first
,
the
Peritonaeum
is
either
loose
or
broken
,
and
the
small
guts
fall
into
the
Cods
;
when
the
child
coughs
much
,
or
cries
,
or
by
some
violent
fall
,
or
straining
to
go
to
stool
;
elder
people
are
not
so
easily
cured
of
this
:
sometimes
it
is
only
a
rupture
which
falls
out
of
the
belly
into
the
Cods
,
and
the
Peritonaeum
is
well
.
If
a
Gut
be
fallen
,
it
is
but
of
one
side
the
right
or
left
Groin
,
and
you
may
see
it
and
feel
it
,
and
the
hole
too
through
which
the
Gut
fell
:
but
the
watry
rupture
is
all
over
,
even
alike
;
this
will
vanish
of
it self
so
soon
as
the
water
is
consumed
.
Keep
the
child
loose
,
and
from
crying
and
violent
motion
;
lay
it
upon
the
back
,
and
thrust
up
the
gut
gently
,
the
head
lying
low
,
and
the
heels
up
;
then
take
Emplastrum
ad
Herniam
,
or
an
ointment
made
of
Comfrey
roots
,
with
a
thick
bolster
steeped
in
Smiths
water
,
and
lay
it
on
:
keep
the
child
quiet
,
and
see
the
Bolster
come
not
off
;
never
unbind
it
,
so
in
time
the
hole
will
grow
narrow
,
and
the
gut
larger
,
and
will
stay
in
its
place
.
You
may
lay
on
a
Plaister
made
of
Gum
Elemi
steept
in
vinegar
,
till
there
be
a
cream
on
the
top
,
with
that
and
oil
of
eggs
make
it
up
;
or
take
Frankincense
one
dram
,
Aloes
,
Acacia
,
Cypress
nuts
of
each
two
drams
,
with
a
dram
of
Myrrh
and
Isinglass
make
a
Plaister
.
The
watry
rupture
is
cured
with
oil
of
Elder
,
of
Bays
and
of
Rue
;
or
else
make
a
Cataplasme
of
Bean
flower
,
Fenugreek
,
Linseed
,
Cummin
seed
,
Cammomile
flowers
,
and
the
oils
aforesaid
.
XI
.
Sometimes
children
are
weak
,
that
they
are
long
before
they
can
go
;
wherefore
it
is
good
to
strengthen
their
legs
and
thighs
,
that
they
may
be
able
to
go
betimes
;
and
that
may
be
done
thus
,
take
the
juice
of
Marjoram
,
of
Sage
,
and
of
Danewort
an
equal
quantity
of
each
;
fill
a
glass
viol
with
these
juices
,
and
with
Past
lute
it
round
;
and
when
you
set
in
houshold
bread
in
the
oven
then
set
in
your
glass
,
when
you
draw
it
forth
break
the
glass
,
and
save
the
ointment
you
shall
find
in
it
;
melt
this
with
some
Neats-foot
oil
,
and
rub
the
Childs
Legs
and
Thighs
with
it
on
the
hinder
parts
.
XII
.
Children
have
many
diseases
,
that
chiefly
happen
about
the
head
outwardly
;
as
many
ulcerous
risings
and
pushes
,
which
come
chiefly
from
the
Nurses
ill
milk
;
wherefore
purge
the
nurse
,
and
give
the
child
some
sirrup
of
Borrage
,
or
of
Fumitory
;
bath
the
Scabs
with
softening
decoctions
,
then
dry
them
with
Allum
Camphoratum
.
If
these
milky
Scabs
called
Achores
and
Favi
be
not
well
cured
,
they
turn
to
a
Scald
,
or
scabby
stinking
Ulcer
,
called
Tinea
a
moth
,
because
like
a
moth
it
will
fret
as
they
eat
Garments
.
The
milk
scab
comes
at
the
first
sucking
,
and
after
that
the
Achores
,
which
are
scabs
that
are
not
white
,
and
are
only
upon
the
head
;
but
the
white
scabs
run
over
all
the
face
and
the
body
:
Those
Ulcers
in
the
head
especially
still
run
with
matter
;
they
are
of
several
colours
,
as
white
,
red
,
yellow
,
black
;
but
they
all
come
from
excrementitious
,
watery
,
salt
,
thick
,
and
thin
humours
,
that
itch
,
and
make
them
to
scratch
;
they
were
gathered
in
the
womb
,
and
bad
milk
increaseth
them
,
in
time
they
cure
themselves
,
if
the
cause
be
not
too
bad
,
but
if
the
matter
be
too
fierce
,
it
will
pierce
the
Scull
;
when
it
runs
it
doth
children
good
,
if
it
stink
it
may
cause
the
Falling
sickness
.
Carduus
and
Scabius
water
,
and
good
cordials
will
drive
them
out
;
coolers
and
binders
are
naught
,
for
they
strike
them
in
.
The
nurse
must
keep
a
good
diet
,
and
prepare
her self
with
Bugloss
,
Borrage
,
Fumitory
,
Succory
,
Hops
,
Polypody
,
and
Dock
roots
;
then
purge
with
Senna
,
Epithymum
and
Rhubarb
;
forbear
salt
,
spiced
,
and
sharp
meats
:
Conserve
of
Succory
roots
and
Citrons
candied
of
each
half
an
ounce
;
of
Borrage
,
Bugloss
,
Violets
,
Fumitory
,
and
Succory
,
of
each
one
ounce
;
Harts-horn
,
Diarrhodon
,
Diamargariton
frigid
,
of
each
a
scruple
,
make
an
Electuary
with
sirrup
of
Gilliflowers
,
let
the
nurse
take
daily
two
drams
.
Purge
the
child
with
Manna
,
wash
the
Head
with
a
decoction
of
Mallowes
,
Barley
,
Wormwood
,
Celandine
,
Marshmallow
roots
boiled
in
barley
water
,
and
boys
piss
;
make
an
ointment
to
use
after
it
with
oyl
of
bitter
Almonds
,
oyl
of
Roses
,
and
some
Litharge
:
or
wash
the
head
with
Soap
,
if
you
fear
it
may
turn
to
a
Scald
head
,
or
eat
into
the
skull
;
and
then
with
the
former
decoction
:
or
take
Ceruss
,
Litharge
of
each
two
drams
;
of
Agarick
and
Pomegranate
flowers
of
each
one
dram
,
oyl
of
Roses
and
Vinegar
make
an
oyntment
.
If
it
come
to
be
a
Scald
head
,
it
is
a
dry
Ulcer
in
the
head
onely
,
called
Tinea
;
but
Achores
are
moist
Ulcers
in
the
head
and
body
sometimes
.
A
Scald
head
is
infectious
,
it
proceeds
from
a
salt
sharp
melancholick
humor
,
from
the
Mothers
blood
,
or
from
corrupt
Milk
:
These
Scabs
are
like
bran
sometimes
,
or
Scurf
,
with
Scales
,
sometimes
slimy
;
and
when
the
Scab
comes
off
you
shall
see
red
quick
knobs
of
flesh
,
like
the
in-side
of
a
fig
,
some
of
them
are
malignant
;
they
run
but
little
,
but
that
which
comes
forth
stinks
much
.
An
old
black
or
ash-coloured
scab
is
hard
to
cure
;
the
other
is
not
so
when
it
is
new
,
and
yellow
matter
comes
from
it
:
The
hair
will
scarce
ever
come
again
when
it
is
cured
,
the
skin
is
so
exceeding
hard
;
rub
the
skin
and
if
it
will
not
seem
red
,
there
is
no
hopes
of
hair
.
The
salt
humours
make
the
skin
thick
and
dry
,
wherefore
it
will
be
good
to
moisten
with
laying
on
a
Beet
,
or
a
Colewort
leaf
spread
with
Hogs
grease
,
and
remove
the
scab
with
such
things
as
cleanse
and
are
some
what
sharp
.
When
the
child
comes
to
age
,
and
is
able
to
bear
it
,
purge
with
Senna
,
Rhubarb
,
and
Agarick
,
then
take
Brimstone
two
drams
,
Mustard
half
a
dram
,
Briony
roots
,
and
Staves-acre
,
of
each
one
dram
,
Vinegar
one
ounce
,
Turpentine
and
Bears
grease
of
each
half
an
ounce
;
this
ointment
will
make
the
scab
fall
:
or
if
you
beat
Hogs-grease
,
and
Water-cresses
together
,
and
lay
it
on
the
scab
,
it
will
fall
off
in
four
and
twenty
hours
:
when
the
scab
is
fallen
use
a
pitcht
Cap
to
pull
out
the
hair
by
the
roots
;
then
use
softeners
to
correct
the
dry
distemper
.
Apply
things
that
will
consume
the
excrements
that
lie
deep
in
the
skin
;
as
take
one
ounce
of
each
of
these
following
roots
,
of
Docks
,
Lillies
,
and
Marshmallows
;
of
Mallows
,
Fumitory
,
Sage
,
of
each
two
handfuls
,
and
boil
all
in
vinegar
,
and
Ly
,
and
wash
the
head
daily
with
it
:
Then
make
a
Cerot
of
Tar
and
Wax
;
or
take
salt-Peter
one
ounce
,
Oxymel
one
ounce
and
a
half
;
or
mingle
with
Hogs
grease
live
Brimstone
one
ounce
,
with
Hellebore
,
and
Staves-acre
,
of
each
two
drams
;
but
beware
of
poisons
,
such
as
are
Arsenick
,
or
Pigment
,
or
Mercury
,
for
they
are
dangerous
to
corrode
the
part
that
lieth
so
near
the
brain
.
XIII
.
Sometimes
childrens
heads
swell
with
water
,
and
are
very
big
;
the
water
is
either
without
the
skul
,
or
within
the
skul
;
for
this
water
lieth
either
between
the
skin
,
and
the
pericranium
,
or
between
the
bone
and
the
pericranium
,
or
between
the
bone
and
the
membranes
,
called
the
Dura
and
Pia
Mater
.
Sometimes
abundance
of
vapours
get
between
the
bones
and
skin
of
the
head
,
&
make
the
head
so
great
,
that
they
kill
the
child
;
If
it
be
water
the
child
will
be
giddy
,
and
have
Epileptick
fits
,
nor
can
it
rest
.
If
it
be
only
,
wind
between
the
skin
and
the
pericranium
a
decoction
of
Sage
,
Betony
,
Calamint
,
and
Origanum
,
of
each
one
handful
;
of
Anniseeds
and
Fennel
seeds
of
each
two
drams
,
with
a
handful
of
Cammomile
flowers
,
and
of
Melilot
and
red
roses
the
like
quantity
boiled
in
water
with
some
wine
will
cure
it
.
The
watry
humour
is
hardly
cured
:
A
humour
from
water
within
the
brain
is
smaller
and
harder
than
when
it
is
out
of
the
skull
,
but
it
is
more
hard
to
cure
,
and
almost
incurable
.
A
humour
of
wind
is
seldome
without
water
that
breeds
it
;
apply
discussers
that
make
the
humours
thin
,
to
the
head
,
the
nose
,
and
the
ears
;
as
Cammomile
,
Rue
,
and
Origanum
.
Take
thirty
snails
in
their
shells
,
of
Mugwort
,
and
Marjoram
of
each
one
handful
,
stamp
them
,
then
put
to
them
Saffron
half
a
dram
,
and
a
scruple
of
Camphire
,
and
make
a
poultiss
with
oil
of
Cammomile
:
Also
take
Nutmegs
,
Cubebs
,
Cloves
of
each
one
scruple
;
Frankincense
Bark
,
Calamus
,
of
each
half
a
dram
;
Marjoram
water
three
ounces
,
snuff
up
this
water
often
,
and
drop
hot
oils
into
the
ears
.
If
the
water
be
not
dissipated
in
twenty
daies
,
you
must
open
the
skull
,
and
let
out
the
water
by
degrees
;
and
beware
that
the
child
take
no
cold
:
If
such
means
as
are
outwardly
applied
will
not
help
it
,
the
last
remedy
is
by
the
Chirurgion
.
XIV
.
Sometimes
children
are
much
vexed
with
the
Hiccough
,
or
Hickets
,
or
Huckets
as
they
call
it
,
it
comes
commonly
from
too
much
repletion
,
and
fulness
;
wherefore
dip
a
feather
in
oil
,
and
put
it
down
the
childs
Throat
and
make
it
vomit
:
It
may
come
from
a
cold
stomach
,
then
anoint
the
stomach
with
oil
of
Cammomile
,
of
Worm
wood
,
of
Mastick
and
Quinces
,
and
dissolve
a
scruple
of
the
Troches
of
Diarrhodon
in
the
Nurses
Milk
,
and
give
it
the
child
.
If
this
disease
come
from
too
much
Milk
,
the
belly
swells
,
and
the
child
vomits
:
if
the
Nurses
Milk
be
bad
it
comes
from
thence
:
and
the
Excrements
will
smell
of
stinking
Milk
.
This
is
no
dangerous
disease
unless
the
cause
be
violent
,
for
then
it
will
flie
to
the
Nerves
,
and
cause
a
Convulsion
,
Falling
sickness
and
death
.
Give
the
child
sirrups
of
Mints
and
Betony
,
to
strengthen
the
stomach
,
and
anoint
it
with
oil
of
Mints
,
of
Mastick
,
and
of
Dill.
There
is
a
disease
like
the
Hickets
in
children
,
from
grief
,
or
anger
,
when
the
spirits
flie
from
the
Heart
to
the
Midriff
,
and
stop
the
breath
,
but
it
is
soon
over
.
XV.
Children
are
sometimes
subject
to
vomiting
from
too
much
,
or
from
ill
milk
,
or
from
flegm
that
falls
from
the
head
to
the
stomach
;
a
moist
loose
stomach
is
the
immediate
cause
;
if
they
vomit
milk
they
are
better
for
it
:
if
the
milk
be
naught
,
the
matter
that
comes
forth
will
shew
that
,
for
it
is
yellow
,
green
,
or
filthy
coloured
,
and
it
stinks
.
Worms
may
make
them
vomit
,
but
that
will
be
known
by
the
signs
:
children
that
vomit
often
are
best
in
health
,
and
thrive
best
,
because
their
stomach
is
kept
clean
of
ill
humours
;
but
to
vomit
too
much
will
make
them
wast
away
:
cleanse
the
stomach
with
honey
of
Roses
,
and
strengthen
it
with
sirrup
of
Quinces
,
and
of
Mints
.
When
the
humour
is
too
sharp
and
hot
,
give
the
sirrup
of
Pomegranates
,
or
of
Coral
,
or
of
Currants
:
Coral
hath
a
hidden
vertue
,
and
some
hang
it
about
their
necks
.
Anoint
the
stomach
with
oils
of
Mastick
,
Mints
,
Quinces
,
Wormwood
,
of
each
half
an
ounce
;
oil
of
Nutmegs
(
by
expression
)
half
a
dram
;
oil
of
Mints
chymically
extracted
three
drops
,
or
dip
bread
in
hot
Wine
,
and
lay
it
to
the
mouth
of
the
Stomach
.
XVI
.
If
the
child
be
griped
,
and
pained
in
the
belly
,
you
shall
know
it
by
the
great
unquietness
,
and
crying
,
and
turning
it self
from
side
to
side
;
it
is
oft
with
a
scowring
,
and
from
bad
milk
,
that
breeds
sharp
windy
humours
;
it
gets
to
the
guts
and
gnaws
them
;
and
sometimes
it
is
from
worms
:
if
it
be
wind
it
will
cease
when
they
break
wind
;
but
ill
humors
cause
a
constant
pain
.
Tough
flegm
binds
the
belly
,
and
the
Dung
is
slimy
:
sharp
humours
cause
a
green
and
yellow
,
flux
;
if
this
pain
last
long
,
it
casts
them
into
convulsions
,
and
falling-sicknesses
,
and
is
dangerous
:
Foment
the
belly
with
a
decoction
of
Lavender
,
Fennel
,
and
Cummin
seed
;
or
take
oil
of
Olives
,
and
Dill
seed
,
and
dip
a
piece
of
Wool
in
it
,
and
lay
it
over
the
belly
warm
.
Give
the
child
some
oil
of
sweet
Almonds
,
with
Sugar-Candy
,
and
a
scruple
of
Anni-seeds
,
and
purge
it
with
Honey
of
Roses
,
which
is
good
also
when
the
body
is
swoln
with
wind
,
or
too
much
milk
not
digested
:
and
use
a
decoction
of
Cardiaca
,
Cammomile
flowers
,
and
Cummin
seed
;
or
boil
the
top
of
dwarf-Elder
,
and
of
Elder
in
white
wine
,
and
bath
the
parts
that
are
swoln
with
it
.
If
the
griping
pain
comes
from
the
sharp
milk
,
sirrup
of
Succory
with
Rhubarb
,
or
sirrup
,
or
Honey
of
Roses
;
or
a
Glister
of
the
decoction
of
bran
,
and
Pellitory
of
the
wall
,
with
sirrup
of
Roses
is
very
good
,
using
an
outward
Ointment
of
oil
of
Dill
,
and
Cammomile
.
XVII
.
Sometimes
children
will
sneeze
mightily
,
it
may
come
from
an
imposthume
in
the
head
;
then
cooling
oils
and
ointments
are
commended
;
but
if
any
other
cause
produce
it
,
put
the
powder
of
Bazil
into
the
nostrils
:
If
heat
cause
it
the
childs
eyes
will
sink
in
;
then
bruise
Purslain
leaves
,
and
with
oil
of
Roses
,
Barley
meal
,
and
the
yolk
of
an
egg
mingled
,
make
an
Application
to
the
Head
.
XVIII
.
When
the
child
is
Feaverish
and
hot
,
the
nurse
must
eat
cooling
and
moistening
things
;
and
anoint
all
the
parts
of
the
child
with
oil
of
Roses
,
and
Unguent
Populeon
;
and
lay
to
the
breasts
clarified
juice
of
Wormwood
,
Plantane
,
Mallows
,
Seagreen
,
made
to
a
Cataplasme
of
Barley
meal
.
XIX
.
It
falls
oftentimes
out
that
children
are
squint-eyed
,
and
that
comes
when
they
lie
in
their
Cradle
,
and
the
Candle
,
or
light
stands
behind
them
,
or
on
one
side
:
It
may
come
from
the
Falling-sickness
,
or
by
birth
,
but
that
is
seldome
and
not
curable
:
if
ill
custom
have
bred
it
,
put
your
candle
on
the
other
side
,
or
a
Picture
,
till
the
childs
eyes
come
to
look
right
;
but
you
may
prevent
all
if
you
set
the
candle
before
the
child
,
and
not
on
either
side
,
for
the
child
will
stare
after
the
light
;
you
may
when
you
find
the
childs
eyes
distorted
,
hang
cloths
of
all
colours
on
the
other
side
,
to
make
the
child
to
turn
the
eyes
the
contrary
way
,
to
gaze
on
them
till
it
be
cured
.
XX.
Sometimes
children
have
sore
eyes
with
great
pain
,
with
Ulcers
,
and
Worms
,
and
inflammations
;
for
childrens
brains
are
very
moist
,
and
there
are
many
excrements
which
nature
casts
forth
at
other
places
,
because
the
natural
Emunctories
will
not
carry
them
all
out
;
much
of
this
goes
to
their
ears
,
which
will
be
very
sore
,
that
they
will
cry
,
and
not
suffer
them
to
be
touched
;
it
is
dangerous
,
for
it
will
not
let
them
sleep
,
the
heat
and
pain
is
so
great
;
it
causeth
the
Falling-sickness
,
and
fouls
the
spongy
bones
,
and
breeds
Worms
,
and
sometimes
makes
children
deaf
so
long
as
they
live
;
you
cannot
use
strong
remedies
to
children
;
drop
a
little
hemp
seed
oil
with
Wine
into
their
ears
;
to
allay
the
pain
,
use
warm
milk
about
their
ears
,
or
oil
of
Violets
,
or
the
decoction
of
Poppey
tops
:
to
dry
up
the
moisture
use
honey
of
Roses
,
or
water
of
honey
to
drop
in
their
ears
.
XXI
.
The
usual
painful
disease
of
all
children
is
the
breeding
of
their
teeth
;
it
is
very
dangerous
to
some
:
about
the
seventh
month
,
first
come
forth
the
fore
teeth
,
then
the
eyteeth
,
lastly
the
grinders
:
first
the
Gums
itch
,
then
they
prick
like
needles
,
by
reason
of
the
sharp
bones
,
which
causeth
watchings
,
and
inflammations
of
the
Gums
,
Feavers
,
Convulsions
,
Scourings
;
especially
when
they
breed
their
eye-teeth
.
The
beginning
of
the
seventh
month
is
the
time
that
discovers
it
,
and
the
childs
putting
his
finger
into
his
mouth
,
and
holding
the
nipple
faster
than
they
were
wont
;
when
the
tooth
is
coming
forth
,
the
Gum
is
whiter
than
in
other
parts
:
the
watching
breeds
cholerick
humours
,
and
inflames
the
body
,
and
brings
a
Feaver
.
If
the
teeth
be
long
before
they
can
come
forth
,
children
commonly
will
die
of
Feavers
,
and
Convulsion
fits
:
they
that
scowr
have
seldome
any
Convulsion
.
When
the
gums
are
thick
,
the
teeth
can
scarce
get
forth
;
wherefore
soften
the
Gum
with
rubbing
it
with
Honey
and
Fresh
Butter
;
or
let
the
child
chew
a
candle
of
Virgins
Wax
:
Let
the
Nurse
keep
a
moderate
Diet
,
inclining
to
cold
,
as
Barley
Broths
,
Water-Gruel
,
Lettice
,
Endive
,
Rear-eggs
:
take
heed
of
salt
spiced
meats
,
and
wine
;
but
anoint
the
childs
Gum
with
a
Mucilage
of
Quinces
,
made
with
Mallows
water
,
or
with
the
brains
of
an
Hare
.
XXII
.
If
the
Gums
be
ulcerated
,
let
the
Nurse
rub
the
childs
gums
,
and
Wheals
,
and
Pushes
with
her
finger
,
and
anoint
them
with
Hens
grease
,
Hares
brains
,
oil
of
Cammomile
,
and
Mel
Rosarum
,
or
sirrup
of
violets
,
with
Plantane
water
;
and
if
the
inflammation
be
great
,
boil
Pomegranate
flowers
,
Roses
,
and
Sanders
of
each
two
drams
,
Allum
half
a
dram
,
in
water
,
strain
out
three
ounces
,
and
dissolve
in
it
the
sirrup
of
Mulberries
half
an
ounce
.
If
the
Pushes
and
Wheals
be
white
,
take
Pomegranate
flowers
,
Amber
,
Cypress
nuts
of
each
two
drams
,
Roses
,
and
Myrtle
flowers
of
each
half
a
handful
,
boil
them
in
water
,
add
to
the
decoction
one
ounce
and
a
half
of
honey
of
Roses
..
Sometimes
there
riseth
between
the
Gums
,
and
the
great
teeth
a
little
fleshy
substance
,
to
consume
that
wash
it
with
a
deccoction
of
the
roots
of
Plantain
,
Bugloss
,
Agrimony
of
each
a
handful
,
Barley
a
small
handful
,
and
red
Roses
a
handful
;
four
Dates
,
Flowers
of
Pomegranates
two
drams
,
Liquorish
one
dram
and
a
half
.
XXIII
.
Children
are
very
much
molested
with
destillations
,
Coughs
,
and
Catarrhs
:
if
the
humour
be
sharp
and
hot
that
falls
from
the
brain
,
the
child
will
look
red
in
the
face
;
if
it
be
a
cold
humour
much
matter
will
run
forth
at
the
nose
and
mouth
;
then
keep
the
child
resonably
warm
,
and
give
it
Sugar
candy
,
with
oil
of
sweet
Almonds
:
wash
the
childs
feet
with
Ale
boiled
with
Betony
,
Marjoram
,
Rosemary
,
then
anoint
the
soles
of
the
feet
with
Goose
grease
:
rub
the
breast
with
fresh
butter
,
and
oil
of
sweet
Almonds
,
and
lay
on
warm
linnen
cloths
;
for
slimy
humours
give
it
a
spoonful
of
sirrup
of
Maiden-hair
,
or
of
Liquorish
and
Hyssop
mingled
,
Take
also
Gum
Traganth
,
Arabick
,
Quince
seeds
,
juice
of
Liquorish
,
and
Sugar
Pelets
,
mingle
them
,
and
in
new
milk
let
the
child
take
of
it
every
day
.
Where
the
cause
is
cold
that
makes
the
Cough
;
beat
a
little
Myrrh
to
powder
and
give
it
the
child
,
with
oil
of
sweet
Almonds
,
and
a
little
honey
when
it
comes
from
heat
,
make
a
decoction
of
Raisins
in
water
,
and
with
white
poppey
seed
,
and
Gum
Dragant
each
two
drams
;
seeds
of
Gourds
four
drams
,
beat
all
together
,
and
give
the
child
a
four
penny
weight
in
the
foresaid
decoction
.
XXIV
.
If
the
breath
be
short
let
it
take
an
Electuary
of
Honey
and
Linseed
,
and
anoint
the
ears
and
parts
about
them
with
Olive
oil
.
XXV
.
If
the
childs
nose
be
stopt
,
put
a
little
Ointment
of
Roses
,
and
good
Pomatum
into
the
Nostrils
to
soften
the
hard
matter
.
Wash
the
inflamed
,
or
Gummy
eyes
,
that
will
not
open
,
with
breast
milk
,
or
Plantain
and
Rose
Water
:
Childrens
moist
brains
breed
moist
humours
that
run
to
their
ears
;
make
them
clean
with
a
rag
,
and
drop
in
Honey
of
Roses
mingled
with
oil
of
bitter
Almonds
.
XXVI
.
If
the
child
new
born
be
in
great
pain
,
then
rub
it
with
Pellitory
of
the
wall
and
fresh
Butter
,
or
with
Spinach
and
Hogs-grease
,
and
lay
it
to
the
Navel
,
take
care
it
be
not
too
hot
;
or
make
a
cake
of
oils
of
eggs
and
of
Nuts
for
the
Navel
;
give
it
a
Glister
if
it
need
with
Milk
,
Sugar
,
and
the
yolk
of
an
Egg.
XXVII
.
Children
are
subject
to
all
sorts
of
Feavers
,
but
chiefly
to
Feavers
from
corrupt
milk
,
and
Feavers
with
breeding
of
teeth
.
They
have
epidemical
Feavers
sometimes
that
cast
forth
the
Meazles
,
or
small
Pox
;
the
mothers
menstrual
blood
is
the
original
cause
,
but
the
corrupt
air
stirs
it
up
;
for
as
the
air
is
pure
,
or
impure
,
so
these
diseases
are
more
raging
,
or
less
:
It
is
oftentimes
infectious
,
and
the
humours
so
corrupt
,
that
worms
breed
under
the
scabs
,
and
corrode
the
bones
and
inward
parts
,
as
hath
been
proved
by
opening
some
that
died
.
If
it
be
a
Feaverish
time
,
that
it
spreads
much
,
give
good
Antidotes
,
and
change
the
air
;
but
all
children
almost
will
have
them
first
or
last
:
Before
there
is
a
Feaver
you
may
fortifie
nature
,
and
give
a
a
gentle
purge
;
but
for
my
part
I
approve
not
of
purging
,
or
bleeding
in
these
distempers
,
unless
it
be
long
before
:
So
soon
as
you
see
the
feaver
,
drive
them
out
by
Cordials
,
and
prefer
the
eyes
and
throat
,
and
prevent
deformity
.
The
first
signs
of
this
disease
(
for
they
are
both
from
one
cause
)
are
pains
of
the
head
,
redness
in
the
eyes
,
a
dry
Cough
with
a
feaver
,
then
little
pimples
break
forth
all
the
body
over
,
but
chiefly
they
aim
at
the
throat
and
face
.
The
small
Pox
is
dangerous
to
all
,
but
most
to
those
that
are
of
an
ill
habit
of
body
;
and
if
they
come
forth
in
heaps
and
not
orderly
;
or
if
they
look
blew
,
black
,
or
ill
coloured
,
they
are
exceeding
dangerous
.
If
the
child
suck
,
the
nurse
must
use
a
moderate
diet
;
she
may
eat
Hen
broth
,
with
herbs
of
Succory
,
Borrage
,
Bugloss
,
and
Endive
boiled
in
it
:
Let
her
drink
this
drink
following
to
make
them
come
easily
and
quickly
forth
;
take
peeled
Lentils
half
an
ounce
,
fat
figs
two
ounces
,
Gum
Lac
two
drams
,
Gum
Traganth
and
Fennel
seed
of
each
two
drams
and
a
half
:
boil
this
in
fountain
water
,
strain
it
,
and
sweeten
two
pints
of
it
with
Sugar
,
and
sirrup
of
Maiden-hair
,
let
her
drink
half
a
pint
fasting
.
If
the
child
be
weaned
give
it
a
Julep
of
cordial
waters
two
ounces
and
a
half
,
sirrup
of
Lemmons
one
ounce
,
use
this
often
;
and
four
or
five
hours
after
,
give
it
some
Unicorns
horn
and
Oriental
Bezoar
in
powder
.
To
preserve
the
eyes
anoint
the
Eye-lids
with
Plantane
and
Rose
water
,
and
a
little
Saffron
:
To
preserve
the
nose
take
Rose
water
,
and
Betony
of
each
one
ounce
,
Vinegar
half
an
ounce
,
and
as
much
powder
of
peels
of
Citrons
,
add
to
it
Saffron
six
grains
,
let
the
child
smell
to
it
often
;
dip
some
cotton
in
it
,
and
stop
the
ears
to
keep
the
Small
Pox
from
thence
.
You
may
preserve
the
mouth
,
the
tongue
,
and
the
throat
with
a
handful
of
barley
,
and
leaves
of
Plantain
,
Sorrel
,
Agrimony
,
and
of
Vervain
,
of
each
a
handful
,
all
boiled
in
water
to
six
ounces
,
dissolve
in
it
sirrup
of
Pomegranates
,
and
of
Roses
of
each
half
an
ounce
,
Saffron
half
a
scruple
,
make
a
Gargarisme
:
sirrup
of
Juniper
,
of
Violets
,
and
of
water-Lillies
preserve
the
Lungs
.
When
the
Pox
are
fully
out
,
then
to
make
them
die
quickly
rub
the
face
with
fresh
hogs-grease
,
old
Lard
melted
,
and
strained
,
and
mingled
with
water
,
or
with
oil
of
sweet
Almonds
.
When
the
Pox
are
dead
,
and
begin
to
fall
away
,
to
keep
them
from
Pock-holes
anoint
the
face
with
a
feather
dipt
in
an
Ointment
made
of
Chalk
and
Cream
,
use
this
two
or
three
daies
,
it
will
smooth
the
skin
handsomely
,
and
take
away
the
spots
.
XXVIII
.
Children
are
exceedingly
prone
to
breed
Lice
more
than
men
of
age
,
though
all
people
are
troubled
with
them
:
They
breed
from
the
Excrements
of
the
head
and
body
;
it
is
not
only
filth
that
breeds
Lice
,
but
a
certain
matter
fit
for
them
;
for
fleas
will
not
breed
of
the
same
that
lice
are
bred
of
.
Children
and
women
that
are
hot
and
moist
have
many
excrements
to
breed
such
things
withall
.
Some
meats
breed
Lice
,
as
figs
by
their
gross
juice
,
which
naturally
tends
to
the
skin
,
and
variety
of
meat
.
Lice
breed
most
in
Childrens
heads
,
and
stick
fast
to
the
skin
,
and
roots
of
the
hair
;
some
have
died
of
Lice
:
and
Lice
will
leave
some
when
they
are
dying
.
To
prevent
Lice
comb
and
keep
childrens
heads
clean
,
let
them
eat
no
rigs
,
but
meats
of
good
juice
,
and
purge
them
with
hot
drying
,
thin
medicaments
:
Use
●o
Mercury
,
nor
Arsenick
to
childrens
heads
,
but
use
this
Lotion
,
take
parts
alike
,
of
round
Birthwort
,
Lupines
,
Pine
and
Cypress
leaves
,
boil
them
in
water
,
then
anoint
the
head
with
powder
of
Staves-acre
three
drams
,
of
Lupines
half
an
ounce
,
of
Agarick
two
drams
,
quick
brimstone
one
dram
and
half
,
Ox
Gall
half
an
ounce
,
all
made
up
with
oil
of
Wormwood
.
XXIX
.
If
the
child
fright
in
the
sleep
,
give
it
good
breast
milk
,
but
not
too
much
;
let
it
not
sleep
presently
,
but
carry
it
about
till
the
milk
descend
to
the
bottom
of
the
stomack
:
give
it
sometimes
the
oil
of
sweet
Almonds
,
or
honey
of
Roses
two
spoonfuls
.
To
cleanse
the
stomack
strengthen
it
with
magistery
of
Coral
,
or
Confection
of
Jacinths
with
milk
;
anoint
the
stomach
with
oil
of
Worm-wood
,
Nard
,
Mints
,
Mastick
,
Nutmegs
;
if
it
be
from
worms
,
you
have
the
remedies
before
:
It
is
for
the
most
part
ill
vapours
that
ascend
by
the
Weasand
and
veins
to
the
head
,
when
children
cannot
concoct
what
they
have
in
their
stomachs
.
XXX
.
Sometimes
children
cannot
sleep
,
it
is
by
reason
of
corrupt
milk
that
disturbs
the
animal
spirits
;
hence
arise
Catarrhs
,
Convulsions
,
Feavers
,
driness
;
let
better
milk
be
given
it
;
the
Nurse
must
eat
Lettice
,
sweet
Almonds
,
Poppey
seeds
,
but
sleeping
medicaments
are
not
good
for
infants
.
Wash
the
feet
with
a
decoction
of
Dill
tops
,
Cammomile
flowers
,
,
Sage
,
Osiers
,
Vine
leaves
,
Poppy
heads
:
to
the
Temples
use
oil
of
Dill
,
or
oil
of
Roses
,
with
oil
of
Nutmegs
,
with
Poppey
seeds
,
Breast
milk
,
Rose
,
or
Nightshade
water
,
with
Saffron
.
If
the
Childs
brain
be
very
dry
,
moisten
the
covering
of
the
Cradle
.
XXXI
.
Bad
and
sharp
milk
hurts
the
childs
stomach
,
for
it
cannot
endure
it
,
for
it
breeds
bad
humours
:
all
these
diseases
spring
from
it
,
the
Thrush
,
Bladders
in
the
Gums
,
and
inflammation
of
the
Tonsils
.
Bladders
in
the
Gums
are
cured
with
powder
of
Lentils
husked
,
and
strewed
upon
them
;
or
with
a
Liviment
of
the
flour
of
Milian
,
and
oil
of
Roses
.
The
inflammation
of
the
Tonsils
(
I
suppose
)
it
is
that
disease
in
children
called
the
Mumps
,
that
commonly
comes
between
eleven
and
thirteen
years
old
;
the
parts
being
then
so
hard
,
that
the
humour
cannot
breath
forth
:
alwaies
keep
the
belly
loose
,
and
anoint
outwardly
with
oil
of
sweet
Almonds
,
or
Cammomile
,
or
St.
John's
wort
inwardly
;
first
repel
,
secondly
mix
resolvers
with
repellers
,
and
lastly
only
resolvers
,
but
not
too
hot
;
in
age
Gargarismes
are
best
.
Infants
may
take
Diamoron
,
Honey
of
Roses
,
sirrup
of
Myrtles
and
Pomegranates
.
XXXII
.
Sometimes
childrens
string
of
the
tongue
is
so
short
that
they
cannot
suck
,
a
skilful
Chirurgeon
must
help
it
:
or
use
this
Liviment
,
boil
clarified
honey
till
you
can
powder
it
,
then
dry
yolks
of
eggs
in
a
Glass
in
an
Oven
,
powder
them
,
take
a
dram
weight
,
Mastick
and
Frankincense
,
of
each
one
scruple
,
burnt
Allum
six
grains
,
make
it
up
with
honey
of
roses
.
The
Frog
is
,
when
the
veins
under
the
tongue
swell
with
gross
black
blood
;
and
if
the
flegm
sweat
forth
,
and
stick
in
the
passages
,
the
swelling
is
like
Mushromes
,
and
make
them
stammer
;
take
Cuttlebone
,
Salgem
,
Pepper
of
each
one
dram
,
burnt
Spunge
three
drams
,
make
a
powder
;
or
of
Honey
of
Besome
;
rub
it
under
the
tongue
,
and
lay
a
plaister
of
Goose
dung
,
and
Honey
boiled
in
Wine
till
the
Wine
be
consumed
,
under
the
Chin.
XXXIII
.
Some
children
grow
lean
,
and
pine
away
,
and
the
cause
is
not
known
;
if
it
be
from
Witchcraft
,
good
prayers
to
God
are
the
best
remedy
:
yet
some
hang
Amber
,
and
Coral
about
the
childs
neck
,
as
a
Soveraign
Amulet
.
But
leanness
may
proceed
from
a
dry
distemper
of
the
whole
body
,
then
it
is
best
to
bath
it
in
a
decoction
of
Mallows
,
Marshmallows
,
Branc-Ursine
,
Sheeps
heads
,
and
anoint
with
oil
of
sweet
Almonds
;
if
it
be
hot
and
dry
add
Roses
,
Violets
,
Lettice
,
Poppey-heads
,
and
afterwards
anoint
with
oils
of
Violets
,
and
Roses
.
The
child
may
be
lean
from
want
of
milk
,
or
bad
milk
from
the
nurse
,
remedy
that
,
or
change
the
nurse
,
for
little
,
or
bad
milk
will
breed
no
good
blood
,
and
the
children
cannot
thrive
by
it
:
sometimes
worms
in
the
body
draw
away
the
nourishment
,
sometimes
very
small
worms
breed
without
the
body
,
all
over
,
and
in
the
Musculous
parts
,
and
stick
in
the
skin
,
and
will
not
come
quite
forth
;
but
after
you
rub
the
child
in
a
Bath
they
will
put
forth
their
heads
like
black
hairs
,
and
run
in
again
when
they
feel
the
cold
air
;
they
breed
of
slimy
humours
,
shut
up
in
the
Capillary
veins
,
which
turn
to
worms
for
want
of
transpiration
;
if
you
rub
the
child
with
Yarhound
on
the
back
,
and
especially
with
Honey
and
Bread
,
you
shall
see
their
black
heads
;
when
you
see
the
heads
come
forth
,
run
over
them
with
a
Rasor
,
do
it
often
.
XXXIV
.
Children
used
to
be
galled
with
lying
in
piss'd
clouts
,
and
the
scarf
skin
comes
from
the
true
skin
;
the
skin
looks
red
,
change
the
clouts
often
,
and
keep
the
child
clean
by
washing
it
,
then
anoint
the
sore
with
Diapompholix
,
or
cast
on
this
powder
finely
sprinkled
,
of
burnt
Allum
,
Frankincense
,
Litharge
of
Silver
,
and
seeds
and
leaves
of
Roses
.
XXXV
.
Some
children
cannot
hold
their
water
,
but
piss
the
bed
when
they
sleep
,
the
bladder-closing
muscle
being
weak
;
so
when
piss
pricks
it
,
it
comes
forth
.
The
stone
in
the
bladder
may
hurt
the
Muscle
;
the
cause
of
weakness
is
a
cold
moist
humour
,
from
superfluity
,
or
from
tough
and
gross
meats
;
in
Age
it
will
be
hard
to
be
cured
,
but
in
infants
it
easily
may
.
The
nurse
must
use
a
hot
drying
diet
,
with
Sage
,
Hyssop
,
Marjoram
;
the
child
must
drink
little
;
anoint
the
region
of
the
bladder
outwardly
with
oil
of
Costus
,
or
Flower
de
luce
,
and
other
like
driers
;
use
Sulphur
and
Allum
Baths
,
with
oaken
leaves
:
And
give
it
this
powder
,
take
burnt
Hogs-bladders
,
Stones
of
a
Hare
roasted
,
and
Cocks
throats
roasted
,
of
each
half
a
dram
,
and
two
scruples
of
Acorns
,
Mace
and
Nip
of
each
a
scruple
,
give
half
a
dram
with
Oaken
leave
Water
.
XXXVI
.
Childrens
Urine
is
sometimes
stopt
,
either
by
gross
matter
,
or
the
stone
,
you
may
try
with
the
Catheter
;
you
must
purge
the
humours
with
honey
of
Roses
,
Cassia
,
Turpentine
,
with
a
decoction
of
red
Pease
,
also
Grass-water
,
and
Restharrow
,
and
Dropwort
water
are
good
;
take
Hares
blood
one
ounce
,
Saxifrage
roots
six
drams
,
calcine
them
,
the
Dose
is
a
scruple
,
or
half
a
dram
,
with
White-Wine
,
and
Saxifrage
Water
.
The
Stone
in
the
bladder
is
as
common
with
children
as
the
Stone
of
the
Kidneys
with
men
and
women
,
crude
gross
meats
and
unclean
milk
breed
it
;
there
is
also
a
weakness
in
the
Liver
and
stomach
when
they
do
not
well
part
gross
blood
from
the
pure
,
but
much
earthy
juice
remains
in
the
child
;
sometimes
it
is
natural
from
the
Parents
,
they
piss
by
drops
;
and
what
comes
forth
is
like
clear
water
,
or
whey
,
or
milk
,
and
sometimes
blood
comes
forth
;
it
grows
daily
,
and
at
last
they
must
be
cut
if
they
be
not
cured
in
time
.
Let
then
the
belly
be
alwaies
kept
loose
,
and
the
nurse
eat
no
slimy
gross
meats
;
anoint
the
bladder-with
oil
of
Lillies
,
and
of
Scorpions
,
and
lay
on
a
Cataplasme
of
Pellitory
of
the
Wall
boild
in
oil
of
Lillies
,
or
give
two
drops
of
Spirit
of
Vitriol
,
with
half
a
drain
of
Cypress
Turpentine
.
Take
Magistery
,
or
Crabs
eyes
,
white
Amber
prepared
,
Goats
blood
of
each
a
scruple
,
give
it
frequently
,
with
water
of
Parsley
.
XXXVII
.
There
is
one
disease
more
I
shall
end
with
,
and
that
is
called
Siriasis
,
an
inflammation
of
the
membranes
of
the
brain
,
it
is
from
phlegmatick
blood
putrified
,
and
grows
hot
and
cholerick
;
hot
weather
,
windy
milk
,
and
nurses
ill
diet
may
cause
it
.
The
forehead
grows
hot
&
hollow
the
face
is
red
,
they
are
dry
&
Feaverish
,
want
an
appetite
.
The
fore
part
of
the
head
is
hollow
,
where
the
sagittal
and
Coronal
Sutures
meet
,
for
there
the
bones
are
membranons
,
and
harden
in
time
;
it
is
dangerous
and
some
say
deadly
.
When
this
bone
or
membrane
falls
there
is
a
pit
and
the
brain
falls
down
,
they
commonly
die
in
three
daies
.
Give
a
glister
of
sirrup
of
Roses
,
or
Violets
,
lay
on
coolers
of
the
juice
of
Lettice
,
Gourd
,
Melons
,
or
split
a
Pompion
in
two
pieces
,
and
lay
it
on
,
but
cool
not
the
brain
too
much
,
anoint
it
with
oil
of
Roses
,
let
the
Nurses
diet
be
cooling
,
or
change
her
for
a
better
.
Take
oil
of
Roses
half
an
ounce
,
Populeon
one
ounce
,
the
white
of
an
egg
,
and
an
emulsion
of
the
cold
seeds
drawn
with
Rose
water
two
drams
;
after
the
inflammation
is
abated
,
and
the
flux
stopt
,
lay
on
oil
of
Cammomile
one
ounce
and
a
half
,
of
Dill
hal
half
an
ounce
,
with
the
yolk
of
an
egg
.
Thus
by
the
blessing
of
Almighty
God
,
I
have
with
great
pains
and
endeavour
run
through
all
the
parts
of
the
Midwives
Duty
;
and
what
is
required
both
for
the
Mother
,
the
Nurse
,
and
the
Infant
;
desiring
that
it
may
be
as
useful
for
the
end
I
have
written
it
,
to
profit
others
,
as
I
have
found
it
beneficial
to
Me
in
my
long
Practice
of
Midwifery
.
To
God
alone
be
all
Praise
and
Glory
,
Amen
.