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<P>The EXPERT <HI>Mid-Wife:</HI> A TREATISE OF THE DISEASES OF Women with Child, AND IN CHILD-BED: AS ALSO, Of the be&s;t Ways and Means of Help in Natural and Unnatural Labours.</P>
<P>WITH Fit REMEDIES for the various Maladies of New-born BABES.</P>
<P>A Work more full than any yet extant: And mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ar for all Bearing Women, Mid-wifes, and Others that practi&s;e this Art.</P>
<Q>Infelix cujus nulli Sapientia prodest.</Q>
<P>By Mr. JAMES M^cMATH, M.D.</P>
<P>EDINBURGH, Printed by <HI>George Mo&s;man,</HI> and are to be Sold at his Shop in the <HI>Parliament Clo&s;s.</HI> M.DC.XCIV.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE <HI>LADY MARQ&V;ISE</HI> OF DOUGLAS.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>MADAM,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>I</HI> Have pre&s;umed to offer Your Lady&s;hip this litle Work, &s;uch as it is, a &s;mall fruit of my Stu|dy; which as it concerns all Bearing Women (for convenien|cy of the Matter treated therein, their Welfare to wit, and Safety in that Condition: A more commodious Birth al&s;o, and &s;afer propagation of the Fruit of their Womb) &s;o chiefly the more Noble and Honourable, as be|ing more Excellent, more Tender and Delicate, and readily more oppre&s;t with the Symptoms: To be the Mothers be|&s;ide
<PB REF="4" MS="y"> of <HI>Hero's,</HI> or a more worthy and illustrious Off-&s;pring, the Quin|te&s;&s;ence of Mankind, the&s;e vi&s;ible gods, which must propogate and &s;upport the Splendor and Dignities of the World.</P>
<P>It is most fit then, decent and nece&s;&s;ar, that &s;uch under&s;tand the state of Preg|nancy and its Accidents: Of Bearing al&s;o and Child bed, to Govern and Pre|&s;erve, or Relieve them&s;elves, through the manifold Calamities and Perils thereof. To Order likewi&s;e, Nouri&s;h and Pre&s;erve, or yet Cure and Releive their Noble and Delicate <HI>Infants,</HI> in the manifold Maladies attends that Age, from the very fir&s;t entry of Life, whereby it oftimes langui&s;hes and is ruined; that Health may be got fixed in|to their tender Bodies, which el&s;e re|mains un&s;erviceable: And hence al&s;o their Minds degenerous.</P>
<P>Suffer me therefore, most <HI>Noble Lady,</HI> with that Humility and Submi&s;|&s;ion as is meet, to depo&s;itate the &s;ame at Your Feet, as a &s;mall Token of my Af|festion,
<PB REF="4" MS="y"> Re&s;pect and Ob&s;ervance, and of a Mind perpetually confecrated to Your Service; which if I &s;hall under&s;tand not to be inacceptible (and of Old, nei|ther hithertil, are Paper Pre&s;ents un|u&s;ual, nor yet de&s;pi&s;ed) and that You vouch&s;afe me good Will and Favour, I have wherein to be glad as no &s;mall Re|ward of my Labour. Nor would I but chu&s;e Your Illustrious Name, being ver|tuous Con&s;ort to the Noble Marques of <HI>Douglas,</HI> who&s;e mo&s;t ob&s;equious Va&s;&s;al and Client I am, as for other Cau&s;es, &s;o by vertue of my Native Soyl: To build that Noble Hou&s;e al&s;o. A <HI>Lady</HI> be&s;ide of Noble generous Birth and Education: Of all exqui&s;it Vertues: An ab&s;olut Pat|tern of true Piety &amp; Prudence: Of grea|te&s;t Elegancy, adorning and &s;incerity of Life, of upright, chast, entire Behaviour and un&s;tained Fame: And tho High, yet admirably Affable, Modest and Cour|teous. But I will not offend Your Ears with a heap of Elogies, however most true&punc; Only let me hope Your candid and
<PB REF="5"> favourable Acceptance of this Dedica|tion, as it proceeds from me with Affe|ction and Ob&s;ervance: Your Pardon al&s;o, if I be thought Impudent and Ra&s;h, for &s;o mean and &s;mall a Gift, and I be|ing hitherto unknown to Your Ladi&s;hip. Yet however I mu&s;t not cea&s;e wi&s;hing to Your Ladi&s;hip all Welfare and Hap|pine&s;s (with Your <HI>Noble Lord</HI> and Earl of <HI>Angus</HI>) the Ble&s;&s;ing of a happy Off|&s;pring: And &s;uch an Increa&s;e to the Po|&s;terity of <HI>Dougla&s;&s;es</HI> (a Race &s;o Ancient and Renouned) as fabulous Antiquity attributes to the Golden Tree, that one Twig being pluckt off from that Noble Hou&s;e, another Golden Branch may never be wanting, which may still flou|ri&s;h with the &s;ame Mettal. From him who craves nothing &s;ave to be,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>MADAM,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your mo&s;t Humble, and mo&s;t Devoted Servant, JAMES McMATH.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>TO THE READER ESPECIALLY Bearing WOMEN AND <HI>Mid-wives.</HI></HEAD>
<P>HAving much Ob&s;erved, the manifold Mi&s;e|ries and Tragical Di&s;a&s;ters of Bearing Women, both during Pregnancy, the time of Labour, and in Child-bed: The grievous Calamities al&s;o of their tender Fruit, in the Womb, in Bearing al&s;o, and &s;ome while after: And how both are oft then mi&s;erably Lo&s;t, and haply through Mi&s;takes and ill Guiding: I could not for|bear (from my Love and Pity to both) to Write this &s;mall Manual (having more perfect Knowledge of the Matter, through a long Exerci&s;e, and diligent Ob&s;ervation of what hath then Well or Ill befallen them) for their better Government, and more hap|py Pre&s;ervation from the&s;e Evills; as containing Di|rections to Women with Child, for &s;teering the &s;af|e&s;t Cour&s;e to their Port: In&s;tructions al&s;o to Mid-wifes (and by what appears, the Be&s;t needs daily be Learning, el&s;e they are &s;o much too Proud, or
<PB REF="6"> then too Wicked) for laying them with &s;uch Ea&s;e and Safety, as they may be joyful Mot<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ers of Chil|dren: With &s;uch Rules be&s;ide of Dyet and Tending in Child-bed, as may make it Chearful and Short, give a happy Clo&s;e and I&s;&s;ue thereof: And for right ordering of new-born Infants in Health. With Cures likewi&s;e for diver&s;e Di&s;ea&s;es of both. For,</P>
<P>The Impregnat Woman, embarques upon a Voy|age &s;o long and perilous, through &s;uch rough and rocky Seas (that Sickne&s;s of 9 Months, which can more ju&s;tly be called the cau&s;e of 600 or innumera|ble Calamities, than the Womb it &s;elf) that she needs all careful Conduct, to &s;ave and recover her from the&s;e Rocks, upon which el&s;e, she either lyes mi&s;erably Split (e&s;pecially if more britle and heavy Laden, whom the &s;malle&s;t Bla&s;t and Shake ea&s;ily Shipwracks, &s;ometimes mo&s;t &s;uddenly, yea, whiles al&s;o near the Harbor) or then made hence to ca&s;t her Birth untimely and Mi&s;carry, a Ca&s;e &s;o very un|happy to Women, as they had better Bear 10 times, than Part once, through the&s;e many hard and wrack|ful Symptoms, u&s;ually accompany and en&s;ue; in &s;ome to a languishing Decay and Death it &s;elf. But,</P>
<P>The chief Concern and Care, is about her right Unloading or Delivery, that being brought &s;afe to Port, she and the Child be well, with &s;afety and con|venient &s;peed parted&punc; As to which, it is mo&s;t worthy of Remark, That the due &s;ea&s;on for a natural and happy Delivery (for the Wrong al&s;o and Unnatural, which mu&s;t never wait longer, nor Floodings and Convul|&s;ions &s;o long, requiring pre&s;ent di&s;patch) is the break|ing of the right Waters, or the&s;e within the Bag with the Child: And tho all come not then, nor alike &s;oon after, yet the longer after the wor&s;e, both Mother and Infant growing weaker, the way more dry and clo&s;e, the Labour very hard, and both put in great
<PB REF="6"> peril, through lack thereof; &s;o notable is their u&s;e. to lubrify the Womb, &s;mooth the Pa&s;&s;age, and fa|cilitate the Delivery: So nece&s;&s;ar therefore to be expede, at lea&s;t in &s;ome 6, 10, or 12 Hours after: And tho &s;ome have been longer after, ere Pains came, or yet the Mid-wife called: Yea, &s;ome have al&s;o been &s;afely Dilivered, in a right Labour, 24 Hours after breaking of the Waters, 2 Days and longer, yet that is a Venture and great Hazard, e&s;pecially of the Child, which hardly e&s;capes.</P>
<P>It is as nece&s;&s;ar to know, that as this Natural La|bour, where all goes right and naturally, is the pro|per work of the Mid-wife, and which she alone mo&s;t ea&s;ily performs aright, being only to &s;it and attend Nature's pace and progre&s;s, receive the Child in her Lap, bring away the Burden, cut and tye the String, and perform &s;ome other things of &s;maller moment, which Phy&s;icians gave Mid-wifes to do, as unnece&s;|&s;ar and indecent for them, and for the Matronal cha&s;tity (tho &s;ome of Old ab&s;urdly a&s;&s;igned them more, and made it al&s;o their Office, to help the De|livery, and not by Medicaments only and Others. but Inchantments al&s;o) &s;o in all Ca&s;es and Circum|&s;tances what&s;omever, of Birth or After-Birth, that are Unnatural, Strange and Unu&s;ual, of any Diffi|culty and Danger, she needs, and should timely crave, the Advice and Help of &s;ome Phy&s;ician, skilled and expert in the Matter, where it may be had (for other|wi&s;e she is obliged to do her be&s;t according to In|&s;tructions herein given) and e&s;pecially in all wrong po&s;tures what&s;omever, with, or without Pains (tho Mid-wifes &s;tands not at the Feet and Buttocks) all Convul&s;ions and Floodings with Clods, tho little or no pain, whether at full Time or not: Mo&s;t 1&s;t. La|bours, and chiefly of Old Virgins, or yet too Young: Labours al&s;o of the&s;e more Delicate, Tender, Feeble,
<PB REF="7"> under any Indi&s;po&s;ition, Di&s;ea&s;e or natural Weak|ne&s;s: Yea, even where the Labour is right, but be|comes lingering with &s;lack pains, e&s;pecially after the breaking (or yet a full gathering) of the Waters, and the Child not following in 6, 10 or 12 Hours after. Where al&s;o the Burden &s;ticks, the String breaks, the Woman floods, or faints: And all other more grievous and painful Symptoms.</P>
<P>As to the Mid-wife, she is &s;urely the mo&s;t glorious, who (be&s;ide that she be Diligent, Painful, Sober, Mode&s;t, Cleanly, not Wrathful, not Rash, Head-&s;trong and Turbulent, not Covetous, not Arrogant and the re&s;t excells in Prudence, Knowledgc, Skill and Dexterity in her Art, long U&s;e and Exercl&s;e: Experience withal of that condition in her &s;elf (and none of Old was admitted, till after they had Born many Children, yea had left Bearing, and become Barren, meerly through Age, and not by Nature or Di&s;ea&s;e, and then had much Authority and Deference) who &s;o hath Eyes in her Head, and never, or mo&s;t rarely Errs, in her Pre&s;age or Progno&s;tick of the E|vent or Succe&s;s of Labour: And then either waits with Patience and Confidence, makes &s;ure, cleanly and com|fortable Work, or wi&s;ely for&s;ees the Danger, the Cau&s;e and Occa&s;ion thereof, and timely provides a|gain&s;t it, by calling Advice and Help, in what she finds Hard and Infea&s;ible; and the &s;ooner the &s;afer: Whence many &s;ad Evils are prevented, and the Lives &s;aved, which now are lo&s;t, through Ignorance and Timidity of &s;ome, but after a mi&s;chieful Boldne&s;s, Pre&s;umption &amp; bad Example of Others, who through a vain conceit of Skill beyond all the re&s;t, or any per|&s;on el&s;e, crave no Advice or A&s;&s;i&s;tance, even in the harde&s;t of Ca&s;es, and where the be&s;t may be had, but tugs on alone (a mo&s;t pernicious practice) till they can do no more. and all run to a de&s;perate Extremity.
<PB REF="7"> that either Mother or Child, or both falls under their Hands, or then the Chirurgeon comes at length with his In&s;truments to finish the Tragedy, and puts both out of pine, and makes a &s;eparation, that the Infant may not be buried in its Mothers Womb: For thus it happens, that where the Man comes, one or both mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arly die, for that he is not called, till the one or both be certainly dead or ju&s;t dying, and &s;till both pleads innocent: Which Abu&s;es are prevented el&s;e where, by obliging Mid-wifes to a Tryal of their due Qualifications before they practi&s;e, where al&s;o they are called in que&s;tion, yea and for their Lives, if thus guilty of any rash pre&s;umption. However let none di&s;courage or blame &s;uch Mid-wifes, who <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re not &s;lack to crave Advice in ticklish Ca&s;es, it being both Skill and Con&s;cience, nor put them to do what they cannot, le&s;t they thus pay for it, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">epent too late, there being too many over bold, who arro|gate and plea&s;e them&s;elves too much, ready to tam|per with Lives, too much Wedded to their own In|tere&s;t, and more nice of their imaginary Reputation, than Patients Welfare: Holding enough done for their part, if they work the Woman once two-&s;ome, well or ill, or get her through the Month, tho they u&s;e her &s;o ill, as she lives mi&s;erably a long time after. But &s;eing Women are now hereby &s;o in&s;tructed, in the circum&s;tances of a Travailing condition, may under&s;tand their Difficulty and Danger, and when their Ca&s;e craves Advice, they need not be impo&s;ed upon by any, but mu&s;t blame them&s;elves for what Mi&s;chief and Wrong befals them for want hereof.</P>
<P>Great need was there be&s;ide of Directions for a happy Child-bed, again&s;t the many acute Di&s;ea&s;es, grievous Symptoms, Signs and others, readily &s;eizes Women therein, as Fevers, Fluxes, Floodings, &s;up|pre&s;&s;ion of the Clean&s;ings, &s;ore Brea&s;ts, and the re&s;t
<PB REF="8"> which rush in, partly after a &s;ore unhappy Labour, partly through their own Imprudence and Rashne&s;s, partly al&s;o from unskilful Tending and Government: Some hid Mi&s;chance al&s;o, or Fatality &s;ometimes atten|ding: An unhappy Sea&s;on likewi&s;e Whence many, who had happily pa&s;t all perills of Pregnancy, been laid as comfortably as Heart could wish, yea been &s;ome while upon a fair Recovery, have yet &s;uffered great Mutations, &s;ad Back-ca&s;ts and Languishing, yea Death oftimes.</P>
<P>As nece&s;&s;ar al&s;o was Advice and Directions, for pre&s;ervation and welfare of New-born Infants: For obvious it is, that Man of all Living, is Born pollu|ted and mo&s;t mi&s;erable, feeble and infirm, quite helple&s;s of him&s;elf, and who mu&s;t quickly perish, without the Care and Aid of others, to order him right, affoord his Su&s;tenance, and &s;ecure him again&s;t the manifold Ways and Means of his Ruine, which otherways &s;oon carries him off: So great is the dan|ger of Innocent Babes, and &s;o much is their Health expo&s;ed.</P>
<P>The&s;e Things being the Subject and End of this Treati&s;e, it will be found of notable U&s;e and Service to all Women, who are tender of their own, or others Safety and Comfort in this Condition: To all Mid-wifes al&s;o, or any el&s;e who puts hand to this Work, who if they act after the In&s;tructions hereof, shall ever find prai&s;e and credit of the &s;ame: But more e&s;pecially to the&s;e in the Countrey and far from bet|ter Help, being hereby enabled, rightly to manage and pro&s;per this Affair, and help to &s;ave them&s;elves, when ill try&s;ted, or made to &s;erve with Mid-wifes who are none of the be&s;t.</P>
<P>I have of purpo&s;e omitted a De&s;cription of the Parts in a Woman de&s;tined to Generation, not being ab&s;olutly nece&s;&s;ar to this purpo&s;e, and le&s;t it might
<PB REF="8"> &s;eem execrable to the more cha&s;t and shamefa&s;t, through Baudine&s;s and Impurity of Words: And have here al&s;o endeavoured to keep all Mode&s;ty, and a due Reverence to Nature: Nor am I of the mind with &s;ome, as to think there is no Debauchery in the thing, except it may be in the abu&s;e; for the&s;e parts, which even &s;inful Nature would be vailed, who may uncover by Word or Deed and be guiltle&s;s: For tho they have been created Marvellous and al&s;o Hone&s;t, yet are now become ob&s;cene with Sin: Whatever al|lowance Phy&s;icians may &s;till have, to &s;peak or act in this Matter, who&s;e &s;acred Right it is, to perlu&s;trate any part of the Humane Frame, and cure the Mala|dies thereof. Wherefore no body without a fault, can object this Subject as a fault, no part of Medi|cine being more glorious and nece&s;&s;ar. And the Be&s;t, yea mo&s;t Sacred Things, may be, and have been mo&s;t wickedly abu&s;ed. I have &s;tudied be&s;ide, all plainne&s;s of Speech, and the mo&s;t ea&s;y &s;imple Wo|manly Terms, and Words they could be&s;t under|&s;tand.</P>
<P>I have not in&s;erted the engraven Figures of the In|fants in their various Po&s;tures, and &s;ome Others, ha|ving e&s;pecially &s;o clearly repre&s;ented all by word: Nor yet any Figures of the In&s;truments proper to this Art, of which the Ancients had great variety: For that albeit the u&s;e thereof hath univer&s;ally hitherto prevailed, and that I have al&s;o shewn the be&s;t and &s;e|cure&s;t way of u&s;ing the &s;ame in all Operations, yet they may, and ought to be abandoned, for their per|nicious Effects upon both Women and Children: And tho &s;ome Phy&s;icians at <HI>London,</HI> have by indu&s;try attained to, and now keeps it as their horrible Se|cret from all the World be&s;ide, to extract Children, or expede all difficult Deliveries without them; yet why not other knowing and indu&s;trious Phy&s;icians
<PB REF="9"> al&s;o, whoply the Study and Improvement of this: Or ra|ther Mid-wifes, by their Advice or Coun&s;el, who&s;e Hands are le&s;s terrible, more ea&s;ie&punc; adapted and expert: So that they &s;eem continued from a dull Cu&s;tom, to the &s;ad Hurt and Ruine of many Women and Infants, more than any nece&s;&s;i|ty: For even the Ca&s;es wherein they are held nece&s;&s;ar, as a &s;eparated Head, a Drop&s;y of the Head, Brea&s;t, or Belly, or other mon&s;tro&s;ity of a Child coming Right (for in wrong Po&s;tures they are not needed) mo&s;t rarely ever occurr. not|with&s;tanding of their &s;o frequent u&s;e.</P>
<P>I have not troubled the Reader with the Formality of ma|ny long Receipts, which &s;oon &s;well a Book, and make it le&s;s portible: But have mentioned the chief Medical provi|&s;ion only, or the mo&s;t proper, &s;afe and effectual Medica|ments; the Pre&s;cription being ea&s;y and &s;afe, or the Quanti|ty, Quality, Time, and Manner of U&s;ing, while the Tempe|rament of a Patient and the Di&s;ea&s;e is clear; &s;o that chiefly they fit their Ca&s;e and Con&s;titution, and plea&s;e the Pallate. Be&s;ide that a right Dyet, or good Guiding, does be&s;t for &s;uch Patients. And all Difficulties needs Phy&s;icans.</P>
<P>For brevity al&s;o and fear of Offence, I have forborn the Account might have been given, of &s;everal Cata&s;trophe's hath befallen Bearing Women in this place, for &s;everal Years pa&s;t, how the Tragedies were acted, the Actors al&s;o, and upon whom: But con&s;idering wirhal, that too much of any Stock was not to be put in one Bottom, the&s;e and &s;ome others I choo&s;ed to deferr, haply for another opportunity. And now to conclude, let me Admoni&s;h and Exhort all Mid-wifes, to know and keep by their proper Work: And &s;tudy a prudent, wary and religious Performance thereof, acting in their Office &s;o advi&s;edly and &s;urely, as no Evil may hap|pen through them: But that by a right pre&s;age and progno|&s;tick of the Event, the mo&s;t worthy and admirable part of their Art, and as it were next to Divination, they may pre|&s;erve entire, the Dignity of their Name and Office, &s;o an|cient and venerable: And by the Deed and Work it &s;elf, de|mon&s;trate that they are truly Intelligent, and Con&s;cientious al&s;o, preferring their Patients Welfare to all: Omitting no|thing makes thereto: And chiefly in every Difficulty and Danger, they timely call the Advice and A&s;&s;i&s;tance of Phy|&s;icians (for rarely will one Mid-wife communicate here with another, the Ca&s;e al&s;o being of huge danger, and Lives in the play, requires greate&s;t prudence and government) a more accompli&s;ht and indu&s;trious Society whereof for all Ca&s;es cannot be had nor de&s;ired than is upon the pl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ce:
<PB REF="9"> And &s;o may prove &s;uch wi&s;e Pil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">s, who merits far greater Prai&s;e, by &s;aving their Pa&s;&s;engers in a vehement Storm and manife&s;t peril of Perdi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">on, than plucking them out of the raging Waves, having now &s;uffered a mo&s;t dangerous Ship|wrak. Neither can Mid-wifes take this &s;incere Admoni|tion ill, nor hold them&s;elves, or the Office any ways hereby di&s;paraged, the Faults and Errors only being blamed, and the&s;e more dangerous, which they that fear God and are in|genuous will &s;ee to and amend, and &s;uch who are otherwi&s;e minded and per&s;i&s;t, ought to be avoided by all who mind the pre&s;ervation and welfare of them&s;elves and their Babes.</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Farewel,</SALUTE> <SIGNED>JAMES M^cMATH.</SIGNED>
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<P>One thing I mu&s;t &s;ubjoin as to the Title of <HI>Doctor</HI> I a&s;|&s;ume, le&s;t I be thought impudently and fal&s;ely to arrogate it to my &s;elf, having appeared &s;o long in a &s;ubordinate &s;ta. tion, that however &s;o lately declared, yet I rightly and law|fully obtained the Degree of <HI>Doctor</HI>-&s;hip, and the mo&s;t No|ble Honours and Priviledges in <HI>Medicine,</HI> with a Patent al&s;o in publick Te&s;timony &amp; A&s;&s;ureance thereof, at the Univer&s;ity of <HI>Rhems</HI> in <HI>April</HI> 1677, and that after a con&s;iderable time &s;pent in &s;edulous Labour and Studies ar <HI>Leyden,</HI> and a much longer after at <HI>Paris;</HI> be&s;ide an Apprentis-&s;hip fir&s;t of all in <HI>Chirurgery</HI> and <HI>Pharmacy:</HI> And tho for a good many Years after my Return, I traded with Drugs and the Apothecars Shop, yet that could be no di&s;paragement nor prejudice thereto, but for a greater Improvement and Experience, and for a &s;afer Practice, having &s;o long withal made proof of Receipts, from mo&s;t Phy&s;icians in the place. So that whatever I may lake of Ingine, good Luck, or Fortune in the Matter, I come nothing behind for Diligence and Indu&s;tty.</P>
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<P>This al&s;o I had rea&s;on <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> add. anent the Imputation of Papi&s;t, &s;ome unprofitable Scyba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> of the Rable kind (who cruelly envy my Vertue and Pro&s;perity) have maliciou&s;ly laid upon me, indu&s;triou&s;ly in&s;inuated, and made to pa&s;s with the more credulous &s;illy people, to make me &s;uffer, that as I have &s;erved Patients of all &s;orts, &s;o &s;ome Papi&s;ts al&s;o, and tho none of greater Humanity, Candor and Genero&s;ity; yet I c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n Swear (and upon peril of all if fal&s;ly) rhat never one of them hitherto thought me a Papi&s;t, and never found any thing like it in me, nor ever had me pre&s;ent in any place, or at the lea&s;t Act of Religious Service Wor&s;hip, or Devotion (&s;ave Grace at Mear, for I have eaten with them) nay never fell to &s;peak of Religion, but in a biggot oppo&s;ition; which may confound that A&s;per&s;ion, and &s;hew it is of the Devil.</P>
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<HEAD>The Fir&s;t BOOK:</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"> Of Various <HI>Di&s;ea&s;es</HI> and <HI>Indi&s;po&s;itions</HI> of <HI>Wo|men</HI> with <HI>Child,</HI> from Their <HI>Conception</HI> to the full Term of <HI>Labour.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WE mind not here a tedious <HI>Treati&s;e,</HI> of all the mi&s;e|rable <HI>Maladies</HI> ari&s;es in Women from their <HI>Womb,</HI> to wit, as Virgins, Barren, or Fruitful through <HI>Con|gre&s;s;</HI> But only, the <HI>Principal</HI> of the&s;e, more incident to the <HI>Fertile</HI> (far more excellent, and <HI>the Ble&s;&s;ed among Women</HI>) in their <HI>Breed|ing, Bearing,</HI> and <HI>Lying</HI> in: Which accord|ingly
<PB N="2" REF="11"> <HI>Indicates</HI> &s;ome <HI>Speciality</HI> in the Cure, and &s;hall be expede, with all po&s;&s;ible bre|vity.</P>
<P>Before we begin at Womens <HI>Breeding,</HI> or <HI>Conception,</HI> it is fit to treat a little of their <HI>Fertility,</HI> and <HI>Sterility,</HI> or <HI>Fitne&s;s,</HI> and <HI>Incapacity</HI> for it; being by them mo&s;tly made, or marred: As obliged to af|ford (be&s;ide a joynt proportion of good <HI>Seed</HI> to the mans, which is all &s;ought of him) a right di&s;po&s;ed <HI>Womb, as good ground,</HI> where both mu&s;t be <HI>Con&s;erved,</HI> warmly <HI>Cheri&s;hed, and altered,</HI> into an Infant or Bud: With what el&s;e is requi&s;ite to its <HI>Increment, and Maturity:</HI> Hence the vile Imputation of <HI>Barrenne&s;s,</HI> re&s;ts almo&s;t, &s;olely upon them.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. I. <HI>Of the</HI> Fertility <HI>and</HI> Steri|lity <HI>of</HI> Women.</HEAD>
<P>BY that is meant their <HI>Aptitude</HI> to Engen|der by <HI>Congre&s;s:</HI> by this, their <HI>Incapaci|ty</HI> from any default what&s;omever. The
<PB N="3" REF="11"> prime <HI>Signs,</HI> or <HI>Conditions</HI> reckoned to <HI>Fruitfulne&s;s,</HI> are a right <HI>Frame</HI> and <HI>Confor|mation</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> with all its Parts and Pendicles, the due <HI>Di&s;po&s;ition,</HI> and <HI>Tempe|rature</HI> thereof (as al&s;o of the whole, &s;eeing none but the <HI>Sound,</HI> and <HI>Healthy</HI> &s;hould Marry) a Ju&s;t Age withall, made com|monly, from 12, or 14 years to 50: Better from 18, or 20, to 40, or 45. Or rather during the Monthly <HI>Cour&s;es</HI> (called there|fore their <HI>Flowers,</HI> as <HI>Indicating Fruitfulne&s;s</HI>) which as they have a gradual encrea&s;e with the Age to a <HI>Stans,</HI> and a like decrea&s;e till they cea&s;e, &s;o their prime time is held the prime for <HI>Marriage,</HI> for plenty of mo&s;t <HI>Vi|gorous</HI> and <HI>Elegant Children;</HI> &s;ecure&s;t from <HI>A|bortion,</HI> from <HI>Difficult</HI> or <HI>Deadly</HI> Labour. Yet &s;ome are found <HI>Fertile</HI> before <HI>Cour&s;es,</HI> and o|thers who never &s;aw any: whence &s;ome deny them to be any <HI>Sign,</HI> or <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> of <HI>Fecundity,</HI> or &s;pecial Provi&s;ion of <HI>Nature,</HI> more than other things: Or yet to nouri&s;h the In|fant.</P>
<P>The Blood of the <HI>Cour&s;es</HI> they make good, and laudable (though many have believed it <HI>Venemous,</HI> and the Infant con|ceived at that time badly <HI>Con&s;titute,</HI> and to die &s;oon: Yea have attributed Mon&s;truous
<PB N="4" REF="12"> Effects to its touch and Vapour: Making <HI>Cocatrices</HI> of Women, di&s;per&s;ing their <HI>Poi|&s;on</HI> through the <HI>Air</HI> like them) alike almo&s;t with the re&s;t in the whole Body, and (when right) of a florid bright colour, and &s;mel|ling like <HI>Marigolds:</HI> Which yet haply ever recedes from its <HI>Natural State,</HI> during that <HI>Men&s;truous Fermentation,</HI> differing much, from what is before, and after, and gets whiles al&s;o a mo&s;t noi&s;om Smell, from a mixture of <HI>Putrid Humours,</HI> its too long <HI>Stagnation,</HI> or then the <HI>Taint</HI> of the Pa&s;s, whence any <HI>Malignity</HI> it hath.</P>
<P>Its Evacuation be&s;ide mu&s;t be <HI>Regular,</HI> breaking out once a <HI>Month,</HI> and mo&s;tly a|bout the pre&s;ence of the <HI>Moon,</HI> (which &s;ome make the <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> of this <HI>Periodick</HI> ap|pearance, as others the <HI>Providence</HI> of <HI>Nature,</HI> a <HI>Plethory,</HI> or <HI>Fermentation</HI> from an <HI>Occult Quality</HI>) whence its name of <HI>Lunatick</HI> Di&s;ea&s;e, both in young <HI>Virgins,</HI> and elder Women: And likely when fuller, all things being then more turgid: yet the <HI>Ancients</HI> held the new <HI>Moon</HI> to purge Virgins, the old, the more aged mo&s;tly, but &s;ome of both purge every day indifferently,</P>
<P>It mu&s;t then al&s;o continue (di&s;tilling from the <HI>Womb</HI> by drops, or lea&s;ure|ly,
<PB N="5" REF="12"> without interruption) for <HI>two</HI> or <HI>three dayes</HI> mo&s;tly, yet whiles <HI>four,</HI> in &s;ome al&s;o &s;ix, yea in &s;ome even to the <HI>eighth:</HI> though yet this Evacuation may, and does return ofter, or more &s;eldom: continue thus, longer, or &s;horter time: Vent in le&s;s or larger Do&s;e: Break out al&s;o, and end differently: for the different <HI>Climate, Temperament, Dyet, Exerei&s;e</HI> and the like. But enough of this for the purpo&s;e in hand. The Vent of <HI>Perfumes</HI> up through the <HI>Womb,</HI> to the Mouth and No&s;trils, is made a &s;ure <HI>Sign</HI> of <HI>Fecundity:</HI> And &s;hews a right <HI>Di&s;po&s;ition</HI> of the&s;e Parts, and their due <HI>Commerce</HI> with the Head, by <HI>Nerves</HI> and <HI>Animal Spirits.</HI> Hence,</P>
<P><HI>Sterility</HI> mu&s;t proceed, from a vicious <HI>Conformation</HI> (or the <HI>Organick</HI> Faults) of the <HI>Genitals;</HI> as the <HI>A&s;triction, Ob&s;truction, Co|ale&s;cence,</HI> total or partial <HI>Clo&s;ure</HI> of the <HI>Sheath,</HI> or inner <HI>Orifice,</HI> by any <HI>Vi&s;cid Hu|mour, Tumor, Excre&s;cence, Ero&s;ion, Cal|lo&s;ity, Cicatrice, Membrane</HI> and the like: Their <HI>Obliquity</HI> al&s;o, <HI>Di&s;tortion, Compre&s;|&s;ion,</HI> or what el&s;e marrs the free and thorough <HI>Perforation</HI> of the <HI>Yard,</HI> and direct Evibration of the <HI>Seed</HI> into the <HI>Cavity</HI> of the <HI>Womb.</HI></P>
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<P>From their <HI>Intemperature</HI> al&s;o, as when too <HI>Hot</HI> and <HI>Dry,</HI> but chiefly too <HI>Cold</HI> and <HI>Moi&s;t,</HI> in a <HI>Soft, Lax, Pituituous Constitution</HI> of the whole Body, by <HI>Nature,</HI> or any wi&s;e adventitious. In <HI>Cacochymick, Pituitous, Serous</HI> Di&s;ea&s;es al&s;o: Spaits of <HI>Whites,</HI> or other Filth, di&s;charged therein, as the common <HI>Sink</HI> of the Body (&s;o oft ob&s;erved with <HI>Barrenne&s;s,</HI> and the mo&s;t frequent cau&s;e thereof) which does &s;o Moi&s;ten, Re|lax, and Lubrify its <HI>Inner Orifice,</HI> that it cannot retain the injected <HI>Seed,</HI> or (being irritated by the annoyance of &s;uch <HI>Stuff</HI>) mu&s;t quickly open, and let all pa&s;s. The like happens, when the Womb is Infirm, Soft, Lax in its <HI>Natural Constitution,</HI> or rendered &s;o by a too lavage u&s;e, Abortion, or painful Labour.</P>
<P><HI>Sterility</HI> ari&s;es moreover, from an uni|ver&s;al Intemperature, as in <HI>Hydropick, Le|prous, Hectick, Pocky, Scrofulous,</HI> and o|thers the like <HI>Cachectick,</HI> Plagueful, Ruinous <HI>Constitutions,</HI> and &s;o much the rather, as the more noble Parts are Impre&s;&s;ed, and Vitiated.</P>
<P>By one, or other of the&s;e, are &s;ome long time made Barren, who at length Bear: The Fault being mended, the <HI>Impediment</HI>
<PB N="7" REF="13"> removed, a finer Health and <HI>Temperament</HI> recovered; by Age, a better <HI>Government,</HI> and other Indu&s;try: though it were the In|tere&s;t of a <HI>Common-wealth,</HI> men did re|frain &s;uch <HI>Matches,</HI> or any el&s;e, &s;een other|wi&s;e notably <HI>Faulti&s;h:</HI> Whence comes no Off-&s;pring, or &s;uch as is very <HI>Worthle&s;s, Crooked, Dwarfi&s;h, Feeble, Sickly,</HI> unfit for all u&s;e, and &s;ervice. <HI>But the Love of Money is the root of all Evil.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Sterility</HI> happens likewi&s;e, from the Wo|mans Di&s;gu&s;t, and Satiety of the <HI>Venereal Embrace;</HI> or her dulne&s;s, and in&s;en&s;ibility therein: Whence the <HI>Orifice</HI> bides &s;hut a|gain&s;t the <HI>Yard:</HI> Which el&s;e (while eager upon it, &s;trenuou&s;ly and naturally <HI>Tickled,</HI> and <HI>Rou|&s;ed</HI> therein) applyes to it, delightfully opens, and raveningly attracts the mans <HI>Seed</HI> (which is then &s;ufficiently darted into the <HI>Rece&s;&s;es</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI>) emits al&s;o her own: Whence <HI>Con|ception</HI> readily follows long <HI>Ab&s;tinence,</HI> in ca&s;e the charges be not doubled.</P>
<P>The&s;e are held the prime <HI>Natural Cau&s;es</HI> of Womens Barrenne&s;s, for of <HI>Divine</HI> we &s;peak not (which yet may haply oft times take place) nor yet of <HI>Diabolick,</HI> or other <HI>hid Cau&s;es.</HI></P>
<P>The Cure lyes in removing the&s;e Cau&s;es,
<PB N="8" REF="14"> as every Ob&s;truction of the entry chiefly: and thus &s;eparation, or apertion is to be made of any Coale&s;cence or Clo&s;ure of the <HI>Genitals,</HI> (outward or inward) by <HI>Inci&s;ion, Potential Cauters,</HI> or <HI>Corro&s;ives:</HI> The Wound after kept open with Tents armed with <HI>Ci|catrizing Medicines.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Tumors</HI> in the&s;e parts mu&s;t be re&s;ol|ved, and di&s;cu&s;&s;ed: Or el&s;e &s;uppurated, and dre&s;&s;ed, according to their nature, and Situation: Chiefly careful again&s;t <HI>Cor|ruption,</HI> or <HI>Cancer</HI> may readily en&s;ue there|upon.</P>
<P>If the <HI>Sheath</HI> happen naturally more &s;trait, a <HI>Blade</HI> would be matched accordingly; (for &s;ome are more big, &s;uch, men of le&s;&s;er Stature are &s;aid to have, as the&s;e with a big No&s;e, well hained, the Dull, Stupid, Fatu|ous;) means may al&s;o be u&s;ed for its dilata|tion: But this proves rare, only in young Girles, and they enlarge in time; or the&s;e of &s;mall <HI>Stature, bad Conformation;</HI> Or the El|der, and is incurable: otherwi&s;e the <HI>Geni|tils</HI> conforms to any <HI>Yard.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Compre&s;&s;ion, Distortion, Obliquity,</HI> or <HI>Di&s;location</HI> of the parts, can only be helped, by the Womans apt Po&s;ture in the Congre&s;s.</P>
<P>The natural Laxity of the <HI>Womb,</HI> is
<PB N="9" REF="14"> Cured by Medicines gently A&s;tringent, Aromatick, and Warming (chiefly extern, in any <HI>Form</HI>) as is that al&s;o, from exce&s;s of <HI>Venery,</HI> returning withall by degrees to a <HI>Moderation.</HI></P>
<P>When its Laxity and Softne&s;s ari&s;es from a <HI>Pituitous, Cacochymick,</HI> (or otherwi&s;e de|praved) <HI>Con&s;titution</HI> of the Body, there mu&s;t be <HI>Evacuations, Purgations</HI> (as well for the whole Body as the&s;e parts) with a pro|per <HI>Regimen,</HI> and what Remedies el&s;e are effectual, to alter, correct and quite root out that <HI>Dy&s;cra&s;y</HI> or <HI>Intemperature.</HI></P>
<P>The other <HI>Indi&s;po&s;itions</HI> al&s;o, <HI>Cau&s;es</HI> and <HI>Impediments,</HI> mu&s;t likewi&s;e be applyed to for amendment, or removal: And accord|ing to their different <HI>Natures,</HI> and <HI>Indica|tions,</HI> and to all due <HI>Intentions:</HI> Still adding the <HI>&V;terin Medicines.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. II. <HI>Of Conception.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT follows <HI>Fertility</HI> upon <HI>Venerial Embrace</HI> of Man and Woman, the <HI>Emi&s;&s;ion,</HI> or <HI>Immi&s;&s;ion,</HI> and &s;pecial <HI>Commixture,</HI> of both
<PB N="10" REF="15"> their <HI>Seeds,</HI> into the <HI>Womb</HI> (although &s;ome in&s;tance Conceptions without it) whence &s;prings the &s;ame in <HI>Kind,</HI> which holds with <HI>Intemperature,</HI> and <HI>Defect</HI> of <HI>Nature.</HI></P>
<P>That the Woman hath <HI>Seed</HI> (though much controverted with &s;ome the Learned&s;t <HI>Phy&s;icians,</HI> and <HI>Philo&s;ophers,</HI> who allow her neither a liquid <HI>Seed</HI> nor the Egg, but would have her as the <HI>Field</HI> only, into which the Mans <HI>Seed</HI> is committed, and takes <HI>growth:</HI> Ju&s;t as the <HI>Plants</HI> and <HI>Herbs</HI>) is clear from her <HI>Te&s;ticles, Seminary</HI> Ve&s;&s;els, and <HI>Organs,</HI> every way framed, and fitly di&s;po&s;ed, for preparing thereof. From the <HI>Fellow&s;hip</HI> al&s;o, of the <HI>Womb,</HI> and <HI>Spermatick</HI> parts, with the other principal parts of the Body, by <HI>Nerves, Arteries, Veins,</HI> whence is brought plenty of <HI>Seminal</HI> matter (<HI>Confluences</HI> al&s;o, and Combinations of the Spirits) and &s;tored up in the&s;e Ve&s;&s;els: And found al&s;o elaborate into a white <HI>Liquor,</HI> or <HI>Seed</HI> in their <HI>Te&s;ticles:</HI> and which they feel emitted in <HI>Coition,</HI> with a mo&s;t plea&s;ureful <HI>Tickle</HI> and Delight (for the mo&s;t part more then Men) haply even in the fir&s;t <HI>Congre&s;s</HI> (&s;carce without &s;ome Annoyance) and without which no Wo|man could ever Conceive, whatever &s;ome pretend of being forced, and made with
<PB N="11" REF="15"> Child, without any <HI>Oblectation</HI> or di&s;charge of <HI>Seed:</HI> be&s;ide that gelded Female <HI>Bruits</HI> (for it were ugly and Cruel, to Geld Wo|men which &s;ome are &s;aid to have done) are ever incapable of <HI>Conception.</HI> Women get moreover, the very &s;ame <HI>Symptoms</HI> with men, after Coition, as Sadne&s;s, La&s;&s;itude, trouble of Sight, Dulne&s;s, Submi&s;&s;ion, Sa|tiety, or Ce&s;&s;ation of Lu&s;t, and the re&s;t. There is added, the expre&s;s <HI>Image</HI> of &s;ome Mothers in their Infants (which yet &s;ome make to depend &s;olely from the <HI>Imagination</HI>) a mixture be&s;ide of Members from both the <HI>Males</HI> and <HI>Females,</HI> where diver&s;e <HI>Kinds</HI> Copulate: the Scripture al&s;o &s;peaks of the Womans <HI>Seed</HI> as a thing chiefly nece&s;&s;ar to Generation.</P>
<P>The Mans <HI>Seed</HI> likely, far excels in active <HI>Principles, Vertue,</HI> and <HI>Force</HI> of Pro|creation; being far finer, and more Spiri|tuous: as appears from its more perfect <HI>Elaboration,</HI> more powerful <HI>Ejaculation,</HI> brighter <HI>Colour,</HI> a more vehement Action, Emi&s;&s;ion, and Di&s;charge: The mans war|mer and mo&s;t Vivace Con&s;titution.</P>
<P>From <HI>Commixtures</HI> however of both <HI>Seeds</HI> (ju&s;tly coapted in <HI>Quality</HI> and <HI>Quan|tity,</HI> warmly <HI>Bedded</HI> in a well di&s;po&s;ed
<PB N="12" REF="16"> <HI>Womb,</HI> clo&s;ely <HI>Con&s;erved</HI> and <HI>Cheri&s;hed</HI> there|in) ari&s;es a mo&s;t noble <HI>Fecundity,</HI> excellent <HI>Cra&s;is</HI> and <HI>Contemperation</HI> into one <HI>Spirituous</HI> Body, (the too great Aquo&s;ity, and cold|ne&s;s of the <HI>Womans,</HI> being excellently com|pen&s;ed, by the too great heat and Spirituo|&s;ity of the <HI>Mans</HI>) towards <HI>Prolification</HI> and <HI>Efformation</HI> of an happy <HI>Embryo</HI> (chiefly a Male) the marvellous <HI>Structure</HI> of &s;o many parts, and con&s;ummate <HI>Habitation</HI> of the <HI>Soul:</HI> And that partly, by means of the innate Warmth, and <HI>Spirits</HI> (the <HI>Animal</HI> be|fore others, the far more Noble and <HI>Nume|rous</HI> whence the <HI>Seed</HI> is chiefly Foecundat) and partly by the benign dewy Warmth, Moi&s;ture, and vivid <HI>Ferment</HI> of the <HI>Womb:</HI> Partly al&s;o, by the adventitious, irradiant, or <HI>Influent Spirits,</HI> like the warm Rayes of <HI>Heaven;</HI> whereby the <HI>Ferment</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> is far more Vigorou&s;ly exalted.</P>
<P>There are (be&s;ide this true <HI>Conception) Aequivocations</HI> of the <HI>Womb, Fal&s;e</HI> and <HI>Mon&s;truous Conceptions,</HI> as <HI>Wind,</HI> (which &s;ome have di&s;charged copiou&s;ly from the <HI>Womb</HI> with marvellous noi&s;e after a full reckoning, and &s;ome time of Travel, and &s;harp Pains, in great expectation and appearance al&s;o of a Child, and no &s;mall work about the Delive|ry)
<PB N="13" REF="16"> &s;tore al&s;o of <HI>Water,</HI> whiles mixture of both, (called <HI>Drop&s;ies</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI>) bags full of <HI>Corrupt Matter, Moles, Fi&s;hes, Mice, Frogs, Worms,</HI> Brute <HI>Animals,</HI> and other Mon&s;truous and <HI>Anomolous Brood</HI> conceived and enclo&s;ed in the <HI>Womb:</HI> Vario&ugrave;s <HI>Examples</HI> of which are found with <HI>Phy&s;itians,</HI> Writers of Ob&s;ervati|tions, here and there al&s;o with <HI>Hi&s;torians.</HI> Among the&s;e comes <HI>Natures Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions,</HI> or <HI>By-works,</HI> which are either <HI>Mon&s;ters in &s;ex,</HI> as <HI>Hermophradites:</HI> Or in <HI>Conforma|tion,</HI> and that either as to <HI>Figure,</HI> having the Face of a <HI>Dog, Ape, Swine;</HI> or ill &s;et <HI>Parts,</HI> as when the Eyes are in the middle front, the Ears behind, the No&s;trils on the &s;ide: and in <HI>Number Redundant,</HI> as double Bodies, Hands, Arms, Feet, Fingers, 6, 7, three <HI>Te&s;ticles</HI> (to which may be added the plenteous <HI>Number</HI> of <HI>Births</HI> at once) Or then <HI>Deficient,</HI> wanting Arms, Fingers, Feet, No&s;e, Tongue, Ears, or other Mem|bers: Yea, a Marvel, but the <HI>Birth</HI> &s;hall be pitifully overgone, with one or other <HI>He|reditary Di&s;ea&s;e,</HI> and that either as to its <HI>Similar Con&s;titution,</HI> and <HI>Intemperature, Scor|butick, Scrofulous, Gouti&s;h, Hectick, Cachectick,</HI> and the like (which &s;ome impute to Co|pulation the time of the Cour&s;es) or its
<PB N="14" REF="17"> <HI>Organick,</HI> and <HI>Conformation:</HI> the <HI>Deaf, Dumb, Blind, Mutilous,</HI> produceing the like, (though &s;uch mu&s;t al&s;o have been born &s;o, el&s;e they beget Children perfect as others) all which proceeds according to <HI>Cau&s;es,</HI> and <HI>Principles</HI> of <HI>Nature (<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">heologues</HI> hold them remarkable <HI>In&s;tances</HI> of <HI>Divine Vengance,</HI> or <HI>Manife&s;tati|ons</HI> of the <HI>Works</HI> of <HI>God</HI>) partly, from a <HI>Vicious &s;eminal Matter,</HI> Or, the <HI>Ineptitude, In|&s;ufficiency,</HI> and <HI>Imperfection,</HI> of its <HI>Particles, Principles, Spirits, Vertues;</HI> an inju&s;t <HI>Pro|portion</HI> al&s;o, bad <HI>Figuration,</HI> incongruous <HI>Adaptation,</HI> or <HI>Di&s;po&s;ure:</HI> and partly from a bad <HI>Di&s;po&s;ition</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> the <HI>Appo&s;ition</HI> of depraved <HI>Impure Juyces, Cour&s;es, Whites,</HI> or other vile <HI>Excrements;</HI> whereby the <HI>Ge|niture</HI> is altered, and &s;poiled, the true <HI>Conception</HI> marred, or then (in place of <HI>Nu|trition,</HI> or <HI>Food</HI> of <HI>Life</HI>) the <HI>Embryo</HI> receives the <HI>aliment</HI> of its <HI>Intemperature, Mon&s;tro&s;ity,</HI> and <HI>Ruine:</HI> Partly likewi&s;e (and principal|ly) from the <HI>Ineptitude, Defect,</HI> or <HI>Exce&s;s, Inordination</HI> and <HI>Errata</HI>'s of the <HI>Influent,</HI> or <HI>Animal Spirits:</HI> through the <HI>Irradiations</HI> al|&s;o of which, their inu&s;ual <HI>Emotions,</HI> and <HI>Determinations,</HI> from Mothers mo&s;t &s;trong <HI>Imaginations</HI> (which works wonders in them, not only at the moment of <HI>Conception,</HI> but
<PB N="15" REF="17"> after when big, yea not long before the Labour) the <HI>Impre&s;&s;ive</HI> force is made highly con&s;picuous, marvelou&s;ly altering the Infant (now already formed) and mark|ing upon it, (as it were Wax) this and the other <HI>Form, Figure</HI> or <HI>Sculpture</HI> (blemi&s;hes al&s;o or Spots) as of <HI>Figs, Straw-Berries, Cherries</HI> (in their proper, and vive <HI>Colours,</HI> yea flouri&s;hing in their <HI>Sea&s;ons</HI>) or other things &s;he to&s;&s;ed in her mind, vehemently greened for, and obtained in her <HI>Fancy</HI> only; the <HI>Idaa</HI>'s, or <HI>Repre&s;entations,</HI> being a&s;&s;umed by a greedy <HI>Fancy,</HI> or <HI>Imagination,</HI> exactly re|pre&s;ented in the <HI>Brain,</HI> and impre&s;&s;ed upon the <HI>Animal Spirits,</HI> and <HI>Arterious Blood,</HI> and therewith convoyed to the <HI>Womb,</HI> and upon the <HI>Young,</HI> and directed on in the <HI>Circulation</HI> toward this, or that particular part (yea the very &s;ame part of it was touched in the Mother with any thing) which being ten|der and &s;oft, ea&s;ily receives: And &s;hould make big Women wary of entertaining, or mu&s;ing more deeply, &s;uch <HI>Imaginations,</HI> or fixedly beholding ugly <HI>Pictures, Images, Mon&s;truous,</HI> or <HI>Frightful</HI> things, either with plea&s;ure or abomination, the time of <HI>Con|ception,</HI> or <HI>Gravidation:</HI> Whence <HI>Whites</HI> are &s;aid to have born <HI>Blacks:</HI> &s;ome entire <HI>Parents</HI>
<PB N="16" REF="18"> al&s;o <HI>Mutilous</HI> Children: yea &s;ome, horrid <HI>Mon&s;ters.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. III.</HI> Signs of Conception.</HEAD>
<P>AS&s;urance of <HI>Conception</HI> from the <HI>begin|ni<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g,</HI> though nece&s;&s;ar, is hard, be|cau<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e of the different <HI>Conditions,</HI> both of one <HI>Woman</HI> in this Ca&s;e from another, and of the &s;ame <HI>Woman</HI> at different times: The likene&s;s al&s;o, of many of the <HI>Signs,</HI> to the&s;e may attend the <HI>Simple Suppre&s;&s;ion</HI> of the Cour&s;es, and &s;ome their other maladies: whence the bolde&s;t gue&s;&s;ers are oft times mo&s;t &s;hamefully mi&s;taken, who made them|&s;elves and others full &s;ure of the matter. We &s;hall however recite the Signs held mo&s;t <HI>E&s;|&s;ential,</HI> and <HI>Common:</HI> &s;ome whereof may be pre&s;ently perceived, and while the <HI>Conception</HI> is in making; others, &s;ome while after, and when it is already made: Which (if they concur in the Woman, and &s;ucceed to o|thers accordingly in order, after Congre&s;s, and with the Signs of <HI>Fertility</HI>) readily holds. As her great <HI>Itch</HI> and <HI>Lu&s;t</HI> to <HI>Coition</HI>
<PB N="17" REF="18"> her mo&s;t grateful and <HI>Voluptuous Tickle</HI> therein, without which Women does not &s;o readily and ea&s;ily conceive: A light Shive|ring of the Body after, as after Pi&s;&s;ing: retention of the <HI>Geniture:</HI> And this ever gave all Bearing <HI>Women</HI> who ob&s;erved it a certainty of their <HI>Conception,</HI> and ever al&s;o the exact time, while they felt their <HI>Ge|nitals</HI> dry after <HI>Congre&s;s,</HI> and nothing flow from them: Whence al&s;o &s;uch never mi&s;&s;ed of their <HI>Reckoning,</HI> who otherwi&s;e compu|ting from the fir&s;t &s;top of their <HI>Cour&s;es,</HI> have gone very far wrong. There is be&s;ide, a clo&s;e firm <HI>Connivance,</HI> (though others &s;peak of &s;ome light one only) and mo&s;t exact clo&s;ure of the inner <HI>Orifice,</HI> at lea&s;t the fir&s;t <HI>Months.</HI> There is al&s;o, a <HI>Con&s;triction,</HI> or &s;olid <HI>Contraction</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI> (to the &s;ame <HI>Con&s;titution</HI> almo&s;t as when empty) for a near, and mo&s;t clo&s;e <HI>Comprehen&s;ion,</HI> and warm <HI>Embracure</HI> of the <HI>Geniture:</HI> whence is felt a kind of <HI>Contraction,</HI> like a <HI>Convul&s;ive motion,</HI> or <HI>Cramp</HI> in the <HI>Vulv&acirc;,</HI> and bottom of the Belly, with a pain hereof when pre&s;&s;ed: a &s;tarting al&s;o of the <HI>Navel</HI></P>
<P>There &s;ucceeds (in&s;tantly al&s;o in &s;ome) various <HI>Vexing Symptoms</HI> (more gentle whiles at the fir&s;t, &s;orer afterwards, when the <HI>Con|ception</HI>
<PB N="18" REF="19"> likely hath taken a <HI>Seat</HI> in the <HI>Womb</HI>) as great <HI>Litherne&s;s, Hebetude</HI> and <HI>Drou&s;ine&s;s, Heart-burnings, Yexings, Belchings, Yaunings, Reachings, long Spittings, Vomitings</HI> long time, &s;ore&s;t in the Morning: She turns <HI>Duami&s;h,</HI> lo&s;es her <HI>Appetite,</HI> Cares not for <HI>Venery,</HI> Nau&s;eats and abhors &s;ome particular Meats &s;he loved, Greens for things &s;trange, ab&s;urd, and noxious: Takes <HI>Tooth-ach, Head-ach, Giddine&s;s, Dimne&s;s</HI> of <HI>Sight, Pains</HI> in the roots of her <HI>Eyes, Palpitations</HI> of the <HI>Heart, Swoonings</HI> (yea &s;ome have <HI>Convul&s;ions, Epi|lep&s;ies, Ravings</HI>) her <HI>Cour&s;es</HI> al&s;o &s;top, which before were orderly: Her <HI>Breasts</HI> extube|rate, turn hard and painful (chiefly about the return of her <HI>Cour&s;es</HI>) the <HI>Niples</HI> are very dark coloured, more large and tumid, the <HI>Circle Browni&s;h:</HI> She hath pains in her <HI>Loyns</HI> and <HI>Thighs;</HI> her <HI>Belly</HI> flatts, &s;he becomes &s;lender, thin, of an ugly <HI>Complexion,</HI> a lean <HI>Ghastly Vi&s;age,</HI> all <HI>Mouth</HI> and <HI>Eyes:</HI> Turns <HI>Blea</HI> beneath the <HI>Eyes,</HI> which are Hollow, Turbid, and Dull, with large <HI>Yellowi&s;h Whites,</HI> the <HI>Veins</HI> very &s;pectable, (chiefly un|der the inferior <HI>Eye-lid</HI>) And other <HI>Ca|chectick</HI> like <HI>Symptoms,</HI> which yet likely mu&s;t befall the <HI>Cacochymick</HI> mo&s;tly, the more de|licate, or the&s;e of a more <HI>Inordinate Dyet:</HI>
<PB N="19" REF="19"> Being hard if <HI>Nature</HI> &s;hould allow no big Women her Health, which &s;he hath not denyed to the very <HI>Beasts:</HI> And &s;ome have that their mo&s;t Healthful time. Some take a &s;ure <HI>Signe</HI> from an <HI>unu&s;ual wratkfulne&s;s,</HI> fa|miliar to them at that time, and their mar|velous proclivity to <HI>Anger.</HI> No <HI>Signe</HI> or <HI>conjecture</HI> can be had from <HI>&V;rins</HI> however con&s;titute; &s;ith that, they touch not the parts which &s;erve to <HI>Generation,</HI> nor hath any <HI>Communion</HI> with them; though &s;ome glory not a little in this, whom yet <HI>Expe|rience</HI> does &s;hamefully confound. Many o|ther <HI>Signs</HI> and <HI>Experiments</HI> are brought but &s;eem <HI>vain</HI> and <HI>fabulous.</HI></P>
<P>Great Prudence, and Caution is nece&s;&s;ar to &s;uch <HI>Progno&s;ticks,</HI> for many <HI>Abortions</HI> have been procured, <HI>Women</HI> and <HI>Infants</HI> have &s;uf|fered through <HI>Mi&s;takes</HI> and <HI>Ra&s;hne&s;s;</HI> e&s;pe|cially in drugging the <HI>Belly</HI> big with <HI>Child,</HI> as if <HI>Hydropick, Tumid</HI> through <HI>Stagnating Cour&s;es,</HI> or otherwi&s;e <HI>Fal&s;e:</HI> Nor mu&s;t <HI>Wo|men</HI> be &s;till tru&s;ted in the matter, &s;ome being <HI>Feigned</HI> and <HI>Fal&s;e;</HI> many very <HI>uncertain.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>di&s;tinctive Signs</HI> of <HI>Conception,</HI> and &s;up|pre&s;&s;ed <HI>Cour&s;es</HI> are, that here (otherwi&s;e then with the <HI>Conception</HI>) the longer they &s;top, the wor&s;e dayly grows the <HI>Symptoms:</HI> The
<PB N="20" REF="20"> <HI>Women</HI> mo&s;t part are <HI>Sad,</HI> and <HI>Pen&s;ive:</HI> Of a far wor&s;e <HI>Complexion:</HI> The <HI>Tumor</HI> al&s;o is <HI>Soft, Oedomatous, Equal;</HI> and hath not <HI>In|fant-like Situation, Circum&s;cription,</HI> or any <HI>Motion:</HI> Neither feels the inner <HI>Orifice</HI> &s;o exactly &s;hut, but rather hard, contracted, and &s;ome wi&s;e painful.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. IV.</HI> Of the Infants Formation.</HEAD>
<P>NAture greedy of <HI>Immortality,</HI> hath given all things a de&s;ire, and power to <HI>per|petuate</HI> them&s;elves, which they effect in <HI>Propagation</HI> of <HI>Kinds,</HI> and <HI>Forms, (Indivi|duals</HI> quickly peri&s;hing) and perfect <HI>Ani|mals,</HI> by an uninterrupted <HI>Series</HI> of &s;ucceed|ing <HI>Generations.</HI></P>
<P>Although this be a marter of mo&s;t hard <HI>Explication,</HI> &s;o that our great <HI>Creator</HI> &s;eems to have re&s;erved this <HI>My&s;tery</HI> to him&s;elf a|lone, and would not, proud man &s;hould dive into the mo&s;t <HI>&s;mall beginnings</HI> of his work: Yet we &s;hall briefly Narrat, what <HI>Authors</HI> (who Studies anent the <HI>Principles</HI> of this <HI>Noble Fabrick</HI>) have delivered as agree|ing to <HI>Truth.</HI></P>
<PB N="21" REF="20">
<P>To the <HI>Generation</HI> of <HI>Mankind</HI> (here only intended) <HI>Diver&s;ity</HI> of <HI>Sex</HI> is held nece&s;&s;ar: A <HI>Male</HI> who (being of mo&s;t <HI>Vivace Con&s;ti|tution,</HI> and more accurate <HI>Fabrick</HI> of Ve&s;&s;els) gives the <HI>Principal</HI> (if not the <HI>Sole) Impre&s;&s;ion,</HI> and <HI>Efficiency:</HI> Or <HI>Pla&s;tick Force</HI> and <HI>Vertue.</HI> And <HI>Female,</HI> who affords a well di&s;po&s;ed <HI>Faecund Womb,</HI> for a &s;afe warm <HI>Con&s;ervation,</HI> and <HI>Cheri&s;h</HI> of both their <HI>Prolifick Seeds,</HI> into a Bud: Due <HI>Nutriment</HI> al&s;o unto <HI>Maturity.</HI></P>
<P>Their <HI>Genial Embrace</HI> is likewi&s;e nece&s;&s;ar, or a truly <HI>Venereous Congre&s;s:</HI> To which they ha&s;te, from this Love of their <HI>Like</HI> (&s;ome from <HI>Plenty</HI> and <HI>Stimulation</HI> of <HI>Seed,</HI> an un&s;atiable <HI>Sting</HI> al&s;o of <HI>Lu&s;t</HI>) but chiefly, from that &s;ignal <HI>Delite,</HI> and enchanting <HI>Plea&s;ure</HI> found therein; &s;ome <HI>Solace</HI> of <HI>Mi|&s;eries</HI> (though empty and moment any, <HI>Sad|ne&s;s</HI> and <HI>Drouping</HI> coming in&s;tantly after, yea even during the <HI>Plea&s;ure</HI> of this <HI>Dance</HI>) without which &s;carce one would ever u&s;e it, and <HI>Mankind</HI> would &s;oon wear out: For el&s;e how could man, &s;o noble a <HI>Crea|ture,</HI> make any attrectation of the&s;e <HI>Ob&s;coene parts,</HI> which (for being &s;o <HI>Foul&s;ome,</HI> are turn|ed down into the <HI>Vile&s;t Room,</HI> in a manner the <HI>Sink</HI> of the <HI>Body</HI>) much le&s;s court, ac|cept, or indulge to this <HI>Embrace,</HI> &s;o filthy
<PB N="22" REF="21"> a <HI>Fact;</HI> &s;ome even to a &s;ad decay and wa&s;te. What Woman al&s;o, would el&s;e impair her <HI>Health, Strength, Ea&s;e, Beauty,</HI> undergo a world of <HI>Mi&s;eries</HI> (yea even <HI>lo&s;e</HI> the <HI>Life</HI>) in <HI>Breeding, Bearing</HI> and <HI>bringing</HI> up of <HI>Chil|dren,</HI> if not bewitched to this incredible plea&s;ure excited in <HI>Coition</HI> from the mo&s;t ex|qui&s;ite <HI>Sen&s;e</HI> and <HI>Tickle</HI> affects the <HI>Genitals.</HI></P>
<P>They will have al&s;o, both <HI>Seeds</HI> pre&s;ent in the <HI>Womb,</HI> as the <HI>Generant Prolifick Principles,</HI> their fit mixture into one <HI>Ma&s;s:</HI> From which <HI>Fermented</HI> together, ari&s;es a <HI>Spirituous Bud,</HI> through which and of which is the <HI>Delineation</HI> of all, both being endued with a <HI>Pla&s;tick Vertue,</HI> or formative <HI>Force;</HI> made the <HI>Vegetative Spirit</HI> of the <HI>Seed,</HI> the <HI>Vital</HI> or <HI>Vegetant Mortal Soul,</HI> which imparts <HI>Or|der, Efformation, Figures, Situation, Num|ber,</HI> and <HI>Quantity</HI> to the little <HI>Membranes</HI> and <HI>Members</HI> of the <HI>Embryo</HI> by means (as is &s;aid before) of the Congeneous <HI>Par|ticles</HI> of the <HI>Seed,</HI> (things of the &s;ame kind being &s;orted, di&s;po&s;ed, and ordered from the&s;e of a different) the well tempered, <HI>Im|planted Spirits</HI> abounding therein: The <HI>In|fluent</HI> al&s;o and <HI>Imagination:</HI> the Congenit <HI>Heat</HI> and <HI>Ferment</HI> of the <HI>Womb:</HI> The <HI>Divine Hand</HI> concurring.</P>
<PB N="23" REF="21">
<P>Some make the <HI>Mans Seed</HI> alone, the fir&s;t, and immediate <HI>Matter,</HI> and <HI>&s;ole Effi|cient</HI> of the <HI>Work:</HI> The <HI>Womans,</HI> a <HI>Ferment</HI> only, nece&s;&s;ar for its <HI>Colliquation</HI> and <HI>Di&s;&s;o|lution;</HI> for <HI>Educt&igrave;on</HI> al&s;o, of the Fine&s;t, mo&s;t Subtile, and Spirituous part, and <HI>Coagula|tion</HI> hereof into a mo&s;t clear <HI>Buble,</HI> like <HI>Cry&s;tal Liquor</HI> (which it al&s;o Cheri&s;hes, as a convenient prepared <HI>Warm Moi&s;ture</HI> about it) containing the <HI>Idaea</HI>'s of all the <HI>Parts,</HI> in which alone, the fir&s;t <HI>Efformation</HI> of the whole <HI>Infant</HI> is begun, and of which the mo&s;t fine, tender, and &s;mall <HI>Threads</HI> of all its <HI>Members</HI> are delineated and quickly al&s;o expede, the &s;everal <HI>Apitudes, Powers</HI> and <HI>Faculties</HI> repo&s;ed herein, being now thus extricate or &s;et loo&s;e, and &s;o in&s;tantly pro|moved in <HI>Act</HI> for <HI>Figuring,</HI> or <HI>Conforming</HI> the <HI>Parts,</HI> and arraying the &s;ame with all kind of <HI>Perfection:</HI> which is nouri&s;hed at fir&s;t, grows in bigne&s;s, and amplifies by the re&s;i|due of the <HI>Seminal Matter</HI> about it: And after Con&s;umption hereof with <HI>Blood</HI> and <HI>Chyl,</HI> flowing copiou&s;ly thither, of which afterwards. Others &s;ay ju&s;t <HI>Contrariwi&s;e</HI> to this, and makes the <HI>Womans Seed</HI> the fir&s;t <HI>Matter,</HI> and &s;ole <HI>Effective Principle</HI> of the <HI>Infant:</HI> Yet inju&s;tly, being the le&s;s perfect,
<PB N="24" REF="22"> yea doubted by many if it can well, and truly be called <HI>Seed,</HI> and <HI>Infants</HI> therefore commonly never Named from the <HI>Mother.</HI></P>
<P>Some reject this <HI>Pla&s;tick Force,</HI> or <HI>Soul</HI> of the <HI>Seed,</HI> and will have the <HI>Formation</HI> of the <HI>Infant</HI> cau&s;ed, through the heat, both of the <HI>Womb,</HI> and <HI>Seeds;</HI> whereby the <HI>Parti|cles</HI> hereof, being gently agitated, and mov|ed in the <HI>Womb,</HI> for their diver&s;e <HI>Magnitudes,</HI> and <HI>Figures,</HI> nece&s;&s;arily turns into the per|fect <HI>Bud</HI> of an <HI>Infant;</HI> all the <HI>Parts</HI> whereof they will have conformed and fini&s;hed by little and little, and all things done in the <HI>Body</HI> in a <HI>Mechanick manner,</HI> without any <HI>Idaea, Phanta&s;y,</HI> or <HI>Archaeus</HI> of a <HI>Soul,</HI> or other <HI>Faculty.</HI> But this <HI>Glorious Fabrick,</HI> is of a more <HI>Regular, Constant</HI> and <HI>Cunning Arti|fice</HI> then all this can come to.</P>
<P>Some, will not have ought of the <HI>Seed</HI> enter the <HI>Womb</HI> in <HI>Coition,</HI> or then to flow all &s;oon out again, or &s;ome way evani&s;h: Yet the <HI>Generation</HI> to hold (the <HI>Genitor</HI>'s, <HI>Idaea,</HI> or <HI>Species</HI> remaining only in the <HI>Womb,</HI> to the &s;ole <HI>Contagion</HI> of which it is a&s;cribed) and &s;o to be unnece&s;&s;ar, and quite u&s;ele&s;s thereto; making the <HI>Womb</HI> the <HI>Principal Cau&s;e</HI> of the <HI>Formation,</HI> while (by means of the <HI>Formative Faculty</HI> as its In&s;trument) it
<PB N="25" REF="22"> Impre&s;&s;es upon its <HI>Work</HI> the <HI>Species</HI> conceiv|ed by it. And the&s;e will have the <HI>Conception</HI> made, not &s;o much in the <HI>Cavity</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> as in the <HI>Pores</HI> of its inner <HI>Mem|branes:</HI> And by reception of an <HI>Immaterial Species:</HI> Giving the <HI>Woman</HI> thus to do more then the <HI>Man,</HI> in propogating the <HI>Kind.</HI></P>
<P>Some of late make <HI>Women</HI> have <HI>Eggs</HI> bred in their <HI>Te&s;ticles,</HI> and will have the <HI>Genera|tion</HI> of man con&s;titute at fir&s;t of the &s;ame, laid into the <HI>Womb,</HI> and on the &s;ame wi&s;e u&s;ual in <HI>Hens</HI> and other <HI>Fouls,</HI> and <HI>Oviparous Ani|mals;</HI> and the <HI>Spirit</HI> of the <HI>Mans Seed,</HI> to be the true <HI>Efficient,</HI> and <HI>Formator:</HI> Some part whereof arrives at the <HI>Te&s;ticles,</HI> and <HI>Egg-Bed</HI> and Faecundats the <HI>Egg:</HI> But there coming no Prerogative from the <HI>Egg,</HI> this their Ob&s;ervation is of no worth: Being uncertain be&s;ide, whether it be made in the <HI>Egg-Bed,</HI> or wrought in the <HI>Womb</HI> by <HI>Fer|mentation:</HI> The <HI>Womb</HI> being the &s;ame in <HI>Women</HI> what the <HI>Egg-Bed</HI> is in <HI>Fouls.</HI> But to be &s;hort,</P>
<P>The order of the <HI>Infants Efformation</HI> is re|duced to four <HI>Sea&s;ons.</HI> In the fir&s;t, nothing appears, &s;ave the <HI>Seeds</HI> coagulate within a thin <HI>Cru&s;t</HI> or <HI>Membrane:</HI> till the 7th. <HI>day.</HI> In the 2d. this <HI>Ma&s;s</HI> becomes clearly as it
<PB N="26" REF="23"> were more <HI>Fle&s;hy,</HI> and <HI>Conglobat;</HI> in <HI>nine dayes:</HI> And may be di&s;cerned in <HI>three</HI> little <HI>Gutts,</HI> and <HI>Globes,</HI> or &s;everal little <HI>Bladders;</HI> called the &s;hineing <HI>Bubles:</HI> Held to be the <HI>Rudiments</HI> of the principal <HI>Parts,</HI> or a <HI>Repre|&s;entation</HI> of the <HI>Natural Animal,</HI> and <HI>Vital Con&s;titutions.</HI> Yet &s;ome will have but one only <HI>Buble</HI> alwayes, of which the whole <HI>In|fant</HI> is formed: Mo&s;t rarely more, except where more <HI>Children</HI> are to be formed toge|ther. In the 3d. is the <HI>Embryo:</HI> And this <HI>Time</HI> the <HI>Threads,</HI> or fir&s;t rude <HI>Draughts</HI> of all the <HI>Spermatick</HI> parts brightly appear in the <HI>Liquor:</HI> From the 15 day to the 27. when the <HI>Heart</HI> like a little point, the <HI>Bowels,</HI> the <HI>Parenchymata,</HI> little <HI>Bones, Joynts, Back|bone</HI> may be plainly perceived: The <HI>Mem|branes</HI> covering the <HI>Brain,</HI> and the re&s;t of the <HI>Body</HI> like the <HI>Keel</HI> of a <HI>Ship,</HI> and the <HI>Ribs</HI> &s;tanding up, (yea the two <HI>Membranes</HI> en|wraps it) And &s;eems to be <HI>Delineat,</HI> or <HI>Portrayed</HI> equally at once (&s;o great, and &s;o nece&s;&s;ar being the <HI>Harmony</HI> thereof, that they cannot <HI>Sub&s;ist,</HI> nor <HI>Act</HI> but together) though &s;ome will have its <HI>Heart</HI> fir&s;t formed, &s;ome its <HI>Liver,</HI> others the <HI>Brain:</HI> Some the&s;e <HI>three</HI> together, and after the <HI>Inte&s;tins, Lungs,</HI> and the re&s;t. Some will have the
<PB N="27" REF="23"> <HI>Bones</HI> fir&s;t, the <HI>Ba&s;is</HI> as it were, and ne|ce&s;&s;ar Ground-work of the Body. But how each <HI>part</HI> is produced, and one after another, what fir&s;t, what la&s;t, (and all &s;o right, and in &s;uch trim order) God only knows who Created all things in the beginning, <HI>fir&s;t</HI> and <HI>alone;</HI> who&s;e marvellous <HI>Skill</HI> in this <HI>Curious Cut</HI> of the <HI>Infant</HI> (the&s;e fair <HI>Draughts</HI> al&s;o, and <HI>Frames</HI> of <HI>Nature,</HI> never enough to be ad|mired) though diligently &s;ought out, yet never will to Perfection. In the la&s;t, to the 45 day, all joyntly grows together into a compleat <HI>Child,</HI> an entire perfect <HI>System</HI> of the <HI>whole,</HI> and &s;o many <HI>parts</HI> (though yet very &s;mall and tender, made not longer then a <HI>Finger,</HI> and little bigger than a larger <HI>Em|mot</HI>) in their pretty <HI>Figure,</HI> mo&s;t convenient tye, <HI>Marvellous Structure,</HI> extream (yet whol|ly concording) <HI>Diver&s;ity</HI> of <HI>Functions</HI> and <HI>&V;&s;es;</HI> fini&s;hed and trimmed up by the mo&s;t <HI>Skilful Hands</HI> of our great <HI>Creator</HI> (much like the <HI>Painter,</HI> who fir&s;t draws the <HI>Lines,</HI> then layes his <HI>Colours:</HI> Or the <HI>Carpenter,</HI> who fir&s;t founds the <HI>Keel</HI> of his <HI>Ship,</HI> then rai&s;es the <HI>Sides,</HI> and <HI>Stern</HI> almo&s;t covered) remain|ing a con&s;ummat <HI>Domicil</HI> for the <HI>Rational Soul,</HI> which is believed to be <HI>Created</HI> (though &s;ome make it <HI>Traduced</HI> of the <HI>Seed,</HI> and <HI>Propoga|ted</HI>
<PB N="28" REF="24"> by <HI>Generation,</HI> no le&s;s then the Body it &s;elf) and infu&s;ed thereinto (the fit <HI>Time</HI> and <HI>Minute</HI> none knows exactly, but <HI>God</HI> alone its <HI>Creator</HI>) by which the <HI>Motions</HI> of the <HI>Corporeal Soul,</HI> are thenceforth determined, ruled and tempered: And all the <HI>Con&s;titu|tions, Concoctions</HI> and <HI>Elaborations</HI> of the <HI>Body,</HI> fixed as by <HI>Gods</HI> own <HI>Hand,</HI> and doing.</P>
<P>All the&s;e being rightly con&s;idered, we mu&s;t grant &s;o much, <HI>Wi&s;dom</HI> to <HI>Shine</HI> in this work of <HI>Generation,</HI> or <HI>Frame</HI> of the <HI>Em|bryo,</HI> And all the <HI>Fabricks, Families, Fa|culties, Elaborations.</HI> and <HI>Actions</HI> of the <HI>In|fant</HI> to be &s;o <HI>Divine,</HI> as mu&s;t very far &s;urpa&s;s the <HI>Power,</HI> and <HI>Vertue</HI> not only of the <HI>Seed,</HI> but haply even of any <HI>Soul:</HI> And can &s;peak no le&s;s, nor be fitly applyed to ought el&s;e, &s;ave the <HI>Finger</HI> of <HI>God,</HI> or <HI>Divine Power,</HI> the fir&s;t <HI>Efficient Cau&s;e</HI> of all things, <HI>per|fective</HI> as it were of the <HI>Pla&s;tick Faculty,</HI> and and others a&s;cribed to the <HI>Seed, Nature</HI>'s Operation, or the Parents to whom very little is due on this head, who produce only a certain bulk, con&s;i&s;ting of <HI>Fle&s;h, Bones, Membranes, Nerves,</HI> and the re&s;t di&s;po&s;ed and figured in a certain manner, but give nothing to the Production of the Soul; nay nor to its union with the Body.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="29" REF="24">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. V.</HI> Of a True, and Fal&s;e big Belly, and their Signs.</HEAD>
<P>THe one is cau&s;ed by a <HI>Child</HI> in the <HI>Womb;</HI> the <HI>Other</HI> by &s;ome <HI>Empty,</HI> marred, or <HI>Mon&s;truous Conception</HI> therein, beguiling the <HI>Woman,</HI> and the <HI>World</HI> about: Happening mo&s;tly (&s;ay &s;ome) through di&s;orders of the <HI>Cour&s;es,</HI> and the time chiefly they u&s;ually turn &s;o, <HI>to wit,</HI> from 35 <HI>years</HI> to 40. and forwards.</P>
<P>The &s;ure <HI>Signs</HI> of the <HI>True,</HI> are the right <HI>Clo&s;ure</HI> of the inner <HI>Orifice,</HI> its ju&s;t <HI>Bigne&s;s</HI> according to the time, an <HI>Infant</HI> like <HI>Situa|tion</HI> (which acuminates towards the <HI>Navel,</HI> and is <HI>Lank</HI> on each &s;ide: While the <HI>Fal&s;e</HI> ri&s;es equally and plain all over) and <HI>Cir|cum&s;cription</HI> with the <HI>Womb:</HI> But chiefly right <HI>Stir,</HI> and <HI>Motion:</HI> True <HI>Milk</HI> al&s;o in the <HI>Brea&s;ts</HI> at the u&s;ual Sea&s;on, or time of <HI>Life.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Infant Lives</HI> and <HI>Moves</HI> manife&s;tly in the 3d. or 4th. <HI>Month</HI> mo&s;tly, &s;ome much &s;ooner, others far later (&s;carce in the 5th.) as they have been more, or le&s;s <HI>Mirrily
<PB N="30" REF="25"> Begotten,</HI> are more or le&s;s <HI>Strong, Vigorous,</HI> or <HI>Spirity,</HI> the <HI>Females,</HI> as &s;oon as <HI>Males,</HI> (though &s;ome will have the&s;e later in <HI>Anima|tion,</HI> and <HI>Motion,</HI> as al&s;o in <HI>Formation:</HI> Who yet come alike <HI>perfect,</HI> and <HI>mature</HI> to the u&s;ual <HI>Term,</HI> and are ob&s;erved to wax fa&s;ter when <HI>Born,</HI> yea to flouri&s;h fa&s;ter, and fail al&s;o in <HI>Age:</HI> Chiefly they who have <HI>Born</HI> ofter: And &s;ome have al&s;o found them &s;tir &s;oone&s;t.</P>
<P>Its <HI>Motions</HI> at fir&s;t, are found very <HI>Small, Soft, Ea&s;ie,</HI> yet &s;till encrea&s;e, and &s;harpen with its <HI>Bigne&s;s,</HI> and <HI>Strength,</HI> till in end they be &s;o <HI>Hard,</HI> and <HI>Painful,</HI> as to irritate the <HI>Womb</HI> to open, and work hard its Pro|tru&s;ion: Being ready el&s;e, to break at the <HI>Broad-&s;ide.</HI></P>
<P>It removes whiles its whole <HI>Body</HI> from one part of the <HI>Womb</HI> to another, and whiles Sprauls out this, or its other <HI>part</HI> only, <HI>Swiming</HI> and <HI>Tumbling</HI> lightly in the <HI>Waters</HI> as in a <HI>Bath;</HI> yet without turning over and over as &s;ome Women fancy. In the <HI>Hy&s;terick Pa&s;&s;ion,</HI> the <HI>Womb</HI> is &s;aid to a&s;cend, to move it &s;elf, and range every way through the the lower <HI>Belly,</HI> making thus a &s;ort of <HI>Total,</HI> yet no <HI>Partial Motion:</HI> But the&s;e <HI>In|flations,</HI> and <HI>Motions</HI> are ever very painful,
<PB N="31" REF="25"> with <HI>Suffocation</HI> (yea in &s;ome <HI>Convul&s;ive</HI>) and &s;aid to proceed from irritation of &s;ome <HI>Ma|lignant &s;harp Vapor</HI> ari&s;es from the <HI>Womb</HI> (which &s;ome deny can make any &s;uch Spon|taneous <HI>Motion</HI>) or her <HI>Te&s;ticles</HI> whence, the the <HI>Inte&s;tins</HI> are contracted (the <HI>Midriff,</HI> al&s;o, <HI>Mu&s;cles</HI> of the <HI>Jaws,</HI> and other parts, if it a&s;cend higher) and this <HI>Evil</HI> produced, while thus bitten and pricked thereby. The <HI>Mole</HI> moves only with the <HI>Womb,</HI> falling with <HI>Weight,</HI> and <HI>Pain,</HI> upon the <HI>Side</HI> the <HI>Woman</HI> turn to. Agitated <HI>Waters,</HI> makes a <HI>Bubling</HI> and <HI>Murmur</HI> in the <HI>Womb. Wind</HI> in the <HI>Womb</HI> makes <HI>Motions,</HI> mo&s;t like the&s;e of the <HI>Infant,</HI> and may long re&s;emble a true <HI>Gra|vidation:</HI> Which yet mu&s;t oft make greater <HI>Di&s;tention, Hardne&s;s</HI> and <HI>Pain.</HI></P>
<P>When &s;he is over half gone, that the <HI>Infant</HI> &s;tirs more vive, the <HI>Paps</HI> begin to &s;well (very oft and for the mo&s;t part) and more and more augment, from <HI>Milk</HI> ri&s;ing therein, which may be pre&s;&s;ed, out fir&s;t a more <HI>Wateri&s;h,</HI> after a <HI>Thicker,</HI> u&s;ually a mo&s;t certain <HI>Sign</HI> of a true <HI>Belly</HI> as the want thereof of a <HI>Mole,</HI> (which, as it hath no <HI>Animal Life,</HI> receives no <HI>Animal</HI> or <HI>Milky</HI> Aliment) the <HI>Infants Commotion</HI> exciting great de&s;ire and thought of its <HI>Lactation:</HI> And though <HI>La&s;civious Vir|gins,</HI>
<PB N="32" REF="26"> and <HI>Widows</HI> wholly intent to Lu&s;tful <HI>Cogitations,</HI> and much in thinking of <HI>Brea&s;ts, Milk,</HI> and their Sucking, wantonly rubbing, tickling, or Sucking thereof, may have got <HI>Milk</HI> in them (yea thus &s;ome men al&s;o) e&s;pecially with a Suppre&s;&s;ion of <HI>Cour&s;es,</HI> yet that is mo&s;t rare, and it is but a <HI>Crude Ichorous</HI> &s;ort of <HI>Milk,</HI> or rather a <HI>Serous Milky</HI> like <HI>Liquor,</HI> or <HI>Humour.</HI> At that time the <HI>Circle</HI> of the <HI>Niples</HI> amplify, the <HI>Niples</HI> al&s;o before contracted, become now laxer and more tumid.</P>
<P>It is of great import to di&s;cern the <HI>Fal&s;e</HI> big <HI>Belly</HI> from a <HI>True</HI> (though hard, the <HI>Symp|toms</HI> being u&s;ually &s;o like in both) for this mu&s;t be indu&s;truou&s;ly cheri&s;hed, corrobo|rated and pre&s;erved to a full time, the other indicates a &s;peedy <HI>Expul&s;ion:</HI> For the longer fal&s;e <HI>Conceptions</HI> are in the <HI>Womb,</HI> a fuller <HI>Nouri&s;hment</HI> they receive, and bigger &s;till they grow, more &s;olid and fle&s;hy: Sticks al&s;o more fa&s;t, and &s;o wor&s;e to be expelled: Rai&s;ing then almo&s;t ever perilous <HI>Floodings</HI> and after <HI>two Months</HI> turn <HI>&s;it-fast Moles.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="33" REF="26">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. VI.</HI> How to know the different Times, and a true Term of Pregnancy.</HEAD>
<P>AS it is fit to know a <HI>Woman</HI> is truly <HI>Conceived,</HI> &s;o al&s;o how for &s;he is gone; for if &s;he be made to <HI>Mi&s;carry,</HI> or her <HI>Fruit</HI> made go from her, while only a new <HI>Conceived Embryo,</HI> the puni&s;hment mu&s;t be lighter, then after its <HI>Perfect Orga|nization,</HI> when ready trimmed for the <HI>Soul,</HI> the <HI>In&s;piration</HI> of which makes it all <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> and <HI>Equity, that Life go for Life without re|&s;pect of Per&s;ons.</HI> Hereby al&s;o is under&s;tood when <HI>Pains</HI> come at full time, and to be urged on, or arrive before, and mu&s;t ever by all means then be appea&s;ed, and the <HI>La|bour</HI> hindered; except in <HI>Vehement Floodings, Convul&s;ions,</HI> and other <HI>De&s;perate Ca&s;es</HI> where a &s;peedy <HI>Delivery</HI> is the only <HI>Hope.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Some</HI> compute from <HI>Stop</HI> of their <HI>Cour&s;es,</HI> or the <HI>Quickning,</HI> which yet are <HI>&V;ncertain</HI> and <HI>Vary,</HI> Others judge it by the <HI>Bigne&s;s,</HI> but this fails al&s;o, cau&s;ed greater at &s;ometimes by
<PB N="34" REF="27"> half then at others.. In the <HI>Beginning,</HI> it is tryed by the <HI>above&s;aid Signs</HI> of <HI>Conception. Some</HI> make it be&s;t known by the different <HI>Con&s;titution</HI> of the <HI>Inner-Orifice</HI> in the <HI>Preg|nancy,</HI> which from the <HI>Beginning,</HI> or in the the <HI>fir&s;t Months,</HI> feels &s;omewhat long, and tran&s;ver&s;e like the hole in the top of the <HI>Yard,</HI> or the <HI>Muzzle</HI> of a <HI>Puppy</HI> new <HI>Pupped,</HI> mo&s;t &s;trait, and clo&s;ely conjoyned, <HI>hard</HI> al&s;o and <HI>Den&s;e,</HI> e&s;pecially in the fir&s;t <HI>Child,</HI> tho' in in the&s;e who have born ofter, it is more big and <HI>Inaequal.</HI> In her hindmo&s;t <HI>Months,</HI> this <HI>Orifice</HI> turns <HI>Soft,</HI> and <HI>Pulpy,</HI> more <HI>Lax</HI> al&s;o and <HI>Tumid</HI> (as are the <HI>Lips</HI> of the <HI>Privi|ties</HI>) and by little and little as the <HI>Labour</HI> ap|approacheth, (chiefly after the <HI>Child</HI> is turn|ed and falls lower) it &s;o di&s;tends and am|plifies (as al&s;o the <HI>Inner neck</HI>) that it turns quite flat, and almo&s;t plain with the <HI>Glob</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> opens, and dilates, grows <HI>Orbicular</HI> and <HI>Round,</HI> like a <HI>Circle, Crown</HI> or <HI>Spreading-Ro&s;e,</HI> as if <HI>Nature</HI> were preparing a way for the <HI>Childs</HI> breaking out; being much helped herein, by its greater <HI>Weight,</HI> and more &s;turdy <HI>Stirring.</HI> Its <HI>Lips</HI> are then more <HI>Thick</HI> and <HI>Slippery, Fungous</HI> al&s;o like a <HI>Spunge.</HI> In the la&s;t 3, or 4, <HI>Weeks</HI> it is moi&s;t|ned, and &s;oaked with a <HI>Glutinous Vi&s;cid Hu|mour,</HI>
<PB N="35" REF="27"> or <HI>Slime</HI> filling almo&s;t the <HI>Short Neck,</HI> that it may be more fax, &s;tretch and widen (as it does in a &s;tupendous manner) with le&s;s Violence, and afford the <HI>Infant</HI> a freer pa&s;&s;age at <HI>Labour.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Nature's</HI> u&s;ual, mo&s;t frequent, and &s;tatute <HI>Term</HI> of compleating this great <HI>Generation,</HI> and of a <HI>Legittimat Birth</HI> is the 9th. <HI>Month</HI> entire, as the 10th was held of old: Or the end of the 9th. or beginning of the 10th. and what is made much over is a <HI>Cheat</HI> of <HI>Women,</HI> or a <HI>Mi&s;take</HI> in their <HI>Reckoning,</HI> where|in very oft they are grievou&s;ly beguiled: Whatever al&s;o truly prevents it, is <HI>Praeter-natural,</HI> moved by &s;ome <HI>Morbifick</HI> or <HI>valid injuring Cau&s;e:</HI> And the &s;ooner ca&s;t, more rarely kept in <HI>Life</HI> (as in the 5th. or 6th. <HI>Month,</HI> being &s;o feeble and delicate, though &s;ome &s;uch are &s;aid to have come to a <HI>Lively Age</HI>) but the later, the more <HI>Ripe</HI> and <HI>Strong:</HI> Whence 8th. <HI>Months Births</HI> mu&s;t needs be more <HI>Natural,</HI> and <HI>Vital</HI> then the 7th. which &s;ome deny, making the 7th: <HI>Month</HI> the <HI>Fir&s;t Term</HI> of a <HI>Lively Birth.</HI></P>
<P>Mo&s;t <HI>Phy&s;icians,</HI> will have this <HI>Term</HI> tho' fixed to <HI>Bruits,</HI> yet <HI>Variable</HI> and <HI>&V;ncertain</HI> to <HI>Women,</HI> through <HI>Diver&s;ity</HI> of <HI>Places, Times, Dyet, Pa&s;&s;ions</HI> of <HI>Mind, Temperament</HI> of the
<PB N="36" REF="28"> <HI>Woman,</HI> of the <HI>Seed</HI> and <HI>Womb:</HI> Whence the <HI>Infants</HI> heat increa&s;es whiles more quick|ly whiles &s;lower, its <HI>Maturity</HI> is expede &s;ooner, or later: And the <HI>Term</HI> prevent|ed, or put off: Hence at this day, it is maintained as a mo&s;t <HI>Firm Rule,</HI> that &s;ome <HI>Infants</HI> may, and have been <HI>Legittimatly Born</HI> (and pronounced &s;uch) in the 12th. 13th. 14th. <HI>Month</HI> (not to mention the <HI>Double,</HI> or <HI>Triple</HI>) and that for the <HI>Sickne&s;s,</HI> and <HI>Weakne&s;s</HI> of the <HI>Infant,</HI> or <HI>Mother, Cold|ne&s;s</HI> of the <HI>Womb, Scarcity</HI> of <HI>Aliment,</HI> or the like: Though yet &s;uch late <HI>Births</HI> are very ju&s;tly &s;u&s;pected and ob&s;erved almo&s;t ever in &s;uch <HI>Widows</HI> only, who for love of a dead <HI>Husbands Fortune,</HI> playes an after <HI>Game,</HI> and pretends him the <HI>Father</HI> of ano|ther mans <HI>Child:</HI> A <HI>Trick</HI> &s;o frequent, as to make Clamorous, <HI>Debates</HI> among all <HI>Courts</HI> of <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> every where: and mo&s;t rarely or never in <HI>Women</HI> with whom their <HI>Husbands</HI> live and Bed, who are found (by dayly <HI>Ex|perience</HI> and in every <HI>Con&s;titution</HI> and <HI>Cir|cum&s;tance</HI>) to keep this <HI>Statute Term</HI> &s;ome few <HI>Dayes</HI> only in or over, without putting off to one, much le&s;s &s;everal <HI>Months.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Infant</HI> having by this time, its due <HI>Maturity,</HI> and now finding great <HI>&V;nea&s;e,</HI> and
<PB N="37" REF="28"> <HI>Anxiety</HI> in the <HI>Womb</HI> (which is <HI>Commonly</HI> a&s;cribed to <HI>Straitne&s;s</HI> of the <HI>Place, Scarcity</HI> of <HI>Aliment,</HI> as al&s;o its <HI>Impurity,</HI> and <HI>Corruption:</HI> And <HI>Some</HI> hold the <HI>Redundancy</HI> of <HI>Excre|ments</HI> within the <HI>Infant,</HI> and <HI>Nece&s;&s;ity</HI> of their <HI>Di&s;charge:</HI> Others its need of the <HI>Air</HI> and <HI>Re&s;piration:</HI> And <HI>&s;ome</HI> the <HI>Wi&s;e Di&s;po&s;al</HI> of the <HI>Great Creator</HI>) to&s;&s;es and wre&s;ts it &s;elf every way, and Spurns &s;harply to break through the <HI>Gate</HI> with <HI>Violence,</HI> and get out of that <HI>Ob&s;cure, Sordid, Pinched Goal</HI> (and a wonder, how it could be kept, live and move therein &s;o long) Whence great <HI>Pains</HI> are wakened and redoubled, the <HI>Membranes</HI> wherein it is wrapt are &s;plit, the <HI>Waters</HI> therein flow out, the <HI>Womb</HI> is grievou&s;ly irritated to its <HI>Expul&s;ion;</HI> for which the <HI>Mothers Mu&s;cles, Tendons, Nerves</HI> are forth|with copiou&s;ly filled, and inflate with an <HI>&V;niver&s;al Influx,</HI> and <HI>Vehement Force</HI> of the <HI>Animal Spirits;</HI> chiefly the <HI>Con&s;trictory Fibres</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> and <HI>Mu&s;cles</HI> of the lower <HI>Belly,</HI> which with <HI>Joynt</HI> and <HI>Full Force</HI> makes frequent and hard <HI>Efforts,</HI> and Strong <HI>Compre&s;&s;ions</HI> of the <HI>Infant:</HI> And &s;o a <HI>Valid</HI> and <HI>Speedy</HI> Protru&s;ion thereof.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="38" REF="29">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. VII.</HI> If Woman go with <HI>Boy</HI> or <HI>Girle,</HI> and if &s;he have more than <HI>One.</HI></HEAD>
<P>SOme are fond to know (which yet con|verts not the <HI>Sex,</HI> however &s;ome <HI>Wo|men</HI> are &s;aid to turn &s;uddenly <HI>Men</HI> in their time) if they go with a <HI>Boy,</HI> or <HI>Girle</HI> (tho' there is no <HI>Difference</HI> in the beginning of <HI>Generation,</HI> and the <HI>Girle</HI> is held the <HI>Male</HI> only inverted, or Marr'd) of which &s;ome <HI>Gue&s;&s;es</HI> are made (a <HI>Certainty</HI> being <HI>Impo&s;|&s;ible,</HI> whatever &s;ome <HI>Vainly Boa&s;t</HI>) which we may recite, and refer to the <HI>Comers</HI> to con&s;ider, and <HI>crack</HI> upon, yet believe as they li&s;t: As that <HI>Women</HI> in their <HI>Flouri&s;h,</HI> have mo&s;tly <HI>Males:</HI> The&s;e al&s;o who have them are more <HI>Cheery, Jocound,</HI> of a more entire <HI>Health,</HI> &s;uffer le&s;s Stre&s;s of <HI>Symp|toms,</HI> and haply of a far more <HI>Elegant, Vive Complexion, Florid, Ro&s;y Colour:</HI> Goes lighter, carries them without trouble, or notable <HI>Weight,</HI> finds them <HI>Stir</HI> &s;ooner
<PB N="39" REF="29"> and more <HI>Sharply,</HI> have <HI>Milk</HI> &s;ooner in their <HI>Brea&s;ts,</HI> which are al&s;o more replete of a <HI>Thicker,</HI> not <HI>Wateri&s;h Milk;</HI> chiefly the <HI>Right Brea&s;t</HI> which is firmer. The <HI>Niples</HI> are more <HI>Coloured,</HI> more tumid, erect, and turned upwards. <HI>Males</HI> al&s;o, are &s;aid to po&s;&s;e&s;s the <HI>Right Side</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI> mo&s;tly (though <HI>Some</HI> make <HI>Infants</HI> keep mo&s;tly that &s;ide rather the <HI>Womb</HI> enclines to, be it <HI>Right</HI> or <HI>Left</HI>) and all the <HI>Right-&s;ide Parts</HI> to be more Lively, Warm, Ro|bu&s;t, Agil, Prompt, and readily fir&s;t moved, and u&s;ed: <HI>to wit,</HI> If &s;he &s;ate, kneeled, or &s;tood upright, &s;he would lift her <HI>Right-foot</HI> fir&s;t, rather then her <HI>Left.</HI> As the&s;e are held <HI>Signs</HI> of <HI>Boys,</HI> &s;o the contrary of <HI>Girls,</HI> for whom &s;ome have no <HI>Sign</HI> more &s;ure and &s;table, then if the <HI>Woman</HI> &s;uffer great <HI>La|bour</HI> and <HI>Sickne&s;s</HI> in the la&s;t <HI>Months,</HI> yet keep. all which if true, the <HI>Progno&s;tick</HI> is ea&s;ie. <HI>Some</HI> be&s;ide, make the <HI>Males</HI> begotten of the <HI>Right Te&s;ticle</HI> as <HI>Warmer,</HI> and more <HI>Varicous</HI> while the <HI>Provi&s;ion</HI> of the <HI>Right Artery</HI> may come wholly from the <HI>Aorta</HI> and more <HI>Warm Spirit:</HI> But that the <HI>Left</HI> contains mo&s;tly a more <HI>Serous</HI> and <HI>Weaker Seed:</HI> While we may believe the <HI>Matter</HI> to be &s;ent from the <HI>Emul|gent;</HI> though &s;ome wanting either <HI>Te&s;ticle,</HI>
<PB N="40" REF="30"> have yet begotten a <HI>Number</HI> of both <HI>Sex</HI> in|differently, the <HI>Seed</HI> being generated alike good in the one, as the other. They will al&s;o have <HI>Males</HI> conceived in the <HI>waxing</HI> of the <HI>Moon, Females</HI> in the <HI>waining:</HI> But both being daily brought forth <HI>Indifferently,</HI> mu&s;t be daily al&s;o <HI>Indifferently Conceived.</HI> Be&s;ide, that many ju&s;tly doubt any <HI>Action</HI> or <HI>Rule</HI> of the <HI>Stars</HI> upon things below. <HI>Some</HI> pretend to know it by the <HI>&V;rin,</HI> &s;ome by the <HI>Milk,</HI> by other <HI>Signs,</HI> and <HI>Experiments</HI> al&s;o, which yet &s;eem ob&s;cure and ridiculous.</P>
<P>We need not mention <HI>Authors, Fabulous Stories</HI> and Examples of numerous <HI>Litters</HI> at once, as 10, 15, 24, 36. and many more, yea 364, or 5. one for each day in the year (all &s;urely very &s;mall and un&s;haped) brought forth by the <HI>Counte&s;s</HI> of <HI>Holland</HI> in the 42 <HI>year</HI> of her <HI>Age,</HI> and all Baptized. <HI>One</HI> is mo&s;t u&s;ual over all: <HI>Twins</HI> oftimes: Whiles <HI>Three,</HI> which only may live: Sometimes <HI>four,</HI> yet live not: Both which is more rare and looks <HI>Mon&s;truous,</HI> while <HI>Nature</HI> hath given two <HI>Paps</HI> only to <HI>Women,</HI> yet &s;ome have had two <HI>Niples</HI> to one <HI>Brea&s;t</HI> yeilding <HI>Milk.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Signs</HI> of <HI>Twins</HI> (which live, even though of different <HI>Sex,</HI> contair to &s;ome)
<PB N="41" REF="30"> are the painful, extraordinary <HI>Bigne&s;s,</HI> and <HI>Swelling</HI> of the <HI>Belly</HI> (yet this appears not the <HI>First Months</HI>) its ample <HI>Di&s;tention,</HI> and <HI>Protuberancy</HI> to the <HI>Sides,</HI> with an extern <HI>Midle Line</HI> a little depre&s;&s;ed: Diver&s;e and more frequent <HI>Motions</HI> (though &s;ome make <HI>Twins</HI> move little in the <HI>last Months</HI> for want of room) Swelling of the <HI>Legs,</HI> and <HI>Thighs,</HI> &s;ometimes al&s;o the <HI>Lips</HI> of the <HI>Privities,</HI> and all the &s;hare: A very unea&s;ie and painful <HI>State</HI> of the whole <HI>Body.</HI> But &s;eeing all the&s;e are found with one &s;ingle <HI>Infant,</HI> no certain <HI>Sign</HI> can be had hereof.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. VIII. <HI>Of Superfoetation.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT &s;ayes <HI>Conception</HI> upon <HI>Conception,</HI> or a <HI>Woman</HI> already with Young, by renew|ed <HI>Congre&s;s</HI> conceiving again. <HI>Mon&s;ters</HI> are rare, more rare a <HI>Superfoetation;</HI> yea &s;o rare as by mo&s;t made impo&s;&s;ible (though <HI>Some</HI> al&s;o have ob&s;erved it <HI>Epidemick</HI>) the <HI>Mans Seed</HI> being quite debarred the <HI>Womb,</HI> by the mo&s;t &s;trait and firm <HI>Clo&s;ure</HI> of its <HI>Inner Orifice</HI> in|&s;tantly after <HI>Conception,</HI> which al&s;o abides
<PB N="22" REF="31"> &s;till, &s;o exactly <HI>Sealed,</HI> as nothing can flow out, nor yet be got in that way. Neither hath the <HI>Womans Seed</HI> any po&s;&s;ible acce&s;s to the <HI>Womb,</HI> the&s;e <HI>Conduits</HI> in the <HI>Bottom,</HI> through which it &s;lides into its <HI>Cavity</HI> in the <HI>Congre&s;s,</HI> being then al&s;o firmly contracted, and &s;topt: And is therefore di&s;charged in after <HI>Coitions</HI> (as al&s;o the &s;uperfluous Blood in <HI>Some Ptethorick Women,</HI> and other <HI>Tra&s;h</HI>) through <HI>Dark Wayes,</HI> or <HI>Extremities</HI> of <HI>Ve&s;&s;els,</HI> ending as well upon the <HI>Womb,</HI> as its <HI>Neck</HI> and the <HI>Sheath;</HI> not entring within to hurt the <HI>Infant. Superfoetations,</HI> however rare, are a&s;&s;erted, both by the <HI>Antients,</HI> and many <HI>O|thers:</HI> Yea occur in <HI>Experience,</HI> and &s;aid to happen in the <HI>Fervour</HI> of a very <HI>Libidinous Tickling Congre&s;s,</HI> and a mo&s;t ravening <HI>Action</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI> for Generating; whence the <HI>Womans Seed</HI> may (in this <HI>Warmth,</HI> and <HI>Ve|hemency</HI>) Impetuou&s;ly penetrate the&s;e <HI>Pa&s;&s;es,</HI> and &s;pring into the <HI>Womb</HI> (the <HI>Secundine</HI> ad|hearing to one part only) and the <HI>Orifice</HI> al&s;o (the <HI>Womb</HI> being thus wildly incited in this <HI>Lu&s;tful Fervor</HI>) may yet open in the <HI>Sport</HI> (as it does more often at certain <HI>Intervals,</HI> to vent &s;ome noi&s;ome <HI>Stuff</HI>) for admitting the <HI>Mans Seed,</HI> which being darted thither, and both retained, mu&s;t form this new
<PB N="43" REF="31"> <HI>Conception</HI> therein (<HI>&s;ome</HI> hold it formed al&s;o without the <HI>Womb</HI>) again&s;t which let <HI>Women</HI> keep free of <HI>Congre&s;s</HI> their <HI>First Months,</HI> the&s;e chiefly who have &s;till the <HI>Terms,</HI> and held &s;ubject to Conceive again.</P>
<P><HI>Authors</HI> afford <HI>In&s;tances</HI> hereof, with the various times of their <HI>Conception,</HI> and <HI>Pro|duction. Some</HI> &s;everal dayes only between. Others <HI>Weeks,</HI> &s;ome, <HI>Months.</HI> And are are held ca&s;eble, from the time on|ly the fir&s;t <HI>Geniture</HI> is involved in the <HI>Me|mbrane,</HI> and &s;o &s;ecured again&s;t <HI>Elar&s;e,</HI> or <HI>Mixture;</HI> till the 3d. or 4th. <HI>Month</HI> though &s;ome are found yet later) that the Di&s;tenti|on of the growing <HI>Womb</HI> marrs <HI>Reception,</HI> and <HI>Comprehen&s;ion</HI> of more <HI>Seeds,</HI> and this new <HI>Conception:</HI> Its different <HI>Motions</HI> in <HI>Congre&s;s,</HI> and greed of <HI>Conceiving</HI> affording that while, to open, admit and enclo&s;e the la&s;t <HI>Seeds,</HI> yet &s;ecurely retain the <HI>Conception:</HI> At lea&s;t if there be a Healthy <HI>Mother,</HI> a robu&s;t <HI>Embryo</HI> al|ready formed, being then firmly tyed to the <HI>Womb,</HI> neither yet making any &s;tir to be out.</P>
<P>If the <HI>Superfoetation</HI> happen near the <HI>Con|ception,</HI> it may be <HI>Perfected,</HI> and <HI>Born</HI> as if it were a <HI>Twin,</HI> if long time after, it will &s;till be <HI>Small</HI> and <HI>Misthriven,</HI> and prove <HI>Abortive,</HI> through penury of <HI>Aliment;</HI> the
<PB N="44" REF="32"> mo&s;t part thereof being derived to the <HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> as more <HI>Perfect</HI> and <HI>Strong. Twins,</HI> or <HI>more</HI> be|ing <HI>Begotten</HI> in the &s;ame <HI>Coition</HI> from the a|bundance of <HI>Seed</HI> (the <HI>Partitions,</HI> or <HI>Cells</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI> &s;ay <HI>&s;ome</HI>) come almo&s;t ever of alike <HI>Bigne&s;s,</HI> and <HI>Maturity,</HI> are <HI>Born,</HI> as well as <HI>Conceived</HI> without any <HI>Distance</HI> of <HI>Dayes,</HI> have one and the &s;ame <HI>After-birth</HI> mo&s;tly, which the <HI>Superfoetation</HI> hath di&s;tinct, as al&s;o the <HI>Bag</HI> and <HI>Waters, Di&s;tant Terms</HI> likewi&s;e of <HI>Birth,</HI> and is of inequal <HI>Bigne&s;s</HI> and <HI>Perfection.</HI></P>
<P>There is &s;aid to be a <HI>Corrupt</HI> and <HI>Mon|struous Super Impregnation</HI> in many <HI>Places,</HI> of diver&s;e <HI>Shapes</HI> and <HI>Similitudes:</HI> But the&s;e &s;ome place among the <HI>Kinds</HI> of <HI>Moles:</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. IX.</HI> Of a Mole.</HEAD>
<P>THe true <HI>Mole,</HI> is a fle&s;hy <HI>Tumor,</HI> or rude indige&s;ted <HI>Ma&s;s</HI> (whence its <HI>Name</HI>) without <HI>Bones, Bowels,</HI> right <HI>Di&s;po&s;ure</HI> or <HI>Order</HI> of <HI>Parts,</HI> and <HI>Members,</HI> or any <HI>Em|bryo, Figure,</HI> or <HI>Shape</HI> (though whiles there be a <HI>Rudiment</HI> of &s;ome <HI>Form) Soul</HI> or true <HI>Life:</HI> Engendered in the <HI>Womb</HI> by <HI>Congre&s;s,</HI>
<PB N="45" REF="32"> and of both <HI>Seeds,</HI> which are <HI>Commonly</HI> held as nece&s;&s;ary thereto, as to the ttue <HI>Concep|tion. Some</HI> admit it po&s;&s;ible of the <HI>Womans Seed</HI> alone, though mo&s;t u&s;ually of both. <HI>Others</HI> again, will have them rather ari&s;e from abundance of <HI>Womens Seed,</HI> breaking out in <HI>Congre&s;s</HI> of wanton Lu&s;tful <HI>Girles</HI> with <HI>Old Men</HI> (whom therefore they &s;hould re|fu&s;e, and marry their like) or in <HI>La&s;civious Conver&s;e,</HI> or then by <HI>Veneteous Dreams</HI> (as to &s;ome with &s;ingular delectation) Coagu|lated, and perfited, by the <HI>Heat</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> augmented by acce&s;s, and Collecti|on of the <HI>Cour&s;es,</HI> or <HI>Humours</HI> which &s;erve the <HI>Conception:</HI> And &s;o be <HI>Generated</HI> the &s;ame way, as any other &s;ort of <HI>Fle&s;h:</HI> ca&s;eable al&s;o to <HI>Widows</HI> and <HI>Virgins,</HI> (the more Salacious, or Lu&s;tful chiefly) and meerly from a <HI>Fancied</HI> or <HI>Imaginary Venery,</HI> without knowing Man: And whereof they may make <HI>Abortion</HI> al&s;o. This <HI>Seed</HI> how|&s;oever of the <HI>Mole</HI> &s;eems vitiated in its true Specifick requi&s;ite <HI>Con&s;titution,</HI> being Cor|rupt, Languid, Di&s;ea&s;ed, or of Crude earthy <HI>Vegetant Principles</HI> only, and de&s;titute of the more <HI>Active,</HI> or <HI>Formal Principles</HI> of an <HI>Embryo,</HI> the <HI>Pla&s;tick Vertue,</HI> or <HI>Forming fer|tile Spirits,</HI> or hath them (as al&s;o the <HI>Heat</HI>
<PB N="46" REF="33"> and <HI>Ferment</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI>) extinct, or great|ly &s;uppre&s;&s;ed, and &s;moothered with &s;uch crude humid <HI>Principles,</HI> abounding <HI>Cour&s;es, Whites</HI> or other vile <HI>Tra&s;h</HI> in the <HI>Womb;</HI> from which <HI>Nature</HI> not being able to rid it &s;elf, nor &s;eparate the precious from the vile as it ever intends, and &s;o fru&s;trate of its <HI>Scope,</HI> all is &s;poiled and marred, and &s;o runs into this ugly rough <HI>Ma&s;s,</HI> never or mo&s;t rarely found, &s;ave in <HI>Women,</HI> again&s;t which, they be&s;t forbear <HI>Coition,</HI> when the <HI>Cour&s;es</HI> are near, or the time thereof, and not be too ardent after Conception ere the Infant be formed.</P>
<P><HI>Moles</HI> are of various <HI>Figures</HI> and <HI>Colour:</HI> And &s;ome are more &s;oft and <HI>Fle&s;hy,</HI> &s;ome more firm, and <HI>Membranous,</HI> &s;ome mo&s;t den&s;e, and <HI>Nervous:</HI> &s;ome al&s;o <HI>Schirrous, Gri&s;tly,</HI> yea hardned like a <HI>Stone.</HI> There be al&s;o bigger, and le&s;s, and that according to their <HI>Di&s;po&s;ition</HI> the &s;upply of <HI>Nourriture</HI> (whence &s;ome become quickly more large, others augment flower, and keep &s;mall) the <HI>Temperature</HI> al&s;o of the <HI>Womb,</HI> and their <HI>Stay</HI> therein: With <HI>&s;ome</HI> many <HI>years,</HI> whiles all their <HI>Life,</HI> a painful pinching <HI>weight,</HI> toughly glewed to the <HI>Womb,</HI> which is &s;till big thereof, keeping the Woman un|der
<PB N="47" REF="33"> <HI>Decay</HI> and daily <HI>Peril</HI> of her <HI>Life:</HI> Of Killing her mi&s;erably at length through its huge <HI>Bulk,</HI> and <HI>Pondero&s;ity:</HI> Which yet &s;ome have carried about without great trouble or danger of Life. There is u&s;ually but <HI>One,</HI> yet &s;ometimes <HI>more,</HI> which hath le&s;s peril. They, mo&s;t part adhering more &s;lightly, fall away, the 3d. or 4th. <HI>Month,</HI> not yet come to their ju&s;t <HI>Magnitude:</HI> If they elap&s;e be|fore the 2d. <HI>Month,</HI> they are called <HI>Fal&s;e Conceptions,</HI> if they &s;it after, they grow <HI>Fle&s;hy Moles,</HI> yet &s;ometimes become <HI>Mem|branous,</HI> full of many clear watry <HI>Bubles,</HI> and with a <HI>Fetid Sanious Matter</HI> often. If they exceed 12 <HI>Months,</HI> they are Incureable and abides many <HI>years,</HI> and mo&s;tly the <HI>Drop&s;y</HI> follows. <HI>Some</HI> are called <HI>Vital,</HI> becau&s;e of &s;ome <HI>Sen&s;ible Motion:</HI> Others without <HI>Life,</HI> who have no &s;uch <HI>Motion:</HI> Though they all live a <HI>Vegetal Life,</HI> being nouri&s;hed from the <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> to which they im|mediatly adhere, without <HI>Burden,</HI> or <HI>String,</HI> yet are entirely &s;eparated from it in their proper Sub&s;tance.</P>
<P>Albeit there be likene&s;s in the <HI>Signs</HI> of a true <HI>Conception,</HI> and <HI>Mole,</HI> yet here the <HI>Tu|mour</HI> is harder, more round and plain all over, yeilds to the touch, but returns when
<PB N="48" REF="34"> the hand is removed: Is more grievou&s;ly burden&s;ome, hangs from the <HI>womb</HI> at the <HI>Share</HI> and <HI>Groyns,</HI> like a dead weight, hav|ing no &s;upport of <HI>VVaters,</HI> pinches her lower <HI>Belly, Loyns,</HI> and <HI>Haunches,</HI> cau&s;es a wearine&s;s of her <HI>Legs</HI> and <HI>Thighs,</HI> whiles al&s;o a <HI>Suppre&s;&s;ion</HI> of <HI>&V;rin:</HI> Moves not but with the <HI>VVomb,</HI> and then tumbles as a <HI>Ston</HI> upon the <HI>Side</HI> &s;he turns to; Moving thus &s;ooner, and with a greater <HI>Motion</HI> then the <HI>Infant:</HI> And if any <HI>Motion,</HI> appear to the <HI>touch,</HI> it is pant|ing only. The Womans <HI>Face</HI> al&s;o is pale and almo&s;t dead col<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ured, her <HI>Joints,</HI> and <HI>Cheeks</HI> Crine, her <HI>Body</HI> withers and decays, her <HI>Feet</HI> are very &s;oft, her <HI>Breasts</HI> are lank, hath only a little <HI>Milk</HI> and that <HI>Crude</HI> and <HI>Ichorous</HI> or haply no <HI>Milk,</HI> breeds in the <HI>Brea&s;ts</HI> in a <HI>Mole,</HI> for that it lives no <HI>Animal life,</HI> it enjoys no <HI>Animal</HI> or <HI>Milky Aliment,</HI> after the <HI>Animal</HI> way, or by the <HI>Mouth;</HI> whence neither the <HI>Milky Ve&s;&s;els</HI> in the <HI>Breasts,</HI> nor <HI>VVomb</HI> are opened. She hath al&s;o the <HI>Symptoms</HI> off <HI>Pregnancy</HI> &s;orer, and the re&s;t. <HI>Some</HI> add the waxing of the <HI>Belly</HI> with the <HI>Moon:</HI> But the bigne&s;s remaining after the reckoning is out, clears all.</P>
<P>There are fal&s;e <HI>Moles,</HI> as the <HI>Windy,</HI> a <HI>wa|try</HI> al&s;o (tho &s;ome refer this to its <HI>Drop&s;y</HI>)
<PB N="49" REF="34"> and &s;ometimes the&s;e are complicated. <HI>Some</HI> mention a bloody <HI>Mole,</HI> from plenty, or a Congregation of <HI>Blood:</HI> A <HI>Mole</HI> likewi&s;e of a gro&s;s <HI>Plegmatick Humour. Moles</HI> are while alone in the <HI>Womb,</HI> and whiles together with the <HI>Infant;</HI> To which al&s;o they &s;ome|times adhere, cau&s;ing its <HI>Mon&s;tro&s;ity,</HI> or <HI>Ruine</HI> according to the <HI>Part</HI> it Joyns, and its <HI>Im|pre&s;&s;ion</HI> thereon: Yea, &s;ome have got the <HI>In|fant</HI> enclo&s;ed therein. Of its <HI>Remedies</HI> and <HI>Extraction</HI> afterward.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. X.</HI> Of a right Government in Pregnancy, again&s;t bad Accidents.</HEAD>
<P>PRegnancy though natural, is a <HI>Neuter State</HI> at be&s;t, and to many very painful, Di&s;ea&s;ed, and Unhappy, by rea&s;on of the&s;e <HI>Sore</HI> (yea &s;ometimes <HI>Fatal) Evils</HI> occur, while they are not careful as to the <HI>Cau&s;es</HI> from without, or live not <HI>Regular</HI> in their <HI>Dyet,</HI> or u&s;e of the <HI>Six Non-natural</HI> things, or <HI>Nece&s;&s;ars</HI> of <HI>Life,</HI> according to their <HI>Tem|perament,
<PB N="50" REF="35"> Cu&s;tom,</HI> and <HI>Condition:</HI> Whence &s;uch <HI>Sorrows</HI> may el&s;e be happily &s;hunned (at lea&s;t more or le&s;s, according to their <HI>Di&s;|po&s;ition,</HI> and <HI>Cour&s;e</HI> of Life) her <HI>welfare</HI> &s;e|cured, as al&s;o the <HI>Infant</HI>'s (for as &s;he is, &s;o is it: Yea, what but lightly afflicts the <HI>Mo|ther.</HI> may &s;oon kill her <HI>Child</HI>) all future <HI>Health</HI> being rooted in the <HI>Right &V;&s;e</HI> of <HI>The&s;e,</HI> as is all <HI>Intemperature</HI> in their <HI>Faults,</HI> and <HI>Di&s;orders,</HI> the many and <HI>Various Di&s;ea&s;es</HI> al&s;o, it never claws off till Death.</P>
<P>The <HI>Air</HI> about her, mu&s;t be free, calm, pure, &s;erene, finely tempered, (or fitted to her <HI>Temperature</HI>) without any <HI>Exceeding Quality,</HI> the too <HI>Hot</HI> enfeebles much, makes <HI>Feavers</HI> and <HI>Abortions:</HI> The too <HI>Cold, Moi&s;t, Corrupt,</HI> Stuffs her with <HI>Sharp, Serous Humours,</HI> cau&s;es <HI>Rheums,</HI> and <HI>Coughs.</HI> She mu&s;t &s;hun its <HI>Tem|pe&s;ts, Wind, Rain, Thunder, Lightenings:</HI> The pu|trid Vapours al&s;o of faetid <HI>Stanks, Lakes, Ditches, Carion, Dunghills, Fumes</HI> of <HI>Sulphur, Charcoal, Candles</HI> extinct, and all its other <HI>Pollutions</HI> and <HI>Corruption:</HI> And &s;ome mu&s;t be as wary of <HI>Smells</HI> more fragrant.</P>
<P>She mu&s;t keep moderate in <HI>Dyet,</HI> but take enough to her need and Appetite, yet rather little and oft, when once her <HI>Belly</HI> is more big, whole&s;ome well readied <HI>Vittals,</HI> of
<PB N="51" REF="35"> good ea&s;ie <HI>Dige&s;tion,</HI> fine <HI>Juyce</HI> and <HI>Tempera|ture; Proper,</HI> and <HI>Convenient,</HI> which are made of <HI>Beef, Veal, Kid, Mutton, Pullets, Partridges, Phat&s;ins, Doves, Fre&s;h, Fi&s;h</HI> (chiefly of runing Waters) new laid <HI>Eggs</HI> and the re&s;t. In <HI>Or|der</HI> al&s;o, and <HI>Time</HI> convenient. Ab&s;taining <HI>Meats</HI> more <HI>Hot,</HI> vehemently <HI>Warming</HI> and too <HI>Generous Liquors, Spirits, Spiceries: Meats</HI> al&s;o too <HI>Cold</HI> (a middle matter being &s;ecure|e&s;t) what is <HI>Cour&s;e</HI> likewi&s;e, of hard or ill <HI>Dige&s;tion,</HI> may oppre&s;s, or grieve the <HI>Sto|mach,</HI> generate <HI>Crudities, Flatuo&s;ities, Ob|&s;tructions</HI> Cumulate <HI>Excrements:</HI> All things be&s;ide <HI>Bitter, Sharp, Diuretick</HI> (which yet are le&s;s dangerous, carrying off the <HI>Sero&s;i|ty</HI> only) <HI>Cathartick</HI> (which operate more &s;trongly) <HI>Diaphoretick:</HI> what moves the <HI>Cour&s;es</HI> al&s;o, excites <HI>Loathing, Vomiting, Cough,</HI> or yet <HI>Sneezing,</HI> in which all are mo&s;t vehement.</P>
<P>She may for all that, take good <HI>Claret</HI> at Meat, now and then a Gla&s;s of <HI>Seck</HI> al&s;o, <HI>Mal|ligo, Alicant,</HI> or other generous <HI>Calorifick Liquor:</HI> Some &s;hare be&s;ide of any Meat kind el&s;e &s;he vehemently longs for, lea&s;t the <HI>In|fant</HI> &s;uffer: And to prevent or Cure her <HI>Longings,</HI> for what cannot be got, is ab&s;urd al&s;o, or noxious (for which &s;ome have an extream, and &s;tupendous de&s;ire and Appe|tite,
<PB N="52" REF="36"> and Eats in great plenty, a <HI>Malady</HI> fa|miliar to the fairer <HI>Women</HI> (and from the 4th. day almo&s;t of <HI>Conception,</HI> even till the 3d. Month) and who go with fair <HI>Children,</HI> &s;ome &s;ay <HI>Girles,</HI> live idlely, and keep no good Dyet) there mu&s;t be no mention nor re|membrance of &s;uch things: Let her Ima|gination be&s;ide (from the <HI>Error</HI> of which alone, <HI>Some</HI> makes it proceed, as <HI>Others</HI> from the fault of <HI>Humours</HI> gathered about the Mouth of the <HI>Stomach</HI>) be averted to other <HI>Thoughts:</HI> Pre&s;ent her oft quietly good <HI>Meat,</HI> that &s;he may never be Hungry, being then u&s;ually thus mole&s;ted. There may al&s;o be given her, a <HI>Gut Oyl</HI> of <HI>Cinamon, Nut|meg, Oranges,</HI> with a little <HI>Sugar, Honey, Syrup</HI> of <HI>Corral, Citrons, Quinces, Cinamon,</HI> or &s;ome other Aromatick Cordial Water, or Elixir: And have applyed to her <HI>Sto|mach,</HI> a <HI>Cru&s;t</HI> of <HI>Bread</HI> with <HI>Mallago,</HI> and and whiles the <HI>Counte&s;&s;es Oyntment</HI> with <HI>Tincture</HI> of <HI>Saff<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">on</HI> and <HI>Mint.</HI></P>
<P>Her <HI>Sleep</HI> may be more free, to 8, 9, or 10 <HI>Hours</HI> for her <HI>Cu&s;tom,</HI> the <HI>Temperament</HI> and <HI>Con&s;titution</HI> of her <HI>Body:</HI> And may be procured if needful, with <HI>Almonds, Almond Milk</HI> with <HI>Sugar,</HI> and the like <HI>Temperat,</HI> and <HI>Humectant</HI> things: Yea with little <HI>Baths, Po|pular
<PB N="53" REF="36"> Oyntment</HI> rubbed on the <HI>No&s;trils:</HI> Or a little <HI>Julep</HI> at Bed time, of <HI>Syrup</HI> of <HI>Poppies,</HI> &s;ome <HI>Theriac,</HI> or <HI>Dia&s;cordium,</HI> and <HI>Lettice</HI> or <HI>Poppy Water:</HI> For as Immoderate <HI>Watchings</HI> exhau&s;ts the <HI>Spirits,</HI> impedes the <HI>Concoctions,</HI> introduces a <HI>Fervid Intemperature</HI> and <HI>Acri|mony,</HI> are mo&s;t Infen&s;e to all <HI>Natures</HI> full and fa&s;ting: Moderate <HI>Sleep</HI> re&s;tores, renews, Comforts, and revives all to due <HI>Elaborations:</HI> Makes not only to the <HI>Infants Nutrition,</HI> but <HI>Conformation.</HI> Yet immoderate <HI>Sleep</HI> turns the <HI>Body</HI> a &s;ink of Filth, and Nur&s;ery of the many and <HI>Chronick Di&s;ea&s;es.</HI></P>
<P>Her <HI>Motion</HI> and <HI>Exerci&s;e</HI> mu&s;t be more Curious, e&s;pecially as &s;he grows bigger: With due <HI>Mediocrity,</HI> and in time conve|nient: It is be&s;t which exerci&s;es all the <HI>Parts</HI> of her <HI>Body</HI> equally, <HI>Paceing, Walking</HI> and the re&s;t: Still &s;huning any painful, &s;train|ing <HI>Exerci&s;e,</HI> as all inequal, hard, violent, or &s;ud|den <HI>Motions, Agitations, Concu&s;&s;ions, Stretches</HI> or <HI>Wrings</HI> of the Body, all danger of <HI>Fall,</HI> as al&s;o <HI>Congre&s;s</HI> (which according to the Cu&s;tom, and Opinion of <HI>Women</HI> mu&s;t be more fre|quent while the <HI>Labour</HI> approaches, for moi|&s;tening, and dilating the <HI>Parts</HI> to an ea&s;ier <HI>Labour</HI>) And chiefly <HI>Women</HI> more delicate, of crazy <HI>Con&s;titutions, Slippery,</HI> or mi&s;carry|ing
<PB N="54" REF="37"> <HI>Wombs,</HI> who have big and lumpi&s;h <HI>Chil|dren;</HI> to whom &s;uch unea&s;ie <HI>Joggs</HI> &s;wings the <HI>Burden</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> may cau&s;e <HI>Aborti|on,</HI> rai&s;e de&s;perate <HI>Floodings,</HI> &s;tretch or make ruption of the <HI>Ligaments,</HI> &s;ink the <HI>Womb</HI> &s;o low in the <HI>Hypoga&s;tres,</HI> that the <HI>Infant</HI> gets not turned, but mu&s;t come by the <HI>Feet,</HI> a <HI>Cro&s;s,</HI> or in other ill Po&s;ture. <HI>Some</HI> will have <HI>Exerci&s;e</HI> omitted in the 1&s;t. <HI>Month,</HI> in the 2d <HI>Month</HI> to be &s;eldom, and &s;low, in the 3 d. more brisk, in the 5t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 6th. and be|ginning of the 7th. more frequent, in the latter end of the 7th. the 8th. unto the middle of the 9th. abated, and after that more &s;trong and frequent.</P>
<P>She mu&s;t live mirrily, be kept calm, and tranquill within, free from perturbation of more immoderate <HI>Pa&s;&s;ions,</HI> or <HI>Affections:</HI> Chiefly the&s;e vehement <HI>Commotions, Concu&s;|&s;ions,</HI> and <HI>Vexations</HI> of <HI>Mind</HI> from great <HI>An|ger, Fear, Sadne&s;s (Joy</HI> al&s;o) <HI>Lamentations,</HI> &s;udden and doolful <HI>News</HI> of dear <HI>Relations,</HI> or other amazing di&s;mal <HI>Surprizes, Spectacles, Apprehen&s;ions:</HI> Whence &s;ometimes great <HI>Loo&s;ings, Ec&s;tatick Stupors, Catalep&s;ies,</HI> and other vehement Alterations: Yea <HI>Abortions</HI> in the very in&s;tant, and <HI>Death</HI> it &s;elf oft &s;uperveens.</P>
<PB N="55" REF="37">
<P>Let there be al&s;o, a due dejection of <HI>Ex|crements,</HI> chiefly the la&s;t Months (&s;eeing then the <HI>Belly</HI> is bound, from Compre&s;&s;ion of the big <HI>Womb</HI>) u&s;ing <HI>Dyet</HI> more <HI>Moi&s;t, Emol|lient,</HI> and moderatly <HI>Laxating:</HI> Little ea&s;ie <HI>Gly&s;ters</HI> al&s;o if needful, or rather Stewed <HI>Pruns</HI> with a little <HI>Senna, Manna</HI> with Broth, or &s;ome other <HI>Lenitive.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Some</HI> moreover, to make her keep the better to the time, order <HI>Bleeding</HI> when half gone, and in the 7th. <HI>Month</HI> (yet in choice &s;hould be rather the <HI>Fir&s;t Months,</HI> the <HI>Embryo</HI> being &s;mall, and the Blood more abundant, tho' then al&s;o the <HI>Burden</HI> is but little, and adheres not firmly) and is &s;afe enough, due <HI>Circum&s;tances</HI> being pondered: yea expedient, in ca&s;e the Woman be <HI>Fle&s;hy,</HI> and the <HI>Blood</HI> exuperant towards the <HI>Womb,</HI> to evite the danger by its <HI>Quantity</HI> (as in ca&s;e of fault, or peril from its bad <HI>Quality,</HI> an <HI>I&s;&s;ue</HI> in her <HI>Arm</HI> or <HI>Thigh</HI> is &s;pe|cially u&s;eful) in opening the <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> therein, choaking the <HI>Child,</HI> or yet giving it &s;uch a <HI>Growth,</HI> as would cau&s;e a painful, perillous <HI>Labour,</HI> or even make it come <HI>Abortive:</HI> Hence &s;ome have parted with 3 or 4 in end, who at la&s;t have kept, while frequently <HI>Bled:</HI> Yea &s;o great, and frequent is this <HI>Plethory</HI> in
<PB N="56" REF="38"> <HI>Some,</HI> as without repeated <HI>Bleeding,</HI> even in the la&s;t <HI>Months</HI> they could not keep: And <HI>Some</HI> &s;uch have had then both <HI>Cour&s;es,</HI> and <HI>Haemorrhoids,</HI> without hurt: And <HI>Others</HI> &s;uch al&s;o, through neglect to <HI>Bleed,</HI> or by <HI>Stop</HI> of &s;ome <HI>Evacuation,</HI> have after <HI>Labour</HI> been mi&s;erably Suffocated, or Cruelly kil|led with <HI>Epileptick Fitts,</HI> or turned highly <HI>Fea|veri&s;h;</HI> E&s;pecially while their <HI>Clean&s;ings</HI> have not vented duely: Yet mu&s;t however be mo|derated to the <HI>Exigency,</HI> or her <HI>Plethory,</HI> San|guine <HI>Nature,</HI> way of <HI>Living, Cu&s;tom, Time, Place,</HI> and the like.</P>
<P><HI>Bleeding</HI> al&s;o is admini&s;tred in their great and <HI>Acute Di&s;ea&s;es</HI> (yea to <HI>Some</HI> very largely without any hurt) according to the <HI>Nature, Cau&s;es</HI> and <HI>Vehemency</HI> there|of, the con&s;tancy and firmne&s;s of <HI>Strength.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Bleeding</HI> (for all that) of pregnant <HI>Women</HI> in any ca&s;e, mu&s;t ever be as &s;eldom, and &s;pare as po&s;&s;ible: And only at the <HI>Arm,</HI> in the ut|ter and middle <HI>Veins</HI> &s;ay <HI>Some,</HI> as having lea&s;t <HI>Con&s;ent</HI> with the <HI>Womb:</HI> and may be &s;upplyed where it mu&s;t not come, with <HI>Hu|mid Cuping-Gla&s;&s;es,</HI> or <HI>Leeches.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Catharticks</HI> al&s;o are allowed to <HI>Women</HI> with <HI>Child</HI> (if the matter wax turgid) from the 4th. <HI>Month</HI> to the 7th. without di&s;turbing
<PB N="57" REF="38"> the <HI>Embryo</HI> in the <HI>Fir&s;t Months,</HI> or when more young and too tender, or yet the <HI>Child</HI> in the <HI>La&s;t,</HI> when Elder and too ripe, requir|ing <HI>Roborant Nourriture,</HI> and <HI>Medicaments:</HI> And may before al&s;o, or in the 2d. in ca&s;e of ne|ce&s;&s;ity, or where greater <HI>Peril</HI> Impends from the <HI>Cacochymy,</HI> then the <HI>Purging,</HI> by vi|tiating the <HI>Blood,</HI> opening the <HI>Orifices</HI> of the <HI>Veins,</HI> moi&s;tening the <HI>Womb,</HI> relaxing the <HI>Tyes,</HI> loo&s;ening the <HI>Infant,</HI> and e&s;pecially while <HI>Nature</HI> may concur to the <HI>Effect:</HI> Yet with the more <HI>Benign,</HI> and <HI>Lenient Purgatives</HI> only, as <HI>Reubarb, Ca&s;&s;ia, Manna, Senna, Aga|rick, Syrup</HI> of <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> of <HI>Violets, Whey, Tamar|rinds, Polypod, Lenitive,</HI> or <HI>Catholicon Electuary,</HI> and the re&s;t (which yet are held not free of hurt) rightly corrected, and prepared a|gain&s;t <HI>Grips:</HI> And with regard to <HI>Di&s;ea&s;es Cau&s;es, Bodies, Sea&s;ons,</HI> and <HI>Condition</HI> of <HI>Months,</HI> &s;ome of which are far more peril&s;om then others to <HI>Part</HI> in, for both <HI>Mother</HI> and <HI>In|fant:</HI> Forbearing however <HI>Aloetick Medi|dicines</HI> (by rea&s;on all <HI>Bitter</HI> things are &s;u&s;pect for the <HI>Infant</HI>) and others more <HI>Violent,</HI> the Impetuous <HI>Force</HI> of which it is not able to abide.</P>
<P>Yet <HI>Some,</HI> either through <HI>Mi&s;take,</HI> or for good <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> have frequently given not
<PB N="58" REF="39"> only the &s;tronge&s;t <HI>Purgatives,</HI> but things al&s;o which provoke the <HI>Cour&s;es, Sudorificks</HI> and the re&s;t, without doing hurt to <HI>Mother</HI> or <HI>Infant:</HI> Yea whiles to their Profit; and even in the 2d. 3d. and <HI>Sixth Months,</HI> and later: So that there is no &s;o great fear at lea&s;t in giving <HI>Diureticks,</HI> and <HI>Purgatives,</HI> as is commonly made, though it is better to be too <HI>Cautious,</HI> then <HI>Confident.</HI></P>
<P>Neither yet may <HI>Bleeding</HI> and <HI>Purging</HI> be u&s;ed, to provoke <HI>Abortion,</HI> being &s;o hard to do with &s;ome, and more dangerous then the <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e</HI> or <HI>Applications.</HI></P>
<P>She mu&s;t the while &s;lack her <HI>Dre&s;s</HI> by de|grees, and go ea&s;ie, for full skope to her <HI>Brea&s;ts,</HI> and the waxing <HI>Belly;</HI> for el&s;e be|ing pre&s;&s;ed, and hard pinched about with &s;tiff and &s;trait laced <HI>Busks,</HI> the <HI>Infant</HI> is marred of its <HI>Ea&s;e,</HI> and ju&s;t <HI>Growth,</HI> made <HI>Mi&s;hapen,</HI> and forced away before due time: And her <HI>Belly</HI> withall, being hereby thru&s;t only downwards, remains much <HI>Wrinkly,</HI> and <HI>Bagging</HI> after <HI>Labour.</HI> Now follows the prin|cipal Indi&s;po&s;itions u&s;ually attend this &s;tate of Pregnancy.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="11" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="59" REF="39">
<HEAD>CHAP. XI. <HI>Of Vomitings.</HI></HEAD>
<P>MO&s;t Women u&s;e to have (in&s;tantly, or a little after <HI>Conceiving</HI>) an utter <HI>A|ver&s;ion,</HI> and <HI>Abhorrence</HI> of &s;ome their won|ted <HI>Meats,</HI> together with an Implacable <HI>Loathing, Sickne&s;s,</HI> and <HI>Vomitings,</HI> which vexes them &s;ore, chiefly in the <HI>Mornings,</HI> and ofte&s;t the <HI>Fir&s;t Months</HI> only, yet <HI>Some</HI> their whole time, though a little ea&s;ier: And is held (with the <HI>&s;top</HI> of their <HI>Cour&s;es</HI>) a prime <HI>Sign</HI> of <HI>Impregnation.</HI></P>
<P>This <HI>Alteration</HI> is &s;aid to ari&s;e from Cor|rupt <HI>Humours</HI> in the <HI>Stomach,</HI> through <HI>Stop</HI> of the <HI>Cour&s;es:</HI> Or a <HI>Stain</HI> of the whole <HI>Blood</HI> (the <HI>Spittle</HI> al&s;o and <HI>Ferment</HI> of the <HI>Stomach</HI>) by <HI>Commixture</HI> of a more gro&s;s <HI>Blood,</HI> and corrupted in &s;tagnating about the <HI>Womb.</HI> Sharp <HI>Vapors</HI> al&s;o, ari&s;ing from <HI>Corruption</HI> ne&s;ted below, and communicated to the <HI>Sto|mach;</HI> excites <HI>Vomitings,</HI> while they prick and irritate its <HI>Expul&s;ive Faculty</HI> more &s;harply, and <HI>Loathings</HI> only while more light|ly. <HI>Some</HI> make it proceed from the <HI>Stomach</HI>'s <HI>Sympathy</HI> with a dolorous <HI>Sen&s;e</HI> that while in
<PB N="60" REF="40"> the <HI>Womb,</HI> and that through &s;imilitude of theit <HI>Membranes,</HI> and continuity of the &s;ame little <HI>Nerves</HI> and <HI>Ve&s;&s;els;</HI> as in <HI>Labour</HI> and <HI>Nephritick Pains, Hysterick Pa&s;&s;ions,</HI> and <HI>Lae|&s;ions</HI> of the <HI>Brain,</HI> or its <HI>Membranes. Some</HI> will have it introduced from the <HI>Spirit</HI> of the <HI>Mans Seed.</HI></P>
<P>They are not much cared for at fir&s;t&punc; while <HI>Moderate,</HI> as it were <HI>Spontaneous,</HI> and ea&s;ily born: Yea by &s;ome held <HI>Whole&s;ome,</HI> the <HI>Crudities</HI> remaining in the <HI>Bowels</HI> (while the <HI>Infant</HI> draws the <HI>Purer</HI> and more <HI>Subtile Matter</HI>) being by <HI>Nature</HI>'s &s;pecial care tran|&s;lated to the <HI>Stomach,</HI> and thus ejected: And &s;uch are &s;aid to have the Faire&s;t <HI>Chil|dren:</HI> And &s;o mu&s;t either be &s;uffered, or by degrees corrected with a mo&s;t <HI>Strict Dyet</HI> only.</P>
<P>They readily mend after the 2d. 3d. or 4th. Month, or with the <HI>Quickning:</HI> Such <HI>Superfluities</HI> being by that time much ca&s;t off, and dimini&s;hed by the <HI>Vomitings,</HI> and <HI>Concocted</HI> al&s;o, the <HI>Woman</HI> eating little this this while: Or now con&s;umed by the <HI>In|fant,</HI> which being bigger, &s;tronger, and of more confirmed <HI>Bowels,</HI> draws a more co|pious <HI>Aliment,</HI> and &s;o a part of this <HI>Super|fluity:</HI> The <HI>Womb</HI> withall taking better with
<PB N="61" REF="40"> its <HI>Di&s;tention:</HI> So that what was <HI>Inu&s;ual,</HI> becomes now <HI>Natural</HI> and gives no <HI>Altera|tion.</HI></P>
<P>If they per&s;evere (as with <HI>Some</HI> to the very Labour) be more vehement, painful, and with great &s;trainings, and if what &s;he takes be in&s;tantly ca&s;t up, as <HI>Some</HI> (though others long after) there is great danger of <HI>Mi&s;car|riage</HI> (e&s;pecially where the <HI>Womb</HI> is le&s;s <HI>Firm,</HI> the <HI>Infant</HI> more <HI>Feeble,</HI> her <HI>Time</HI> more near, and &s;he any way el&s;e di&s;po&s;ed to <HI>Abortion</HI>) by rea&s;on of the&s;e hard and &s;ore <HI>Compre&s;|&s;ions, Agitations</HI> and <HI>Concu&s;&s;ions</HI> made hereby. Through this <HI>Subver&s;ion</HI> of the <HI>Stomach</HI> al&s;o, and <HI>Ejection</HI> of the <HI>Aliment,</HI> both mu&s;t fail for want.</P>
<P>For &s;ome relief to her in the ca&s;e (for it is mo&s;t rare to be quite freed be&s;ide her <HI>Dyet</HI> as already directed, (which would be de|licious to the <HI>Ta&s;te,</HI> actually more <HI>Cold,</HI> and in &s;uch quantity as her <HI>Stomach</HI> may ea&s;ily contain) Juyce of <HI>Lemmons,</HI> of <HI>Oranges,</HI> or <HI>Ro&s;e Vinegar,</HI> are very good with her Meat: As are all things moderatly <HI>Acid</HI> (unle&s;s her <HI>Stomach</HI> be of more <HI>Exqui&s;ite</HI> &s;en&s;e) plea&s;antly <HI>Au&s;ter,</HI> and <HI>A&s;tringent,</HI> more <HI>Salti&s;h</HI> al&s;o: With &s;uch <HI>Spiceries</HI> be&s;ide, as are more grate|ful to <HI>Women</HI> (unle&s;s &s;he have <HI>Heart Scaldings,</HI>
<PB N="62" REF="41"> Yet &s;he be&s;t ab&s;tain <HI>Fat Meats, Fat</HI> and <HI>Sugar'd Sauces,</HI> and other &s;tuff of hard, or ill Dige|&s;tion. Her Drink may be good old <HI>Claret</HI> with water, well fermented middle <HI>Ale,</HI> tincture of <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> brisk <HI>Sider, Perry, Goo&s;-berry Wine</HI> and the like, &s;he Loves or may come at. After Meals &s;he may eat a little <HI>Mar|malat</HI> of <HI>Quinces,</HI> Gelly of <HI>Goos berries,</HI> or <HI>Rizars;</HI> a &s;harp <HI>Pear,</HI> &s;ome Con&s;tringent or Dige&s;tive <HI>Powder</HI> or <HI>Tablet.</HI></P>
<P>Many things el&s;e &s;he may u&s;e at times to Comfort, firm, and &s;ettle her <HI>Stomach</HI> (for &s;he is not a &s;ubject for every <HI>Medicine</HI>) cor|rect its <HI>Crudity</HI> and <HI>Softne&s;s,</HI> di&s;&s;olve and expel <HI>Wind,</HI> excite <HI>Appetite,</HI> help to contain and concoct the <HI>Food:</HI> As pre&s;erved green <HI>Ginger,</HI> candied <HI>Nutmegs, Myrabolans, Orange,</HI> and <HI>Citron</HI> Peel, <HI>Elacampan, Prunella</HI>'s, Con|&s;erve of <HI>Mint,</HI> of Sage <HI>Flowers, Ro&s;emary, Betony, Ro&s;es Vitriolated:</HI> Confection <HI>Alker|mes,</HI> of <HI>Hyacinth, Aromaticum Ro&s;atum, Ca|ryophyllatum,</HI> Species <HI>Diambrae, Dianth&ucirc;s,</HI> Powder of <HI>Corral,</HI> of <HI>Pearl, Crabs-Eyes, Ma|&s;tick:</HI> Syrup of <HI>Quinces,</HI> [of <HI>Myrtles, Mint, Wormwood, Corral,</HI> &s;harp <HI>Pomegranats,</HI> Juyce of <HI>Citrons,</HI> of <HI>Dry Ro&s;es: Salt</HI> of <HI>Mint,</HI> of <HI>Wormwood; Spirit</HI> of <HI>Vitriol,</HI> and many others, &s;uch as the <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> and <HI>Occa&s;ion</HI> requires chiefly
<PB N="63" REF="41"> that &s;melleth &s;weet) with their other <HI>Pre|parations</HI> al&s;o, of <HI>Waters, Wines, Tinctures, Quinte&s;&s;ences, Spirits, Oyls:</HI> Of which there may be <HI>Compo&s;itions</HI> to the fore&s;aid <HI>Intents.</HI></P>
<P>There are outward applications for the <HI>Stomach,</HI> as di&s;tilled Oyls of <HI>Mace, Nutmeg, Mint, Ma&s;tick, Wormwood,</HI> Oyls of <HI>Myrtles, Quinces, Ro&s;es,</HI> the Counte&s;&s;es Oyntment with Tincture of <HI>Saffron,</HI> and <HI>Mint:</HI> The <HI>Ma&s;tick</HI> Plai&s;ter, Plai&s;ter of <HI>Crust</HI> of Bread, a <HI>Cru&s;t</HI> &s;teeped in &s;ome generous <HI>Wine, Ro&s;e-Vinegar,</HI> Juyce of <HI>Quinces,</HI> or <HI>Mint;</HI> with <HI>A&s;trin|gents</HI> and <HI>Spices</HI> thereon: Sharp <HI>Leaven</HI> &s;teept in <HI>Vinegar,</HI> and Juyce of <HI>Mint:</HI> A Stoma|cher al&s;o of things more Fragrant, and Sweet: In <HI>Winter,</HI> the Skin of a <HI>Hare,</HI> or <HI>Catt,</HI> or of rapacious <HI>Fouls.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Some</HI> for all that Vomit &s;till, even when over half <HI>Term,</HI> and to &s;uch little ea&s;ie <HI>Purges</HI> are tryed, of <HI>Senna, Rubarb,</HI> Syrup of <HI>Cichory</HI> with <HI>Rubarb,</HI> of <HI>Ro&s;es</HI> Solutiv with <HI>Senna,</HI> and the like as Sutes her <HI>Condition,</HI> and the peccant <HI>Humour:</HI> Yet &s;ome choo&s;e <HI>Bleeding</HI> rather, being cau&s;ed by the Blood retained, and &s;een aggravated by <HI>Purges,</HI> but much relieved by <HI>Bleeding,</HI> yea wholly re|moved, if repeated <HI>Monthly</HI> till it cea&s;e.</P>
<P>In end, when nothing avails, large <HI>Cup|ping
<PB N="64" REF="42"> Gla&s;ses</HI> are to be applyed to the <HI>Stomach:</HI> Yea <HI>Opiats</HI> and <HI>Narcoticks</HI> al&s;o are u&s;ed when <HI>Vehemently</HI> urgent, and afflicting, to temper the <HI>Acrimony</HI> of the <HI>Humours,</HI> bridle their vicious <HI>Efferve&s;cence,</HI> and dull the <HI>Sen&s;e</HI></P>
<P>Some <HI>Bellies</HI> &s;well big and high, does &s;o compre&s;s and &s;traiten the <HI>Stomach,</HI> that the <HI>Vomitings</HI> continue, yea &s;hill wax wor&s;e the nearer <HI>Labour,</HI> and Cures only by <HI>Delivery.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="12" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XII.</HI> Of Pains in the Back, Reins, Hips and Groyns.</HEAD>
<P>THey proceed from the ample <HI>Di&s;tention,</HI> and &s;ore <HI>Weight</HI> of the big <HI>Womb,</HI> and the painful <HI>Compre&s;&s;ion</HI> it makes, in bearing upon the parts about, very grievous to the more delicate and infirm: From a <HI>Vehement Stretch</HI> al&s;o, of its <HI>Ligaments,</HI> which &s;uffer greater &s;tre&s;s and pain in the <HI>First Child,</HI> and a very big <HI>Womb</HI> then ever after, coming &s;till more ea&s;ily to their fir&s;t <HI>Stint.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Ligaments</HI> though valid, &s;oft, lax, yet are ea&s;ily rent and broken, when thus high|ly
<PB N="65" REF="42"> extended by the appending <HI>Load</HI> of &s;uch a big <HI>Womb,</HI> and that upon any &s;tumble, inequal or fal&s;e &s;tep, hard wring, &s;tretch of the <HI>Body,</HI> rude &s;tir or external <HI>Violence,</HI> and brings vehement <HI>Pains, Vomitings, Fea|vers,</HI> and other pernicious <HI>Accidents:</HI> Yea <HI>Abortion</HI> readily, e&s;pecially if there be <HI>Lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ings</HI> or <HI>Bloody Excretions</HI> from the <HI>Womb,</HI> for then it certainly begins to open: And now &s;he mu&s;t <HI>Bleed</HI> in the <HI>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m,</HI> have <HI>Anod<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> Strengthening Cordials,</HI> a&s;tringent <HI>Plaisters</HI> and others, &s;uch <HI>Symptoms</HI> require. And for prevention hereof, &s;he mu&s;t be very Curi|ous of her <HI>Sin</HI> and <HI>Exerci&s;e</HI> with this big <HI>Belly,</HI> and beware of <HI>Suddenties:</HI> Take all the <HI>Ea&s;e,</HI> and <HI>Quiet</HI> &s;he can, in <HI>Bed,</HI> or o|therwi&s;e: And if &s;he cannot &s;u&s;tain the grievous <HI>Weight</HI> thereof, &s;he may lighten it, by hanging the &s;ame to her <HI>Neck,</HI> and <HI>Shoulders</HI> in a convenient <HI>Swath.</HI></P>
<P>The&s;e prove <HI>Nephratick</HI> or <HI>Gravel pains</HI> in <HI>Some</HI> &s;ubject thereto, who may u&s;e Oyl of <HI>Almonds</HI> alone, or with &s;ugar <HI>Candy, Syrup</HI> of <HI>Althaea, Limons,</HI> white <HI>Wine&punc;</HI> a deco|ction of <HI>Liquiri&s;h,</HI> and <HI>Cicers:</HI> Broths al&s;o of <HI>Mallows, Althaea, Netles,</HI> gray <HI>Pea&s;e,</HI> with much <HI>Butter,</HI> and a litle <HI>Salt:</HI> The <HI>Water,</HI> or Decoction of <HI>Winter Cherries, Gra&s;s roots, Rest|harrow:</HI>
<PB N="66" REF="43"> Powder of <HI>Burr-dock</HI> &s;eed in <HI>Po&s;&s;et,</HI> and the like, to open, relax, enlarge and make Slippery the <HI>Pa&s;sages,</HI> gently move the <HI>Matter,</HI> and ea&s;e the <HI>Pain:</HI> Burnt <HI>Egg &s;hells</HI> in white <HI>Wine,</HI> to expell more &s;trongly, if the <HI>Pain</HI> continue: Or the <HI>Infu&s;ion</HI> of <HI>Millepedes</HI> in <HI>Reeni&s;h</HI> or <HI>white Wine:</HI> Or dulcified <HI>Spirit</HI> of <HI>Niter: Spirit</HI> of <HI>Salt, Sal pru|nella, Perficary water</HI> and the re&s;t: Outward|ly al&s;o <HI>Fomentations, &V;nctions.</HI> The <HI>Belly</HI> this while mu&s;t be kept &s;oluble.</P>
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<DIV2 N="13" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XIII.</HI> Of pains of the Brea&s;ts.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WOmens Brea&s;ts</HI> become a litle mor<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> hard, and <HI>&s;well</HI> &s;omewhat after <HI>Con+ceiving,</HI> a <HI>Sign</HI> thereof to &s;ome: and is &s;aid to hap+pen, by the <HI>Stop</HI> of their <HI>Cour&s;es,</HI> much <HI>Bloo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI> breeding daily, and but litle converted to th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <HI>young Embryo;</HI> whence its redundancy in th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <HI>ve&s;&s;els,</HI> and Exoneration to the <HI>Brea&s;ts,</HI> a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> apte&s;t to receive it, which being imbibe<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> into their Spungy and hollow <HI>Kernels,</HI> pain+fully <HI>Swell</HI> and <HI>hardens</HI> them, and more o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> le&s;s for their <HI>Repletion,</HI> which becomes th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">
<PB N="67" REF="43"> greater as they have <HI>pain.</HI> The like may happen in a &s;imple <HI>Suppre&s;&s;ion</HI> of the Cour&s;es.</P>
<P>At <HI>fir&s;t,</HI> She may only keep them warm, and ea&s;y, &s;ecured again&s;t any outward <HI>hurt,</HI> may Cau&s;e <HI>Inflammation</HI> and <HI>Ab&s;ce&s;s:</HI> Yet if after the 3d or 4th <HI>Month,</HI> the <HI>Pain</HI> re|main, the <HI>Solidity</HI> al&s;o and <HI>Bigne&s;s</HI> growing dayly to a hight, as almo&s;t to the end of the 8th <HI>Month,</HI> &s;he may <HI>Bleed</HI> if <HI>Plethorick,</HI> and u&s;e a <HI>&s;mall, &s;pare,</HI> cooling Dyet. For the&s;e being mo&s;t light <HI>Symptoms,</HI> admits few things, and <HI>Topicks</HI> do nought, unle&s;s they grow ex|tream <HI>hard,</HI> which then mu&s;t <HI>mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lify</HI> and <HI>dige&s;t,</HI> le&s;t haply they fall into mo&s;t <HI>Vehe|ment Pains,</HI> or &s;ome <HI>Praeternatural Tumor,</HI> which mo&s;t quickly turn into <HI>Suppuration.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. IV.</HI> Of Incontinency and diffi|culty of &V;rin.</HEAD>
<P>THey both proceed of the <HI>big</HI> di&s;tended <HI>Womb,</HI> compre&s;&s;ing the <HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">adder</HI> plac|ed upon, and adhering to it: For while it greatly compre&s;&s;es the <HI>Bottom</HI> thereof, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t,
<PB N="68" REF="44"> marrs the <HI>Reception of a due Quantity</HI> of <HI>&V;|rin,</HI> and <HI>Retention</HI> a ju&s;t <HI>time</HI> (tho this may come from <HI>Re&s;olution</HI> of the <HI>Sphincter</HI>) whence the bigger &s;he grows, the ofter &s;he <HI>Pi&s;&s;es:</HI> And compre&s;&s;ing the <HI>Neck</HI> thereof (as happens the <HI>fir&s;t Months,</HI> to the&s;e who have the <HI>Womb</HI> fallen, and in the la&s;t, after the Child is turned, and falls lower) it marrs its <HI>Egre&s;s</HI> and makes a <HI>Laborious Pi&s;&s;ing.</HI> The <HI>Acrimony</HI> be&s;ide of her <HI>&V;rin,</HI> may irritat its <HI>Premature Exclu&s;ion,</HI> as may the <HI>Heat</HI> and <HI>Scal|ding</HI> thereof, inflaming the <HI>Neck</HI> of the <HI>Blad|der,</HI> or <HI>&V;rinacy Pa&s;&s;ages,</HI> cau&s;e a <HI>Suppre&s;&s;ion,</HI> or this <HI>Difficulty.</HI> A <HI>Stone</HI> al&s;o &s;triking again&s;t the <HI>Neck</HI> of the <HI>Bladder</HI> in <HI>Pi&s;&s;ing.</HI> And whiles &s;ome drops of <HI>&V;rin</HI> remaining after <HI>Pi&s;&s;ing,</HI> in folds of the <HI>Neck</HI> of the <HI>Bladder</HI> (which are greatly pre&s;&s;ed, and plyed down|ward the la&s;t <HI>Months</HI>) and turning &s;harp through &s;tay there<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n, &s;marts and provokes to this frequent <HI>Pi&s;&s;ing,</HI> and with great <HI>La|bour,</HI> and no le&s;s <HI>Pain,</HI> then &s;he had a <HI>Stone</HI> or <HI>&V;lcer.</HI></P>
<P>They are very <HI>Irk&s;ome</HI> and <HI>Hurtful</HI> for the big <HI>Womb,</HI> which mu&s;t needs loo&s;en, and bear much down, in a long continuance of the&s;e frequent <HI>Endeavours, Vehement forcings</HI> down|ward, and trouble in <HI>Pi&s;&s;ing:</HI> Yea may be urg|ed
<PB N="69" REF="44"> (the <HI>Annoyance</HI> remaining) to ca&s;t the <HI>Fruit</HI> untimely.</P>
<P>If the turgid <HI>Womb</HI> be the cau&s;e hereof, as ofte&s;t, &s;he may ly along before &s;he make <HI>Water,</HI> and when it is to come, rai&s;e up the <HI>Bottom</HI> of her <HI>Belly</HI> with both hands: She may al&s;o carry it up in a <HI>Swath,</HI> or then keep <HI>Bed.</HI></P>
<P>When they proceed from <HI>Acrimony,</HI> and <HI>heat</HI> of the <HI>&V;rin,</HI> &s;he mu&s;t u&s;e a <HI>Cool, Le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">en<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Humectant</HI> Dyet (e&s;pecially what is made of <HI>Ba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ley</HI>) as what el&s;e may contemper that <HI>Hea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> and <HI>Sharpne&s;s</HI> of the <HI>Humours, Cool,</HI> and <HI>Clean&s;e</HI> the <HI>&V;rinary</HI> ways: As waters of <HI>Mal|lows, Red Poppies, Pu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;lane, Lettice,</HI> with <HI>Syrup</HI> of <HI>Violets, Red Poppies, Jujubes, Sal|prunellae:</HI> Or the Decoction of <HI>Cold Seeds:</HI> Or yet <HI>Whey</HI> therewith: <HI>Emul&s;ions</HI> al&s;o of <HI>Almonds,</HI> the <HI>Cold Seeds,</HI> and of <HI>White Pop|pies,</HI> with <HI>Barley-Broth:</HI> Or made of <HI>Che&s;|nuts,</HI> with the Decoction of <HI>Liquiri&s;h</HI> and <HI>Lettice</HI> Seeds: Or large Draughts of new milked <HI>Milk:</HI> Small <HI>Ale, Pti&s;an</HI> al&s;o, or <HI>Barley Water,</HI> wherein <HI>Liquiri&s;h</HI> is Boiled; or with Syrup of <HI>Violets:</HI> Forbearing things <HI>Acrimonious, Acid, Salt,</HI> &s;trong <HI>Liquors, Spi|ceries,</HI> &s;trong <HI>Purges:</HI> And it thus &s;he ea&s;e not, <HI>Bleeding</HI> is ordered: <HI>Cooling</HI> and <HI>Emol|lent
<PB N="70" REF="45"> Applications</HI> for the outward entry of the <HI>Neck</HI> of her <HI>Bladder:</HI> with the like <HI>Injecti|ons</HI> thereinto: <HI>Half Baths</HI> al&s;o in extremity. And if yet the <HI>Woman</HI> cannot make <HI>Water,</HI> it mu&s;t at la&s;t be brought away with a <HI>Cathe|ter,</HI> &s;oftly introduced into the <HI>Hollow</HI> of the <HI>Bladder,</HI> or a <HI>W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">x Candle</HI> anointed with <HI>Oyl</HI> of <HI>Ro&s;es;</HI> which &s;erves al&s;o to remove back the <HI>Stone,</HI> if it &s;top the <HI>Neck</HI> of the <HI>Bladder:</HI> and is all can then be done with a <HI>Big One,</HI> though endeavours may be made for ex|tracting the <HI>Smaller.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="15" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XV.</HI> Of the Cough and difficult Breathing.</HEAD>
<P>NOthing &s;o much ha&s;tens the <HI>Labour,</HI> or excites <HI>Abortion,</HI> as a &s;ore; long conti|nual <HI>Cough:</HI> becau&s;e of &s;uch great <HI>Concu&s;si|ons,</HI> and &s;udden, vehement <HI>Convul&s;ions</HI> of the <HI>Body,</HI> in the&s;e violent, and momentany <HI>Ex|cu&s;sions</HI> of the inclo&s;ed <HI>Air,</HI> with which the <HI>Lungs</HI> are much extended: Whence &s;uch forcible <HI>Depre&s;&s;ions</HI> of the big <HI>Womb,</HI> as may
<PB N="71" REF="45"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">elax its <HI>Ligaments,</HI> &s;eparat the 2<HI>din,</HI> rai&s;e <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">loodings,</HI> or make her come before the Time. Be&s;ides other cruel <HI>Symptoms</HI> it <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">rings, as lo&s;s of <HI>Appetite, Vomitings, Drouth, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">atc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ings, Feavers, Suffocations,</HI> hard <HI>Breath|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">g,</HI> pains of the <HI>Head, Hypocondres,</HI> and the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e&s;t: Yea a <HI>Wa&s;t,</HI> and <HI>Weakne&s;s</HI> of the whole <HI>Body</HI> in the progre&s;s. And that al&s;o which <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">s from a &s;harp <HI>Matter,</HI> ea&s;ily procures <HI>Ero|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ion</HI> of the <HI>Lungs,</HI> and &s;pitting of <HI>Blood.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Cough</HI> is rai&s;ed, by whatever may penetrat, prick, or any way irritat, and mo|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e&s;t the <HI>Wind-pipe, Lungs,</HI> and other <HI>In&s;tru|ments</HI> of <HI>Re&s;piration:</HI> Be it <HI>External,</HI> chiefly <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n Intemperate <HI>Sea&s;on:</HI> Or <HI>Fluxions</HI> thereon from the <HI>Head,</HI> of <HI>Pituitous, Serous Humours, Salt,</HI> or <HI>Acrimonious,</HI> and the re&s;t: The like <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">l&s;o abounding in the <HI>Blood</HI> in <HI>Cacechymick Per&s;ons,</HI> and carried thither: Or yet &s;ome noi&s;ome biting <HI>Vapour.</HI> It is much promov|ed in the <HI>La&s;t Months&punc;</HI> as is her difficult <HI>Breathing</HI> by the turgent <HI>Womb</HI> (the <HI>Parts</HI> and <HI>Bowels</HI> of the <HI>Abdomen,</HI> being thereby driven upwards &s;o clo&s;e to the <HI>Midrif,</HI> as to marr its free <HI>Motion</HI>) by her <HI>Plethory</HI> al&s;o. And <HI>Some</HI> have difficult <HI>Breathing</HI> from a gro&s;s <HI>Catarrah,</HI> lying about the <HI>Entry,</HI> and marring the Acce&s;s of <HI>Air</HI> to the <HI>Lungs,</HI> or
<PB N="72" REF="46"> po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing the <HI>Pipes,</HI> and <HI>Cells</HI> thereof, &s;o as the <HI>Air</HI> cannot extend them.</P>
<P>If her <HI>Cough</HI> proceed from a common <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> &s;he mu&s;t keep warm, u&s;e a good, light, lenient <HI>Dyet,</HI> yet very &s;pare and &s;ober, of Ro&s;ted <HI>Meat</HI> (or rather no <HI>Fle&s;h</HI>) fre&s;h <HI>Eggs, Barley, Rice, Currans, Rai&s;ins, Figs, Apples, Almonds, Panado</HI>'s al&s;o, Water <HI>Gruels,</HI> Bread boiled with <HI>Milk,</HI> or <HI>Ale,</HI> Sugar <HI>Candy,</HI> or <HI>Butter,</HI> which is very pectoral, and <HI>Others,</HI> as the <HI>Occa&s;ion</HI> directs. Ab&s;taining <HI>Wines, Fi&s;hes,</HI> what is of hard or ill <HI>Dige&s;tion,</HI> is <HI>Acid, Salt, Spiced,</HI> or other pricking <HI>Quality.</HI> Things actually too <HI>Cold,</HI> or too <HI>Hot.</HI> Avoiding al&s;o all <HI>Tempe&s;ts, Inclemency, Fogs</HI> or <HI>Cor|ruption</HI> of the <HI>Air,</HI> chiefly at <HI>Night.</HI></P>
<P>Many <HI>Pectorals</HI> be&s;ide are directed, and <HI>Others</HI> proper for relief hereof, to moderate, or take away its <HI>Vehemency;</HI> prepared of <HI>Roots, Herbs, Flowers, Seeds,</HI> and Others in <HI>Pti&s;ans, Decoctions, Apozems, Syrups, Lochohs, Lozenges</HI> and the re&s;t; &s;o contempered as may be&s;t alter, correct, and qualify the <HI>Humour,</HI> facilitate its <HI>Expectoration,</HI> lenify and &s;mooth the <HI>Parts,</HI> &s;hut the <HI>Pores,</HI> and pre&s;erve from <HI>Illap&s;e</HI> of the <HI>Fluxion,</HI> Com|fort and Clean&s;e the <HI>Lungs,</HI> and the re&s;t: And be thus be&s;t adapted to the <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e,</HI> its <HI>Cau|&s;es,</HI>
<PB N="73" REF="46"> and <HI>Symptoms,</HI> according to the various <HI>Indications,</HI> and to all due <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ntentions:</HI> Chu|&s;ing ever &s;uch as do not much move the <HI>Cour&s;es.</HI> And &s;o, for a <HI>Gro&s;s Matter,</HI> Syrup of <HI>Hy&s;&s;op</HI> is u&s;ed, of <HI>H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dge Mu&s;tard, Jeru|&s;alem-Oak,</HI> Oyl of <HI>Anis,</HI> Flowers of <HI>Sulp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ur</HI> with <HI>Sugar Candy,</HI> Bal&s;ome of <HI>Sulphur Ani|&s;at,</HI> and the like: For a <HI>Thin,</HI> Syrup of <HI>Juju|bes,</HI> of <HI>Violets, Red Poppies, Diatragacanthum Frigidum,</HI> Sugar of <HI>Ro&s;es, Pectoral Roul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> and the re&s;t. <HI>Lochoh Sanum</HI> be&s;ide, is u&s;ed in a <HI>C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ugh, Lochoh</HI> of <HI>Colworts,</HI> of <HI>Colts, foot,</HI> Syrup of <HI>Maiden Hair,</HI> of <HI>Liqui<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;h,</HI> of <HI>Sugar-Candy,</HI> of <HI>Colts-Foot:</HI> Oyl of <HI>Sweet Almonds, Dia|codium Solidum,</HI> Extract of <HI>Ecac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mpan, Spa|ni&s;h Juyce</HI> of <HI>Liquiri&s;t,</HI> and the re&s;t. Though in a dry <HI>Cough,</HI> where no matter is to come up, they are to no purpo&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Hypnoticks</HI> al&s;o are proper, <HI>Rheums</HI> and and <HI>Catarrhs,</HI> being dige&s;ted, lenified, and &s;tayed by <HI>Sleep,</HI> the <HI>Powers</HI> of the <HI>Head</HI> for|tified: Such as Syrup of <HI>Poppies,</HI> Pills of <HI>Hounds-Tongue,</HI> of <HI>Styrax, Theriac, Dia&s;cor|dium,</HI> yea <HI>Laudanum,</HI> in ca&s;e the <HI>Brea&s;t</HI> be free, and not quite &s;tufft, with <HI>Gro&s;s, Tough, Pi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uit.</HI> Ea&s;ie <HI>Gly&s;ters</HI> al&s;o: Gentle <HI>Purges</HI> of <HI>Manna, Cas&s;ia, Polypod,</HI> Syrup of <HI>Ro&s;es, Whey:</HI> So as &s;he may have daily <HI>Pa&s;&s;age,</HI> by <HI>Art</HI> or <HI>Na|ture:
<PB N="74" REF="47"> Bleeding</HI> be&s;ide in a <HI>Plethory,</HI> or Sur|charge of <HI>Blood</HI> in the <HI>Lungs. Ve&s;icators, I&s;&s;ues,</HI> and other particular <HI>Evacuations: Perfumes,</HI> and <HI>Spiced Ceps,</HI> to dry and robo|rate the <HI>Head.</HI> The <HI>Brea&s;t</HI> and <HI>Stomach</HI> may be rubbed with Oyl of <HI>Mace,</HI> and <HI>Ants,</HI> and kept warm with a <HI>Swans,</HI> or <HI>Catts Skin,</HI> or things equivalent. Oyl of <HI>Anis, Fennel,</HI> and <HI>Carraway <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eeds,</HI> may be u&s;ed, if the trouble proceed of <HI>Wind</HI> or <HI>Vapors.</HI> If it happen from a clo&s;e Compre&s;&s;ion the <HI>Womb</HI> makes up|ward, where the <HI>Child</HI> &s;its high, or its huge <HI>Tumor</HI> and <HI>Di&s;tention</HI> being Shok full, the <HI>Bur|den</HI> ready to be emitted, and the <HI>Womb</HI> &s;till &s;hut, whence &s;ome go near to expire (the&s;e otherwi&s;e <HI>Strait</HI> or <HI>Anhelous</HI>) or have all &s;plit. Such mu&s;t keep ea&s;ie, and in &s;lack <HI>Dre&s;s,</HI> move &s;oftly, u&s;e <HI>&V;nctions,</HI> Eat and Drink very Spare, nothing <HI>V<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;cous</HI> or <HI>Windy,</HI> of hard or ill Dige&s;tion, &s;hun <HI>Pas&s;ion, Fear</HI> chiefly, and <HI>Anger,</HI> which hurls the Blood upon the <HI>Lungs</HI> and <HI>Heart</HI> in too great abun|dance, and overcharge of its <HI>Ventricles.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="16" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="75" REF="47">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XVI.</HI> Of the Swelling and Pains of Thighs and Leggs.</HEAD>
<P>THe <HI>Circulation</HI> turning here more &s;low, chiefly towards <HI>Labour,</HI> through gro&s;sne&s;s of the <HI>Blood:</HI> Its <HI>A&s;cent</HI> al&s;o, or free <HI>Afflux</HI> to the <HI>Heart,</HI> being ob|&s;tructed by the <HI>Compres&s;ion</HI> the big <HI>Womb</HI> makes of the <HI>Iliach Veins, The&s;e</HI> below mu&s;t greatly di&s;tend and tumify with plenty thereof, as in all hard <HI>Compres&s;ions</HI> and <HI>Tyes,</HI> which bur&s;ting out into the <HI>Sub&s;tance,</HI> and <HI>Coverings</HI> of the <HI>Parts,</HI> thus &s;wells them: And hereby whiles the <HI>Coats</HI> of the <HI>Veins</HI> in the whole <HI>Limb,</HI> are &s;o much relaxed (their <HI>Fibres</HI> being &s;plit through this vehement <HI>Di&s;tention</HI>) as they can never be <HI>Contracted</HI> again to their <HI>Natural State,</HI> and <HI>Varices</HI> ri&s;e thereon, through a <HI>Dilatation</HI> the Blood makes (yea, or <HI>Ruption</HI> in full <HI>Veins</HI> of Sanguine <HI>Women</HI> upon a fall, <HI>Violence,</HI> or rude <HI>Stir</HI>) of the <HI>Valvules</HI> (&s;ometimes &s;o great as to endanger external <HI>Ruption</HI>) being long
<PB N="76" REF="48"> &s;tagnant therein, whence al&s;o it may alter and corrupt, cau&s;e great pain and inflammation.</P>
<P>The <HI>Woman</HI> now be&s;t keep <HI>Bed,</HI> where lying Warm, and equal, the <HI>Humours</HI> be|come more fluid, their <HI>Inte&s;tin Motion</HI> ad|vanced: Hence the <HI>Swelling</HI> u&s;ually falls a|gain&s;t <HI>Morning.</HI> The <HI>Varices</HI> al&s;o may have <HI>A&s;tringent Applications,</HI> a firm <HI>Compre&s;s</HI> and <HI>Bandage</HI> &s;eeing they cannot be cut out) to intercept the <HI>Blood,</HI> or &s;et it on in its progre&s;|&s;ive <HI>Motion,</HI> and prevent their further <HI>Di|latation:</HI> She may <HI>Bl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed</HI> al&s;o in ca&s;e of a <HI>Ple|thory.</HI></P>
<P>Some <HI>Legs</HI> &s;well, and turn <HI>Oedematous,</HI> meerly from <HI>Weakne&s;s</HI> and want of <HI>Natural heat,</HI> after &s;ome former trouble, and by rea|&s;on of their <HI>Scituation</HI> under the <HI>Burden,</HI> and &s;uch di&s;tance from the <HI>Fountain</HI> of <HI>Heat:</HI> Or from &s;ome Excrementitious <HI>Sero&s;ity</HI> or <HI>Pi|tuit</HI> di&s;charged thereon, collected, and con|gealed by little and little, and not expelled, or through ill <HI>Di&s;po&s;ition</HI> of the <HI>Lymphae-aucts.</HI></P>
<P>The Woman in this <HI>Ca&s;e</HI> (which is &s;aid to be mo&s;t frequently with <HI>Girles</HI>) mu&s;t u&s;e a good <HI>Dyet,</HI> which &s;omewhat <HI>Warm</HI> and <HI>Dry,</HI> Meats of ea&s;y <HI>Fermentation,</HI> rather <HI>Ro&s;ted</HI> than <HI>Boiled:</HI> drink clear, throughly boiled <HI>Ale,</HI> a litle more &s;trong, a <HI>Gla&s;s</HI> al&s;o of good <HI>Wine</HI>
<PB N="77" REF="48"> before and after Dinner, make moderat <HI>Exerci&s;e,</HI> a due <HI>Dejection</HI> of <HI>Excrements,</HI> keep <HI>Merry,</HI> and the re&s;t.</P>
<P>The <HI>Applications,</HI> when needed, mu&s;t open the <HI>Pores,</HI> attenuate, di&s;&s;olve and dry up the <HI>Matter:</HI> With <HI>Repellents</HI> in the beginning, not too <HI>A&s;tringent:</HI> As Fomentations of <HI>Elder-Flower</HI> Water, with <HI>Spirit</HI> of <HI>Wine:</HI> Or De|coction of <HI>Wormwood, Centroy, Sage, Suthern|wood, Time;</HI> Flowers of <HI>Ro&s;emary, Chame|mel, Elder, Lavender, Ro&s;es:</HI> Seeds of <HI>Cu|men, Gith, Bay Berries, Junipers,</HI> and o|thers, which warm and comfort the <HI>Parts:</HI> And may be Boiled al&s;o afterwards for their <HI>Corroboration</HI> in &s;trong red <HI>Wine,</HI> adding <HI>Balausts, Cupre&s;s Nutts, Ma&s;tich, Alom</HI> and the like: or be fomented with <HI>Spirit</HI> of <HI>Wine,</HI> or <HI>Treacle Water; Compre&s;ses,</HI> or raw <HI>Linnen,</HI> being wet therein, expre&s;&s;ed, applyed warm, and frequently renewed. They may al&s;o be well <HI>Anointed,</HI> at a <HI>Fire</HI> with Oyntment of <HI>Rue, Martiatum, Althaea</HI> with <HI>Ad&s;tringens,</HI> or the <HI>Counte&s;&s;es</HI> Oyntment: With <HI>Nard Oyl</HI> al&s;o, or <HI>Oyl</HI> of <HI>Dill, Worms, Marjoram, Ma&s;tick:</HI> and have Plai&s;ters of <HI>Diachulon, Oxycrocum,</HI> red <HI>Lead, Mastick.</HI> But this u&s;ually being a light Swelling, ari&s;ing mo&s;tly from the 4th. <HI>Month,</HI> after the other <HI>Symptoms</HI> cea&s;e, through the
<PB N="78" REF="49"> weight of her <HI>Tument Womb,</HI> and falls i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the <HI>Night,</HI> and if withall &s;he be otherwi&s;e well, it may be committed to <HI>Nature</HI> only, and remitted to the <HI>Delivery,</HI> which &s;he mu&s;t wait with all <HI>Quiet</HI> and <HI>Ea&s;e,</HI> when &s;uch <HI>Superfluities</HI> (as the&s;e al&s;o of the whole <HI>Ha|bit</HI>) are ca&s;t off by a copious <HI>Clean&s;ing,</HI> the afflicted <HI>Parts</HI> relieved and &s;trengthned. Yet if it ari&s;e of <HI>Cacochymy,</HI> the <HI>Tumor</HI> be great, fall not in the <HI>Night,</HI> vex her from the <HI>Be|ginning</HI> of <HI>Pregnancy,</HI> with fear of <HI>Inflamation,</HI> or <HI>&V;lcer, Cachexcy</HI> or <HI>Drop&s;y,</HI> as may be ga|thered from her <HI>Complexion</HI> and &s;tate of the <HI>Natural Functions,</HI> a greater <HI>Provi&s;ion</HI> is re|qui&s;ite in a proper <HI>Dyet, Purging, Sweating,</HI> and the re&s;t: With &s;uch <HI>Applications</HI> as the occa&s;ion &s;hall direct. Any <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e</HI> be&s;ide of the <HI>Bowels,</HI> or noble <HI>Parts</HI> it may depend upon, mu&s;t be &s;een to and removed.</P>
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<DIV2 N="17" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XVII. <HI>Of Haemmoroids.</HI></HEAD>
<P>MAny big <HI>Women</HI> are &s;ore annoyed here|with: Proceeding from plenty of <HI>Blood,</HI> and <HI>Humours</HI> gathering upon the <HI>Ex|tremities</HI>
<PB N="79" REF="49"> of the&s;e <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> without vent: whence they lengthen, bunch out, and di&s;tend into <HI>Tumers: Some Hard</HI> like <HI>Warts, Some Soft</HI> like <HI>Mulberries,</HI> and &s;ometimes of a <HI>Purple Colour</HI> like <HI>Grapes. Some</HI> are <HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ind,</HI> which &s;end forth little or no <HI>Blood, Some Open</HI> and <HI>Bleeds</HI> much. <HI>Some</HI> are <HI>Le&s;s,</HI> and the <HI>Pain</HI> more remi&s;s, <HI>Some</HI> &s;well mon&s;trou&s;ly <HI>Big</HI> with <HI>Inflammation Heat,</HI> and a mo&s;t atrocious <HI>Pain</HI> according to their di&s;tention. <HI>Some</HI> are <HI>Internal, Some External.</HI> They are oftimes cau&s;ed, exa&s;|perated al&s;o, and encrea&s;ed by her hard <HI>&s;training</HI> to di&s;charge her <HI>Co&s;tive B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lly.</HI></P>
<P>The &s;welling ones are &s;eldom dangerous, unle&s;s &s;o <HI>Inflamed</HI> as to threaten a <HI>Gangreen:</HI> Yet are &s;ometimes &s;o Tormenting, as to give much adoe for <HI>Ea&s;e</HI> and <HI>Cure.</HI> If they come to <HI>Suppuration</HI> or <HI>&V;lcer,</HI> they oftimes leave a <HI>Fistula</HI> for the mo&s;t part incurable.</P>
<P>If they be yet <HI>&s;mall,</HI> and the <HI>Pain</HI> more remi&s;s, the <HI>Fluxion</HI> mu&s;t be dimini&s;hed, in|tercepted, averted: Their <HI>Encrea&s;e</HI> prevented. The <HI>Big</HI> and <HI>Painful</HI> indicates a Mitigation (el&s;e the <HI>Malady</HI> exa&s;perates) by <HI>Bleeding,</HI> if there be <HI>Pithory: G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ysters</HI> (if they come or augment by hardened <HI>Excrements</HI> great|ly di&s;tending the <HI>Fundament) Emollient</HI> only, as of fat <HI>Broths,</HI> Emollient <HI>Decoction,</HI>
<PB N="80" REF="50"> or <HI>Milk</HI> with a litle <HI>Honey</HI> to keep the <HI>Belly,</HI> fluid: For which &s;he may u&s;e <HI>Ca&s;&s;ia, Tama|rinds, W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">:</HI> kee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing a &s;lender, Cool <HI>Incra&s;&s;ant D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">et,</HI> more <HI>Humi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> and <HI>Laxant:</HI> As boyled <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at, Barley B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oths</HI> with pott <HI>Herbs,</HI> or <HI>prun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> &s;tewed <HI>Barley</HI> with <HI>Currans,</HI> Broths of <HI>Pou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ry,</HI> or <HI>Veal, Panado</HI>'s and the like: And be&s;t keep bed this while.</P>
<P>The <HI>Topick</HI> are made <HI>Cooling, Emollient</HI> and <HI>Anod<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> e</HI> without great <HI>A&s;triction:</HI> As Li|niments Unguents of Oyl of <HI>Lin&s;eed, Eggs, Ro&s;es, Chamemel, Flaxweed, Almonds,</HI> white <HI>Poppies, Galens</HI> cooling <HI>Oyntment, Oyntment</HI> of <HI>Poplar,</HI> of <HI>Tob<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cco, Butter, Hogs</HI> or <HI>Hens Greas:</HI> Bal&s;om of <HI>Sulphur,</HI> Oyl of <HI>Box-wood,</HI> Sugar of <HI>Lead,</HI> yea <HI>opium</HI> in Vehement <HI>Pain. Oyntments</HI> of <HI>Toadflax,</HI> and of <HI>Pilewort</HI> are <HI>Specificks.</HI> Fomentations al&s;o of <HI>Althaea, Mal|lows, Pellitory</HI> of the Wall, <HI>Flaxweed,</HI> flowers of <HI>Chamemel, Melilot, Dill, Mullein, Lin&s;eed, Fenogre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">k,</HI> and the re&s;t, Boiled in Broth of <HI>Sheeps Entrails,</HI> &s;weet or churned <HI>Milk.</HI> Catapla&s;ms moreover, of the&s;e, or of white <HI>Bread</HI> Boyled in <HI>Milk,</HI> adding <HI>Yolks</HI> of <HI>Eggs, Safron Camphor</HI> and Oyl of <HI>Ro&s;es:</HI> Or made of <HI>Onions</HI> Ro&s;ted, Ro&s;ted <HI>Leek Roots,</HI> or &s;weet <HI>Aples,</HI> mixt with <HI>Butter</HI> or <HI>Lard.</HI> Contu&s;ed <HI>Pur&s;lane</HI> al&s;o is applyed for ea&s;e, <HI>Leavs</HI> of
<PB N="81" REF="50"> green-<HI>Elder,</HI> Linnen dipt in <HI>Painters Vervice,</HI> a Fomentation of <HI>Cold Water,</HI> or of <HI>Ro&s;e-wa|ter</HI> and <HI>Sugar</HI> of <HI>Lead: Some</HI> extol <HI>A&s;hes</HI> of <HI>Cork</HI> with <HI>Capons Gree&s;e: &V;nctions</HI> al&s;o, with Oyl of <HI>Amber</HI> alone, or with equal parts of Oyl of <HI>Almonds:</HI> And many more &s;uch like, <HI>Simple</HI> or more <HI>Compound,</HI> as the <HI>Pain</HI> and <HI>In|flammation</HI> mu&s;t be ea&s;ed, the <HI>Tumor</HI> ex&s;ic|cated and di&s;cu&s;&s;ed: And if <HI>The&s;e</HI> &s;till con|tinue, they mu&s;t at length be opened with <HI>Leeches,</HI> or a <HI>Lancet</HI> if <HI>Soft,</HI> and <HI>Bleed</HI> to 2 or 3 <HI>Ounces.</HI> When they op<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n of them|&s;elves (as whiles by the plenty and force of <HI>Blood</HI> di&s;tending the <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> too much) the <HI>Pain</HI> le&s;&s;ens, the <HI>&s;harp &s;alti&s;h Blood</HI> being thus evacuated.</P>
<P>If they <HI>Bleed</HI> moderatly, they alleviat in a <HI>Plethory.</HI> In <HI>Some</HI> they bleed oft, and much, in place al&s;o of the <HI>Cour&s;es;</HI> yet without any hurt to <HI>Mother,</HI> or <HI>Child:</HI> Yea have been wor&s;e when &s;top'd. If they flow too abun|dant, and long, the <HI>Thighs</HI> grow weak, the <HI>Hips</HI> feel a heavy <HI>Pain,</HI> the <HI>Complexion</HI> alters, they bring <HI>Coldne&s;s, Cachexy, Atrophy, Drop|&s;y,</HI> by voiding a Blood too &s;ubtile and &s;pi|rituous, the <HI>Trea&s;ure</HI> of <HI>Life,</HI> and <HI>Foment</HI> of the whole <HI>Body.</HI></P>
<P>For <HI>Stop,</HI> or <HI>Moderation,</HI> there are inward
<PB N="82" REF="51"> <HI>Lenients, Incra&s;&s;ators, A&s;tringents, Dryers,</HI> &s;uch mentioned in <HI>Floodings:</HI> With outward <HI>A|&s;tringents</HI> al&s;o, as a <HI>Fomentation</HI> of <HI>Mullein</HI> in <HI>Smiths Water,</HI> or a&s;tringent <HI>Wine:</HI> Or a <HI>Fomentation</HI> of <HI>Acorns</HI> and <HI>Oak Leaves: Ca|tapla&s;ims</HI> of <HI>Dragons blood,</HI> &s;ealed <HI>Earth, Bole, Acacia, Spiders-webs,</HI> the hairs of a <HI>Hare</HI> burnt, and the re&s;t mixt with the <HI>Whites</HI> of <HI>Eggs,</HI> or Juyce of <HI>Plantain:</HI> Applyed to the <HI>Vein</HI> if it appear, or &s;oftly thru&s;t up in <HI>form</HI> of a <HI>Suppo&s;itor</HI> into the <HI>Fundament:</HI> Into which <HI>Injections</HI> may be made. Gentle <HI>Purga|tion</HI> is u&s;ed of <HI>Rubarb, Myrabolans, Tamarinds. Bleeding</HI> al&s;o, with the other means of <HI>Re|vul&s;ion;</HI> and what el&s;e may conduce for Cure.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="18" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XVIII.</HI> Of pregnant <HI>Womens</HI> Belly <HI>Fluxes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THey may have a <HI>Lientery,</HI> where the <HI>Aliments</HI> pa&s;s <HI>Crude</HI> not changed &s;oon after they have been taken: A <HI>Diarrhy</HI> or or|dinary <HI>Flux,</HI> a more &s;peedy frequent and copious <HI>Excretion</HI> of <HI>Excrements</HI> and <HI>Humors</HI>
<PB N="83" REF="51"> than is meet or u&s;ual, yet without any &s;trong <HI>&s;en&s;e</HI> of <HI>Pain:</HI> A <HI>Dy&s;entery</HI> al&s;o, or <HI>Flux</HI> of <HI>bloody Matter,</HI> with dolorous <HI>Grips,</HI> from <HI>Exe&s;ion</HI> and <HI>Exulceration</HI> of the <HI>Gutts.</HI> Any of which, when <HI>Vehement</HI> and <HI>La&s;ting</HI> ea&s;ily brings <HI>Abortion (Decay</HI> al&s;o, or deadly <HI>Con|&s;umption)</HI> by <HI>&s;ub&s;traction</HI> of the <HI>Aliment, Di&s;&s;i|pation</HI> and <HI>Wa&s;t</HI> of the <HI>Spirits</HI> and <HI>Strength;</HI> chiefly the <HI>Dy&s;entery,</HI> with a <HI>Tene&s;m,</HI> hav|ing &s;uch gnawing <HI>Pains,</HI> and con&s;tant <HI>Sti|mulations,</HI> to a perpetual (almo&s;t) <HI>De&s;ire,</HI> and <HI>Nece&s;&s;ity</HI> of going to <HI>Stool,</HI> without avoiding <HI>Excrements,</HI> from an <HI>Acid</HI> biting <HI>Humor</HI> &s;tic|king about the <HI>Fundament.</HI> Be&s;ide, that by this <HI>Depre&s;&s;ion</HI> of all in the <HI>Abdomen,</HI> the <HI>Womb</HI> is &s;trongly compre&s;&s;ed, and forced downwards, its <HI>Ligaments</HI> relaxed (for the &s;ame <HI>Mu&s;cles</HI> which &s;erve to expel the <HI>Ex|crements,</HI> are imployed for <HI>Delivery</HI>) and the <HI>Infant</HI> poy&s;oned with the &s;tink of continually dejected <HI>Excrements. Some Women</HI> however have had a Belly <HI>Flux</HI> this <HI>While,</HI> yet &s;afely laid at full <HI>Time,</HI> and the <HI>Child</HI> well: But if it cea&s;e not at <HI>Labour,</HI> in a very &s;hort time af|ter &s;he dies.</P>
<P>A <HI>Flux</HI> happens to Big <HI>Women,</HI> mo&s;tly from the <HI>Cold Humid Di&s;temper</HI> of the <HI>Sto|mach,</HI> the <HI>Weakne&s;s</HI> of its retentive <HI>Faculty,</HI> a
<PB N="84" REF="52"> dull <HI>Ferment</HI> and bad <HI>Concoction,</HI> &s;o exceed|ingly advanced by degrees, through their va|rious and ab&s;urd <HI>De&s;ires,</HI> unruly <HI>Dyet,</HI> and frequent <HI>Vomitings,</HI> that the <HI>Aliment</HI> pa&s;&s;es quite unaltered, or el&s;e converts into a <HI>Cor|rupt Acrimonious Chyl,</HI> provocking to this praemature, frequent, and torminous <HI>Excre|tion.</HI> It may ari&s;e al&s;o from <HI>Phlegm,</HI> or &s;harp <HI>Humors</HI> irritating the <HI>Expul&s;ive</HI> Faculty.</P>
<P>As to <HI>Cure,</HI> the <HI>Means</HI> again&s;t her <HI>Vomi|tings</HI> are proper in a <HI>Lientery,</HI> where the <HI>Sto|mach</HI> being thus extreamly debilitated, tur|ned <HI>Flaccid</HI> and lax in its <HI>Membranes,</HI> is be&s;t corroborated with <HI>Aromaticks</HI> a little <HI>Auster,</HI> mixt with generous <HI>Wine,</HI> or its <HI>Spirit:</HI> With things al&s;o plea&s;antly <HI>Acid:</HI> By drinking <HI>Spirituous,</HI> but little <HI>Drink,</HI> good <HI>Claret, Spani&s;h Wine, Canary Hippocras, Worm|wood Wine:</HI> Ab&s;taining things very <HI>Wateri&s;h,</HI> actually <HI>Cold,</HI> or <HI>Chill: Catharticks</HI> al&s;o, where the trouble comes of Weakne&s;s only. There may be outward <HI>Applications</HI> of things <HI>Aro|matick, Warming,</HI> and <HI>Astringent.</HI> If it be only a gentle <HI>Flux</HI> of <HI>Excrements,</HI> with &s;ome &s;uperfluous <HI>Humors,</HI> it needs no &s;peedy <HI>Co|hibition,</HI> but only be moderated by a pro|per <HI>Dyet;</HI> yet where it looks to la&s;t, the peccant <HI>Humor</HI> in the <HI>Gutts,</HI> which may <HI>Fo|ment</HI>
<PB N="85" REF="52"> it, mu&s;t be purged off by an ea&s;ie <HI>Infu|&s;ion</HI> of <HI>Senna</HI> and <HI>Reubarb</HI> with Syrup of <HI>Ci|chory:</HI> By <HI>Catholicon</HI> al&s;o, or <HI>Lenitive,</HI> with powder of <HI>Rubarb:</HI> U&s;ing after <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">heriac, Di|a&s;cordium, Confection</HI> of <HI>Hyacinth,</HI> &s;teeled <HI>Wa|ter,</HI> or <HI>Milk,</HI> the white <HI>Decoction, Decoction</HI> of <HI>Torment&igrave;l Roots,</HI> or <HI>Oak Leaves. Ali|ments</HI> more &s;olid, <HI>Styptick,</HI> and of a plea&s;ant <HI>Au&s;terity,</HI> which incra&s;&s;at and dry.</P>
<P>If it turn a <HI>Dy&s;entery,</HI> or bloody <HI>Flux,</HI> its Cure mu&s;t be wrought by due <HI>Expurgation</HI> of the vicious <HI>Matter,</HI> with Potions of <HI>Ru|barb, Myrobotans, Tamarinds, Santals,</HI> Leaves and Seeds of <HI>Plantain,</HI> infu&s;ed in <HI>Cichory, En|dive</HI> or <HI>Pur&s;lane</HI> Water, adding <HI>Almonds, Barley, Liquiri&s;h, Ca&s;&s;ia, Rai&s;ins,</HI> or the like, which may together temper, and allay the Humors: U&s;ing it as frequently as the Pa|tient can bear. Powder of <HI>Rubarb</HI> is u&s;ual|ly given, fir&s;t Raw, then Torrified: Infu&s;ion, or Powder of <HI>Mechoacan,</HI> is al&s;o commended. <HI>Glysters,</HI> be&s;ide are u&s;ed (tho if the trou|ble be in the upper <HI>Gutts,</HI> there mu&s;t be none, or few: And then al&s;o it proves deadly for the mo&s;t part, the <HI>Stomach</HI> being brought by con&s;ent to <HI>Vomitting</HI> and <HI>Hiccough</HI>) fir&s;t <HI>Anodin,</HI> of <HI>Milk,</HI> with yolks of <HI>Eggs, Turpen|tine,</HI> Oyl of <HI>Almonds:</HI> Or of <HI>Milk</HI> boyled
<PB N="86" REF="53"> with <HI>Althaea</HI> Roots: Or with red <HI>Ro&s;es, Cha|memel</HI> and <HI>Melilot</HI> flowers: Or then made of <HI>Mutton, Chicken</HI> or <HI>Capon</HI> Broth: Or de|coction of the <HI>Intestins</HI> and <HI>Extremities</HI> of <HI>Veal</HI> or <HI>Mutton:</HI> Adding <HI>Narcoticks</HI> in ex|tremity. The&s;e <HI>Detergent</HI> are next, of com|mon <HI>Decoction</HI> with <HI>Honey,</HI> or <HI>Sugar</HI> of <HI>Ro|&s;es:</HI> Or the <HI>Decoction</HI> of <HI>Ro&s;es, Bran<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> with brown <HI>Sugar:</HI> Or <HI>Turpentin</HI> with the <HI>White</HI> of an <HI>Egg. Glysters</HI> in end, of things <HI>Vulnera|ry</HI> and <HI>A&s;tringent,</HI> which may dry, con&s;oli|date and bind: As Juyce of <HI>Plantain</HI> alone, or with <HI>Milk</HI> or <HI>Barley</HI> Water: Or <HI>Gum A|rabick,</HI> or <HI>Tragacanth,</HI> or <HI>Sarcacol,</HI> or <HI>Frank|incen&s;e,</HI> or <HI>Ma&s;tick</HI> in <HI>Plantain</HI> Water: Tho it is fit <HI>Clean&s;ers</HI> be &s;till intermixt; yet u&s;ual|ly all the&s;e <HI>Jndications</HI> and more are An&s;we|red in one and the &s;ame <HI>Glyster.</HI> While the&s;e are giving, things of the &s;ame nature may be taken by the <HI>Mouth,</HI> which incra&s;&s;at, a|&s;trict the <HI>Wayes,</HI> &s;i&s;t the <HI>Fluent Cau&s;e,</HI> quite &s;top the <HI>Flux,</HI> and &s;trengthen the <HI>Part:</HI> As <HI>Gelly</HI> of <HI>Harts-horn, Broths</HI> of glewing <HI>Extre|mities,</HI> with <HI>Sorrel, Pur&s;lain, Endive:</HI> Or with <HI>Gum Arabick,</HI> or <HI>Tragacanth:</HI> Or made of the fat <HI>Gutts</HI> of a <HI>Sheep,</HI> with &s;ome <HI>Oyl: Steeled,</HI> or <HI>Rice Milk</HI> and <HI>Sugar,</HI> with Yolks of <HI>Eggs: Milk Pottage</HI> of fine Bread:
<PB N="87" REF="53"> Bread made of <HI>Barley</HI> Flower, with <HI>Yolks</HI> of <HI>Eggs,</HI> and eaten with <HI>Milk</HI> and <HI>Sugar:</HI> Or <HI>Cows</HI> Milk with <HI>Con&s;erve</HI> of <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> or boiled with <HI>Yolks</HI> of <HI>Eggs:</HI> Or Crums of fine Bread to&s;ted, in brisk <HI>Claret, Styptick,</HI> and <HI>A&s;trin|gent:</HI> Or a <HI>Nutmeg</HI> to&s;ted in Embers taken therein, if there be no <HI>Fever:</HI> Or the <HI>Wine</HI> alone, with which &s;he may be the ofter (tho &s;paringly) refre&s;hed. Drinking al&s;o <HI>Water</HI> with Con&s;erve of <HI>Ro&s;es:</HI> Tincture of <HI>Ro&s;es:</HI> Decoction of <HI>Oak Leaves,</HI> or of <HI>Ma|&s;tick,</HI> with Syrup of <HI>Corral, Quinces, Myrtles,</HI> dry <HI>Ro&s;es.</HI> Proceeding to things &s;tronger, in ca&s;e of <HI>Vehemency</HI> and great wa&s;t of <HI>Strength:</HI> As Broths with Roots of <HI>Bi&s;tort, Tormentil, Comfrey:</HI> Leaves of <HI>Plantain, Pim|pinell, Hor&s;e-tail, Ladies Mantle,</HI> and the re&s;t. <HI>Opiats</HI> of old Con&s;erve of <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> Con&s;erve of <HI>Quinces,</HI> of <HI>Comfrey, Dia&s;cordium, Confe|ction</HI> of <HI>Hyacinth, Alkermes: Pouders</HI> of <HI>Cor|ral, Pearl,</HI> &s;ealed <HI>Earth,</HI> burnt <HI>Harts-horn, Bole, Blood Stone, Dragons Blood, Ma&s;tick, Gum Arabick, Tragacanth. Juleps</HI> al&s;o may be frequently given of A&s;tringent <HI>Waters,</HI> or <HI>Decoctions, Syrups, Pouders</HI> with <HI>Narcoticks,</HI> be&s;ide, chiefly <HI>Laudanum.</HI> Cautious howe|ver of a too &s;udden, or too great <HI>Astriction</HI> before the bad Humors be quite purged out:
<PB N="88" REF="54"> So that in ca&s;e too much Binding do hurt one mu&s;t <HI>Purge</HI> again, then <HI>Bind,</HI> and after <HI>Purge</HI> again. There are Extern <HI>Applications</HI> to the <HI>Stomach,</HI> and <HI>Belly,</HI> Anodin, A&s;tringent and Strengthening: Such chiefly mentioned in <HI>Vomiting:</HI> For the <HI>Stomach</HI> being corrobo|rated, all <HI>Fluxes</HI> &s;oon &s;top.</P>
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<DIV2 N="19" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XIX.</HI> Of Cour&s;es, of Flooding, and Whites.</HEAD>
<P>THo the <HI>Cour&s;es</HI> mo&s;t naturally neither do, nor ought to flow in pregnant <HI>Wo|men:</HI> Yet <HI>Some</HI> (but the fewe&s;t of all, and the ca&s;e is very rare) have them duely (tho in le&s;s <HI>Quantity,</HI> and <HI>Some</HI> &s;ay of a pale <HI>Colour,</HI> and alwayes &s;hew ill <HI>Dyet;</HI> which therefore <HI>Nature</HI> ca&s;ts off as unfit for the <HI>Childs</HI> nou|ri&s;hment) till the 4th or 5th <HI>Month:</HI> Yea <HI>Some</HI> more <HI>Plethorick,</HI> all their <HI>Time,</HI> di&s;|charging that <HI>Redundancy</HI> (more or le&s;s, for their <HI>Di&s;po&s;ition</HI> and <HI>Plenitude</HI>) with the <HI>Moon,</HI> or at the u&s;ual time, by <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> which ter|minate in the outer <HI>Neck</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> and
<PB N="89" REF="54"> <HI>Sheath</HI> le&s;t flowing through the <HI>Womb,</HI> the <HI>Infant</HI> be therewith overwhelmed, and made <HI>Abortive</HI> (tho <HI>Some</HI> make it come by the <HI>Infant</HI> in plenty enough, without doing it hurt, being clo&s;s wrapt in the <HI>Membranes,</HI> and pa&s;s t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rough the <HI>Womb</HI>) de&s;tilling from the <HI>Ve&s;sels</HI> by drops, and in &s;mall <HI>Quantity:</HI> Without any <HI>Morbifick</HI> procuring <HI>Cau&s;e, Pain, Weakne&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> or other <HI>Trouble</HI> to the <HI>Mother</HI> or <HI>Infant</HI> as in <HI>Flooding:</HI> and may therefore be committed to <HI>Nature,</HI> with a convenient <HI>Dy|et</HI> only, being beneficial for the &s;mall <HI>Em|bryo</HI> proceeding thus of abundance meerly, and would need <HI>Bleeding</HI> if unduly &s;topt.</P>
<P>If &s;he <HI>Bleed</HI> in greater plenty, and through the <HI>Heat, Acrimony, Thinne&s;s, Motion,</HI> or other <HI>Fault</HI> of the <HI>Blood</HI> it &s;elf, the <HI>Laxity,</HI> or <HI>Apertion</HI> of the <HI>Ve&s;&s;els,</HI> or External <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> (there being no &s;igns of <HI>Plethory</HI>) and if <HI>Pains</HI> in the <HI>Loyns</HI> accompany, <HI>Grips</HI> in the <HI>Belly, Swoonings,</HI> Imbecillity of <HI>Mother,</HI> and <HI>Infant,</HI> it mu&s;t be carefully &s;een to, the Blood tem|pered and &s;topt for fear of <HI>Parting,</HI> the <HI>Ve&s;sels</HI> Roborated and healed, by a <HI>Cool Lenient Dy|et, Incra&s;&s;ating</HI> and <HI>astringent:</HI> And the other Remedies Intern and Extern mentioned for a <HI>Dy&s;entery</HI> and <HI>Floodings</HI> with what el&s;e may comfort, Cheri&s;h, and Roborat the <HI>Belly,</HI>
<PB N="90" REF="55"> or <HI>Embryo</HI> ever hereby weakly: Avoiding all things may &s;harpen, heat, and move the <HI>Blood:</HI> chiefly <HI>Choler</HI> which agitates, inflames, di&s;per&s;es, and troubles all the <HI>Spirits</HI> and <HI>Ma&s;s</HI> of <HI>Blood.</HI></P>
<P>Yet this Cour&s;e is only proper, while the <HI>Bleeding</HI> is moderat, and continues not, the Child is alive, and any Hope to prevent its <HI>A|bortion:</HI> For if it prove a real <HI>Flooding,</HI> or torrent of florid <HI>Blood</HI> &s;pringing through the <HI>Womb,</HI> almo&s;t on a &s;udden, from a violent <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> ince&s;|&s;ant, with great <HI>Pains, Faintings, Swoonings Con|vul&s;ions,</HI> nothing avails (however it happen) but a pre&s;ent <HI>Delivery,</HI> and riddance of eve|ry thing in the <HI>Womb:</HI> Be it a fal&s;e <HI>Concep|tion,</HI> or <HI>Mole</HI> (Whence it u&s;ually ari&s;es when young with <HI>Child,</HI> while the <HI>Womb</HI> works to void it) a true One or <HI>Child:</HI> At any time of the Reckoning: And without waiting <HI>Pains</HI> and <HI>Throws</HI> as in the <HI>Labour</HI> (unle&s;s they continue more &s;trong and quick) or a due <HI>Dilatation</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> or breaking of the <HI>Membranes:</HI> Which now for di&s;patch mu&s;t be broken with the <HI>Hand,</HI> the <HI>Ca&s;e</HI> being urgent, where <HI>Some</HI> have died in 7 <HI>Hours Some</HI> in 4: And the rather, if there be any Loo&s;ening or &s;eparation of the <HI>Burden,</HI> as af|ter a <HI>Blow, Stumble, Violence,</HI> or other <HI>Hurt</HI>
<PB N="91" REF="55"> which can never more joyn, or fa&s;ten, and &s;o neither the <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> clo&s;e, nor the <HI>Bleeding</HI> cea&s;e, till the <HI>Womb</HI> be quite cleared of the <HI>Child</HI> (which mu&s;t now be brought by the <HI>Feet</HI> what ever other <HI>Part</HI> offer, unle&s;s the <HI>Head</HI> be direct in the <HI>Birth</HI>) and whatever el&s;e it contains: That by <HI>Contracting</HI> it felf, as it does pre&s;ently after, and returning to its former <HI>Hardne&s;s</HI> and <HI>Solidity,</HI> the <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> are <HI>Compre&s;&s;ed;</HI> the <HI>Bleeding</HI> &s;topped, and the the <HI>Woman</HI> &s;aved, if the <HI>Delivery</HI> have been got opportunely di&s;patched: Which &s;hould therefore be ha&s;tened. U&s;iing &s;uch <HI>Means</HI> in the time again&s;t her <HI>Fainting, Weakne&s;s</HI> and <HI>Vehemency</HI> of the <HI>Bleeding,</HI> as are for <HI>Floodings</HI> after <HI>Labour,</HI> that &s;he may pre&s;erve <HI>Strength</HI> to come through the <HI>Operation,</HI> and recover after.</P>
<P>This <HI>Flooding</HI> may proceed in <HI>Some</HI> from a <HI>Cleft</HI> or <HI>Rent</HI> of the &s;ub&s;tance of the <HI>Womb,</HI> through its too great <HI>Distention</HI> (tho <HI>Some</HI> hold it to grow &s;till the thicker, the more it is di&s;tended) any <HI>Violence, Hurt,</HI> or con&s;i|derable <HI>Contu&s;ion;</HI> yet cannot be known but by <HI>Di&s;&s;ection</HI> after <HI>Death:</HI> And is ever incur|able, even after <HI>Delivery,</HI> whither &s;he bring forth of her &s;elf, or by hands: While there can be no <HI>Reunion</HI> of its <HI>Substance,</HI> nor can it
<PB N="92" REF="56"> make that &s;olid <HI>Contraction</HI> of it &s;elf, or <HI>Com|pre&s;&s;ion</HI> of the <HI>Ve&s;&s;els,</HI> as when it is entire. Be|&s;ide that then an <HI>Inflammation</HI> mu&s;t alwayes follow which ever kills her.</P>
<P><HI>Flooding</HI> with a <HI>Mole,</HI> or fal&s;e <HI>Conception</HI> is nothing &s;o dangerous, as with the true <HI>One</HI> or <HI>Child,</HI> none being found to die of <HI>That,</HI> and rarely any e&s;capes of <HI>This,</HI> unle&s;s the <HI>De|liver:</HI> be more quick, e&s;pecially the nearer &s;he is her <HI>Time,</HI> the <HI>Labour</HI> being then the more difficult, the <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> al&s;o of the <HI>Womb</HI> &s;o hugely <HI>Tumid</HI> and <HI>Distent</HI> with <HI>Blood.</HI></P>
<P>Some <HI>Cacohymick</HI> Women have then al&s;o (and more readily then at other <HI>Times</HI>) a Flux of <HI>Whites,</HI> from pituitous <HI>Humors</HI> con|ge&s;ted in the <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> and <HI>Sub&s;tance</HI> of the <HI>Womb:</HI> And haply through the whole <HI>Body,</HI> taking its greater <HI>Encrea&s;e</HI> from <HI>Crudities</HI> of the fir&s;t <HI>Concoctions:</HI> But the Crud <HI>Filth</HI> comes from the <HI>Womb,</HI> either <HI>White,</HI> or <HI>Wa|teri&s;h,</HI> or <HI>Livid</HI> and <HI>Sanious.</HI> And when long Vehement and Acrimonious, brings <HI>Cachexy, Swoonings, Weakne&s;s, Swelling</HI> of the <HI>Legs;</HI> Gnawing <HI>Pains</HI> of the <HI>Reins, Decay, Abortion, Relaxation, De&s;cent,</HI> Yea <HI>Exulceration</HI> or <HI>&V;l|cers</HI> of the <HI>Womb;</HI> which may in end convert into <HI>Cancers,</HI> as happens where they have a <HI>Malignity.</HI></P>
<PB N="93" REF="56">
<P>In this ca&s;e they mu&s;t u&s;e a whol&s;ome light dry <HI>Dyet,</HI> Ro&s;ted meat rather than Boy|led: Ab&s;taining <HI>Fi&s;h, Milk, Herbs,</HI> green <HI>Fruits,</HI> or other <HI>Humid</HI> Excrementitious <HI>Stuff,</HI> too much <HI>Sleep</HI> or <HI>Sloth,</HI> too much <HI>Drink,</HI> or without eating: <HI>Coition</HI> al&s;o: Mu&s;t now and then gently <HI>Purge,</HI> and u&s;e Dyet <HI>Drink,</HI> of <HI>Sar&s;aparilla, Guajac, Ma&s;tick-wood, Sa&s;afras</HI> and the re&s;t: according to her <HI>Temperament.</HI> A&s;tringent <HI>Wine</HI> al&s;o, and many other <HI>A&s;tring|ents</HI> outward and inward: As Roots of <HI>Com|fry, Plantain,</HI> of <HI>Salomons Seal,</HI> of <HI>Dropwort,</HI> flowers of the white dead <HI>Netle, Theri|ac, Mithridat</HI> and <HI>Others</HI> mentioned in <HI>Flooding:</HI> And &s;uch as may comfort &s;trengthen and dry the <HI>Womb,</HI> and <HI>Stomach,</HI> better the <HI>Concoction,</HI> and mend that <HI>Intempe|rature.</HI> But among all things <HI>Some</HI> prai&s;e Red <HI>Corral,</HI> and its <HI>Preparations:</HI> As <HI>Others</HI> the <HI>White,</HI> which they will have alwayes taken for repre&s;&s;ing this <HI>Flux.</HI> She may have <HI>I&s;&s;ues</HI> al&s;o in her <HI>Thighs</HI> or <HI>Legs</HI> for a more firm <HI>Diver&s;ion:</HI> And for <HI>Revul&s;ion, Cuping-Gla&s;&s;es</HI> to the <HI>Shoulders</HI> and <HI>Back: Frict&igrave;ons</HI> and <HI>Ligatures:</HI> yet no <HI>Bleeding,</HI> neither <HI>Injections</HI> nor <HI>Suffumigations.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="20" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="94" REF="57">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XX.</HI> Of the Weight or bearing down of the Womb.</HEAD>
<P>THe Di&s;tention of the Big <HI>Womb</HI> hinders its <HI>Prolap&s;e:</HI> Yea, hath Cured it in <HI>Some</HI> when far out, being then gradually drawn up: It does however &s;lip and bear much down in <HI>Some,</HI> whiles &s;o far as to in|commode their <HI>Walking,</HI> and <HI>Coition,</HI> and which they have found &s;o weighty at the <HI>Bottom</HI> of their <HI>Belly,</HI> as to fear all ready to fall out: Cau&s;ing al&s;o (chiefly towards the <HI>Rec|koning</HI>) a <HI>Numne&s;s</HI> and <HI>Sleeping</HI> in the <HI>Hips</HI> and <HI>Thighs,</HI> difficulty of <HI>Stool</HI> and <HI>&V;rin.</HI> And then putting a <HI>Finger</HI> into the <HI>Sheath,</HI> the <HI>Womb</HI> and its inner <HI>Orifice</HI> is felt there, fallen very near the <HI>Water-gate,</HI> chiefly while the <HI>Woman</HI> &s;tands upright.</P>
<P>This proceeds from great <HI>Stretch, Relaxa|tion,</HI> or <HI>Solution</HI> of the <HI>&V;nity</HI> of its <HI>Ligaments,</HI> chiefly the flat <HI>Ones,</HI> whereby it hangs &s;u|&s;pended on each &s;ide to the <HI>Loins,</HI> and that either from the appending <HI>Weight,</HI> and hea|vy
<PB N="95" REF="57"> <HI>Carr&igrave;age</HI> of the <HI>Burden,</HI> and &s;o much the more the bigger it is: Or if then there hap|pen <HI>Stumble, Fall,</HI> any <HI>Shake</HI> or <HI>Concu&s;&s;ion</HI> thereof: From <HI>Violence</HI> al&s;o, and <HI>Stre&s;s</HI> in the preceeding <HI>Labour:</HI> And very oft from a redundancy of <HI>Humors</HI> moi&s;tening and re|laxing the &s;ame, in <HI>Women Phlegmatick,</HI> or troubled with <HI>Whites.</HI></P>
<P>The&s;e <HI>Ligaments</HI> are ea&s;ier fortified, and the <HI>Trouble</HI> Cured after <HI>Delivery,</HI> when ea&s;ed of that <HI>Weight,</HI> and <HI>Pe&s;&s;aries</HI> got kept there|in, to &s;tay it up in its natural <HI>Seat.</HI> Her be&s;t in the time is to keep <HI>Bed,</HI> or mu&s;t &s;tir litle, and &s;oftly: Keep &s;lack in her <HI>Cloaths,</HI> and may bear up the weight of her <HI>Burden</HI> in a fit <HI>Swath:</HI> Mu&s;t avoid <HI>Coition,</HI> all <HI>Com|pre&s;&s;ions</HI> and <HI>Shakes</HI> of her big <HI>Belly:</HI> Or whatever may occa&s;ion violent <HI>Expul&s;ion.</HI> And in the ca&s;e of abounding <HI>Humors,</HI> u&s;e a drying <HI>Dyet,</HI> good <HI>Food</HI> of Meats roa&s;ted rather than boiled. And above all, &s;he mu&s;t be &s;o skilfully laid, as neither her forcing downwards to exclude the <HI>Child,</HI> nor <HI>Ex|traction</HI> thereof, or of the <HI>After-Birth,</HI> procure its praecipitation, which ea&s;ily may, and oft does in this Ca&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="21" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="96" REF="58">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXI.</HI> Of the Drop&s;y of the <HI>Womb</HI> and Oedematous Swelling of the Lips of the <HI>Privi|ties.</HI></HEAD>
<P>SOme <HI>Women</HI> go all the time with their <HI>Belly</HI> di&s;tended, and full of waters only, gradually collected, and inclo&s;ed into the <HI>Womb.</HI> which in end they have plentifully voided, in place of a <HI>Child</HI> they expected. And this is made the <HI>Drop&s;y</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> mo&s;tly incident in <HI>Pituitous, Cacochymick, Hydropick,</HI> and <HI>Serous</HI> Di&s;ea&s;es.</P>
<P>If the&s;e <HI>Waters</HI> flow into the Capacity of the <HI>Womb</HI> (as in <HI>Some</HI>) by fault of the <HI>Sto|mach, Liver</HI> or <HI>Spleen,</HI> the danger is greater, and ruine is thereby threatned to the whole Body. They are then kept in by the Clo|&s;ure of the Inner <HI>Orifice,</HI> and run off of their own accord, when it begins to open, where|by the <HI>Sick</HI> &s;ometimes recover.</P>
<PB N="97" REF="58">
<P>If they breed in the <HI>Womb</HI> (as often) and mo&s;tly then after <HI>Copulation,</HI> through fault of the <HI>Seed,</HI> or of the <HI>Womb,</HI> e&s;pecially when too <HI>Cold,</HI> or drowned with a too great <HI>Flux,</HI> or yet <HI>Suppres&s;ion</HI> of <HI>Cour&s;es, Whites,</HI> or other tra&s;h it wont to di&s;charge: As al&s;o when weakned by manifold <HI>Mi&s;carriages,</HI> or violent <HI>Labour.</HI> They are then oft contained within its <HI>Membranes,</HI> or little <HI>Bladders:</HI> Yea, <HI>Some</HI> are big with &s;everal little <HI>Bladders</HI> full thereof: and is then wor&s;e to be Cured, making &s;tay in the <HI>Womb,</HI> as long, and whiles longer than the <HI>Child,</HI> deceiving all with fal&s;e <HI>Hopes</HI> thereof.</P>
<P>The <HI>Di&s;tinctive Signes</HI> of this from a true <HI>Conception</HI> (for here the <HI>Cour&s;es</HI> &s;top, and the <HI>Belly</HI> &s;well) are Softne&s;s, and Extenuation of the <HI>Breasts,</HI> their want of <HI>Milk,</HI> the want of <HI>Infant</HI> &s;tir al&s;o (a <HI>Fluctuation</HI> of <HI>Waters</HI> only being perceived) the greater <HI>Pain</HI> and <HI>Weight</HI> of the <HI>Belly</HI> (living Things being &s;till lighte&s;t) which is al&s;o more Soft, equal|ly extended, and depre&s;&s;ed in <HI>Circumference.</HI> The <HI>Oedomatous</HI> Swelling of the <HI>Parts</HI> about, the <HI>Thighs</HI> and <HI>Legs.</HI> Moi&s;ture &s;ometimes of the <HI>Privities:</HI> a wor&s;e <HI>Complexion,</HI> and continued wor&s;e <HI>Health.</HI></P>
<P>As the&s;e <HI>Waters</HI> may be alone in the <HI>Womb,</HI> &s;o may whiles be in plenty together with the
<PB N="98" REF="59"> <HI>Infant</HI> (For tho an <HI>Infant</HI> cannot be generat|ed in an <HI>Hydropick Womb,</HI> yet this <HI>Drop&s;y</HI> may well &s;ucceed a true <HI>Generation</HI>) &s;welling &s;ome hugely: And makes great hazard of <HI>Abortion,</HI> by corrupting the <HI>Child,</HI> and de|frauding it of <HI>Nutriment,</HI> a great part of the &s;ame re&s;olving thereinto:</P>
<P><HI>Some</HI> void &s;tore of <HI>Waters</HI> long before <HI>La|bour,</HI> which yet cannot be the&s;e enclo&s;ed in the <HI>Membrane</HI> with the <HI>Infant,</HI> el&s;e there behooved to be <HI>Pains,</HI> and the <HI>Infant</HI> to come therewith, that being the right <HI>Time:</HI> be&s;ide that they are entire at <HI>Labour,</HI> break and yeeld a full <HI>Fore-&s;pring.</HI> Yet mu&s;t have been kept in a peculiar <HI>Membrane.</HI></P>
<P>When this <HI>Drop&s;y</HI> is alone, &s;ufficient <HI>Purgation</HI> is ordered to its <HI>Cure;</HI> and then things <HI>Aperient Diuretick, Emmenagogick:</HI> Af|ter the taking of which, &s;trong <HI>Exerci&s;e, Vo|miting, Sudorificks, Cly&s;ters</HI> al&s;o, <HI>Injestions</HI> in|to the <HI>Womb, Pe&s;&s;aries, I&s;&s;ues</HI> and the re&s;t; to evacuate, and bring away the <HI>Humour</HI> from the <HI>Womb,</HI> di&s;cu&s;s, or make a <HI>Revul|&s;ion</HI> or <HI>Derivation</HI> thereof: Yet when an Infant is therewith, the <HI>Woman</HI> mo&s;t only u&s;e a good Dyet, moderatly Warming and Dry, ab&s;taining <HI>Sweet</HI> things, and <HI>Liquid</HI> al&s;o, un|le&s;s they may be ea&s;ily di&s;tributed, for re|maining
<PB N="99" REF="59"> in the Body, they may augment the <HI>Evil.</HI></P>
<P>The&s;e <HI>Waters</HI> in <HI>Some</HI> di&s;per&s;e upon the <HI>Lips</HI> of the <HI>Priv&igrave;ties,</HI> and blows them whiles &s;o wholly up, as they cannot bring their <HI>Thighs</HI> together, nor walk but with <HI>Pain:</HI> The <HI>Swelling</HI> is then <HI>Livid,</HI> and looks as it were Shining; but hath no danger, if meerly <HI>Oedematous,</HI> almo&s;t without <HI>Pain</HI> and <HI>Fea|ver:</HI> Yet &s;eeing they mu&s;t &s;traiten the pa&s;s, and marr the <HI>Infants</HI> Egre&s;s at <HI>Labour, Sca|rifications</HI> are ordered along the place, for <HI>Evacuation</HI> of the <HI>Humour,</HI> big or little as one plea&s;e: to be kept open al&s;o, &s;o long as is fit and nece&s;&s;ar (preferred therefore to <HI>Leeches,</HI> where the <HI>Orifices</HI> &s;oon clo&s;e) and mu&s;t have <HI>Compre&s;&s;es</HI> applyed thereto in end, dipt in <HI>Aro|matick</HI> and <HI>A&s;tringent Wine</HI> to Fortify the <HI>Parts</HI> again&s;t <HI>Relap&s;e:</HI> U&s;ing the while an <HI>Anti-hydropick Dyet.</HI> If there happen <HI>Inflam|mation</HI> al&s;o, which hath ever a <HI>Feaver,</HI> and be communicated withall from an <HI>Inflamma|tion</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> it rarely Cures, but &s;oon kills her after Delivery. Any other <HI>Swelling,</HI> or <HI>Tumor, Inflammation,</HI> or <HI>Abice&s;s</HI> may ari&s;e upon the&s;e <HI>Parts,</HI> can make no danger, while it comes not from, nor communicates with the <HI>Womb.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="22" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="100" REF="60">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXII.</HI> Of the <HI>Venereal Di&s;ea&s;e</HI> in <HI>Pregnant Women.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF the <HI>Mother</HI> be <HI>Pocky,</HI> &s;o mu&s;t her fruit, being con&s;titute of polluted <HI>Principles,</HI> getting al&s;o a vile Acrimonious <HI>Nutri|ment,</HI> which converting into its <HI>Substance</HI> breeds the&s;e <HI>Pu&s;tuls, Scabs, Byles, Spots,</HI> and <HI>&V;l|cers,</HI> which the <HI>Infants</HI> of &s;uch bring with them from the <HI>Womb,</HI> or appears &s;oon after; making the greater <HI>Impre&s;&s;ion</HI> and <HI>Havock</HI> of their &s;oft <HI>Bodys</HI> as they are Weaker, or the <HI>Mothers</HI> &s;tain the greater: e&s;pecially if &s;he have <HI>&V;lcers,</HI> exulcerat <HI>Chops</HI> or <HI>Clefts</HI> about the <HI>Genitals,</HI> which &s;oon impart the <HI>Venom</HI> to the <HI>Child</HI> in the <HI>Womb.</HI></P>
<P>This being a <HI>Virulent</HI> pernicious <HI>Malady,</HI> with a <HI>Train</HI> of mo&s;t dreadful rageing <HI>Symp|toms,</HI> making &s;peedy <HI>Havock</HI> of all (the Malignant <HI>Contagion</HI> being di&s;per&s;ed through the whole <HI>Body</HI>) needs a mo&s;t skilfull, &s;peedy and thorow Cure; which <HI>Some</HI> place in <HI>Salivation</HI> only, which yet if her time be
<PB N="101" REF="60"> near, is be&s;t forborn till after <HI>Delivery:</HI> El&s;e the <HI>Labour</HI> coming on the time of the <HI>Cure,</HI> might kill her and the <HI>Infant.</HI> If her <HI>Pox</HI> be&s;ide be <HI>Recent, Gentle</HI> and with ea&s;ie <HI>Symp|toms,</HI> this Cure mu&s;t al&s;o be deferred till af|ter <HI>Child-bed,</HI> u&s;ing the while Gentle <HI>Purges, Sudorificks, Alexipharmicks,</HI> through the con|&s;tant u&s;e of which this Pocky <HI>Habit</HI> in <HI>Some,</HI> hath been throughly altered, a new <HI>Salubri|ous Habit</HI> produced. Yet if this <HI>Pox</HI> afflict her when young with Child, in the highe&s;t <HI>Degree,</HI> with the wor&s;t of <HI>Symptoms,</HI> be rebellious, and &s;tuborn, this <HI>Cure</HI> mu&s;t be plyed, if &s;trength admit: Being her &s;afe&s;t <HI>Cour&s;e;</HI> &s;eeing the <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e,</HI> and its pernici|ous <HI>Sympt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ms</HI> &s;till augmenting more and more, mu&s;t in continuance certainly kill her. Be&s;ide, that <HI>Some</HI> &s;uffer more by <HI>Remedies</HI> for other Acute <HI>Di&s;ea&s;es</HI> in their <HI>Pregnancy,</HI> yet are &s;afe.</P>
<P>This <HI>Flux</HI> or <HI>Salivation</HI> is rai&s;ed by Intern <HI>Medicaments, Suffumigation,</HI> or then <HI>&V;nctions</HI> with <HI>&V;nguentum Neopolitanum&punc;</HI> or other Mer|curial <HI>Oyntment:</HI> which la&s;t is &s;ecure&s;t in her <HI>Ca&s;e:</HI> yet mu&s;t be of her upper <HI>Parts</HI> only, as the <HI>Palms</HI> of her <HI>Hands, Wri&s;ts, El|bows, Shoulders,</HI> along&s;t the <HI>Back-bone</HI> al&s;o, if it ri&s;e &s;low: And to be managed with all Se|curity,
<PB N="102" REF="61"> Care and Caution, that the <HI>Evacuati|on</HI> be rather by little at a time, and the longer then too copious and &s;uddain: Proceeding in the <HI>Quantity,</HI> and <HI>Reiteration</HI> to her <HI>Strength,</HI> and <HI>Facility</HI> of the <HI>Flux:</HI> Sure to be &s;till <HI>Ma&s;ters</HI> thereof. So if &s;he be &s;trong, anoint once every <HI>Morning</HI> for the fir&s;t two <HI>Dayes: Morning</HI> and <HI>Evening</HI> for the third and fourth: Afterwards but once a day, till the <HI>Flux</HI> appear: If it come ea&s;ily, once every <HI>Morning:</HI> If &s;he be weak once every other <HI>Day.</HI> After the <HI>&V;nctions</HI> &s;he is to keep warm in <HI>Bed</HI> for an <HI>Hour</HI> or two, and Sweat mo|derately. She mu&s;t the while be kept warm: Her <HI>Regimen</HI> al&s;o ought to be &s;trict: Chief|ly careful, no <HI>Loo&s;ne&s;s</HI> or belly <HI>Flux</HI> ari&s;e. The re&s;t as occa&s;ion &s;hall direct, and are &s;uf|ficiently known.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="23" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXIII.</HI> Of Abortion.</HEAD>
<P>SO oft do <HI>Women</HI> mi&s;carry, and upon &s;uch &s;mall <HI>Occa&s;ions,</HI> as there are near as many <HI>&V;ntimely</HI> as <HI>Full Births:</HI> E&s;pecially if every <HI>Slip</HI> or <HI>Parting</HI> be reckoned; there being &s;o
<PB N="103" REF="61"> many even while taken for a praemature <HI>Ex|clu&s;ion</HI> of an <HI>Immature Infant,</HI> whether liv|ing or dead.</P>
<P>The <HI>Cau&s;es</HI> are <HI>Extern</HI> and <HI>Intern:</HI> in the <HI>Mother,</HI> and <HI>Infant:</HI> And &s;he in re&s;pect of both <HI>Body</HI> and <HI>Mind.</HI> And thus every acute <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e</HI> in general, killing the <HI>Infant</HI> by <HI>In|fection,</HI> or through the <HI>Mothers</HI> Imbecility. All the particular <HI>Accidents</HI> above-mention|ed, as &s;ore <HI>Vomiting,</HI> a Violent <HI>Cough,</HI> great <HI>Cholicks,</HI> pains in the <HI>Rems, Strangury, Gra|vel:</HI> Every great <HI>Evacuation,</HI> but that from the <HI>Womb</HI> chiefly, happening through <HI>Ruption</HI> of the <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> and Separation of the <HI>Burden:</HI> Large <HI>Phlebotomy</HI> al&s;o (e&s;pecially while the <HI>Child</HI> is bigger) &s;trong &s;harp <HI>Purges,</HI> immo|derate <HI>Watchings (Sleep</HI> al&s;o) &s;evere long <HI>Fa&s;tings,</HI> want, or badne&s;s of <HI>Provi&s;ion:</HI> too much <HI>Plethory</HI> al&s;o, through riotous u&s;e of fine <HI>Meats, Spiceries,</HI> rich <HI>Liquors, Spirits:</HI> want of things longed for, which makes pre|&s;ent <HI>Abortion</HI> to <HI>Some:</HI> every more vehe|ment <HI>Agitation, Commotion, Stretch</HI> or <HI>Contor|&s;ion</HI> of the <HI>Body, Compre&s;&s;ion,</HI> or <HI>Concu&s;&s;ion</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI> by violent <HI>Exerci&s;e,</HI> Leaping, Danc|ing, Runing, hard Riding, <HI>Falls</HI> e&s;pecially upon the <HI>Belly</HI> or <HI>Loyns,</HI> going in <HI>Wagon</HI> or <HI>Coach,</HI> lifting or carrying of a heavy <HI>Burden,</HI>
<PB N="104" REF="62"> vehement <HI>Motion</HI> of the <HI>Arms,</HI> in Stretching, Drawing any thing &s;trongly, turning at <HI>Wheel,</HI> and the like: <HI>Loud Crying</HI> al&s;o, &s;trong <HI>Sneezing,</HI> profu&s;e <HI>Laughter,</HI> petulant <HI>Venery,</HI> e&s;pecially when near her time: &s;urprizing <HI>Noi&s;es,</HI> Faetid <HI>Smells,</HI> a certain <HI>Di&s;po&s;ition</HI> of the <HI>Sea&s;on,</HI> as when a dry nipping <HI>Spring</HI> &s;uc|ceeds a Rainy Moi&s;t <HI>Winter:</HI> the vehement <HI>Heat</HI> thereof, and every thing el&s;e may com|move, precipitate, or kill the <HI>Infant,</HI> relax, or di&s;&s;olve the <HI>Tyes,</HI> or move the <HI>Cour&s;es:</HI></P>
<P>All more vehement <HI>Pa&s;&s;ions,</HI> and <HI>Commo|tions</HI> of mind have great force (in dayly <HI>Ex|perience</HI>) to <HI>Abortion;</HI> chiefly <HI>Anger, Fear</HI> and great <HI>Terrour,</HI> &s;ad <HI>News</HI> of <HI>Dear</HI> and <HI>Near Relations</HI> (too much <HI>Joy</HI> al&s;o) which di&s;locates and &s;hakes off the <HI>Infant</HI> mo&s;t quickly from the <HI>Womb,</HI> becau&s;e of that rapid, inordinate and valid <HI>Commotion</HI> of the <HI>Spirits</HI> and <HI>Hu|mours:</HI> cau&s;ing ec&s;tatick <HI>Stupers, Convul&s;ions, Epilep&s;ies,</HI> deep <HI>Swoonings</HI> and <HI>Abortions</HI> in the very <HI>Instant,</HI> or the &s;ame <HI>Day,</HI> for if &s;he keep till the 3d. or 4th. there is le&s;s fear.</P>
<P><HI>Abortion</HI> happens through fault of the <HI>Womb</HI> (a vicious <HI>Conformation</HI> al&s;o of the <HI>Bel|ly</HI>) being much moi&s;tened, and cold (too dry al&s;o and warm.) &s;lippery and relaxed with abounding <HI>Pituit, Whites,</HI> or other
<PB N="105" REF="62"> <HI>Filth:</HI> Or hath a <HI>Drop&s;y:</HI> Whence the <HI>Bur|den</HI> is di&s;&s;olved, the <HI>Fruit</HI> extingui&s;hed: and &s;uch are &s;aid to mi&s;carry in the middle <HI>Months</HI> chiefly. When little, &s;trait, den&s;e, callous (large al&s;o and &s;mooth) incapable and marred of a &s;ufficient <HI>Dilatation</HI> (yet <HI>Some</HI> holds this to marr its <HI>Growth,</HI> but not to cau&s;e its <HI>Abortion</HI>) that the <HI>Infant</HI> being &s;trait|ned of room, mu&s;t come <HI>Abortive;</HI> being thus as it were expre&s;&s;ed out: Hence <HI>Some</HI> part at a fixt <HI>Time,</HI> and chiefly in the la&s;t <HI>Months:</HI> Tho' this may happen al&s;o through <HI>Compre&s;&s;ion</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> or while the <HI>Belly</HI> is pinched with &s;tiff and &s;trait laced <HI>Busks:</HI> and may come through the <HI>Infant</HI> al&s;o, being too big for the <HI>Mother,</HI> as in little <HI>Women,</HI> and very <HI>Young,</HI> e&s;pecially if married to bigger <HI>Men:</HI> or when &s;ome <HI>Praeternatural Thing</HI> grows up therewith. When <HI>Mon&s;truous</HI> al&s;o, or when more are together, turn turbulent, and tor|menting in an unnatural <HI>Scituation:</HI> Whence a &s;trong <HI>Expul&s;ion</HI> thereof. When the <HI>String</HI> al&s;o is too &s;hort.</P>
<P><HI>Abortion</HI> is foreknown, when upon <HI>Some</HI> or <HI>Other</HI> of the&s;e, the <HI>Brea&s;ts</HI> extenuate and flag, there is little <HI>Milk</HI> therein, and that thin or depauperate: If her <HI>Sides</HI> and up|per <HI>Belly</HI> cling, while the <HI>Infant</HI> is Clewed
<PB N="106" REF="63"> togcther and tumbles towards the <HI>Water-gate,</HI> if &s;he finds an unu&s;ual <HI>Weight</HI> upon her <HI>Loyns</HI> and <HI>Hips,</HI> the re&s;t of her Body Lither and Langui&s;hing, her <HI>Appetite</HI> lo&s;t, finds <HI>Shivering</HI> and <HI>Shaking</HI> by Fits, pain of the <HI>Head,</HI> chiefly about the roots of the <HI>Eyes:</HI> But e&s;pecially if &s;he have Labour <HI>Showers,</HI> or excruciant <HI>Pains,</HI> frequent, and almo&s;t conti|nual, about the <HI>Reins</HI> or <HI>Loyns,</HI> di&s;per&s;ing to|wards the <HI>Share</HI> and <HI>Os Sacrum,</HI> with &s;ome endeavour of bringing forth, and a dilata|tion of the <HI>Orifice,</HI> it is a certain <HI>Sign</HI> of future <HI>Abortion:</HI> And if there follow any con&s;iderable <HI>Loo&s;ing</HI> of pure, or &s;erous <HI>Blood,</HI> or <HI>Water,</HI> it is then near and Irremedable: And if <HI>Faetid,</HI> it &s;ignifies a dead <HI>Child:</HI> and then grievous <HI>Symptoms</HI> u&s;ually come on, as <HI>Shiverings, Tremblings, Palpitations</HI> of the <HI>Heart, Swoonings,</HI> copious <HI>Bleeding,</HI> and others.</P>
<P><HI>Abortion</HI> being contrary to <HI>Nature,</HI> is more hard and dangerous then the full <HI>Birth,</HI> e&s;pe|cially in the fir&s;t <HI>Child,</HI> in Fat <HI>Women,</HI> the&s;e al&s;o more Lean, the <HI>Labour</HI> being far more vehement and long, and <HI>Women</HI> &s;orer hand|led, while the <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> and <HI>Tyes</HI> are then vio|lently &s;plit and broken a&s;&s;under, which in the natural <HI>Labour</HI> loo&s;en and unty of them|&s;elves: And the further &s;he is gone, the more
<PB N="107" REF="63"> painful, as in the 6th. 7th. and 8th. <HI>Months,</HI> the <HI>Child</HI> being more <HI>Big:</HI> And if the <HI>Rend|ings</HI> and <HI>Tearings</HI> be very great, &s;he is oft turned barren: Be&s;ide, if <HI>Flooding, Fainting, Rav|ing</HI> and <HI>Convul&s;ions</HI> follow, it is u&s;ually Mor|tal: as al&s;o when <HI>Inflammation</HI> &s;ucceeds: And when excited by <HI>Violence,</HI> becau&s;e of more grievous <HI>Symptoms.</HI> If &s;he part in a danger|ous <HI>Sickne&s;s,</HI> &s;he readily dies, and the <HI>Child</HI> al&s;o, e&s;pecially a continual <HI>Feaver,</HI> which &s;oon kills her, augmenting, and redoubled more &s;trongly through a total <HI>Suppre&s;&s;ion</HI> of the <HI>Clean&s;ings,</HI> which happens then almo&s;t ever. If the <HI>Womb</HI> be very loo&s;e, and moi&s;t, the <HI>Abortion</HI> is then little dangerous, chiefly in the fir&s;t <HI>Months,</HI> though &s;uch are prone to part alwayes.</P>
<P>A <HI>Woman</HI> with <HI>Twins</HI> can rarely part with the <HI>One,</HI> and keep the <HI>Other,</HI> e&s;pecially in later <HI>Months;</HI> but both comes ever away, the <HI>One</HI> &s;ome <HI>Hours,</HI> at lea&s;t &s;ome very few <HI>Dayes</HI> after the <HI>Other:</HI> which yet mu&s;t not be forced before its time, e&s;pecially if the Flux of <HI>Blood</HI> be not great, nor <HI>Labour</HI> pains appear.</P>
<P><HI>Midwifes</HI> ought to examine all <HI>Exclu&s;ions</HI> from the <HI>Womb,</HI> if <HI>Blood, Fle&s;h,</HI> a <HI>Conception,</HI> or <HI>Child,</HI> and by wa&s;hing with <HI>Water,</HI> one
<PB N="108" REF="64"> ea&s;ily di&s;cerns if there be truly an <HI>Abortion</HI> or not.</P>
<P>To pre&s;erve from <HI>Abortion,</HI> let the Preg|nant <HI>Woman</HI> ob&s;erve her Rules of <HI>Government,</HI> &s;till careful the more Noble <HI>Parts</HI> of the <HI>Body,</HI> the&s;e chiefly appointed for making of <HI>Chyl, Blood,</HI> and <HI>Spirits</HI> be mo&s;t vigilantly pre&s;erved in a Lively <HI>Vigor:</HI> U&s;e the <HI>Means</HI> appointed for her <HI>Indi&s;po&s;itions:</HI> and diligent-avoid whatever may <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> or <HI>Occa&s;ion Abor|tion.</HI> The&s;e be&s;ide more Subject hereto, mu&s;t u&s;e the while, things A&s;tringent, and Strengthening, which have a power to firm and pre&s;erve the <HI>Infant:</HI> as prepared <HI>Corral, Pearl,</HI> the more precious <HI>Stones</HI> or <HI>Gemms,</HI> Kermes <HI>Grains, Ma&s;tick, Plantain-Seed,</HI> troches of <HI>Amber,</HI> of <HI>Earth</HI> of <HI>Lemnos,</HI> and the re&s;t, taken in the yolk of an <HI>Egg, Cla<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">et</HI> Wine, Sy|rup of <HI>Quinces, Myrtles,</HI> red <HI>Corral,</HI> dry <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> and the like: Old Con&s;erv of <HI>Ro&s;es</HI> al&s;o, of <HI>Sage, Ro&s;emary, Betony,</HI> Condit <HI>Citron Peel,</HI> with many <HI>Aromaticks,</HI> and others which may cheri&s;h, Corroborat, and warm the <HI>Womb</HI> and <HI>Embryo. Fomentations</HI> al&s;o are u&s;ed for keeping the <HI>Child, Catapla&s;ms, Plaisters,</HI> and <HI>&V;nctions</HI> to the <HI>Region</HI> of the <HI>Womb: Amulets</HI> be&s;ide, as the Eagle <HI>Stone,</HI> the Load-<HI>&s;tone,</HI> the <HI>Cornelian</HI> and <HI>Azure: Corral</HI> al&s;o, <HI>Saphir, Hyae|cinth,
<PB N="109" REF="64"> Emerald,</HI> the Stone taken from the <HI>Womb</HI> of a <HI>Hart,</HI> and the re&s;t. <HI>Some</HI> greatly prai&s;e a <HI>Girdle</HI> of a Sea <HI>Hor&s;e Hide</HI> from its occult <HI>Property,</HI> or of a <HI>Wolfs</HI> Skine in place thereof. In ca&s;e al&s;o of <HI>Fall, Blow, Wound, Stre&s;s,</HI> or o|ther di&s;mal <HI>Contingency,</HI> tranquility of mind is proper, quietne&s;s and re&s;t in <HI>Bed:</HI> with <HI>Cor|roboratives,</HI> and <HI>Astringents</HI> to the <HI>Back</HI> and <HI>Belly,</HI> for the <HI>Infants Commotion,</HI> and <HI>Imbecillity. Bleeding</HI> al&s;o if there be <HI>Pain,</HI> or &s;ome litle <HI>Loo&s;ing</HI> (for in great <HI>Pains, Loo&s;ing</HI> and <HI>Di&s;|location</HI> of the <HI>Child</HI> there is no hope) a good <HI>Dyet,</HI> &s;omewhat A&s;tringent and Strengthening, and whatever el&s;e is <HI>Cordial</HI> and <HI>Anodin,</HI> may repair <HI>Strength,</HI> refre&s;h the <HI>Spi|rits,</HI> and retain the <HI>Child.</HI> But &s;o much for this, and here we end the fir&s;t <HI>Book</HI> having thus briefly mentioned the principal and mo&s;t u&s;ual <HI>Di&s;ea&s;es</HI> of <HI>Women</HI> with <HI>Child,</HI> and gi|ven &s;ome ea&s;y, plea&s;ant, and &s;afe <HI>Remedies</HI> and Rules for <HI>Cure</HI> hereof in their <HI>Ca&s;e:</HI> accor|ding to which al&s;o, the <HI>Means</HI> and <HI>Applicati|ons</HI> for Cure of their other <HI>Maladies</HI> not here named, may be &s;afely ordered and managed.</P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="2" TYPE="book">
<PB N="110" REF="65">
<HEAD>BOOK II.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Of <HI>Labours</HI> Natural, and Unnatural, with the be&s;t and mo&s;t effectual <HI>Wayes</HI> and <HI>Means</HI> of <HI>Delivery</HI> in either.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. I.</HI> Of Labour in General.</HEAD>
<P>EVery <HI>Parting</HI> is not a <HI>Labour:</HI> But if the <HI>Geniture</HI> elap&s;e, having no firm <HI>Con&s;istence,</HI> without <HI>Form</HI> and Void, as appears till the 7th <HI>day</HI> (being nothing but the <HI>Seeds</HI> Coagulated, and a litle <HI>Cru&s;t</HI> grown over) it is called an <HI>Effluxi|on</HI> or <HI>Sisp:</HI> As what is ca&s;t henceforth till the <HI>Quickning,</HI> an <HI>Expul&s;ion:</HI> Hereafter till the
<PB N="111" REF="65"> 7th <HI>Month</HI> is the <HI>Abortion,</HI> which being Im|mature, Small, Feeble, comes either dead Born, or Dies &s;oon after: And the younger it is, the more rarely pre&s;erved: From that foreward is the <HI>Labour,</HI> the <HI>Infant</HI> having now Perfection and Strength to be Born, and Live: Yet the nearer it's full <HI>Time</HI> the better.</P>
<P>This <HI>Labour</HI> is either <HI>Right,</HI> and according to <HI>Nature;</HI> to wit, a comfortable <HI>Emi&s;&s;ion,</HI> or <HI>Egre&s;s</HI> (while the <HI>Infant</HI> Labours as well as the Mother) of a living world like <HI>Infant,</HI> with all its <HI>Pendicles</HI> and <HI>Pertinents,</HI> at ju&s;t <HI>Time,</HI> and in due <HI>Manner.</HI> Or,</P>
<P><HI>Non-natural,</HI> and <HI>Wrong;</HI> its <HI>Exclu&s;ion,</HI> or <HI>Extraction</HI> with extream Pain, Angui&s;h, and Peril of Life to the <HI>Mother,</HI> the <HI>Infant,</HI> or both: With <HI>Symptoms</HI> at lea&s;t more grievous then u&s;ual, and not in due <HI>Figure.</HI></P>
<P>The truly Regular, Common, and <HI>Nature's</HI> &s;tatute <HI>Term</HI> of right <HI>Labour</HI> (by ju&s;t <HI>Expe|rience</HI>) in every <HI>Di&s;po&s;ition</HI> and <HI>Circum&s;tance,</HI> is the 9th. <HI>Month</HI> entire, the <HI>Infants</HI> Grandeur, Maturity and heat of its <HI>Heart,</HI> driving it by this time, to &s;purn hard, and break open its pinched &s;tifling <HI>Pri&s;on</HI> (being clo&s;ly &s;hut up by the <HI>Membranes,</HI> the <HI>Womb</HI> and the <HI>Belly</HI>) for a freer <HI>Air,</HI> and <HI>Re&s;piration.</HI> And all other <HI>Terms</HI> and <HI>Births</HI> are either <HI>Praeter|natural,</HI>
<PB N="112" REF="66"> and untimely: Or <HI>Fictitious,</HI> and a <HI>Cheat</HI> in <HI>Women:</HI> Or then a &s;imple <HI>Error</HI> in their <HI>Reckoning,</HI> while they u&s;ually begin from the fir&s;t &s;top of their <HI>Cour&s;es,</HI> which yet for &s;ome other <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> may have &s;tood 2 or 3 <HI>Months</HI> before <HI>Conception,</HI> and continue al&s;o to flow duely the 2 or 3 fir&s;t <HI>Months</HI> after, but then &s;top: Whence al&s;o the <HI>Error</HI> of the 5th. or 6th. <HI>Months Births,</HI> which yet come to the 9th. as manife&s;tly appears, by a due <HI>Magnitude,</HI> firmne&s;s of <HI>Strength,</HI> and <HI>Nails</HI> which makes to the Complement of the whole <HI>Body.</HI> And from the &s;ame mi&s;take (or <HI>Tricks</HI> &s;ome may not avow) the 9th. <HI>Month Birth</HI> is &s;ometimes made the 7th.</P>
<P>The <HI>Infant</HI> in a natural <HI>Figure</HI> of <HI>Birth,</HI> pre|&s;ents (having tumbled quite up end down, with its <HI>Face</HI> towards the <HI>Mothers</HI> back) right to the <HI>Privities</HI> upon its <HI>Crown</HI> (coming into the <HI>World</HI> with the <HI>Head</HI> foremo&s;t, as carried out with its <HI>Feet, Death</HI> being contrary to <HI>Life</HI>) di&s;tending the <HI>Feet, Thighs,</HI> and re&s;t of its <HI>Body</HI> aloft: And &s;o, with its <HI>Soles</HI> again&s;t the Bottom of the <HI>Womb,</HI> pu&s;hes foreward, its <HI>Arms</HI> couched along&s;t the <HI>Sides:</HI> Advan|cing thus in a &s;traight <HI>Line:</HI> And is the alone Right, mo&s;t Safe and Commodious <HI>Po&s;ture</HI> for both <HI>Sex:</HI> Into which it turns oftimes
<PB N="113" REF="66"> a Week, 2 or 3 before <HI>Labour, Some</HI> much &s;ooner: <HI>Others</HI> a few <HI>Hours</HI> only before: <HI>Some</HI> in the <HI>Labour</HI> (yet &s;ome come upon the <HI>Feet</HI> not turned) and is quickly done, yet not without &s;ome trouble to the <HI>Mother,</HI> who u&s;es to be a&s;&s;ured by this <HI>Mutation,</HI> her <HI>La|bour</HI> is near.</P>
<P>No marvel then, the fully grown <HI>Infant</HI> coming thus, get &s;afely into the World: Yea, and (by daily <HI>Experience</HI>) without great trouble: Be&s;ide, that the <HI>Genitals</HI> now ea&s;ily admits a va&s;t &s;tretch, and opens in a mar|vellous manner to the <HI>Bigne&s;s</HI> and <HI>Form</HI> of the <HI>Infant,</HI> without <HI>Wound,</HI> or <HI>Laceration;</HI> turning almo&s;t one equal <HI>Cavity,</HI> from the <HI>Fund</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI> to the <HI>Privities,</HI> through which it &s;oftly &s;lides (the <HI>Bladder</HI> and right <HI>Gutt</HI> being emptied) the <HI>Wayes</HI> being withall well moi&s;tened, relaxed and lubrified by a copious <HI>Afflux</HI> of <HI>Slimy Humours</HI> &s;oaking thereinto, &s;ome while before, and in the time of Labour: By <HI>Efflux</HI> al&s;o of the <HI>Fore-&s;prings:</HI> So that in ca&s;e of nece&s;&s;ity they can ea&s;ily ad|mit the whole <HI>Hand.</HI></P>
<P>The bones likewi&s;e of the <HI>Pelvis,</HI> though &s;tuffed and lined all round with <HI>Mu&s;cles</HI> and other <HI>Parts,</HI> gives the <HI>Infant</HI> full ea&s;e-room in the <HI>Womb,</HI> an ea&s;ie <HI>I&s;&s;ue</HI> al&s;o at <HI>Labour</HI>
<PB N="114" REF="67"> while it pa&s;&s;es therethrough, and without <HI>Disjunction</HI> or <HI>Separation,</HI> being therefore &s;et further di&s;tant, more excavated, turned al&s;o more outward, or arched, peculiarly framing that <HI>Circumference</HI> more ample and capacious in the lea&s;t <HI>Woman</HI> than the large&s;t <HI>Man;</HI> who hence have <HI>Hips</HI> more big and large. Yet when there is a big &s;tiff <HI>Infant,</HI> and the&s;e <HI>Parts</HI> are naturally more &s;trait or mi&s;hapen, the <HI>Way</HI> dry, the <HI>Labour</HI> then proves Sore and Painfull, in the <HI>&V;rgency</HI> of which, through <HI>Violence,</HI> and the mighty <HI>Force</HI> of this <HI>Child</HI> in wre&s;tling from the&s;e <HI>Straits,</HI> the <HI>Bones</HI> are made to recede, open &s;omewhat, and disjoyn (the <HI>Gri&s;tles</HI> and <HI>Li|gaments</HI> being relaxed) not only the&s;e of the <HI>Share,</HI> but the <HI>Bones</HI> of the <HI>Ilium</HI> al&s;o, from the <HI>Sacrum:</HI> And this is made certain by frequent <HI>Experience,</HI> and clear <HI>Demonstra|tion:</HI> Hence after &s;uch <HI>Labours, Women</HI> have &s;ore Pains in the&s;e <HI>Parts,</HI> and are unable long after to &s;upport them&s;elves (yea &s;ome &s;tand ne|ver after &s;o firm) by rea&s;on of this <HI>Commotion,</HI> or <HI>Divul&s;ion</HI> of the <HI>Bones</HI> (tho without <HI>Lux|ation</HI> or <HI>Ruption</HI>) needing <HI>Anodine</HI> and Strengthening <HI>Applications</HI> thereto: Yet old <HI>Maid<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> and big boned have here the &s;ore&s;t <HI>Pull,</HI> their <HI>Gri&s;tles</HI> being more Dryed (tho
<PB N="115" REF="67"> <HI>Some</HI> make it the Dryne&s;s, Hardne&s;s and Cal|lo&s;ity of the inner <HI>Orifice</HI>) chiefly in the fir&s;t <HI>Child</HI> (yea whiles in the 2d and 3d al&s;o, tho in after <HI>Labours</HI> they be ea&s;y enough) which &s;tick long, and is &s;ore Pre&s;t in the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age,</HI> being &s;o hard to open, and rarely ever comes alive. Some <HI>Attribute</HI> this <HI>Diduction</HI> of the <HI>Bones,</HI> to the <HI>Mothers</HI> mo&s;t fierce <HI>Efforts</HI> in a Vehement <HI>Influx</HI> of <HI>Spirits</HI> upon the <HI>Mu&s;cles,</HI> the <HI>Infants</HI> tender Body, not having force &s;ufficient to &s;eparate <HI>Bodies</HI> &s;o firmly Conjoyned, neither its <HI>Head,</HI> being &s;o &s;oft, <HI>Some</HI> very far open, &s;carce holding together, which &s;o would be cru&s;hed, and made Plain. <HI>Others</HI> will have them part of them|&s;elves, as ripe <HI>Fruit</HI> u&s;es for excluding their <HI>Seeds.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Some</HI> will have the <HI>Boxes</HI> open in every <HI>Labour,</HI> altho mo&s;t ea&s;y, while yet we &s;ee little <HI>Women</HI> bear mo&s;t quickly, even fully grown <HI>Infants</HI> with the greate&s;t ea&s;e, and without Pain worth the &s;peaking; and that e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ther in <HI>Bed,</HI> or where they &s;ate, and <HI>Some</HI> before a <HI>Midwife</HI> could come: Yea <HI>Some</HI> in&s;tantly af|ter plying their Bu&s;ine&s;s, as if nothing had ailed them: which could not be with &s;uch a <HI>Divul&s;ion</HI> and &s;tretch of the <HI>Membranes</HI> a|bout: Be&s;ide that this Gri&s;tly <HI>Connection</HI> is
<PB N="116" REF="68"> too firm, to &s;eparate &s;o lightly in an ea&s;y <HI>La|bour</HI> by a &s;mall <HI>Infant:</HI> nor can it be needful, where the <HI>Bones</HI> are room, the <HI>Way</HI> &s;lippery, the <HI>Infant</HI> little, &s;oft, flexil, and comes right.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. II.</HI> Of the <HI>Signs</HI> Antecedent, and Concomitant, of a Natural <HI>Labour,</HI> and the Non-natural.</HEAD>
<P>WHen the <HI>Midwife</HI> is called to a big <HI>Woman,</HI> taken with <HI>Pains</HI> in <HI>Back</HI> or <HI>Belly,</HI> before &s;he excite her to <HI>Labour,</HI> &s;he mu&s;t try the &s;tate of the <HI>Womb,</HI> ponder the following <HI>Signs,</HI> and be &s;ure the&s;e make her effectual <HI>Pains,</HI> and that &s;he will &s;hortly bring forth, el&s;e both <HI>Mother</HI> and <HI>Infant</HI> may peri&s;h through <HI>Labour</HI> in vain, and breaking the <HI>Membranes</HI> too &s;oon: nor is one a&s;&s;ured by an opening of the inner <HI>Orifice,</HI> &s;o as a <HI>Finger</HI> may ea&s;ily enter, nor by feeling the <HI>Head</HI> through the <HI>Membranes,</HI> nor yet by every
<PB N="117" REF="68"> <HI>Pain</HI> in the <HI>Belly,</HI> unle&s;s they an&s;wer down|ward, and the <HI>Waters</HI> be felt gathering.</P>
<P>The fal&s;e <HI>Pains</HI> are mo&s;tly <HI>Cholicks</HI> (whiles a <HI>Gravel</HI>) from <HI>Wind</HI> to&s;&s;ing in the <HI>Gutts,</HI> griping and throwing the <HI>Belly</HI> by Intervals, with <HI>Pains</HI> whiles extream, and exceeding the&s;e of <HI>Labour;</HI> yet without any &s;tir in the <HI>Womb,</HI> or forcing downwards: and readily appea&s;e by <HI>Glysters,</HI> the warm <HI>Bed,</HI> &s;ome warm <HI>Seck,</HI> warm applications to the <HI>Belly,</HI> and the re&s;t, which rather provoke and bring on the true <HI>Pains,</HI></P>
<P>The Antecedent <HI>Signs</HI> of near <HI>Labour,</HI> are elap&s;e of the <HI>Reckoning,</HI> &s;lipping of the <HI>Womb</HI> (whence her upper <HI>Belly</HI> turns &s;mall, her lower more bulging and weighty) di&s;tenti|on al&s;o of the <HI>Privities, Expaen&s;ion</HI> of the inner <HI>Orifice,</HI> vent of <HI>Moisture,</HI> and &s;trings of <HI>Slime:</HI> Now and then dirling <HI>Pains,</HI> which yet are pre&s;&eacute;nt with &s;ome a pretty &s;pace before <HI>Labour.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Signs</HI> of pre&s;ent true <HI>Labour,</HI> are &s;harp <HI>Pains,</HI> and <HI>throws</HI> round the <HI>Region</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> &s;tretching from the <HI>Loins,</HI> down towards the <HI>Share</HI> and <HI>Os &s;acrum,</HI> or tumbling into the forepart of the <HI>Bottom</HI> of the <HI>Belly,</HI> one upon another, &s;till more frequent, &s;harp and tho|row, with <HI>Qualms</HI> and <HI>Vomitings,</HI> which
<PB N="118" REF="69"> makes the be&s;t <HI>Labour,</HI> and good appearance of a happy <HI>delivery,</HI> a great furtherance al|&s;o, by forceing downwards: Through which (with her loud bitter <HI>Cryes,</HI> containing of her <HI>Breath,</HI> vehement hard <HI>Efforts,</HI> and prea&s;ing to detrude the <HI>Child</HI>) her <HI>Blood</HI> heats and is more fluid, her <HI>Veins</HI> tumify, her <HI>Pul&s;e</HI> beats big and &s;wift, her <HI>Face</HI> ri&s;e full and red, the <HI>Privities</HI> &s;trout out, and all is in a vehement <HI>Choke</HI> and <HI>E&s;tuation.</HI> The inner <HI>Orifice</HI> may be felt &s;preading open as a ripe <HI>Ro&s;e,</HI> the <HI>Waters</HI> gathering thereat like a blown <HI>Bladder,</HI> or Abortive <HI>Egg</HI> without &s;hell, and are &s;trongly forced down each <HI>Pain,</HI> &s;till more and more filled and di&s;tended, as the <HI>Waters</HI> grow deeper, the <HI>In|fant</HI> falls lower, and the <HI>Pains</HI> wax &s;tronger: between which (while the <HI>Waters</HI> are form|ing) the &s;tate of the <HI>Infant</HI> may be &s;ome wi&s;e di&s;cerned through the <HI>Membranes,</HI> and the way it pre&s;ents. <HI>Shows</HI> of <HI>Red</HI> often then appear (e&s;pecially with <HI>Boys</HI>) while the <HI>Tyes</HI> begin to &s;plit and the <HI>Burden</HI> to loo&s;e. <HI>Some</HI> have be&s;ide (when all is in a readine&s;s) a &s;haking chiefly of their <HI>Legs</HI> and <HI>Thighs,</HI> from a vehement <HI>Influx</HI> and <HI>Force</HI> of the <HI>Spi|rits.</HI> At length when the <HI>Springs</HI> are thus fully gathered, or the <HI>Waters</HI> pre&s;&s;ed down
<PB N="119" REF="69"> before the Childs <HI>Head,</HI> by their vehement <HI>Impul&s;e,</HI> the hard redoubling of &s;harp thorow <HI>Showers,</HI> the frequent valid <HI>Spurnings</HI> of the <HI>Child</HI> (&s;harply moving it &s;elf every way, while it &s;trives to bur&s;t open the <HI>Gate</HI> with <HI>Violence,</HI> and make <HI>Pa&s;&s;age</HI> to it &s;elf) the <HI>Mem|branes</HI> or <HI>Bag</HI> bur&s;ts (yet &s;ome break with &s;mall <HI>Pains,</HI> the &s;harper <HI>Showers</HI> coming &s;eve|ral <HI>Hours</HI> after) the <HI>Waters</HI> gu&s;h out, and the <HI>Head,</HI> if it come <HI>Natures</HI> way, offers Naked at the <HI>Orifice</HI> to pa&s;s, following the <HI>Ru&s;h</HI> of the <HI>Waters</HI> pointing its <HI>Path,</HI> lubrifying and preparing the <HI>Same.</HI> And &s;till the dolorous <HI>Mother</HI> makes repeated Vigorous <HI>Efforts,</HI> the grieved <HI>Womb</HI> al&s;o, in a joint <HI>Contraction</HI> of its Con&s;trictory <HI>Fibres,</HI> and <HI>Mu&s;cles</HI> of the low|er <HI>Belly,</HI> for a &s;peedy and forcible <HI>Ejection,</HI> or <HI>Bani&s;hment</HI> (for it &s;hall never enter the place more) of this turbulent, and as were ingrate <HI>Guest,</HI> with all its <HI>Flitting, Aliments, Vestiments, Excrements,</HI> immediatly after (yet &s;ome come, tho mo&s;t rarely with the <HI>Membranes</HI> wrapt a|bout them, &s;ound and entire as in a <HI>Lump,</HI> but are then feeble and Immature, ejected by <HI>A|bortion,</HI> the way even <HI>Twins</HI> have come, each within its own <HI>membrane</HI> and alive, yet if they be not quickly Extricate, they choke. And having thus e&s;caped from its <HI>Pri&s;on,</HI> through
<PB N="120" REF="70"> <HI>Nature's</HI> triple <HI>Gates,</HI> between the two vile&s;t <HI>Privies</HI> of the whole <HI>Body,</HI> (lo cau&s;e of <HI>Pride!</HI>) it appears a new <HI>Guest</HI> upon the World, fill|ing the <HI>Place</HI> with mournful <HI>Lamentations,</HI> and not without cau&s;e, being born to all kind of <HI>Calamities, Mi&s;ery, Pain, Sorrow,</HI> and to <HI>Death</HI> in the end.</P>
<P>As this is the <HI>Progre&s;s</HI> of the Natural <HI>La|bour,</HI> and the&s;e, or mo&s;t of them Certify a happy <HI>Delivery,</HI> &s;o it looks bad, and Unnatu|ral, when the <HI>Woman</HI> is &s;o very &s;ore handled, as to be Pitied, and Feared by the Eperienc|ed <HI>Midwife,</HI> and <HI>Matrons:</HI> When &s;he Tra|vels 2, 3, 4 dayes together, or more (in which the <HI>Infant</HI> certainly Dies, if not the <HI>Mother</HI> al&s;o) the truely Natural <HI>Labour</HI> being u&s;u|ally over in one. If the <HI>Waters</HI> be long while &s;pent, the <HI>Way</HI> Dry, <HI>Pains</HI> &s;mall, <HI>Dull,</HI> long between, and Effectle&s;s, Dieing towards the <HI>Back:</HI> when <HI>Symptoms</HI> are &s;orer then u&s;ual, tho haply they la&s;t not long, e&s;pecial|ly an Untimely <HI>Flux</HI> of <HI>Blood</HI> ju&s;t before, if <HI>Faint&igrave;ngs, Weakne&s;s, Swoonings,</HI> &s;oporous <HI>Di|&s;ea&s;es,</HI> or <HI>Convul&s;ions</HI> Superveen: if the <HI>String</HI> or <HI>Burden</HI> come fir&s;t: Or (which hap|pens mo&s;tly) the <HI>Infant</HI> in bad <HI>Po&s;tures,</HI> as when one <HI>Leg,</HI> or <HI>Arm</HI> pre&s;ents, the <HI>Sides, Belly, Brea&s;t</HI> and the re&s;t, of which &s;everally
<PB N="121" REF="70"> hereafter, but now of &s;ome particulars need|full to be known, for a better A&s;i&s;tance, and Aid, in both kinds of <HI>Labours.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. III.</HI> Of the Membranes, and Wa|ters inclo&s;ed therein.</HEAD>
<P>THe <HI>Membranes</HI> are bred in the <HI>Womb</HI> fir&s;t of all, and in&s;tantly almo&s;t after the <HI>Conception,</HI> as is &s;een in the younge&s;t (tho &s;ome make them <HI>Dilatations,</HI> of the Intern <HI>Membranes</HI> of the <HI>Abdomen</HI> expan&s;ed by little and little about the <HI>Infant,</HI> after its <HI>Parts</HI> are formed and inclo&s;ing the &s;ame) which <HI>Nature</HI> (beginning to &s;ort the <HI>Matter</HI> to its Intent) forms forthwith (through the <HI>Vertue</HI> and <HI>Warmth</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI>) of the <HI>Vi&s;cous</HI> and gro&s;&s;er <HI>Parts,</HI> which it thru&s;ts to the <HI>Sides,</HI> (of the <HI>Womans</HI> Seed only &s;ay <HI>Some</HI>) to en|clo&s;e, Con&s;erve, and cheri&s;h the more Noble and Spirituous, which contain the <HI>Idaea's</HI> of all the <HI>Parts,</HI> and <HI>Members,</HI> and of which their fir&s;t <HI>Lineaments,</HI> or Threads, are pour|trayed and &s;hadowed out, and thereafter
<PB N="122" REF="71"> Curiou&s;ly fal&s;hioned into fair <HI>Forms</HI> and <HI>Fi|gures,</HI> growing up jointly together into a perfect <HI>Infant,</HI> which lyes involved, and &s;e|cured in the&s;e <HI>Membranes,</HI> as in an <HI>Egg,</HI> or <HI>Pur&s;e,</HI> untill <HI>Labour,</HI> when they fir&s;t of all pre|&s;ent the <HI>Orifice.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Many</HI> hold 2 <HI>Membranes</HI> only about an humane <HI>Birth,</HI> or rather <HI>One</HI> double, being &s;eparable, yet jointly framed, &s;o clo&s;ely Co|haering and unite, as to appear but one <HI>Bag</HI> for the <HI>Infant</HI> and its <HI>Waters:</HI> and is called the <HI>2din,</HI> being the <HI>Infants</HI> 2d Habitation next the <HI>Womb,</HI> coming away al&s;o by a 2d <HI>Birth,</HI> tho the other things comes after the <HI>Child</HI> gets this <HI>Name</HI> al&s;o.</P>
<P>The <HI>First</HI> or <HI>Outer Part,</HI> is called <HI>Chorion,</HI> as though a litle <HI>Place,</HI> for that it &s;urrounds the <HI>Inner</HI> wth the <HI>Infant,</HI> as al&s;o from that nu|merous <HI>Company,</HI> and Complex of <HI>Blood Ve&s;|&s;els</HI> come therein, (at that part e&s;pecially, where by means of the <HI>Burden</HI> it adheres to the <HI>Womb,</HI> &s;ome <HI>Capillaries</HI> only being di&s;|per&s;ed through the re&s;t of it) and that both from the <HI>Burden,</HI> ere the <HI>Infant</HI> be formed, from the <HI>Navel String</HI> al&s;o, after it grows out of the <HI>Infant</HI> to a due length, intermix|ing in this <HI>Membrane,</HI> whereon al&s;o <HI>The&s;e</HI> la&s;t are fortified, and re&s;ted as on a <HI>Pillow</HI> in a|&s;cending
<PB N="123" REF="71"> to the <HI>Burden;</HI> to which this <HI>Mem|brane</HI> with the&s;e <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> is clo&s;ely annexed, and by it to the <HI>Fund</HI> of the <HI>Womb:</HI> As to its <HI>Sides</HI> by &s;mall tendinous Nervy <HI>Fibres.</HI></P>
<P>It is pretty thick, and double: Smooth toward the <HI>Infant,</HI> to the <HI>Womb</HI> ward &s;ome|what inequal and Rough.</P>
<P>The 2d or <HI>Inner</HI> is called <HI>Amnios,</HI> for its delicacy and finne&s;s: It immediatly, very ea&s;ily, and loo&s;ely enwraps the whole <HI>Infant:</HI> Called al&s;o its <HI>Shift</HI> and <HI>Ve&s;t,</HI> exceeding thin (yet &s;ome make it double) &s;mooth, white and tran&s;parent: Haveing a few very &s;mall <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> from the <HI>&V;mbilicals,</HI> &s;ome from the <HI>Burden</HI> al&s;o, di&s;per&s;ed within its <HI>Foldings,</HI> re|ceiving thereby into it &s;elf, whatever pa&s;&s;es not through <HI>The&s;e</HI> into the <HI>Chorion</HI> and <HI>Burden.</HI> It &s;oftly plyes to the <HI>Chorion,</HI> Covers and Lines its <HI>Inner</HI> or Concave <HI>Part,</HI> being &s;omewhat of an oval <HI>Figure;</HI> and is clo&s;ely Connexed to it about the <HI>Burden,</HI> in the place where the <HI>String</HI> goes forth thereinto: And <HI>Some</HI> will have it cleave thereto almo&s;t every where.</P>
<P>Some part of this <HI>Amnios</HI> happens whiles to rub off in <HI>Labour,</HI> and comes &s;tick|ing upon the <HI>Infants</HI> head. <HI>Some</HI> make it a <HI>Eilm</HI> e&s;&s;entially different from either <HI>Mem|brane,</HI>
<PB N="124" REF="72"> being thinner then the <HI>Amnios</HI> if po&s;&s;ible, and only fitted round its <HI>Head,</HI> as a <HI>Helmet. Midwifes</HI> call it the Silly <HI>How,</HI> in <HI>Females</HI> a <HI>Caul, Coyff,</HI> or <HI>Biggin,</HI> in <HI>Males</HI> a <HI>Head-Piece:</HI> And this <HI>Some</HI> will have Super&s;titiou&s;ly kept to diver&s;e <HI>&V;&s;es</HI> (yet <HI>Others</HI> in&s;tantly de&s;troy it) and makes a pre&s;age of good <HI>Luck</HI> (or yet bad, for the <HI>Diver&s;ity</HI> of its <HI>Colour</HI>) to the <HI>Infant,</HI> and others who u&s;e it; a&s;&s;uring his Future <HI>Hap|pine&s;s,</HI> if he eats it, or Carries it with him all his <HI>Life</HI> in a <HI>Box</HI> (for he mu&s;t not &s;ee it) el&s;e to prove <HI>&V;nhappy,</HI> or even <HI>Epileptick,</HI> and continually <HI>Haunted</HI> with <HI>Gho&s;ts,</HI> Infernal <HI>Spirits,</HI> or other Frightfull <HI>Spectres:</HI> but the&s;e are only Old <HI>Wifes</HI> Frivolous <HI>Clatters,</HI> or Crafty <HI>Fictions</HI> &s;ome <HI>Midwifes</HI> u&s;es to amu&s;e &s;illy Credulous <HI>People:</HI> for &s;ome <HI>Hooded</HI> have been &s;een as <HI>&V;nluckly</HI> as the <HI>Bare,</HI> and whiles the latter more <HI>Lucky</HI> then they.</P>
<P><HI>Some</HI> think they come in a Good <HI>Labour,</HI> and Rou&s;ing <HI>Pains;</HI> the <HI>Genitals</HI> being then well Widened by the <HI>Force</HI> of <HI>Nature,</HI> that the <HI>Infant</HI> is born very ea&s;ily, while pa&s;&s;ing with great <HI>Labour</HI> and <HI>Stre&s;s,</HI> they are Rub|ed off, and remain in the <HI>Womb,</HI> till they come with the after-<HI>Birth. Others</HI> on the Contrair, in the <HI>Weakne&s;s</HI> of <HI>Mother</HI> and <HI>In|fant.</HI>
<PB N="125" REF="72"> And <HI>Some</HI> from the <HI>Toughne&s;s</HI> of the <HI>Membranes,</HI> which the <HI>Infant</HI> is not able to break, Or yet its own <HI>Imbecillity:</HI> Whence <HI>Such</HI> rarely comes any Length. Which yet chances to &s;tick to the <HI>Strong,</HI> as well as the <HI>Weak,</HI> to <HI>Males</HI> as <HI>Females,</HI> to the one of <HI>Twins,</HI> not the other.</P>
<P><HI>Some</HI> will have <HI>Twins</HI> wrapt in one com|mon <HI>Chorion</HI> mo&s;tly, but each to have its own <HI>Amnios</HI> and <HI>Liquor</HI> therein di&s;tinct: And if <HI>The&s;e</HI> chance to be <HI>Split</HI> by <HI>Blow, Fall,</HI> or otherwi&s;e; or have not been well enough &s;eparated at fir&s;t, that the <HI>Infants</HI> come to touch other, there they grow together, and makes a <HI>Mon&s;ter:</HI> And if at any time they be in di&s;tant <HI>Chorions</HI> likewi&s;e, the one is held to be added by <HI>Superfetation</HI> in an after <HI>Co&igrave;tion.</HI></P>
<P>There is added a 3d <HI>Membrane</HI> called <HI>Al|lantois,</HI> placed betwixt the <HI>Two</HI> former, which <HI>Some</HI> make of the &s;ame <HI>Figure</HI> and <HI>Extent</HI> in their whole <HI>Circumference,</HI> inve&s;ting the whole <HI>Infant: Others</HI> in <HI>Form</HI> of a <HI>Sack, Pudding,</HI> or <HI>Gutt,</HI> according to its <HI>Name:</HI> in many a broad <HI>Sau&s;age,</HI> or <HI>Girdle,</HI> which collects and holds the Infants <HI>&V;rin</HI> untill its <HI>Birth,</HI> emptying thereinto by little and little from the <HI>Bladder</HI> through the <HI>Ou|rack</HI>
<PB N="126" REF="73"> Continuous to it, after all its <HI>Parts</HI> are formed, and the <HI>String</HI> pa&s;t through the <HI>Membranes:</HI> Whence this <HI>Membrane</HI> fills, and Swells by degrees with the <HI>&V;rin,</HI> which dayly encrea&s;es as the <HI>Infant</HI> grows, &s;till ga|thering thus more and more: So that at length a great <HI>Quantity</HI> may be found there|in about the time of <HI>Labour,</HI> which &s;o Copi|ou&s;ly Gu&s;h out at the breaking of the <HI>Bag.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Others</HI> reject <HI>This</HI> in a <HI>Woman,</HI> and makes the <HI>Infants &V;rin</HI> to void from the <HI>Ourack</HI> at liberty, between the two <HI>Membranes,</HI> un|der the <HI>Chorion,</HI> round without the whole <HI>Aminos:</HI> Yet <HI>Some</HI> think that impo&s;&s;ible be|cau&s;e of their clo&s;e Connexion, and will have it rendered by the <HI>Yard</HI> into the <HI>Amnios</HI> if Painful, but a great part al&s;o retained in the <HI>Bladder:</HI> Whence new born <HI>Infants</HI> Pi&s;s al|mo&s;t continually the fir&s;t <HI>Dayes:</HI> and <HI>Some</HI> will have it all Collected and Retained therein till <HI>Labour:</HI> Hence in what ever <HI>Month</HI> an <HI>Infant</HI> of any Bigne&s;s be opened, it is &s;ound full, and di&s;tent with <HI>Urin;</HI> which yet behooved at length to Bur&s;t: And <HI>The&s;e</HI> either hold no <HI>Ourack,</HI> or make it impervi|ous, and no <HI>Humor</HI> at all to be found with|out the <HI>Amnios.</HI> And <HI>Some</HI> yet will have its <HI>Urin</HI> tran&s;mitt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d into the <HI>Mothers</HI> Veins,
<PB N="127" REF="73"> by continuation of the Navel <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> with the&s;e of the <HI>Womb,</HI> and thus excerned.</P>
<P>There is debate about the <HI>Liquor</HI> of the <HI>Amnios,</HI> or the <HI>Waters</HI> within the <HI>Bag</HI> (which <HI>Some</HI> make all of one <HI>Nature,</HI> and inclo&s;ed in the &s;ame <HI>Membrane</HI> with the <HI>Infant,</HI> into which it is Scituated, and Swims. <HI>Others</HI> of a different <HI>Nature,</HI> and in &s;eparate <HI>Membranes.</HI> And <HI>Some</HI> al&s;o of different <HI>Na|tures, Aliments</HI> and <HI>Excrements</HI> in the &s;ame <HI>Membrane</HI>) if it be the <HI>Infants Urin,</HI> its <HI>Sweat,</HI> or the Fumy <HI>Vapours</HI> Continually tran&s;pire it &s;oft and Porous <HI>Body:</HI> Or then expelled from the <HI>Heart</HI> into the <HI>Lungs,</HI> flow|ing out by the <HI>Mouth</HI> and <HI>Nostrils,</HI> and there converted into <HI>Water</HI> about the <HI>Infant:</HI> Or if its <HI>Spitle, Fome,</HI> an <HI>Excrement</HI> from the <HI>Brain,</HI> or other <HI>Excrement</HI> what&s;omever: Or if componed of all together, adding its more Liquid <HI>Excrements,</HI> which may al&s;o augment this <HI>Humor:</HI> Or if there be no &s;ort of <HI>Excre|ment,</HI> but a benign Nutritious <HI>Juyce,</HI> or Hu|mor; the mo&s;t <HI>Pure</HI> indeed, that within the <HI>Amnios,</HI> but the <HI>Gro&s;ser,</HI> and le&s;s nouri&s;hing without in the <HI>Chorion,</HI> tho chiefly nece&s;&s;ar al&s;o, and &s;ub&s;ervient to the <HI>Infants</HI> Nouri&s;h|ment and Security: Or rather as <HI>Others,</HI> the <HI>Urin</HI> without contained in the <HI>Allantois,</HI> and
<PB N="128" REF="74"> the nouri&s;hing matter lodged alone in the <HI>Amnios,</HI> and thus kept free from <HI>Defilement</HI> of the <HI>Urin,</HI> and the tender Skined <HI>Infant</HI> from the <HI>Scalding</HI> thereof, as behooved if voided from the <HI>Yard.</HI></P>
<P>This <HI>Alimentary Liquor,</HI> they make no o|ther thing in the <HI>Infants</HI> fir&s;t <HI>Formation,</HI> then the re&s;idue of the <HI>Seminal Matter,</HI> which remains about it, doth Cheri&s;h, Nouri&s;h, and give it Grouth: But after (that being once Con&s;umed, and the <HI>String</HI> entered the <HI>Bur|den</HI>) a Milky <HI>Juyce,</HI> or purer <HI>Chyl</HI> (tho <HI>Some</HI> make it a Richer, and more Noble <HI>Juyce,</HI> next and more <HI>Analogous</HI> to the <HI>Original,</HI> drawing its <HI>Matter</HI> a&s;well from <HI>Nerves,</HI> as from <HI>Veins</HI> and <HI>Arteries,</HI> a finely &s;ublimed Spi|rituous <HI>Liquor:</HI> And &s;o the <HI>Infant</HI> to feed up|on the &s;ame it is made of) Coming from the <HI>Mother</HI> to the <HI>Womb,</HI> through &s;ome In|tern <HI>Chyliferous Ve&s;&s;els</HI> reached thither (from the <HI>Chyliferous Channel</HI> of the <HI>Thorax</HI> &s;ay <HI>Some,</HI> from the <HI>Sack</HI> or <HI>Receptacle</HI> of <HI>Chyl</HI> &s;ay <HI>Others,</HI> and <HI>Some</HI> her <HI>Sweet Bread</HI>) and after received into, and carried down through the Milky <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> of the <HI>String,</HI> into the Capa|city of the <HI>Amnios.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Some</HI> will have it brought thither by the <HI>Arteries</HI> with the <HI>Blood,</HI> and &s;eparated Pure
<PB N="129" REF="74"> into the <HI>Amnios.</HI> And <HI>Some</HI> will have this <HI>Liquor</HI> flow forth from the <HI>Brea&s;ts,</HI> and car|ried through <HI>Veins</HI> to the <HI>Womb,</HI> and the <HI>In|fant</HI> to be nouri&s;hed therein with <HI>Milk,</HI> a&s;|well as at the <HI>Brea&s;ts. Some</HI> yet will have this milky <HI>Liquor</HI> of the <HI>Amnios,</HI> into which the <HI>Infant</HI> &s;wims, to be the more wateri&s;h <HI>Part</HI> of the <HI>Womans Seed,</HI> flowing continually in|to the <HI>Womb,</HI> even after the <HI>Infant</HI> is con|ceived therein. But the&s;e and the like, be|ing ob&s;cure and uncertain <HI>Conjectures,</HI> and of le&s;s <HI>U&s;e</HI> to the chief <HI>Purpo&s;e,</HI> may be thus lightly pa&s;t in nameing.</P>
<P>This <HI>Liquor</HI> accordingly, is made of <HI>U&s;e</HI> to the <HI>Infants</HI> nourriture, Its <HI>Re&s;piration</HI> al&s;o, To con&s;erve the <HI>Cavities,</HI> &s;oftly carry up its <HI>Body</HI> (&s;wiming there as in a <HI>Bath</HI>) in all the vio|lent <HI>Motions,</HI> and <HI>Concu&s;&s;ions</HI> of the <HI>Mother,</HI> that it da&s;h not dry again&s;t the <HI>Womb,</HI> nor the hard <HI>Parts</HI> about: To pre&s;erve the <HI>Thread</HI> &s;mall <HI>Navel Ve&s;&s;els</HI> al&s;o from peril of <HI>Rupture:</HI> And &s;erves notably at <HI>Labour,</HI> to relax and mollify the <HI>Parts,</HI> for its ea&s;ier pa&s;s, the &s;carcity of which makes it &s;o perplex'd, and unhappy, as &s;ometimes the <HI>Mother</HI> is carried off herein, For all can be done to &s;upply the want thereof.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="130" REF="75">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. IV.</HI> Of the <HI>Burden</HI> and <HI>Navel-String,</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe <HI>Burden,</HI> is a &s;ort of fle&s;hy <HI>Bowel,</HI> or <HI>Parenchymatous Ma&s;s,</HI> not unlike that of <HI>L&igrave;ver,</HI> or <HI>Spleen;</HI> contexed of innumer|able <HI>Fibres,</HI> and thread &s;mall <HI>Branches</HI> of <HI>Ve&s;&s;els,</HI> affu&s;ed congealed <HI>Blood</HI> or <HI>Fle&s;h.</HI></P>
<P>This <HI>Blood,</HI> is not the impurer <HI>Part</HI> of the <HI>Cour&s;es,</HI> as was held of old (the purer pa&s;|&s;ing into the <HI>Infants</HI> nouri&s;hment) but Vital Spirituous <HI>Blood,</HI> coming fir&s;t more plenti|fully from the <HI>Mother</HI> (who affords the great|e&s;t part of its <HI>Matter</HI>) through the <HI>Womb Ve&s;&s;els,</HI> driven thither al&s;o from the <HI>Infants Heart,</HI> through the <HI>Umbilical Arteries,</HI> after the <HI>String</HI> joyns it; and therewith a kind of &s;pirituous <HI>Nectar,</HI> or vital <HI>Spirit,</HI> which as it augments, nouri&s;hes, and vivifies all the <HI>Parts</HI> of the <HI>Infant</HI> it &s;elf, and puts them about their <HI>Actions,</HI> &s;o al&s;o its <HI>Memb<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">anes,</HI> and this <HI>Bur|den</HI> likewi&s;e.</P>
<P>It is notably con&s;picuous about the 12th. or 13th. <HI>Week,</HI> the 3d. <HI>Month</HI> being end<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d, or
<PB N="131" REF="75"> after <HI>Conformation</HI> of the <HI>Parts:</HI> Though its <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ir&s;t <HI>Delineaments</HI> and <HI>Threeds,</HI> or <HI>Form</HI> here|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">f (generated together with the <HI>Membranes,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">f the cour&s;er <HI>Seed,</HI> of the <HI>Womans</HI> &s;ay <HI>Some,</HI> a <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ttle <HI>Fermented</HI> in a peculiar manner, by <HI>Ad|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ixtion</HI> of the <HI>Mans</HI>) appears like a <HI>Wooly <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ub&s;tance</HI> upon the out&s;ide of the <HI>Chorion,</HI> a|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">out the 8th. or 9th. <HI>Week:</HI> Upon which in <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ort <HI>Time,</HI> a red, fle&s;hy, &s;oft <HI>Sub&s;tance</HI> grows <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">y little and little, but inequally, and in little <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nobs,</HI> whereby it pre&s;ently &s;ticks to the <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">omb,</HI> and the <HI>Embryo</HI> al&s;o by it, and is <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ept more firmly from falling out, which <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">efore was wholly free, adhereing no where <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> the <HI>Membrane.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Figure</HI> of the whole <HI>Burden</HI> is u&s;ual|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> round, with an uneven <HI>Circuit</HI> (yet found <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">xtraordinar and mon&s;truous) is convex <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">wards the <HI>Womb,</HI> and towards the <HI>Chorion, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Infant</HI> concave: Its <HI>Surface</HI> is wholly <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ooth, mo&s;t like a <HI>Leaf</HI> of <HI>Navel-wort,</HI> a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Trencher</HI> or table <HI>Saucer;</HI> receiving the <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">avel-String</HI> where it joyns the <HI>Chorion:</HI> And <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> thicke&s;t there, yet &s;till thinner all round <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">wards its <HI>Borders.</HI></P>
<P>To the <HI>Womb</HI> ward it is rough and in|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ual, through many <HI>Knobs,</HI> whereby it ad|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">res to it immediatly, e&s;pecially to its inner
<PB N="132" REF="76"> <HI>Spungio&s;ity,</HI> or the little <HI>Protuberancies,</HI> ari&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> in it here and there the time of <HI>Pregnancy</HI> And through the mutual <HI>Accumbency</HI> an<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <HI>Adhae&s;ion</HI> of <HI>The&s;e,</HI> the <HI>Womb</HI> transfu&s;es fro<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> its open <HI>Pores</HI> and <HI>Ve&s;&s;els,</HI> into the ope<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <HI>Pores</HI> and <HI>Parts</HI> of the <HI>Burden,</HI> the <HI>Alime<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">+tary Juyce, Blood,</HI> or what ever el&s;e is the <HI>I<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">+fants Nourriture,</HI> which al&s;o continues to flo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> &s;everal <HI>Dayes</HI> after it is brought away at <HI>L<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">+bour.</HI> This <HI>Side</HI> hath great <HI>Chinks</HI> in i<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> which being cut, &s;hews an infinite <HI>Numb<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI> of <HI>Fibres</HI> of <HI>Veins.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Place</HI> of <HI>Adhae&s;ion,</HI> is almo&s;t ever t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <HI>&V;pper,</HI> and <HI>Fore-part</HI> of the <HI>Bottom</HI> of t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <HI>Womb:</HI> Yet <HI>Some</HI> &s;ticks to the right <HI>Side, So<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI> to the <HI>Left,</HI> and <HI>Some</HI> al&s;o <HI>Behind,</HI> accordin<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> as the <HI>Conception</HI> tumbling loo&s;e to this, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> its other <HI>Corner</HI> fixes.</P>
<P>After it joyns to the <HI>Womb,</HI> and begins <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> encrea&s;e, it &s;ticks toughly the <HI>First Month</HI> as unripe <HI>Fruit</HI> to the <HI>Tree;</HI> and &s;o in t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> younger <HI>Abortions</HI> is ill to &s;eparate: Y<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> thenceforth, the bigger the <HI>Infant</HI> grow, t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> riper and nearer its <HI>Birth,</HI> the ea&s;ier it par<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> from the <HI>Womb,</HI> and in end like ripe <HI>Fr<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI> drops from its <HI>Surface,</HI> together almo&s;t wi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> the <HI>Infant;</HI> and happy <HI>Labour</HI> where thus comes, for to <HI>Some</HI> it &s;ticks till forced awa<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">
<PB N="133" REF="76"> yea whiles with much trouble, pain and <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">eril.</P>
<P>Its <HI>Magnitude</HI> and <HI>Thickne&s;s</HI> varies for the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ondition of <HI>Bodies,</HI> the bigne&s;s of the <HI>In|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nt,</HI> and the <HI>Periods</HI> of <HI>Pregnancy:</HI> For in <HI>Abortions</HI> of 30 or 40 dayes, it &s;carce ap|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ears about the <HI>Roots</HI> of the <HI>String,</HI> which <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ardly then comes its length: Yet daily <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">fter, it &s;o gradually accre&s;&s;es and amplifies the Spirituous <HI>Blood</HI> being more copiou&s;ly <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ffluent) that in end when at its utmo&s;t per|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ection, it is about a <HI>Foot,</HI> a <HI>Span,</HI> or quarter <HI>Ell</HI> broad, 2 or 3 Inches thick in the <HI>Midle</HI> yet <HI>Some</HI> are both larger, and thicker) thiner <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ll over, towards its <HI>Borders.</HI></P>
<P>It is mo&s;tly <HI>One</HI> in <HI>Number,</HI> even to <HI>Twins</HI> or <HI>More</HI> (yea when of different <HI>Sex,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hough &s;ome make <HI>The&s;e</HI> have <HI>Each</HI> its own) or is &s;o contiguous to <HI>Other,</HI> as to appear <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ut <HI>One:</HI> As many <HI>Strings</HI> being fixt in di|vers <HI>Places</HI> thereof, as there are <HI>Infants</HI> (tho' whiles each <HI>Twin</HI> hath its &s;eparate <HI>Burden</HI>) di&s;per&s;ing throughout its <HI>Substance,</HI> innume|rable <HI>Roots</HI> of <HI>Veins,</HI> and <HI>Arteries,</HI> with a marvellous <HI>Texture,</HI> and <HI>Net</HI> like <HI>Frame,</HI> which yet are held entirely &s;eparated <HI>Each</HI> from <HI>Other,</HI> both <HI>Veins</HI> and <HI>Arteries,</HI> in &s;uch &s;ort, as the <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> which &s;erve to the <HI>Nou|ri&s;hment</HI>
<PB N="134" REF="77"> of one <HI>Infant,</HI> hath no <HI>Communicatio<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI> by <HI>Ana&s;tomo&s;is,</HI> or otherwi&s;e, with the&s;e per|tains to the <HI>Re&s;t:</HI> Whence <HI>One</HI> of them may be &s;ome &s;pace dead in the <HI>Womb,</HI> withou<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> hurting the <HI>Others;</HI> being thus lodged and nouri&s;hed apart, and &s;o living independent It receives &s;mall <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> al&s;o from the <HI>Womb</HI> but are di&s;per&s;ed upon that &s;ide only next it.</P>
<P>Its true <HI>Colour,</HI> is a darki&s;h <HI>Red,</HI> &s;ome brighter then the <HI>Spleen,</HI> rarely <HI>Palei&s;h.</HI> It <HI>Sub&s;tance</HI> is &s;oft, lax, brittle, full of <HI>Juyce Spungy,</HI> but wholly <HI>Fibrous.</HI></P>
<P>It is ea&s;ily &s;poiled in <HI>Colour</HI> and <HI>Sub&s;tance</HI> for <HI>Womens</HI> various <HI>Indi&s;po&s;itions,</HI> ill <HI>Habits</HI> and the <HI>Humors</HI> fall upon it: Whence it i<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> found &s;oftned, flaccid, hard al&s;o, &s;chirrous glandulous: <HI>Some</HI> quite corrupt, &s;tinking vilely: <HI>Some</HI> chattered in many <HI>Parts:</HI> Ye<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <HI>Some</HI> parched and dry, quite de&s;titute of it<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <HI>Humidity</HI> and <HI>Blood:</HI> whence no marve<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> that oftimes it be not brought away entire, and produce al&s;o &s;uch &s;ad <HI>Symptoms.</HI></P>
<P>It &s;erves for a <HI>Stay</HI> to the <HI>Navel Ve&s;&s;els</HI> (to the big <HI>Womb</HI> al&s;o) di&s;per&s;ed therein, unde<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> which it lyes as a <HI>Pillow,</HI> called hence by &s;ome the <HI>Sweat-bread</HI> of the <HI>Womb:</HI> To con|coct likewi&s;e, elaborate, prepare and perfite in a <HI>Special Manner</HI> (by <HI>Fermentation</HI> or other|wi&s;e
<PB N="135" REF="77"> the <HI>Blood</HI> and <HI>Galaxy</HI> received therein, and to &s;eperate the more pure and &s;piritu|ous <HI>Parts</HI> to the <HI>Infants</HI> nouri&s;hment; cal|led therefore (as for its like <HI>Colour</HI> and <HI>Sub|&s;tance</HI>) the <HI>Womb Liver:</HI> and for its <HI>Figure,</HI> the <HI>Womb Cake,</HI> the <HI>2din</HI> al&s;o, or <HI>After-birth,</HI> as coming forth with the <HI>Membranes</HI> in the 2d. place, or after the <HI>Birth: Some</HI> call it the <HI>Delivery,</HI> as compleating the &s;ame; giving whiles more work to its <HI>Extraction,</HI> then the <HI>Birth</HI> it &s;elf.</P>
<P>To the <HI>Burden</HI> joyns the <HI>Navel &s;tring,</HI> a Membranous round hollow <HI>Duct,</HI> like a little <HI>Tryp</HI> or <HI>Rope,</HI> comprehending <HI>One Vein,</HI> 2 <HI>Arteries,</HI> and the <HI>Ourack</HI> (though <HI>Some</HI> will not have this come without the <HI>Navel</HI>) the <HI>Milky Ve&s;&s;els</HI> &s;ay <HI>Some,</HI> through which the Milky <HI>Liquor</HI> is conveyed, wrapt up in one common <HI>Cover</HI> (which al&s;o &s;eparates each apart by its <HI>Duplications,</HI> that they may not be entangled, nor broken) in which they go on, whiles well twi&s;ted together, and whiles it is orderly twi&s;ted therewith in <HI>Form</HI> of a <HI>Rope: Sometimes</HI> al&s;o it is wreath|ed alone, the&s;e <HI>Ve&s;sels</HI> a&s;cending &s;traight at others &s;ides through its <HI>Cavity</HI> to the <HI>Bur|den:</HI> Which <HI>Some</HI> will have to continue and be unit to the <HI>Ve&s;sels</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> and <HI>Some</HI> make them ari&s;e therefrom.</P>
<PB N="136" REF="78">
<P>The <HI>Vein,</HI> much bigger then the <HI>Arteries,</HI> di&s;per&s;ing an infinity of <HI>Branches</HI> in the <HI>Bur|den,</HI> (&s;ometimes as &s;oon as ever it enters it, &s;ometimes not till it come to the midle there|of) is thus conducted along&s;t in the <HI>String,</HI> through the <HI>Infants Navel,</HI> unto its <HI>Liver</HI> which it pa&s;&s;es entire (though <HI>Some</HI> will have a lateral <HI>Branch</HI> go off into it, with &s;ome part of the <HI>Blood,</HI> for a &s;peedier <HI>Increment,</HI> and better <HI>Di&s;po&s;ition</HI> for its future <HI>Office</HI>) and is terminated into the <HI>Vena Cava,</HI> near the right <HI>Ear</HI> of the <HI>Heart;</HI> carrying the <HI>Blood</HI> to the <HI>Infants Bowels</HI> (though <HI>Some</HI> will have the <HI>Blood</HI> run from the <HI>Infant</HI> to the <HI>Burden,</HI> through this <HI>Vein,</HI> for that it grows fir&s;t out of the <HI>Infant,</HI> and reaches thereto) &s;traight through its <HI>Liver</HI> as is &s;aid, without any notable <HI>Alteration</HI> therein (which yet was formerly held to be infu&s;ed into it, and there further elaborated to the highe&s;t perfection of <HI>Blood</HI>) into the <HI>Vena Cava,</HI> where it mixes with the <HI>Venous Blood,</HI> with the <HI>Chyl</HI> al&s;o &s;ay <HI>Some,</HI> made of the <HI>Liquor</HI> of the <HI>Am|nios</HI> it &s;wallows by the <HI>Mouth,</HI> falling in from the <HI>Subclavian Vein:</HI> That whole <HI>Mix|ture</HI> going on thenceforth by degrees to the <HI>Heart,</HI> where it receives a new perfection of <HI>Blood,</HI> being therein conveniently dila|ted,
<PB N="137" REF="78"> rarified, and rendered thus more <HI>Sub|tile</HI> and <HI>Spirituous,</HI> a finer and fitter <HI>Nou|ri&s;hment</HI> for the <HI>Infant;</HI> and is di&s;tributed through its whole <HI>Body,</HI> with the <HI>Aorta,</HI> or great <HI>Artery.</HI></P>
<P>The two <HI>Arteries,</HI> ari&s;e from the Intern <HI>Iliack Branches</HI> of that great <HI>Artery</HI> (and oft from the extremity of it) up by the &s;ides of the <HI>Bladder,</HI> and joyning the <HI>Vein,</HI> enters the <HI>String,</HI> advancing therewith (in the <HI>Man|ner</HI> above-mentioned) through the <HI>Pores</HI> of the <HI>Membranes,</HI> up to the <HI>Burden,</HI> where they quite evani&s;h with their little <HI>Branches,</HI> which are &s;o platted, and conjoyned with the <HI>Branches</HI> of the <HI>Vein,</HI> as they cannot be ea&s;ily di&s;tingui&s;hed from other: Carrying back the <HI>Infant</HI>'s vital <HI>Blood</HI> re&s;iduous to its nouri&s;hment, driven on by its Hearts Pul|&s;ion, Or the <HI>Nutriment,</HI> which was carried in too plentifully to it by the <HI>Vein,</HI> Or the cruder <HI>Parts</HI> only; Where meeting with the <HI>Mothers Blood,</HI> &s;eparated into the <HI>Burden</HI> from the <HI>Arteries</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI> (whether by meer <HI>Percolation,</HI> or &s;ome <HI>Fermentation</HI> al&s;o) <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eturns therewith again to the <HI>Infant,</HI> (after preparation in the <HI>Burden,</HI> and <HI>Nutrition</HI> here|of) through the <HI>Navel Vein</HI> (where we &s;ee the <HI>Vein</HI> perform the Office of <HI>Arteries,</HI> as
<PB N="138" REF="79"> they of <HI>Veins</HI>) &s;till journeying thus, to and fro the <HI>Infant</HI> and <HI>Burden,</HI> without the lea&s;t <HI>Interruption:</HI> Whence the <HI>Circulation</HI> is per|formed, by this <HI>Pa&s;s</HI> and <HI>Repa&s;s</HI> of the <HI>Blood,</HI> and the <HI>Infant</HI> nouri&s;hed by the <HI>Navel,</HI> and with <HI>Blood</HI> alone: Which yet others will have nouri&s;hed with the &s;ole <HI>Liquor</HI> of the <HI>Amnios</HI> alwayes, and by &s;imple <HI>Appo&s;ition</HI> only while imperfect, Yet by the <HI>Mouth</HI> when perfect: Tho <HI>Some</HI> admit its <HI>Mouth</HI> alone ever. And <HI>Some</HI> al&s;o will have it nou|ri&s;hed with <HI>Blood,</HI> by the <HI>Navel</HI> when &s;mall, yet with the milky <HI>Liquor</HI> al&s;o, and by the <HI>Mouth</HI> when bigger (there being <HI>Chyl</HI> found in its <HI>Stomach,</HI> and gro&s;&s;er <HI>Excrements</HI> in its greater <HI>Gutts,</HI> chiefly the <HI>Right</HI> from the pub|lick <HI>Coction</HI> of the <HI>Stomach</HI>) being of more confirmed <HI>Bowels,</HI> and needing a more plen|tiful <HI>Nouri&s;hment,</HI> the <HI>Burden</HI> al&s;o being brought to a greater perfection, and the <HI>Lact|teals</HI> produced the length of the <HI>Amnios,</HI> the milky <HI>Humor</HI> flowing more copiou&s;ly thereinto; And &s;o be nouri&s;hed both by the <HI>Navel</HI> and <HI>Mouth,</HI> and to enjoy a double <HI>Aliment,</HI> of which mixed in the <HI>Heart</HI> a perfect <HI>Blood</HI> is made. And they al&s;o will have it get <HI>Growth</HI> and <HI>Nouri&s;hment</HI> at fir&s;t, and before the &s;ufficient <HI>Perfection</HI> of <HI>The&s;e,</HI>
<PB N="139" REF="79"> while its parts are yet very &s;mall and im|perfect, by the <HI>Remains</HI> of the &s;eminal <HI>Mat|ter</HI> while it la&s;ts, and fir&s;t by &s;imple <HI>Appo&s;i|tion</HI> only, and after with &s;ome <HI>Part</HI> of it &s;wallowed by the <HI>Mouth.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Others</HI> make its <HI>Nouri&s;hment</HI> to be, <HI>Fir&s;t</HI> by <HI>Appo&s;ition</HI> of an albugineous <HI>Liquor,</HI> Ouzing from the <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> imbibed by the <HI>Chorion,</HI> filtrated through the <HI>Amnios</HI> in|to its <HI>Cavity:</HI> And <HI>Next,</HI> by the <HI>Same</HI> con|veyed as the <HI>Blood,</HI> through the <HI>Burden</HI> and <HI>Navel Vein:</HI> Swallowing al&s;o by the <HI>Mouth,</HI> the more gro&s;s and terren <HI>Part</HI> of that <HI>Same</HI> (the finer being converted into its <HI>Blood</HI>) which could not be changed into <HI>Blood</HI> by one, or likely more <HI>Circulations,</HI> flowing out by the <HI>Infants Arteries,</HI> and di&s;charg|ed into the <HI>Amnios</HI> by little <HI>Branches</HI> thereof, di&s;per&s;ed therethrough, as they go to the <HI>Burden:</HI> And <HI>They</HI> make the <HI>Infant</HI> to be nouri&s;hed the&s;e <HI>Three</HI> wayes, by one and the &s;ame <HI>Liquor.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Some</HI> will have the <HI>Navel</HI> nouri&s;hment to cea&s;e, while the <HI>Infant</HI> begins to take by the <HI>Mouth:</HI> Others continue it &s;till, for a more full and ready <HI>Provi&s;ion,</HI> an ea&s;ier <HI>Sanguifi|cation</HI> of the <HI>Chyl,</HI> a better <HI>Ventilation,</HI> or <HI>Re|fre&s;hment</HI> to the <HI>Infant</HI> by the long <HI>Circuit</HI> of
<PB N="140" REF="80"> the <HI>Navel-Ve&s;&s;els,</HI> holding it to breath there|by. Though <HI>Some</HI> will have it breath by the <HI>Mouth,</HI> the <HI>Air</HI> penetrating unto the&s;e <HI>Places:</HI> Hence <HI>Examples</HI> and <HI>Hi&s;tories</HI> of its being heard Cry in the <HI>Womb,</HI> which <HI>Others</HI> will not have to be by the outward <HI>Air,</HI> be|cau&s;e it can have no <HI>Acce&s;s,</HI> but by that ad|mixt with the <HI>Liquor,</HI> ari&s;ing from its <HI>Fer|mentation,</HI> and attracted with the <HI>Aliments:</HI> Or by an <HI>Airy</HI> Sub&s;tance, or <HI>Nitro-aereous Particles</HI> the nouri&s;hing <HI>Juyces</HI> comes filled with. And <HI>Some</HI> again will not have it breath the <HI>Air,</HI> &s;eeing there is no &s;uch plenty about it, but the <HI>Water</HI> it &s;wims in, like as the <HI>Fi&s;hes;</HI> And the <HI>Water</HI> to make that here, what the <HI>Air</HI> does afterwards, a <HI>Motion</HI> to wit, Of <HI>In,</HI> and <HI>Ex&s;piration.</HI> And <HI>Some</HI> will have <HI>Tran&s;piration</HI> alone, and <HI>Ventilation</HI> of the <HI>Mothers</HI> Blood to &s;uffice, without any <HI>Re&s;piration</HI> in the <HI>Womb.</HI> And here <HI>Judges</HI> take <HI>Evidence</HI> from <HI>Phy&s;icians,</HI> if an <HI>Infant</HI> hath been dead-born, or Murthered after: or if it hath once breathed, and &s;o is the Right <HI>Heir,</HI> in that the <HI>Lungs</HI> being cut out, or a part, and ca&s;t among <HI>Water,</HI> they in|&s;tantly go to the bottom as <HI>Mettal,</HI> it is held to have died in the <HI>Womb,</HI> and never brea|thed: But if they &s;wim above to have lived,
<PB N="141" REF="80"> Though it is fit all the parts of the <HI>Lungs</HI> be thus tryed.</P>
<P>The <HI>String</HI> hath &s;everal <HI>Knots</HI> in it, held to be a more fle&s;hy, and gro&s;s <HI>Part</HI> of the <HI>Cover,</HI> and a wider <HI>Gap,</HI> whereinto the <HI>Blood</HI> being Suckt, &s;tops from ru&s;hing in too great <HI>Plenty</HI> and <HI>Spait,</HI> to overwhelm the tender <HI>Infant</HI> (which yet lo&s;&s;es much of its Impe|tuous <HI>Force</HI> and <HI>Agitation,</HI> after it comes from the <HI>Mothers Ve&s;&s;els,</HI> in its di&s;tribution through|out the <HI>Burden,</HI> and yet more in pa&s;&s;ing that mo&s;t long, and broad <HI>Channel</HI> of the <HI>String,</HI> as from its <HI>Di&s;tribution</HI> through the <HI>Liver</HI>) whence it fills the&s;e <HI>Places,</HI> and renders them <HI>Varicous</HI> more or le&s;s, for their Repletion of bright warm <HI>Blood, Others</HI> make them little <HI>Glands</HI> or <HI>Paps,</HI> through which the Milky <HI>Li|quor</HI> flowing, di&s;tils into the <HI>Amnios,</HI> appear|ing as it were <HI>Bladders</HI> full of white&s;h <HI>Juice.</HI></P>
<P>From the plenty of the&s;e <HI>Knots,</HI> Super&s;ti|tious <HI>Midwifes</HI> u&s;e to foretel (and an old <HI>Tale</HI> it is) the <HI>Number</HI> of future <HI>Off-&s;pring,</HI> and if there happen very few (a <HI>String</HI> with|out them is rare) &s;uch be &s;ure &s;hall never bear more: While yet there have been no fewer with the la&s;t, then with the <HI>Fir&s;t:</HI> And <HI>Some</HI> have had not <HI>One</HI> in the <HI>First,</HI> who next <HI>Year</HI> have had <HI>Twins.</HI> From their <HI>Di|stance</HI>
<PB N="142" REF="81"> al&s;o, they divine the <HI>Time</HI> between <HI>Births:</HI> And where the <HI>One</HI> &s;its clo&s;e by the <HI>Other, Twins.</HI> From the <HI>Variety</HI> al&s;o of their <HI>Colour<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> the difference of <HI>Sex,</HI> as the <HI>Red</HI> a <HI>Male,</HI> the <HI>White</HI> a <HI>Female.</HI> And many things el&s;e they dotingly <HI>Clatter</HI> about the <HI>Infants Felicity</HI> or <HI>Mi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">fortune.</HI></P>
<P>It is of a Con&s;picuous, but different <HI>Length</HI> and <HI>Bigne&s;s,</HI> yet is u&s;ually in a ripe <HI>Infant</HI> 3 <HI>Spans</HI> long, an large half <HI>Ell,</HI> or 3 <HI>Quarters;</HI> for preparation of the <HI>Blood,</HI> the <HI>Infants</HI> Skope in the <HI>Womb</HI> while it tumbles and &s;prawls about, its more Commodious <HI>Egre&s;s</HI> without breaking it, or loo&s;ing the <HI>Burden:</HI> An ea&s;i|er Eduction hereof: for a greater <HI>Refre&s;hment</HI> to the <HI>Embryo,</HI> as they who make it breath, drawing the <HI>Air</HI> by the <HI>Navel:</HI> And is the <HI>Thickne&s;s</HI> al&s;o of a <HI>Finger,</HI> for a due <HI>Capacity,</HI> and <HI>Strength</HI> to &s;upport the <HI>Ve&s;&s;els.</HI></P>
<P>It is variou&s;ly Rolled, or twi&s;ted about as it goes to the <HI>Burden,</HI> that its <HI>Length</HI> might not be trouble&s;ome: From the <HI>Navel</HI> it goes over the <HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ea&s;t,</HI> from whence it is obliquely car|ried over the right and left Sides of the <HI>Throat</HI> and <HI>Neck,</HI> turning it &s;elf back at the <HI>Hinder-Head,</HI> and &s;o over the midle of the <HI>Fore-Head</HI> to the <HI>Burden.</HI> Sometimes al&s;o it encompa&s;&s;es the <HI>Neck</HI> like a <HI>Chain:</HI> And
<PB N="143" REF="81"> &s;ome goes over the <HI>Breast,</HI> towards the hin|der <HI>Parts</HI> and <HI>Back,</HI> and comes not to the <HI>Neck: Some</HI> al&s;o are found to go over the <HI>Brea&s;t</HI> and <HI>Head,</HI> and then winded about the one <HI>Foot.</HI></P>
<P>It is &s;ometimes &s;o long as to be carried out before the <HI>Infant,</HI> and is mo&s;tly then its <HI>Death:</HI> Whiles it is hanked about the <HI>Neck,</HI> and of|ter then <HI>Once</HI> (yea now and then about its <HI>Thighs</HI> or <HI>Feet,</HI> and <HI>Such</HI> al&s;o give Doteing <HI>Women</HI> an occa&s;ion of Vain <HI>Prediction</HI>) whence the <HI>Delivery</HI> may be protracted, while the <HI>Infant</HI> is thus <HI>Hecked</HI> up in it, and cannot de&s;cend to the <HI>Orifice,</HI> nor be pu&s;hed out by the <HI>Pains:</HI> And is ready to be Strangl|ed withal, if ra&s;hly pulled by the <HI>Mid-wife.</HI> If its <HI>Face</HI> be <HI>Red</HI> when born, it is good: If <HI>Wan,</HI> it is Deadly. In this <HI>Ca&s;e</HI> al&s;o the <HI>String</HI> may break, or the <HI>Burden</HI> loo&s;e and &s;eparate, and a violent <HI>Flooding</HI> en&s;ue. If it <HI>Hank</HI> about the Infants <HI>Neck</HI> in the <HI>Womb,</HI> it warms and Stifles, whether through want of <HI>Air,</HI> and &s;top of the <HI>Circulation,</HI> or <HI>Ob&s;tru|ction</HI> of the <HI>Gullet,</HI> that no <HI>Aliment</HI> gets down, nor can it freely move it &s;elf.</P>
<P>It hath been found with a real <HI>Knot</HI> there|on having formed by its great <HI>Length</HI> a <HI>Circle</HI> Floting in the <HI>Waters,</HI> through which the <HI>Infants</HI> whole <HI>Body</HI> hath pa&s;t.</P>
<PB N="144" REF="82">
<P>After the <HI>Infant</HI> is Born, it is tyed and cut off, what is left mu&s;t be dre&s;&s;ed, as &s;hall be directed afterwards, till it dry, or Corrupt, and fall away of its &s;elf (the longer or &s;hort|er <HI>While</HI> it is in falling, the longer or &s;horter <HI>Lived, Women</HI> Prophecy the <HI>Children</HI> to be) and the <HI>Navel</HI> be formed, and &s;olidated with a firm <HI>Skin.</HI> Thereafter the fore&s;aid <HI>Ve&s;sels</HI> within the <HI>Infants Belly,</HI> turn into &s;olid <HI>Li|gaments,</HI> tying the <HI>Parts</HI> from which they proceed unto the <HI>Navel.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. V.</HI> Of the various <HI>Situations</HI> of the <HI>Infant</HI> in the <HI>Womb.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis <HI>Diver&s;ity,</HI> is partly from its <HI>Self,</HI> partly from the different <HI>Periods</HI> of <HI>Pregnancy,</HI> and the approaching <HI>Labour.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Infants</HI> of both <HI>Sex,</HI> are u&s;ually Situated in the midle of the <HI>Womb,</HI> it being but one &s;ingle <HI>Cavity,</HI> di&s;tingui&s;hed along&s;t into a right or left <HI>Part,</HI> or <HI>Side,</HI> with a midle <HI>Line</HI> only, as it were a little out <HI>Seam</HI> (mo&s;t rare|ly divided with a midle <HI>Partition</HI>) without
<PB N="145" REF="82"> any <HI>Cells,</HI> as in mo&s;t viviparous <HI>Bruits,</HI> and which <HI>Some</HI> fancy in the <HI>Wombs</HI> of <HI>Wo|men</HI> al&s;o, who bear <HI>Twins</HI> or <HI>More;</HI> tho the &s;ole <HI>Burden</HI> to many <HI>Infants</HI> evince the contrair: Their &s;everal <HI>Bags</HI> &s;erving for a divided <HI>Womb,</HI> or its <HI>Cells.</HI> But further.</P>
<P>The ordinar <HI>Po&s;ture</HI> of the <HI>Embryo,</HI> or little <HI>Infant,</HI> for &s;ome <HI>Months</HI> (which yet va|ries <HI>in d&iacute;vers</HI>) is with its <HI>Head</HI> contained in the higher part of the <HI>Womb,</HI> its <HI>Arms</HI> and <HI>Legs</HI> contracted, its <HI>Knees</HI> clo&s;e to the <HI>Guardies,</HI> and drawn up to the <HI>Belly:</HI> To <HI>The&s;e</HI> al&s;o its <HI>Head</HI> &s;o far enclines, as the <HI>No&s;e</HI> may re&s;t between them, with the <HI>Chin</HI> to its <HI>Brea&s;t:</HI> The <HI>Hands</HI> in <HI>Some</HI> are at the <HI>Knees,</HI> in <HI>Others</HI> placed upon the <HI>Brea&s;t, O|thers</HI> have them folded; for in the&s;e is found &s;ome diver&s;ity: whiles al&s;o the <HI>One</HI> is lifted up to the <HI>Ear,</HI> or <HI>Temple,</HI> the <HI>Other</HI> to the <HI>Cheek.</HI> Its <HI>Legs</HI> ply back, its <HI>Feet</HI> are turned about inwards, in <HI>Some</HI> cro&s;&s;ed; &s;o that mo&s;tly the <HI>Buttocks</HI> may touch the <HI>Soles,</HI> more rarely the <HI>Heels:</HI> Whence &s;ome new born <HI>Infants</HI> have their <HI>Legs</HI> bent as <HI>Bows,</HI> their <HI>Feet</HI> wryed inward; which yet is ea&s;i|ly mended after by right <HI>Tying</HI> or <HI>Swath.</HI> Its <HI>Back-bone</HI> is to the <HI>Mothers,</HI> and thus mo|deratly bowed inwards, its <HI>Face</HI> is towards
<PB N="146" REF="83"> her <HI>Belly</HI> (tho <HI>Some</HI> place <HI>Females</HI> contrari|wi&s;e, and hence will have their <HI>Corps</HI> to flot it the Waters prone, the <HI>Males</HI> upwards) thus Crouching, and gathered into a roundi&s;h <HI>Fi|gure,</HI> or <HI>Glob</HI>-like <HI>Situation,</HI> with its <HI>Members</HI> in a manner exactly folded, which it expli|cates after by little and little, as it grows in <HI>Age</HI> and <HI>Bigne&s;s</HI> Sometimes al&s;o the <HI>Infant</HI> tumbles to the <HI>Sides,</HI> and gets as it were a cro&s;s <HI>Po&s;ture,</HI> which is di&s;cerned with the <HI>Womans</HI> hand, and by a <HI>Protuberancy,</HI> and <HI>Weight</HI> upon that <HI>Part.</HI></P>
<P>Afterwards, from the bigne&s;s and weight of its <HI>Head</HI> (which exceeds in <HI>Proportion</HI> to the <HI>Body</HI>) a natural <HI>Propen&s;ity</HI> and <HI>In&s;tinct,</HI> it is carried and turned quite over (its <HI>Hands</HI> be|ing &s;hut) falling much lower, with its <HI>Head</HI> towards the the Inner <HI>Orifice,</HI> and <HI>F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ce</HI> to|wards the <HI>Mothers</HI> right <HI>Gutt:</HI> Preparing it &s;elf for a more ready and ea&s;ier <HI>Pa&s;&s;age</HI> into the World, again&s;t due <HI>Time</HI> (tho <HI>Some</HI> will have <HI>Females</HI> with the <HI>Face</HI> upwards, which if &s;o, &s;hould be much brui&s;ed, and the <HI>No&s;e</HI> flatted over the <HI>Bones,</HI> the <HI>Chin</HI> al|&s;o &s;topped thereby: Neither thus could the <HI>Head</HI> be &s;o effectually pu&s;hed on to the <HI>Pa&s;|&s;age</HI> as when the <HI>Matrix</HI> and <HI>Mu&s;cles</HI> of the <HI>Bel|ley</HI> Contracts with Joint <HI>Force</HI> in the <HI>Showers</HI>
<PB N="147" REF="83"> upon the <HI>Infants Back,</HI> which by this <HI>Situa|tion</HI> re&s;i&s;ts thereto) And is the alone right, and natural <HI>Way</HI> of <HI>Birth</HI> (as is &s;aid) ab&s;o|lutely nece&s;&s;ar to a happy <HI>Delivery,</HI> both of one &s;ingle <HI>Child,</HI> as al&s;o of <HI>Twins</HI> or <HI>More,</HI> tho <HI>They</HI> u&s;ually &s;o incommode each other, and are &s;o entangled, that the <HI>One</HI> comes al|mo&s;t ever in <HI>Some</HI> wrong <HI>Posture,</HI> and &s;ome|times <HI>Both,</HI> cau&s;ing thereby an unhappy <HI>Labour.</HI></P>
<P>This <HI>Turning</HI> begins from the 7th Month (tho <HI>Few</HI> turn &s;o &s;oon, and by great <HI>Acci|dent</HI> if before) ofte&s;t in the 8th, <HI>Many</HI> a Week 2, or 3 before <HI>Labour, Some</HI> in the <HI>Time</HI> there|of: Yet <HI>Some</HI> come unturned: <HI>Some</HI> al&s;o turn wrong.</P>
<P>Nigh to <HI>Labour,</HI> it changes its <HI>Posture</HI> di|ver&s;e wayes, while &s;prauling and &s;winging here and there it &s;eeks out; bowing and bend|ing its <HI>Arms</HI> and <HI>Legs</HI> more or le&s;s, carry|ing them to this, or the other <HI>Side,</HI> as it is diver&s;ely excited: Hence &s;uch difference in this <HI>Matter,</HI> among <HI>Writers</HI> who haply have &s;een &s;uch <HI>Infants</HI> in <HI>Women</HI> dieing at &s;uch a <HI>Time; Some</HI> telling they have found the <HI>Arms, Others</HI> the <HI>Legs,</HI> in this, or that <HI>Place</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> in diver&s;e or contrair <HI>Postures.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Some</HI> make <HI>Twins</HI> have a contrair <HI>Situati|on,</HI>
<PB N="148" REF="84"> and to &s;it alwayes <HI>Back</HI> to <HI>Back,</HI> the <HI>One</HI> looking to the <HI>Mothers</HI> Fore, the <HI>Other</HI> to her Back-<HI>Part,</HI> which is altogether uncertain, Witne&s;s <HI>Twins</HI> born with the <HI>Belly Breast</HI> or <HI>Faces</HI> together.</P>
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<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. VI.</HI> What the <HI>Woman</HI> is to doe, when her <HI>Time</HI> draws near.</HEAD>
<P><HI>SHe</HI> ought then (to &s;cape <HI>Ship-wrake,</HI> &s;o near the <HI>Harbour</HI>) be very curious of her <HI>Stir</HI> and <HI>Exerci&s;e (Such</HI> chiefly as are Crazy, or carry the more big and weighty <HI>Burden)</HI> indu&s;trou&s;ly &s;huning all more Vehement and &s;udden <HI>Agitations</HI> of <HI>Body,</HI> hard and inequal <HI>Motions,</HI> &s;teep up or down, all <HI>Laborious</HI> toyl|&s;ome <HI>Exerci&s;e,</HI> Viol nt <HI>Stretch,</HI> ra&s;h <HI>Stumble, Fall,</HI> high <HI>Breathing</HI> and the like, which may &s;oon make the <HI>Womb</HI> bear down, &s;uch an ap|pending big weight, loo&s;e the <HI>2din,</HI> &s;o Ripe and ready to fall away, rai&s;e a <HI>Flooding</HI> which mu&s;t quickly carry <HI>Her</HI> off, as hath happened to <HI>Some</HI> upon a very light <HI>Occa&s;ion:</HI>
<PB N="149" REF="84"> may al&s;o cau&s;e the <HI>Infant</HI> turn, or come wrong, or before its <HI>Time.</HI></P>
<P><HI>She</HI> mu&s;t keep in full calm and Tranquility within, free of all <HI>Pa&s;&s;ion</HI> or <HI>Perturbation</HI> of <HI>Mind,</HI> chiefly <HI>Anger,</HI> &s;udden <HI>Fright,</HI> or <HI>Grief,</HI> which hath brought <HI>Labour</HI> (yea <HI>Death</HI>) upon <HI>Some</HI> in the very <HI>In&s;tant. She</HI> mu&s;t al|&s;o go in &s;lack ea&s;y <HI>Dre&s;s,</HI> and beware of all <HI>Tempests</HI> or <HI>Intemperancy</HI> of the <HI>Air,</HI> u&s;e a mo|derat <HI>Dyet,</HI> of good <HI>Juice</HI> and <HI>Temperature,</HI> good ea&s;y <HI>Coction,</HI> more <HI>Humid</HI> al&s;o and mo|deratly <HI>Laxant,</HI> as <HI>Spinage, Lettice, Beets, Cole|worts</HI> and the like, again&s;t her <HI>Constipation;</HI> for which <HI>She</HI> may u&s;e &s;tewed <HI>Pruns</HI> with a little <HI>Senny,</HI> Cream of <HI>Tartar,</HI> Syrup of <HI>Ro&s;es Solutive, Manna, Ca&s;&s;ia, Whey</HI> and the re&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Oyl</HI> of <HI>Almonds</HI> new drawn without <HI>Fire,</HI> or fine Oyl <HI>Olive,</HI> u&s;ed &s;ome while with Syrup of <HI>Maiden-hair,</HI> or <HI>Violets,</HI> or with <HI>Manna,</HI> Softens and Lubrifies the <HI>Pa&s;&s;es</HI> won|derfully, facilitates the <HI>Labour</HI> (for which to&s;ted <HI>Figs</HI> are u&s;ed by <HI>Some</HI>) and much al|layes the <HI>Grinding.</HI></P>
<P><HI>&V;nctions</HI> this while of the lower <HI>Belly,</HI> and about the <HI>Birth,</HI> going to, and ri&s;ing out of <HI>Bed,</HI> does al&s;o mollify, Relax, and &s;mooth the Common <HI>Pa&s;s,</HI> di&s;po&s;es the <HI>Same</HI> to an ea&s;ier &s;tretch and full <HI>Patency,</HI> the <HI>Burden</HI> al&s;o
<PB N="150" REF="85"> to an ea&s;ier &s;eparation; u&s;ing Oyl of <HI>Lillies,</HI> that wherein the <HI>Flowers</HI> with the yellow <HI>Threads</HI> are infu&s;ed, of <HI>Lin&s;eed, Almonds,</HI> fre&s;h <HI>Butter, Hogs, Goo&s;e, Capons</HI> or, <HI>Dukes Greas</HI> and the like being chiefly nece&s;&s;ar in fir&s;t <HI>Labours,</HI> as where the <HI>Woman</HI> is very <HI>Young,</HI> well <HI>Old, Slender, Lean,</HI> or yet more <HI>Gro&s;s,</HI> who bear <HI>Seldom,</HI> and where the <HI>Genitals</HI> are any wi&s;e more Srait, hard, dry: For <HI>Whom</HI> al&s;o are appointed Mollifying and Laxant <HI>Fomentations</HI> (yea half <HI>Baths</HI>) of <HI>Lilly</HI> Roots, Leaves and Roots of <HI>Althaea, Mallows,</HI> Leaves of <HI>Mullein, Violets,</HI> Flowers of <HI>Chamemel, Melilot, Faenogreek, Lin&s;eed,</HI> boyled and ap|plyed warm with a <HI>Spung,</HI> or woolen <HI>Cloath;</HI> or the <HI>Fume</HI> received through a holed <HI>Chair</HI> for a quarter of <HI>Hour:</HI> And were very need|ful to &s;uch, for an ea&s;ier <HI>Labour,</HI> and to pre|vent any <HI>Lamene&s;s</HI> after. <HI>She</HI> may <HI>Bleed</HI> at this <HI>Time</HI> in ca&s;e of <HI>Plethory,</HI> or any Peril thereof: Provide it do not much Fright, or commove <HI>Her,</HI> el&s;e in &s;tead of preventing, it may procure an Untimely <HI>Birth.</HI></P>
<P><HI>She</HI> mu&s;t withall be&s;peak a Prudent Expert <HI>Midwife,</HI> who (be&s;ide <HI>Instruction</HI> in her <HI>Art,</HI> full <HI>Practi&s;e,</HI> and good <HI>Succe&s;s</HI>) have born many <HI>Children</HI> (yea in <HI>Dayes</HI> of old become Barren after, meerly through <HI>Age</HI>) and &s;o
<PB N="151" REF="85"> hath Experienced in <HI>Her</HI> &s;elf the u&s;ual <HI>Occur|rences</HI> of that <HI>Condition,</HI> it being ea&s;y to err in things not tryed: <HI>Who</HI> mu&s;t al&s;o be fre|quently with <HI>Her</HI> this while, e&s;pecially in her fir&s;t <HI>Child,</HI> and where <HI>She</HI> is more mo|de&s;t and Timorous, to advi&s;e <HI>Her</HI> right, and prepare her for the homely <HI>Conver&s;ation</HI> of <HI>Labour,</HI> and Whom <HI>She</HI> mu&s;t call al&s;o upon the <HI>Fir&s;t</HI> &s;tir of <HI>Pains,</HI> le&s;t being &s;urprized, <HI>She</HI> peril her <HI>Self,</HI> or the <HI>Child,</HI> as <HI>Some</HI> who are &s;o &s;udden, or delay to &s;end till they mu&s;t bear alone, for all the ha&s;t can be made.</P>
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<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. VII.</HI> What mu&s;t be done, when the <HI>Woman</HI> falls in <HI>Labour.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>LAbour,</HI> or <HI>Travail</HI> is her Repeated <HI>Pains</HI> and throws in excluding the <HI>Birth:</HI> And comes not of the <HI>Cur&s;e</HI> alone, while &s;in|le&s;s <HI>Bruits</HI> &s;mart alike, many Dieing, e&s;peci|ally of <HI>The&s;e</HI> who bear <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re</HI> than <HI>One</HI> at a time: But al&s;o from a Va&s;t and Violent <HI>Di|&s;tent&igrave;on</HI> of the <HI>Genitals,</HI> the Inner <HI>Orifice</HI> and <HI>Sheath</HI> e&s;pecially, which mu&s;t widen to the
<PB N="152" REF="86"> <HI>Infants</HI> Magnitude and <HI>Form:</HI> As from the clo&s;e and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ainful <HI>Compre&s;&s;ion,</HI> the <HI>Head</HI> makes of <HI>The&s;e</HI> Membranous Nervy <HI>Parts,</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Bones</HI> in pa&s;&s;ing: Whence the Labour <HI>Pains</HI> turn Extream, while the <HI>Head</HI> advan|ces therein: And are held &s;orer in <HI>Women,</HI> than other <HI>Animals,</HI> becau&s;e of the greater Bigne&s;s of the Infants <HI>Head.</HI> And <HI>Some</HI> im|pute the <HI>Pains</HI> to the Ruption, and Separati|on of <HI>The&s;e</HI> numerous little <HI>Veins,</HI> and tendi|nous Nervy <HI>Fibrils,</HI> by which they make the <HI>Burden</HI> and <HI>Womb</HI> to be immediatly Con|nected, and all in it &s;upported and hanging thereto, as it were a <HI>Vault</HI> or <HI>Seiling:</HI> And the wor&s;e <HI>The&s;e</HI> are to break and &s;eparate from the <HI>Womb,</HI> the more it is pinched and torn, the harder is the <HI>Labour,</HI> the &s;orer the <HI>Symptoms.</HI></P>
<P>Yet now however, let all <HI>Things</HI> be order|ed, and every <HI>Mean</HI> u&s;ed for Her happy <HI>De|livery,</HI> by an apt <HI>Po&s;ture,</HI> opportune <HI>Travail,</HI> the prudent <HI>Guidance</HI> of an Expert <HI>Midwife,</HI> who mu&s;t have ready a <HI>Stool</HI> or <HI>Chair, Scizars, Spung, Tyes,</HI> and warm <HI>Lilly</HI> Oyl, or &s;uch like thing: And be a&s;&s;i&s;ted with other <HI>Women</HI> skilled in this <HI>My&s;tery:</HI> And with a <HI>Phy&s;ician</HI> al&s;o in ca&s;e of <HI>Difficulty,</HI> or need of <HI>Medicins.</HI> But further <HI>She</HI> mu&s;t &s;uffer no
<PB N="153" REF="86"> exceeding <HI>Quality</HI> of the <HI>Air:</HI> The too cold con&s;tricts the whole <HI>Body,</HI> and the opening <HI>Womb:</HI> Hence in the <HI>Winter,</HI> and with a <HI>North-wind,</HI> are <HI>Labours</HI> &s;aid to be harde&s;t. The <HI>Air</HI> too hot, enfeebles both <HI>Mother</HI> and <HI>Infant,</HI> rai&s;es Feaveri&s;h <HI>Warmth</HI> and <HI>Drought.</HI> Nor mu&s;t <HI>She</HI> be in &s;trait, or unea&s;y <HI>Dre&s;s:</HI> And &s;eeing the <HI>Infant</HI> is to pa&s;s betwixt the <HI>Blad|der,</HI> and right <HI>Gutt,</HI> a Vile perplexed <HI>Way,</HI> both needs be cleared; the <HI>Gutt</HI> of any hard cru&s;ty <HI>Excrements,</HI> which are as <HI>Bars</HI> therein, and by their Roughne&s;s and Inequality &s;trait|ens the <HI>Neck</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> and makes the <HI>Infants Pa&s;&s;age</HI> more hard. And for this a good &s;trong <HI>Cly&s;ter</HI> is to be given (or more if needful) of <HI>Emollients</HI> and <HI>Uterins,</HI> which may rou&s;e Her <HI>Pains</HI> withal, if &s;mall and &s;lack: Or di&s;&s;ipate a <HI>Cholick,</HI> very troubl&s;ome then to <HI>Some:</HI> Yet mu&s;t be injected ere the <HI>Child</HI> come to the <HI>Birth,</HI> or be mo&s;t part into the <HI>Sheath,</HI> el&s;e it can get no acce&s;s.</P>
<P>The <HI>&V;rin</HI> al&s;o mu&s;t be rendered, and the <HI>Bladder</HI> emptied, for a roomer <HI>Pa&s;s,</HI> and to &s;ave its <HI>Ruption,</HI> the &s;adde&s;t Affliction to a <HI>Woman</HI> alive and irremedable, yet ea&s;ily happens (it being Conjoined to the <HI>Neck</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI>) through the Vehement <HI>Force,</HI> and hard <HI>Spurnings</HI> of a &s;trong <HI>Child</HI> in wre&s;tling
<PB N="154" REF="87"> out; which hath been &s;o Valid, as not only the <HI>Bladder,</HI> but even the <HI>Womb</HI> hath been found &s;plit, and its <HI>Head</HI> hanging out into the <HI>Cavity</HI> of the <HI>Abdomen:</HI> And happens the rather while highly di&s;tended by her more liberal Drinking and Retention of the <HI>&V;r|in:</HI> And if <HI>Diureticks</HI> withal have been gi|ven to foreward the <HI>Labour:</HI> Yet comes whiles through a <HI>Widwifes</HI> Rudne&s;s about the <HI>Share-Bone:</HI> Or the <HI>Chirurgeon's</HI> Introducing his <HI>Hand</HI> or <HI>In&s;truments.</HI></P>
<P><HI>She</HI> may al&s;o now <HI>Bleed</HI> in ca&s;e of <HI>Plethory,</HI> or where the <HI>Ve&s;sels</HI> are too full and Di&s;tent, for Depletion, and that the Inner wayes may be enlarged, and a <HI>Feaver</HI> after <HI>Labour</HI> prevented</P>
<P>It is be&s;t, <HI>She</HI> get not much &s;olid <HI>Food</HI> the while, it di&s;turbs <HI>Nature,</HI> cumulates <HI>Ex|crements;</HI> but a little <HI>Alkermes</HI> from time to time, a Gutt Oyl of <HI>Cinamon,</HI> or <HI>Nutmeg,</HI> in &s;ome Cinamon <HI>Water,</HI> Syrup of <HI>Lemons,</HI> or <HI>Pomegranates:</HI> A little ponder of <HI>Cinamon,</HI> of <HI>Saf|ron,</HI> or <HI>Tincture</HI> hereof in <HI>Broth:</HI> A Gla&s;s of brisk Wine, Brewed or Burnt: Or <HI>Some</HI> proper <HI>Cordial,</HI> which may powerfully Refre&s;h and revive the <HI>Spirits,</HI> pre&s;erve the <HI>Strength</HI> of both <HI>Mother</HI> and <HI>Infant,</HI> upon which the &s;tre&s;s of all lyes; may rou&s;e withal and provoke the Expul&s;ive <HI>Faculty</HI> to an ea&s;ier <HI>Expedition:</HI>
<PB N="155" REF="87"> Yet a fre&s;h <HI>Egg</HI> may be given to the more feeble Travailers, a little good Fle&s;h <HI>Broth,</HI> Juyce of <HI>Mutton,</HI> a To&s;t dipt in <HI>Wine,</HI> &s;ome <HI>Candle,</HI> or other convenient metal&s;ome <HI>Ali|ment,</HI> of good <HI>Juyce</HI> and &s;peedy <HI>Coction;</HI> yet in Moderation, chiefly <HI>Wine</HI> and <HI>Spiceries,</HI> for <HI>Warmth</HI> or <HI>Feaver.</HI></P>
<P>She mu&s;t in no wi&s;e be Urged to Prae|mature or untimely <HI>Travail,</HI> nor prea&s;s hard at &s;mall light <HI>Showers,</HI> or with the <HI>Dryne&s;s,</HI> or <HI>Clo&s;ure</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> to exhau&s;t that &s;trength &s;hould bear <HI>Her</HI> out in <HI>Labour:</HI> Whence <HI>Many</HI> have Died in it, or &s;oon after. Neither mu&s;t <HI>She</HI> be Rudely handled about the <HI>Birth,</HI> or <HI>Share-Bone,</HI> in hard pre&s;&s;ing, Violent &s;tretching, Pulling, or Renting: Nor may the <HI>Bag</HI> be broken, unle&s;s it break not of it &s;elf in due <HI>Time,</HI> to wit, when highly di&s;tended and blown as a <HI>Bladder,</HI> or the <HI>Waters</HI> fully gathered and pre&s;t far down, and &s;o the <HI>Infant</HI> wholly in the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age.</HI> Nor yet may living <HI>Infants</HI> be Extracted by <HI>Force</HI> or before due <HI>Time.</HI></P>
<P>The Travailing <HI>Woman</HI> mu&s;t not de&s;pond, nor fret, be Unruly, or to&s;s and tumble rud|ly or unadvi&s;ed, to weaken <HI>Her,</HI> or change the <HI>Infants Po&s;ture,</HI> tho a &s;otti&s;h <HI>Ea&s;e</HI> and <HI>Quiet</HI> is as hurtful: But take good <HI>Heart,</HI> keep
<PB N="156" REF="88"> Calm and Tractible, bear out her <HI>Pains</HI> with <HI>Patience</HI> and <HI>Courage,</HI> in the <HI>Hope</HI> and fair <HI>Appearance</HI> of an happy <HI>Hour:</HI> Re&s;i&s;ting them &s;trongly and thorow, as they return and wax &s;harper: Holding then her <HI>Breath,</HI> with her <HI>Mouth</HI> and <HI>Nostrils</HI> clo&s;ed, to force more Vehemently downwards for <HI>Exclu&s;ion</HI> of the <HI>C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ild:</HI> And mu&s;t keep upright if <HI>She</HI> have &s;trength, or pace about the <HI>Chamber,</HI> led and upheld with <HI>Some</HI> at each <HI>Side</HI> (chief|ly &s;hort, Gro&s;s, mishapen <HI>Women,</HI> who &s;peeds be&s;t if kept on <HI>Foot,</HI> till their <HI>Waters</HI> be brok|en, or at breaking: Tho they endure better, if kept in <HI>Bed</HI> at the beginning, while their <HI>Pains</HI> are yet &s;mall and lent, and their <HI>Springs</HI> but gathering) yet may re&s;t little whiles on <HI>Bed,</HI> yea and <HI>Napp</HI> a little if the <HI>Pains</HI> bear off, trying whiles the <HI>Stool,</HI> or <HI>Knee,</HI> or other|wi&s;e, as the <HI>M&igrave;dwife</HI> orders, who mu&s;t &s;till be near <HI>Her,</HI> diligently heeding her <HI>Gesturs, Natures</HI> tendency, and the right advance of the <HI>Travail,</HI> as her <HI>Showers</HI> &s;harpen and re|doubles, her <HI>Whines</HI> and <HI>Moans</HI> converts into frequent, loud and bitter <HI>Cryes,</HI> with <HI>Qualms</HI> and <HI>Vomitings,</HI> and the re&s;t formerly menti|oned.</P>
<P>Let the <HI>Midwife</HI> this while continue to anoint the <HI>Birth</HI> within and without, e&s;pe|cially
<PB N="157" REF="88"> if the <HI>Pa&s;sage</HI> be &s;trait, dry and wrinkly, through untimely <HI>Effu&s;ion</HI> of the <HI>Waters:</HI> Feeling whiles the Inner <HI>Orifice</HI> (tho as &s;el|dom and &s;oftly as po&s;&s;ible, giving &s;uch &s;harp <HI>Sen&s;e</HI> of <HI>Pain</HI>) the <HI>State</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI> and of the <HI>Infant,</HI> how all things come right and makes ready: that the <HI>Membranes</HI> being &s;plit, the <HI>Waters</HI> &s;prung, and the <HI>Infant</HI> felt in the thre&s;hold of the <HI>Womh,</HI> &s;traight upon its <HI>Head,</HI> which feels round, hard and equal, <HI>She</HI> may forthwith be placed the be&s;t <HI>Way</HI> for its <HI>Birth,</HI> which mu&s;t be immediatly ex|pede with all <HI>Industry,</HI> that being the proper <HI>Sea&s;on,</HI> and <HI>Occa&s;ion</HI> never to be &s;lipt, and delay dangerous, the <HI>Womb</HI> being oft as the <HI>Heavens</HI> with the <HI>Lightning,</HI> widely open and in&s;tantly &s;hut: yet if <HI>She</HI> feels the <HI>Child</HI> come wrong, or any thing el&s;e &s;trange in the <HI>Ca&s;e, She</HI> mu&s;t &s;i&s;t all forwardne&s;s, and quickly call what better <HI>Help</HI> can be had, le&s;t tugging on thus with the <HI>Woman</HI> at <HI>Labour,</HI> &s;till hop|ing things will turn better, the <HI>Infant</HI> be con|&s;trained &s;o far wrong, as makes much adoe to be rid, cau&s;es great <HI>Pain</HI> and <HI>Peril</HI> to both <HI>Mother</HI> and <HI>Infant,</HI> yea oftimes its <HI>Death,</HI> at lea&s;t the cru&s;hing of &s;ome <HI>part</HI> or other.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="158" REF="89">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. VIII.</HI> The <HI>Manner</HI> of expeding a Natural <HI>Labour,</HI> of one or more <HI>Children.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe true <HI>Waters</HI> being broke, the <HI>Infant</HI> felt bare, and all clear and right in the <HI>Labour, She</HI> mu&s;t now have the be&s;t <HI>Po&s;ture</HI> for a fair <HI>Parting,</HI> or an ea&s;y and &s;afe <HI>Delive|ry,</HI> according to the <HI>Midwifes Mind</HI> and <HI>&V;&s;e,</HI> or the <HI>Place</HI> and <HI>Cu&s;tome:</HI> Where <HI>Some</HI> go to their <HI>Knees,</HI> a Rude un&s;afe <HI>Way: Others</HI> more Robu&s;t, and accu&s;tomed to <HI>Travailing</HI> &s;tand upright, re&s;ting there <HI>Elbows</HI> on a <HI>Table,</HI> or <HI>Bed-&s;ide,</HI> or with their <HI>Arms</HI> about ones <HI>Shoulders,</HI> firmly upheld at <HI>Back</HI> and <HI>Sides. Some</HI> are on a <HI>Quilt</HI> before the <HI>Fire: Others</HI> &s;it on <HI>Womens</HI> Laps, and the <HI>Hu&s;bands</HI> Lap in &s;ome <HI>Places. Mo&s;t</HI> are on a <HI>Stool</HI> or <HI>Chair</HI> made for the purpo&s;e, covered, fitted and fenced with little <HI>Pillows</HI> and <HI>Cloaths,</HI> that the Travailing <HI>Woman</HI> may &s;it conveniently and not be hurt, or the <HI>Infant,</HI> if it happen to &s;trike any where again&s;t it by the <HI>Mothers Pains,</HI>
<PB N="159" REF="89"> or <HI>Motions:</HI> A Company of <HI>A&s;&s;i&s;tents</HI> about, the <HI>Midwife</HI> &s;itting before her lower, to con|duct the <HI>Infant</HI> &s;traight down to the <HI>Gate,</HI> and &s;oftly receive it as it comes out, thus prudent|ly to promove, yet patiently wait its <HI>Exclu&s;i|on:</HI> making no greater <HI>Ha&s;t</HI> then Good|&s;peed. Her <HI>Bed</HI> is held be&s;t by <HI>Some</HI> (in preventing any <HI>Hurt</HI> to be carried thither, tho more <HI>Vexatious</HI> to the <HI>Midwife</HI>) being well fitted to the work, and furni&s;hed with all nece&s;&s;aries, and <HI>She</HI> placed therein on her <HI>Back</HI> in a midle <HI>Figure,</HI> between &s;itting and lying, her <HI>Thighs</HI> being &s;pread, her <HI>Limhs</HI> folded, or her <HI>Knees</HI> bowing to her <HI>Thighs,</HI> whereby the <HI>Womb</HI> lifting to the <HI>Abdomen</HI> may be direct a|gain&s;t her <HI>Mouth:</HI> her <HI>Heels</HI> al&s;o plyed to|wards the <HI>Buttocks,</HI> which mu&s;t be rai&s;ed with a little <HI>Pillow</HI> for free rece&s;s to the <HI>Rump-bone,</HI> her <HI>Feet</HI> &s;tayed to &s;ome &s;olid thing: with &s;trong <HI>Helpers</HI> about to &s;tay her in the <HI>Showers,</HI> and the <HI>Midwife</HI> before her, who mu&s;t &s;peak her fair, to act what <HI>She</HI> can to the <HI>Exclu&s;ion</HI> of her <HI>Birth,</HI> by mo&s;t vigorous <HI>Effort<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> as the <HI>Shower<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> return. The <HI>Bed</HI> how|ever &s;eems be&s;t for the&s;e more feeble and de|licate, or who are &s;ore <HI>Hara&s;&s;ed</HI> in the <HI>La|bour,</HI> for them al&s;o &s;ubject to large <HI>Spending, Fainting,</HI> or <HI>Swooning.</HI></P>
<PB N="160" REF="90">
<P>A hand may be held lightly uopn the Travailing <HI>Womans Belly,</HI> to help the <HI>Infant</HI> keep its ground, and with each <HI>Pain</HI> &s;et &s;traight down, and keep the right <HI>Path,</HI> el&s;e all <HI>Travail</HI> is to no purpo&s;e: For if its <HI>Head</HI> fall towards the forepart of the <HI>Share-bone,</HI> it can never get out till fir&s;t the <HI>Head</HI> be rai&s;ed a little towards the Mothers <HI>Back,</HI> and &s;o di|rected upon the true way: As al&s;o if it fall any way a&s;ide.</P>
<P>When the <HI>Head</HI> approaches the Inner <HI>O|rifice,</HI> the <HI>Midwife</HI> may gently &s;lide up her Fingers therein, and &s;oftly &s;tretch them round the <HI>Same</HI> as the <HI>Shower</HI> comes, to dilate it for making the way, and an ea&s;ier entrance to the <HI>Head:</HI> Anointing al&s;o if needful.</P>
<P>When the <HI>Head</HI> enters this <HI>Orifice,</HI> it is &s;aid to be <HI>Crowned:</HI> Being begirt round there|with as a <HI>Circle,</HI> and is called the <HI>Crown,</HI> or <HI>Ro&s;e:</HI> Which the <HI>Midwife</HI> may &s;oftly &s;hift back, piece and piece over the <HI>Head,</HI> to pa&s;s it out into the <HI>Sheath.</HI></P>
<P>As the <HI>Head</HI> begins to &s;et without the <HI>Pri|vities,</HI> it is &s;aid to be in the <HI>Pa&s;sage,</HI> or <HI>Bones</HI> where <HI>Some</HI> &s;ticks long, and oft Die, the <HI>Pains</HI> are then very &s;harp, and pricking, from the hard <HI>Compre&s;&s;ion</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Bones,</HI> the <HI>Violent Stretch,</HI> yea <HI>Sometimes Laceration</HI>
<PB N="161" REF="90"> of the&s;e &s;trait <HI>Parts,</HI> whereby <HI>Some</HI> are made all one there.</P>
<P>As&s;oon as the <HI>Head</HI> comes out to the Ears, the <HI>Midwife</HI> (placed conveniently to receive it) may grip by both <HI>Sides,</HI> and pull it quick|ly forth as a good <HI>Pain</HI> comes (for <HI>She</HI> mu&s;t work nothing but with <HI>Nature</HI>) yet not &s;traight on, le&s;t the <HI>Shoulders</HI> &s;top if large, but &s;hifting from the one <HI>Side</HI> to the other, for their ea&s;ier, and more opportune <HI>En|trance,</HI> which mu&s;t in&s;tantly &s;ucceed in the <HI>Place</HI> of the <HI>Head,</HI> that the <HI>Neck</HI> may be free, le&s;t &s;toping thereat, it be &s;trangled. But as&s;oon as the <HI>Head</HI> is born, &s;he may hook her <HI>Fingers</HI> in its <HI>Arm-pitts,</HI> if &s;o it &s;eem good, and the re&s;t of the <HI>Body</HI> will be thus ea&s;ily drawn forth: Careful the mean while, no <HI>Part</HI> be entangled in the <HI>String,</HI> as al&s;o to turn it after to one <HI>Side,</HI> le&s;t crying be|tween the Mothers <HI>Thighs</HI> upon its <HI>Back,</HI> that <HI>Filth</HI> which flows down, falling into its <HI>Mouth</HI> might choke it. And now it remains only to free her of the <HI>Burden,</HI> which mu&s;t be done pre&s;ently after, unle&s;s <HI>She</HI> have more <HI>Children</HI> to bear, which is known by her <HI>Bigne&s;s,</HI> continuance of <HI>Pains (Some</HI> Travail whole <HI>Days</HI> for a 2d) the gathering of new <HI>Waters,</HI> with a <HI>Child</HI> pre&s;enting therein:
<PB N="162" REF="91"> And then the <HI>Midwife</HI> mu&s;t only cutt and ty the fir&s;t <HI>Sring,</HI> fa&s;tening the other <HI>End</HI> to the Womans <HI>Thigh,</HI> proceeding on the &s;ame <HI>Wi&s;e</HI> to deliver <HI>Her</HI> of the <HI>Re&s;t.</HI> Yet mu&s;t not &s;tir the <HI>Burden</HI> till they be all born, having u&s;u|ally but <HI>One</HI> and the <HI>Same</HI> in <HI>Common.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. IX.</HI> How to fetch away the <HI>After-Burden.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ITs <HI>Extraction</HI> mu&s;t now be di&s;patched fir&s;t of all, and together with the <HI>Child</HI> or &s;traight-way after: Le&s;t the <HI>Womb</HI> clo&s;e, and to ha&s;t the <HI>Woman</HI> to her <HI>Ea&s;e</HI> and <HI>Re&s;t.</HI> For which, the <HI>Midwife</HI> mu&s;t wrap the <HI>String</HI> firmly about a <HI>Finger</HI> or two of her one <HI>Hand,</HI> and with her <HI>Other</HI> above <HI>That,</HI> take a &s;ingle hold of it near the <HI>Privities,</HI> re&s;ting the fore-<HI>Finger</HI> of this <HI>Hand</HI> along&s;t upon it to|wards the <HI>Entry,</HI> pulling thereby with both <HI>Hands,</HI> yet not directly, or with too much <HI>Force,</HI> le&s;t the <HI>String</HI> break, the <HI>Burden</HI> or <HI>Womb</HI> be rent, or the <HI>Womb</HI> pulled out, a <HI>Flooding</HI> rai&s;ed, the Soul and the <HI>2din</HI> drawn out to|gether: But very gently travers, hither
<PB N="163" REF="91"> and thither, drawing &s;till a litle more &s;tongly, thus loo&s;ing the <HI>Burden</HI> piece and piece, be|ginning from the <HI>Side</HI> it cleaves lea&s;t.</P>
<P>The <HI>Woman</HI> al&s;o may work to loo&s;e and expell it, by fetching and holding her <HI>Breath,</HI> forcing &s;trongly downwards, provoking <HI>Vo|mit</HI> (which yet &s;eems to draw the <HI>Womb</HI> up|wards) <HI>Sneezing,</HI> and the other different <HI>Motions</HI> and <HI>Agitations She</HI> u&s;ed in expelling the <HI>Birth;</HI> which yet be&s;t foreborn where the <HI>Patient</HI> is Weak, or at lea&s;t till <HI>Medicines</HI> by the <HI>Mouth</HI> preceed. If thus it loo&s;e not, the <HI>Place</HI> it &s;ticks to, may be lightly pre&s;&s;ed with a Flat <HI>Hand,</HI> rubbing ea&s;ily down|wards: And when nothing el&s;e can do, an Expert <HI>Hand</HI> mu&s;t be Introduced, to &s;epa|rate it wholly round, and fetch it &s;ound and entire if po&s;&s;ible: However, that no <HI>Part,</HI> or <HI>Skirt</HI> thereof be left, nor any <HI>Clods</HI> of <HI>Blood:</HI> which needs narrow notice, for &s;ometimes a little <HI>Piece</HI> &s;eparates and &s;tays in the <HI>Womb,</HI> the knowledge whereof is not &s;o ea&s;y: whence many horrible <HI>Symptoms</HI> en&s;ue, as great <HI>Pains,</HI> hy&s;terick <HI>Suffocations,</HI> difficult <HI>Breath|ing, Palpitations</HI> of the <HI>Heart, Faintings, Swoonings,</HI> acute <HI>Feavers</HI> and the re&s;t, from its <HI>Corruption,</HI> and noi&s;ome &s;tuffing <HI>Vapours:</HI> for which cau&s;e, &s;hould <HI>Women</HI> be very care|full
<PB N="164" REF="92"> and certain they void it, with the other <HI>Excretions</HI> in their <HI>Abortions</HI> of the fir&s;t <HI>Moneths,</HI> when <HI>Midwifes</HI> are not by, or even when they be pre&s;ent; while the <HI>Infant</HI> comes away with &s;ome <HI>Membranes</HI> &s;tufft with clotts of Blood: And if ought yet remain, it mu&s;t be indu&s;triou&s;ly expelled, by &s;uch Me|dicines as are for hard <HI>Labours,</HI> or a dead <HI>Child;</HI> and the rather if it be <HI>Summer,</HI> or any danger of <HI>Malignity:</HI> Yet nothing too Vehement, le&s;t a <HI>Flooding</HI> be rai&s;ed which were ill to &s;top. It may be known that all is not come, while <HI>Labour</HI> like <HI>Pains</HI> and <HI>Showers</HI> continue after the <HI>Delivery,</HI> tho ligh|ter: &s;en&s;e al&s;o of <HI>Heat</HI> and <HI>Pain</HI> is felt in the <HI>Womb:</HI> And a few <HI>Dayes</HI> after, a Vile Cada|verous <HI>Smell</HI> exhales from thence.</P>
<P><HI>Twins,</HI> or <HI>More</HI> have u&s;ually but one <HI>Bur|den,</HI> and is the &s;ame way to be extracted, to wit gently &s;haking and pulling it, now by the one <HI>String,</HI> then by the <HI>Other,</HI> whiles by <HI>Both</HI> together, Till it loo&s;e, &s;eparate and fol|low: Yet mu&s;t not be &s;tirred as is &s;aid till they be <HI>All</HI> Born.</P>
<P>With the&s;e <HI>Dtrections</HI> be &s;ure the &s;illie&s;t <HI>Midwife,</HI> or experienced <HI>Nur&s;e-keeper</HI> cannot Err to lay a <HI>Woman</HI> in a Natural <HI>Labour,</HI> where all goes fair and right: And wrong
<PB N="165" REF="92"> <HI>Labours</HI> are of &s;uch perplexity, that the be&s;t ought not medle without a <HI>Phy&s;icians</HI> advice, well <HI>Skilled</HI> and <HI>Expert</HI> in the <HI>Ca&s;e,</HI> where it can be had: Otherwi&s;e, <HI>Midwifes</HI> are forced to do there be&s;t alone, and after the <HI>Methods</HI> follows now to be taught in the re&s;t of this <HI>Book.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. X.</HI> Of the <HI>Cau&s;es</HI> and <HI>Cures</HI> of bad, and unnatural <HI>La|bours.</HI></HEAD>
<P>BAd <HI>Labours</HI> are either right, which <HI>Na|ture</HI> Effects with &s;ome help, yet very Laborious, Painful, and Difficult: Or they are wrong, and contrair to <HI>Nature,</HI> cau&s;ed by the <HI>Childs</HI> bad <HI>Po&s;ture,</HI> and is expede &s;olely by <HI>Art.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Cau&s;es</HI> of &s;uch <HI>Labours,</HI> are either <HI>External,</HI> or <HI>Internal. The&s;e,</HI> are the <HI>Six Non-Natural</HI> things, or &s;omewhat <HI>Contingent,</HI> as a <HI>Fall, Wound, Blow,</HI> or the like di&s;abling <HI>Nature:</HI> the want, or un&s;skilfulne&s;s of <HI>a&s;i&s;t|ants,</HI>
<PB N="166" REF="93"> chiefly an ignorant <HI>Midwife:</HI> to which is added the unfavourable a&s;pect of <HI>Stars,</HI> chiefly of the <HI>Moon, Labours</HI> being made more happy in its encrea&s;e, towards, and at its full: And was prayed to off old for <HI>Help.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Internal,</HI> are from the <HI>Mother,</HI> the <HI>In|fant,</HI> or <HI>Both:</HI> from the <HI>Things</HI> al&s;o contain|ed in the <HI>Womb</HI> with the <HI>Infant.</HI> From the <HI>Mo|ther,</HI> chiefly if Crooked, wry, Gibbous, or o|therwi&s;e mishapen (tho <HI>Some</HI> make Gibbous <HI>Women</HI> to bear both bigger <HI>Children,</HI> more &s;peedily al&s;o and ea&s;ily, then the tall and &s;traight; having more room below, and their <HI>Infants</HI> lying lower) when badly con&s;ti|tute, Infirm, or le&s;ed in her <HI>Lungs, Mid|rif,</HI> or <HI>Mu&s;cles</HI> of the lower <HI>Belly</HI> (which <HI>Parts</HI> when &s;ound, Contract &s;trongly, and forewards the Infants <HI>Exclu&s;ion</HI>) whence the <HI>Showers</HI> are broken, and dies effectle&s;s: If <HI>She</HI> be &s;mall, Feeble, Delicate, very <HI>Young,</HI> too fearful of <HI>Pain:</HI> well <HI>Old,</HI> and not u&s;ed to <HI>Bearing:</HI> If very emaciat, Lax, thin (too gro&s;s al&s;o and fat) kept under and &s;pent with much <HI>Bearing,</HI> or the &s;ore <HI>Symptoms</HI> off <HI>Pregnancy,</HI> or any great and acute di&s;ea&s;e, great <HI>Evacuations, penury Watchings</HI> or other <HI>Stre&s;s:</HI> whence an in&s;ufficient <HI>Influx</HI> of <HI>Spirits, Blood</HI> and <HI>Heat</HI> upon the <HI>Fibres</HI> of the
<PB N="167" REF="93"> <HI>Womb,</HI> and <HI>Mu&s;cles</HI> which furthers the Ex|pul&s;ion. If her <HI>Pains</HI> withal be &s;low, &s;en&s;|le&s;s and Dull: Or if <HI>She</HI> have none: if they be al&s;o prevented, or exceeded by great <HI>Cho|licks,</HI> from much <HI>Wind</HI> remaining in the gro&s;&s;|er <HI>Intestins.</HI> Great <HI>Difficulty</HI> proceeds whiles al&s;o from the <HI>Womb</HI> alone, chiefly from its ill <HI>Shape,</HI> di&s;tortion, Obliquity, the Obturati|on, Callo&s;ity, Contraction, Straitne&s;s of the Inner <HI>Orifice, Neck</HI> or <HI>Sheath;</HI> naturally, or after <HI>Tumor, Abce&s;s, &V;lcer, Cicatrize,</HI> or <HI>Ex|cre&s;ence</HI> therein. Any <HI>Compre&s;&s;ion,</HI> from <HI>Ston</HI> in the <HI>Bladder,</HI> or repletion hereof with <HI>&V;rin:</HI> Hard <HI>Excrements</HI> al&s;o, or <HI>Wind</HI> in the <HI>Gutts:</HI> Painful big <HI>Piles:</HI> Every other <HI>Promi|nence</HI> of the <HI>Parts</HI> about, which may &s;traiten the <HI>Wayes.</HI> When its <HI>Temperature</HI> be&s;ide, <HI>Functions</HI> and <HI>Offices</HI> are perverted: And (as &s;ometimes) <HI>Convul&s;ive Motions,</HI> and <HI>Hysterick Fitts</HI> ari&s;e. The hardne&s;s of <HI>Labour</HI> may be al&s;o from the <HI>Bones</HI> about, while &s;o clo&s;e and firmly Connexed, as they open very little, or not at all: Or if the <HI>Rump</HI> recede in&s;uf|ficiently backwards: But chiefly when the <HI>Share-bone,</HI> is too much depre&s;&s;ed, the mo&s;t frequent <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> here, and al&s;o incureable.</P>
<P>This trouble may come al&s;o of the <HI>Infant,</HI> while a <HI>Female,</HI> &s;o &s;mall and feeble by <HI>Na|ture,</HI>
<PB N="168" REF="94"> or <HI>Sickne&s;s,</HI> as it helps nothing (while a robu&s;t, and &s;trongly kicking <HI>Male,</HI> is ea&s;i|ly excluded) if badly <HI>Situat</HI> withal, yet wor&s;t if <HI>Dead.</HI></P>
<P>It proves al&s;o &s;ore, where its whole Body, or the head only is over big for the <HI>Mo|ther,</HI> and the wor&s;e the &s;maller and &s;traiter <HI>She</HI> be: Or have <HI>Twins,</HI> or <HI>More</HI> of &s;uch lying to the <HI>Neck</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> and &s;eek|ing out at once: Or (which is as bad) much entangled together, unfolding and &s;tretch|ing their <HI>Members</HI> about the <HI>Orifice:</HI> Or (yet wor&s;e and exceeding <HI>Sad</HI>) be &s;ticking to <HI>Other,</HI> or to a <HI>Mole,</HI> or be <HI>One</HI> with ma|ny <HI>Members,</HI> or any otherwi&s;e <HI>Mon&s;trous</HI> or <HI>Deformed;</HI> of which and their horrible <HI>Variety Authors</HI> have write: But the mo&s;t u&s;ual <HI>Difficulty</HI> upon the <HI>Infants</HI> part, is its Prepo&s;terous and Unnatural Form of <HI>Egre&s;s,</HI> and that more or le&s;s, as it recedes from the right and Natural. Sometimes the <HI>Mem|branes</HI> makes the <HI>Lahour</HI> hard, while being too thin, the <HI>Waters</HI> full and &s;trong, they break; and the <HI>Waters</HI> &s;pring too &s;oon, ere the <HI>Infant</HI> turn down, leaving it dry in the hour of <HI>Exclu&s;ion:</HI> In which ca&s;e it readily Dies. Or then are &s;o den&s;e and &s;trong, as the <HI>Infant</HI> can no wi&s;e break them: <HI>Labour</HI>
<PB N="169" REF="94"> being in vain, while no <HI>Vestigies</HI> of <HI>Water</HI> appears. Be&s;ide, if the <HI>Burden</HI> &s;tick too long after the <HI>Child:</HI> If al&s;o the <HI>Burden</HI> or <HI>String</HI> come fir&s;t, or if this hank about its <HI>Neck.</HI></P>
<P>A difficult <HI>Labour</HI> is very fearful, for of|times the <HI>Infant</HI> Dies, the <HI>Mother</HI> al&s;o may Die with it, and <HI>Both</HI> may expire together: And if it &s;hould not be pre&s;ent <HI>Death,</HI> yet there is danger of <HI>Swoonings,</HI> acute <HI>Feavers, Con|vul&s;ions,</HI> that <HI>Veins</HI> of the <HI>Brea&s;t,</HI> or <HI>Matrix</HI> be broken, that they fall in <HI>Con&s;umptions,</HI> &s;pitting of <HI>Blood, Cough:</HI> yea that all the <HI>Bones</HI> &s;hould be broken, as is ob&s;erved to happen &s;ome|times: Or that through too much <HI>Lacera|tion</HI> of the <HI>Womb, Women</HI> be rendered Bar|ren: Or le&s;t through <HI>Straitne&s;s</HI> of the <HI>Sheath,</HI> or <HI>Bigne&s;s</HI> of the pa&s;&s;ing <HI>Infant,</HI> there happen one continued <HI>Cleft,</HI> or <HI>Rent</HI> from the <HI>Fun|dament</HI> to the <HI>Privities,</HI> a noy&s;ome <HI>Latrin</HI> for the future: Yea al&s;o, that the <HI>Womb</HI> it &s;elf be bur&s;t a&s;under as hath been found, through the great <HI>Force,</HI> and &s;trong <HI>Spurnings</HI> of a Valid <HI>Infant</HI> to be out. <HI>Some</HI> have the <HI>Apples</HI> of their <HI>Eyes</HI> dilated, and their <HI>Sight</HI> hurt: <HI>Others</HI> Labour with <HI>Dulne&s;s</HI> of Hearing, yea <HI>Some</HI> with <HI>Deafne&s;s,</HI> through that mo&s;t Vehement <HI>Intention,</HI> the&s;e hard <HI>Efforts,</HI> and great <HI>Influx</HI> of <HI>Spirits.</HI> Sometimes the <HI>Peri|toneum</HI> &s;plits and they get <HI>Ruptures.</HI></P>
<PB N="170" REF="95">
<P>The <HI>Remedies</HI> mu&s;t chiefly pre&s;erve, Re|fre&s;h and re&s;tore the <HI>Spirits</HI> and <HI>Strength</HI> of both <HI>Mother</HI> and <HI>Infant,</HI> &s;uch are the <HI>Aliments,</HI> and <HI>Cordials</HI> formerly mentioned for a <HI>Woman</HI> in <HI>Labour:</HI> mu&s;t rou&s;e al&s;o and promove the <HI>Pains,</HI> or irritate the expul&s;ive force of the <HI>Womb,</HI> as mo&s;t Antihy&s;terick <HI>Medicaments</HI> or <HI>Preparations, Angelica, Gentian, Birthwort, Mug|wort, Pennyroyal, Savin, D&igrave;ttany</HI> of Creet, Tro|ches of <HI>Myrrh,</HI> Oyl of <HI>Amber,</HI> of <HI>Carvi,</HI> Briony <HI>Water,</HI> Tincture of <HI>Ca&s;tor,</HI> of <HI>Safron, Borax</HI> al&s;o, the Volatil <HI>Salt Armoniack,</HI> yea almo&s;t all Volatil <HI>Salts,</HI> chiefly that of the <HI>2din,</HI> yea the <HI>Powder,</HI> or any othet <HI>Preparation</HI> of it rarely fails: and if haply a 1st, 2d, or 3d, Do&s;e &s;ucceeds not, a fuller may yet be given, and a <HI>Vein</HI> of the <HI>Ancle</HI> opened, and &s;o it will here doe wonders: Yea averts the <HI>Grinding</HI> al&s;o in a peculiar manner: Yet fooli&s;h <HI>Wo|men</HI> from &s;ome Super&s;titious <HI>Piety,</HI> u&s;es mo&s;tly to have all ca&s;t away, Buried or burnt in the Fire. All Preparations almo&s;t of the <HI>Serpent,</HI> are held profitable al&s;o in hard <HI>Labours:</HI> And that which is mo&s;t famous, the <HI>Gall</HI> with the whole <HI>Liver</HI> of an <HI>Eel,</HI> which yet <HI>Some</HI> have tryed with ill Succe&s;s. The <HI>dryed Testicles</HI> of a <HI>Hor&s;e are</HI> al&s;o commended, as is <HI>Hor&s;es Dung,</HI> &s;teeped
<PB N="171" REF="95"> in Wine, and &s;trained (whence the <HI>2din</HI> al&s;o is expelled) <HI>Hauks Dung</HI> al&s;o, <HI>Date</HI> &s;tones and &s;uch Others, the mo&s;t approven, effectual and &s;afe, in <HI>Powders, Potions, Mixtures:</HI> and fir&s;t the more Gentle, then the &s;tronger, as the <HI>Ca&s;e</HI> requires. In cruel <HI>Pains</HI> a <HI>Pla&s;ter</HI> of <HI>Galbanum</HI> may be applyed: A <HI>Catapla&s;m</HI> al&s;o or <HI>&V;nguent</HI> of the Juyces of <HI>Savin, Mugwort, Mercury, Leeks, Rue,</HI> Oyls of <HI>Wal-flowers, Poppies, Dill,</HI> with <HI>Galbanum, Myrrh, Dittany</HI> of Creet, <HI>A&s;&s;a Faetidae,</HI> round <HI>Birthwort,</HI> &s;ome <HI>Cinamon, Nutmeg, Cloves,</HI> a little <HI>Safron,</HI> and <HI>Wax</HI> what &s;erves. <HI>Such</HI> may u&s;e <HI>Sternutatories,</HI> of Roots of <HI>Pellitory,</HI> white <HI>Hellebor,</HI> long <HI>Pepper</HI> with &s;ome Grains of <HI>Ca&s;tor:</HI> &s;ome Oyl of <HI>Amber</HI> may be &s;nuft up the No&s;trils: and in extremity, there may be a Decoction of <HI>Chamemel, Marjoram, Rue, Mortherwort, Pennyroyal, Mugwort,</HI> Roots of <HI>Birthwort, Dittaeny, Lillies, Althea,</HI> Seeds of <HI>Cumin, Carvy, Daucus, Dill, Fennel</HI> and the re&s;t ap|plyed in a Swines <HI>Bladder</HI> warm to the Birth. Great prudence however is nece&s;&s;ar, Ingine and Judgement, to a right Exhibition of provoking <HI>Medicines,</HI> that there be chiefly a full <HI>Term,</HI> true <HI>Pains,</HI> an open <HI>Orifice,</HI> the <HI>Child</HI> near, upon the right <HI>Way,</HI> and <HI>Po&s;ture,</HI> and all in a readine&s;s, el&s;e they are mo&s;t <HI>Noxious;</HI>
<PB N="172" REF="96"> &s;till al&s;o the more mild and grateful, and as &s;pare as po&s;&s;ible: with regard al&s;o to any o|ther <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e</HI> &s;he may then have, and its contrair <HI>Judications,</HI> &s;o as the greate&s;t <HI>Urgency</HI> may chiefly be &s;erved. She mu&s;t bewar of all hurtful <HI>Pa&s;&s;ions,</HI> which di&s;turbs and di&s;&s;i|pates the <HI>Spirits:</HI> of extream <HI>Sadne&s;s</HI> e&s;pecially, &s;udden <HI>Fear</HI> of terrible things, preconceived <HI>horror</HI> of <HI>Pain,</HI> of a bad <HI>Event, Anger, Ba&s;h|fulne&s;s</HI> al&s;o: Whence <HI>Some</HI> more delicat, in their fir&s;t <HI>Labour,</HI> being nice and aver&s;e at the <HI>Midwifes</HI> hands, and repre&s;&s;ing their <HI>Sighs, Sobbs,</HI> frequent <HI>Exclamations,</HI> and &s;ome (otherwi&s;e) <HI>Immode&s;ties</HI> u&s;ual, yea then very nece&s;&s;ar, are thus more Pained, and le&s;s hap|py in their <HI>Labour.</HI> Who therefore mu&s;t be kindly Cheri&s;hed and ea&s;ed, have pre&s;ent plea&s;ant cheery Company only, and intimate <HI>Familiars</HI> whom they choo&s;e: The <HI>Midwife</HI> al&s;o handling them with all the <HI>Sweetne&s;s,</HI> and <HI>Gravity</HI> po&s;&s;iible.</P>
<P>Skilful <HI>A&s;i&s;tants</HI> does much in the <HI>Ca&s;e,</HI> e|&s;pecially an expert dexterous <HI>Midwife,</HI> &s;he being <HI>Mistre&s;s</HI> and <HI>Ruler</HI> of all, who&s;e prudent <HI>Conduct</HI> mu&s;t &s;hine, in opportunely ordering her <HI>Sitting, Standing, Re&s;t, Motion, Meat, Medicines, Postures, Gestures</HI> and o|thers, to a comfortable advance and I&s;&s;ue,
<PB N="173" REF="96"> having ever the timely a&s;i&s;tance of an exper <HI>Phy&s;ician,</HI> or <HI>Chirurgeon:</HI> e&s;pecially finding <HI>She</HI> cannot remedy the&s;e <HI>Accidents,</HI> and lay her <HI>Woman</HI> as &s;oon as, or &s;oon after her <HI>Wa|ters</HI> &s;prings The re&s;t for removing <HI>Impe|diments,</HI> facilitating and helping the <HI>Labour,</HI> are partly mentioned before, and comes partly now to be &s;poken of after.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="11" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XI.</HI> The way of manual <HI>Opera|tion</HI> in unnatural <HI>La|bours.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe true natural <HI>Figure</HI> of <HI>Birth</HI> is with the <HI>Head</HI> foremo&s;t, and right upon the <HI>Crown,</HI> the <HI>Shoulders</HI> following, the <HI>Hands</HI> adduced along&s;t the <HI>Sides,</HI> the whole <HI>Body</HI> after in a &s;traight <HI>Line:</HI> and this is com|mitted to <HI>Nature</HI> with the <HI>Midwifes</HI> Con|currence, and is her proper work: but be|&s;ide this, the <HI>Infant</HI> offers out &s;everal <HI>Wayes</HI> wrong, and in general upon any <HI>Part,</HI> or
<PB N="174" REF="97"> <HI>Place</HI> of its <HI>Body</HI> before, upon any <HI>Place</HI> al&s;o behind, with the <HI>Side</HI> or Cro&s;s, and directly by the <HI>Feet</HI> (whiles by the one or both <HI>Hands</HI>) its hands &s;tretched down upon its <HI>Thighs,</HI> which is made the next natural <HI>Figure:</HI> And to one or other of <HI>The&s;e,</HI> may the many particular and different wrong <HI>Figures</HI> be reduced, as they come nearer thereto: The principal only of which, or the more dangerous and difficult needs be mention|ed; for who ever rightly performs <HI>The&s;e</HI> (pre&s;table only by the <HI>Hand</HI>) cannot err in the <HI>Rest:</HI> rehear&s;ing fir&s;t the <HI>Operators</HI> nece&s;|&s;ary <HI>Qualifications,</HI> with the <HI>Ob&s;ervations</HI> to be made ere he begin.</P>
<P>He mu&s;t then be Robu&s;t, Vigorous, Active Neat, &s;hapely: having chiefly a &s;mall, &s;mooth, &s;traight <HI>Hand,</HI> yet &s;trong, with long <HI>Fingers,</HI> without <HI>Rings,</HI> the nails well paired, and well anointed (for the <HI>Body</HI> he handles is tender and delicate) of a plea&s;ant <HI>Coutenance</HI> and <HI>Hu|mor,</HI> Calm, Patient, Grave, Mode&s;t, Secret, Pi|tiful, Tender, (yet forbearing nothing need|ful) Judicious, Prudent, Serious, advi&s;|ed, and a <HI>Man</HI> al&s;o of <HI>Letters</HI> (el&s;e a <HI>Butcher</HI> does better) &s;till alike &s;ober and wi&s;e: Con&s;cientious al&s;o, undertaking only what <HI>He</HI> has skill of (for one <HI>Error</HI> in the <HI>Ope|ration</HI>
<PB N="175" REF="97"> may ruin all) tendering the life of both <HI>Mother</HI> and <HI>Infant</HI> in his <HI>Hand,</HI> the <HI>Poor</HI> a|like with the <HI>Rich:</HI> and for his entire <HI>Per|fection,</HI> very In&s;tructed and Expert in the <HI>My&s;teries</HI> of this <HI>Operation.</HI></P>
<P><HI>He</HI> mu&s;t however, wi&s;ely perpend the <HI>Event:</HI> For &s;ometimes the <HI>Midmife</HI> Tugs on till the la&s;t, and keeps the <HI>Woman</HI> Labour|ing at extream hard and violent <HI>Efforts,</HI> till all <HI>Strength</HI> be exhau&s;ted in both <HI>Mother</HI> and <HI>Infant, Nature</HI> quite broken and De|feat, and de&s;perat <HI>Signs</HI> palpibly appear, as a Languid, Inequal, Intermittent, but &s;wifter <HI>Puls,</HI> a gha&s;tly <HI>Vi&s;age,</HI> faint <HI>Speech,</HI> cold <HI>Extremities,</HI> cold <HI>Sweats, Faintings, Swoonings, Convul&s;ions, Exta&s;y,</HI> lo&s;s of <HI>Sen&s;e, Forgetfulne&s;s, Ravings</HI> and the like, And then the <HI>Operation</HI> would prove <HI>Labour</HI> in vain, and better foreborn: Yet in ca&s;e there be any hope, or liklyhood of pre&s;erving <HI>Ei|ther,</HI> it is better he try a doubtful <HI>Operation,</HI> then quite <HI>Both</HI> to certain ruine <HI>(Nature</HI> does wonders in extream <HI>Nece&s;&s;ity,</HI> and &s;ometimes <HI>The&s;e</HI> given over, as it were revives beyond all <HI>Hope</HI> and <HI>Expectation)</HI> yet &s;till with <HI>Prog|no&s;tick</HI> of eminent <HI>Peril</HI> at be&s;t: and where he is &s;ure of &s;ufficient <HI>Strength</HI> to bear through, all di&s;patch mu&s;t be made, le&s;t it abate or
<PB N="176" REF="98"> be totally di&s;&s;ipated, winning <HI>Her</HI> fairly to yeeld to this, as the alone <HI>Mean</HI> of <HI>Safety,</HI> her <HI>Circum&s;tances</HI> being throughly pondered, and without which, the <HI>One,</HI> or <HI>Both</HI> mu&s;t inevitably peri&s;h; And which he will al&s;o perform, with all <HI>Speed, Ea&s;e</HI> and <HI>Safety.</HI></P>
<P>In order whereunto, <HI>She</HI> is to be placed in <HI>Bed</HI> near the <HI>Foot</HI> or <HI>Cro&s;s,</HI> for the <HI>Ope|rators</HI> readier acce&s;s, with her <HI>Limbs</HI> fold|ded upwards, her <HI>Thighs</HI> &s;pread, her <HI>Heels</HI> reduced to her <HI>Buttocks,</HI> which mu&s;t ever be made a little higher then her <HI>Head,</HI> (or at lea&s;t her <HI>Body</HI> laid equally) when the <HI>Infant</HI> is to be turned inwards, or thru&s;t back into the <HI>Womb,</HI> &s;oftly compre&s;&s;ing the <HI>Belly</HI> up|wards: But yet while it is to be drawn forward, or <HI>Pulled</HI> forth, her upper <HI>Parts</HI> mu&s;t be more elevated, that <HI>She</HI> may the bet|ter bear down, and concurr more &s;trongly to its <HI>Extraction.</HI></P>
<P>There mu&s;t be able <HI>Hands</HI> about, to rai&s;e <HI>her</HI> up, &s;lide her down, &s;hift and turn <HI>her</HI> this or that <HI>Way</HI> he propo&s;es, and to keep <HI>Her</HI> &s;table in the <HI>Po&s;ture</HI> &s;erves be&s;t his con|veniency, the greater Facility and Surety of the <HI>Operation;</HI> while he partly &s;hifts back the <HI>Infant,</HI> partly pulls it foreward, directly, or obliquely, this or its its other <HI>Part</HI> to a
<PB N="177" REF="98"> better <HI>Po&s;ture,</HI> for which it is better, <HI>She</HI> be thus held at liberty, then tyed as <HI>Some</HI> ad|vi&s;e; keeping her <HI>Thighs</HI> covered the while, for warmth and decency: Proceeding in the different <HI>Operations,</HI> as &s;hall now be di|rected, having fir&s;t recited the principal <HI>Signs</HI> of a dead <HI>Child</HI> and the living.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="12" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XII. Signs</HI> if the <HI>Child</HI> be Dead or Alive.</HEAD>
<P>ASSurance hereof is chiefly nece&s;&s;ar, whether <HI>In&s;truments</HI> be u&s;ed or not; for be&s;ide the mi&s;ery of killing an <HI>Infant</HI> therewith in the <HI>Womb,</HI> or fetching it alive, with <HI>Arms</HI> or <HI>Legs</HI> lopt off, a living <HI>In|fant</HI> mu&s;t ever be more gently treated then the Dead, where the <HI>Mothers</HI> ea&s;e and &s;afe|ty only is &s;ought.</P>
<P>The <HI>Infant</HI> dies by praeternatural <HI>Cau&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> before <HI>Labour,</HI> or through a hard and tedi|ous <HI>Travail,</HI> or then a praepo&s;terous <HI>Figure:</HI> And appears al&s;o now to be dead, if it hath not been found &s;tir for &s;ome <HI>Time,</HI>
<PB N="178" REF="99"> even while all roborant and exciting <HI>Means</HI> have been u&s;ed; yet had wont to &s;tir fre|quently before: Though &s;ome <HI>Infants</HI> have been whole <HI>Days</HI> alive after the <HI>Waters</HI> are &s;pent, yet not found &s;tir, through contracti|on of the <HI>Womb,</HI> and their di&s;comfiture. If the <HI>Woman</HI> perceives it tumble as a dead <HI>Weight</HI> upon the <HI>Side She</HI> turns to: If be&s;ide her <HI>Genitals</HI> feel cold, if <HI>She</HI> hath grievous &s;en&s;e of Cold in the <HI>Womb,</HI> or over the whole <HI>Body,</HI> without other evident <HI>Cau&s;e:</HI> If <HI>She</HI> hath great <HI>Pain</HI> and <HI>Weight</HI> upon the lower <HI>Belly</HI> and <HI>Privities</HI> (dead <HI>Things</HI> be|ing ever mo&s;t weighty) a continual de&s;ire to <HI>&V;rine</HI> and <HI>Stool,</HI> while <HI>Nature</HI> attempts its <HI>Excretion.</HI> If moreover, her <HI>Pains</HI> &s;lack and give over of a &s;udden, from Ce&s;|&s;ation of the <HI>Infants</HI> motion and &s;purning. If the <HI>Burden</HI> or <HI>String</HI> come before: or if (putting up a hand after the <HI>Membranes</HI> are broken) the <HI>Infant</HI> be found cold, and of a cadaverous &s;oftne&s;s, no <HI>Pul&s;ation</HI> felt of its <HI>Hands,</HI> nor yet of the <HI>String</HI> which beats &s;tronger, the nearer e&s;pecially to its <HI>Navel,</HI> but feels flagging and cold, &s;oft, &s;mall, empty: Neither does it &s;tir its <HI>Tongue</HI> when handled. If further, the <HI>Membranes</HI> of its <HI>Head,</HI> when now at the very point of <HI>Ex|clu&s;ion,</HI>
<PB N="179" REF="99"> be felt &s;oft and &s;lack, chiefly to|wards the <HI>Crown,</HI> for how long they re|main di&s;tended it lives: or if the <HI>Skull</HI> bones be open, waver, or ride much upon other at the <HI>Sutures.</HI> If again, the outer <HI>Skin</HI> &s;eparate ea&s;ily from any <HI>Part</HI> of the <HI>Infant</HI> that comes forth: If withall, much &s;tinking <HI>Filth</HI> flow from the <HI>Womb,</HI> as mo&s;tly in 2 or 3 dayes after its <HI>Death,</HI> if the <HI>Waters</HI> be &s;pent, which el&s;e may pre&s;erve it from <HI>Corruption</HI> &s;ome <HI>Weeks:</HI> Though that faetid <HI>Matter</HI> may proceed from putrefaction of &s;ome <HI>Clotts</HI> of extrava&s;ated <HI>Blood</HI> only, which may remain in the <HI>Womb,</HI> with the <HI>Infant</HI> &s;till alive. In this ca&s;e al&s;o, one <HI>Infant</HI> may be dead, another living. Several griev|ous <HI>Symptoms</HI> u&s;es now to Infe&s;t the tra|vailing <HI>Woman,</HI> which hath the account of &s;uch <HI>Signs,</HI> as <HI>Faintings, Swoons, Shiverings,</HI> Epileptick <HI>Convul&s;ions,</HI> cold <HI>Sweats,</HI> and the re&s;t; all which, if they continue any <HI>Time,</HI> carries <HI>Her</HI> off: And &s;o the Corruption of the <HI>Infant,</HI> is the <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> of the <HI>Mothers</HI> death. <HI>Some</HI> make voiding of the <HI>Ordure</HI> an un|doubted <HI>Sign</HI> of its death, Though others finds nothing more common in wrong <HI>Po|&s;tures,</HI> even where <HI>Infants</HI> are got alive: Yea <HI>Some</HI> will have all that come by the
<PB N="180" REF="100"> <HI>Breech</HI> to void it, which yet is not found where the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age</HI> is large, &amp; the <HI>Infant</HI> &s;mall.</P>
<P>There are yet other <HI>Signs</HI> much to be feared, e&s;pecially when many happen to|gether, as a <HI>Hurt,</HI> or <HI>Flooding,</HI> and not full <HI>Time,</HI> long &s;ore <HI>Travail,</HI> with untimely <HI>Effu|&s;ion</HI> of the <HI>Waters,</HI> and dry <HI>Wayes: Exte|nuation</HI> al&s;o, or flagging of the <HI>Brea&s;ts,</HI> a <HI>Belly</HI> more tumid and hard then u&s;ual; an ugly <HI>Complexion,</HI> langui&s;hing <HI>Countenance,</HI> &s;unk and troubled <HI>Eyes,</HI> pale <HI>Lips,</HI> &s;tinking <HI>Breath, Head-ach</HI> and the re&s;t: By all which we may gather the <HI>Signs</HI> of a living <HI>Child,</HI> being the quite <HI>Contrary:</HI> And chiefly if the <HI>Woman</HI> hath pa&s;t her <HI>Cour&s;e</HI> of <HI>Pregnancy,</HI> and come at her <HI>Labour</HI> in u&s;ual Health and Safe|ty, and finds it then &s;tirring, &s;he may con|clude all Right and hope a happy <HI>Parting.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="13" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XIII.</HI> To fetch the <HI>After-Birth</HI> when the <HI>String</HI> is broke.</HEAD>
<P>THis is held an unnatural <HI>Delivery,</HI> be|ing with more <HI>Pain</HI> and <HI>Peril</HI> then u|&s;ual,
<PB N="181" REF="100"> and not expede in the wonted <HI>Man|ner.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>After-birth</HI> is retained, through its fix|edne&s;s to the <HI>Surface</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI> (&s;ticking whiles mo&s;t toughly thereto, and not got a|way but by <HI>Violence</HI>) while &s;oaked al&s;o and &s;welled with a <HI>Spait</HI> of <HI>Humors,</HI> moved in a long painful <HI>Labour:</HI> Through &s;traitne&s;s of the <HI>Orifice,</HI> tumefaction of the <HI>Genitals,</HI> their Dryne&s;s and Contraction, while it comes not &s;traight way after the <HI>Child</HI> as it ought, but lyes writhed and plyed together in the <HI>Womb:</HI> Through outward <HI>Cold,</HI> &s;udden <HI>Fear, Terror,</HI> or other cold <HI>Pa&s;&s;ions,</HI> which have an au&s;ter and retentive <HI>Faculty:</HI> Through the <HI>Womans</HI> waywardne&s;s, who will not follow Coun&s;el: Her want of &s;trength to expell it while now the <HI>String</HI> breaks, being &s;ore defeat in <HI>Labour:</HI> The debility likewi&s;e of the expul&s;ive <HI>Faculty</HI> of the <HI>Womb:</HI> Some <HI>&s;cents,</HI> whereby the <HI>Womb</HI> may be drawn upwards, or &s;et a tumbling. The <HI>String</HI> breaks through its Weakne&s;s, Putrefaction, the &s;wing of a big <HI>Child,</HI> or too hard pulling thereby at a fixt <HI>Burden:</HI> The Cut end may al&s;o recoyl into the <HI>Womb.</HI></P>
<P>If the <HI>2din</HI> &s;tick, the <HI>String</HI> being broke, the &s;peedie&s;t and &s;ure&s;t way of <HI>Riddance</HI> is
<PB N="182" REF="101"> by the <HI>Hand,</HI> well anointed, and immediatly introduced into the <HI>Womb,</HI> while it yet re|mains open for an ea&s;y <HI>Admi&s;&s;ion</HI> thereof, which el&s;e (in ca&s;e of its <HI>Contraction,</HI> as &s;oon happens) mu&s;t be &s;oftly &s;lid up therinto by little and little, the <HI>Fingers</HI> being pre&s;t together, and the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age</HI> anointed, or o|therwi&s;e prepared to a better dilatation, the <HI>Woman</HI> helping hereto, as to <HI>Excu&s;&s;ion</HI> of the 2din, by forceing &s;trongly downwards, and the other wayes by which She expelled the <HI>Child.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Hand</HI> being thus wholly entered (and fome <HI>Part</HI> of the <HI>Arm</HI> al&s;o) mu&s;t be rai&s;ed, to fetch away the <HI>Burden</HI> from the upper, and forepart of the <HI>Fund</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> where it u&s;ualy &s;ticks (for if it be loo&s;ed, it fluctuates only in the Capacity of the <HI>Womb,</HI> and will be found wrapt together in &s;ome <HI>Corner</HI> of it, where it feels like a little <HI>Bowle</HI>) and which may be ea&s;ily di&s;cerned from the <HI>Womb,</HI> tho then a little contracted and wrinkly, by many little <HI>Inequalities,</HI> or <HI>Roots</HI> of the <HI>String</HI> thereon, if it break off &s;o near: And being then certainly catched (for <HI>One</HI> mu&s;t bewar to pull at the <HI>Womb</HI> in place thereof, as <HI>Some</HI> have mi&s;erably done) &s;ome <HI>Fingers</HI> mu&s;t be put betwixt it
<PB N="183" REF="101"> and the <HI>Womb,</HI> to &s;eparate it wholly round by little and little, beginning from the <HI>Side</HI> that &s;ticks lea&s;t, yet &s;till very gently (for <HI>Violence</HI> mu&s;t kill the <HI>Woman,</HI> and the <HI>Womb</HI> or <HI>Burden</HI> may be torn, or both drawn out together, or other horrid <HI>Symptoms</HI> procured) &s;ound al&s;o and intire if po&s;&s;ible; Yet leaving rather any <HI>Part</HI> of it grows to the <HI>Womb,</HI> then &s;crap or &s;cratch the &s;ame, le&s;t <HI>Flooding, Inflammation, Ab|&s;ce&s;s</HI> or <HI>Gangren</HI> en&s;ue. Sometimes, the <HI>Operator</HI> can enter 2 or 3 <HI>Fingers</HI> only into the <HI>Orifice,</HI> and therewith he mu&s;t grip an <HI>Part</HI> of the 2din, which pre&s;ents almo&s;t e|ver thereto (the <HI>Womb</HI> bearing down to expel it) and &s;o pull &s;oftly thereby, but a little obliquely, and from &s;ide to &s;ide, careful to keep the fir&s;t hold, till he can reach another <HI>Part</HI> higher, as <HI>He</HI> makes it to &s;eparate and follow; And &s;o piece and piece, endeavouring in every hold he takes, a <HI>Part</HI> of the <HI>Membranes</HI> al&s;o be therewith, el&s;e it may break in <HI>Parcels,</HI> being &s;o &s;oft and brittle. If the <HI>Woman</HI> through weakne&s;s, or otherwi&s;e, cannot void it, or if through delay, or negligence the <HI>Orifice</HI> clo&s;e, or be|come too &s;trait, &s;o as no <HI>Hand</HI> can enter to fetch it, or if it &s;tick &s;o fa&s;t as cannot be
<PB N="184" REF="102"> all got off from the <HI>Womb,</HI> without hurting of it, and &s;o mu&s;t putrify therein, then &s;uch <HI>Injections</HI> are ordered, as may promove its <HI>Suppuration,</HI> and loo&s;ening (which <HI>Some</HI> will have done mo&s;t &s;peedily, with the in|jection of <HI>Ba&s;ilicon</HI> diluted) may mollify al|&s;o and di&s;po&s;e the <HI>Orifice</HI> to an ea&s;ier paten|cy: With <HI>Detergents</HI> admixt, that it may come away as it putrifies: For which &s;trong <HI>Gly|sters</HI> al&s;o are u&s;ed, yea <HI>Catharticks</HI> if the <HI>Wo|man</HI> have &s;trength: The provokeing <HI>Medi|cines</HI> likewi&s;e, &s;uch as for hard <HI>Labours,</HI> a dead <HI>Child,</HI> &s;topped <HI>Cour&s;es</HI> or <HI>Clean&s;ings. Some</HI> prai&s;e the perfume of an <HI>A&s;&s;es</HI> hoof: tho the <HI>Hand</HI> is ever the mo&s;t ready and &s;ure <HI>Way,</HI> if it do without <HI>Violence:</HI> And <HI>Drugs</HI> inwardly, may make <HI>Feavers,</HI> and by provoking great and void <HI>Efforts,</HI> pro|duce <HI>Bleeding, Fluxes, Inflammations, De&s;cents</HI> and <HI>Prolap&s;es</HI> of the <HI>Womb:</HI> Yet <HI>Some</HI> ad|vi&s;e povoking <HI>Medicines,</HI> even after manu|al <HI>Operation,</HI> for &s;ecurity, le&s;t any <HI>Part</HI> or <HI>Parts</HI> thereof be left. Let the <HI>Woman</HI> this while u&s;e a good refre&s;hing <HI>Dyet, Cordials,</HI> and <HI>Others</HI> proper to comfort <HI>Her,</HI> to pre|vent or mitigate the <HI>Feaver,</HI> and other cru|el, and diver&s;e <HI>Kinds</HI> of <HI>Symptoms,</HI> which &s;oon rage through the whole <HI>Body</HI> upon its reten|tion
<PB N="185" REF="102"> and Corruption, while putrid &s;harp <HI>Vapours</HI> fly up to the <HI>Bowels</HI> and noble <HI>Parts</HI> (in which <HI>Some</HI> will have &s;weet <HI>Perfumes</HI> con|tinually u&s;ed, yet &s;o as they may not pierce the <HI>Nostrils</HI>) ha&s;ting &s;till by all <HI>Means</HI> to rid <HI>Her</HI> clean thereof: Tho common <HI>Mid|wifes,</HI> and &s;everal <HI>Writers</HI> think little to mangle the <HI>Burden,</HI> and leave <HI>Parcels,</HI> per|&s;wading patience only, till what remains may come away of it &s;elf: And <HI>Some</HI> lyeing, a&s;&s;ures all is come with the <HI>Child,</HI> and &s;o renders <HI>Women</HI> &s;ecure, while a great <HI>Part</HI> &s;ticks yet in the <HI>Body,</HI> putting them thus in great peril, through the <HI>Mi&s;chiefs</HI> ari&s;es hence; whereby they live mi&s;erably a long <HI>Time</HI> after, and &s;uffers either by <HI>Death,</HI> or torturing <HI>Pains.</HI> And grant, that <HI>Some</HI> have ejected it when con&s;umed with <HI>Putrefaction,</HI> yea that <HI>Some</HI> one or other have kept a good <HI>Part</HI> of it &s;everal <HI>Months,</HI> yet felt little or no hurt thereof, and voided it al&s;o without any thing like <HI>Corruption,</HI> and nei|ther any hurt after: So great oftimes is <HI>Na|ture's</HI> Indu&s;try in pre&s;erving, as its power in healing: Yet be&s;t not tru&s;t alwayes to this <HI>Goodne&s;s</HI> of <HI>Nature,</HI> which by a mo&s;t &s;ingu|lar <HI>Rarity</HI> only, and worthy of all <HI>Ob&s;erva|tion,</HI> u&s;es to work &s;uch a <HI>Miracle.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="14" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="186" REF="103">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XIV.</HI> Of bringing a <HI>Child</HI> Foot|ling.</HEAD>
<P>THis is a hard, yet the be&s;t of unnatural <HI>Po&s;tures</HI> (all the re&s;t being mo&s;t pain|ful) which <HI>Some</HI> make the 2d natural, for that the <HI>Infant</HI> may come thus whole and &s;ound, to wit, by both <HI>Feet,</HI> the <HI>Thighs</HI> &s;traight after, then the <HI>Belly,</HI> anon the <HI>Brea&s;t,</HI> at length the <HI>Head:</HI> Yet <HI>Such</HI> were called <HI>Aggrippa's,</HI> as being of a difficult <HI>Birth,</HI> for whether <HI>Males</HI> or <HI>Females,</HI> they come mo&s;tly upwards, and pa&s;&s;es more hardly, becau&s;e of the adhae&s;ion of the <HI>Chin</HI> or low|er <HI>Jaw</HI> over the <HI>Share Bone,</HI> and was al&s;o made alwayes an ill <HI>Omen,</HI> not only as to the <HI>Mind,</HI> but as to the <HI>Body</HI> likewi&s;e.</P>
<P>This is placed the <HI>first</HI> of bad <HI>Postures,</HI> as being to mo&s;t of them a <HI>Directory,</HI> and unto which all the <HI>Rest</HI> may be reduced more ea&s;ily by the <HI>Hand,</HI> and the <HI>Children</HI> extracted that way; for however wrong an <HI>Infant</HI> comes from the <HI>Shoulders</HI> down, it is ever the be&s;t <HI>Way</HI> to turn, and bring it
<PB N="187" REF="103"> by the <HI>Feet,</HI> as affording a better <HI>Hold</HI> for help, and &s;o is more ea&s;ie and &s;afe to deliver by them, then by the <HI>Head,</HI> or any other <HI>Part:</HI> And to turn it from the <HI>Feet,</HI> in|to a natural <HI>Figure,</HI> would prove a hard work, and give &s;uch <HI>Violence</HI> to both <HI>Mo|ther</HI> and <HI>Infant,</HI> as they might haply die in the <HI>Operation,</HI> the <HI>Infant</HI> at lea&s;t, might ly long <HI>Time</HI> after in the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age,</HI> and cau&s;e a tedious peril&s;om <HI>Labour,</HI> yea never be born by the force or work of <HI>Nature,</HI> the <HI>Pains</HI> turning now quite faint and effectle&s;s, both being thus &s;o &s;ore defeat. Yet every wrong <HI>Birth</HI> formerly, was &s;till to be reduced to the <HI>Head,</HI> and &s;o made to come <HI>Natural|ly,</HI> the <HI>Woman</HI> groveling, or tumbling in <HI>Bed,</HI> till it turn into a better form.</P>
<P>The <HI>Infants</HI> wrong <HI>Po&s;ture</HI> appears, by the lingering dull <HI>Pains,</HI> which di&s;per&s;e not &s;o effectually downwards and thorow, as when it comes right: And be&s;ide, if the <HI>Membranes</HI> be handled e're they break, no part of its <HI>Body</HI> oftimes can be felt, or if any <HI>Part</HI> be reach'd, it feels not like the <HI>Head:</HI> When al&s;o the <HI>Membranes</HI> are broken, after the fir&s;t ru&s;h of the <HI>Water</HI> is out, the re&s;t dribles away continually, till all be &s;pent, and the <HI>Infant</HI> left dry, and never advances:
<PB N="188" REF="104"> and though this may happen, even where the <HI>Child</HI> comes upon the <HI>Head,</HI> yet the <HI>Labour</HI> is ever then long and perillous, while it advances not with effu&s;ion of the <HI>Waters,</HI> whence it pa&s;&s;es the <HI>Gliber,</HI> and the <HI>Labour</HI> is more ea&s;ie and quick: A bad <HI>Po&s;ture</HI> may al&s;o be &s;u&s;pected, from the <HI>Infants</HI> vehe|ment <HI>Motions</HI> before <HI>Labour,</HI> that it cannot place or keep it &s;elf <HI>Pron:</HI> as from the <HI>Mo|thers</HI> impatience, or unruly <HI>Motions</HI> in the <HI>Time</HI> thereof, which oftimes turns it wrong, about to come otherwi&s;e very right. A&s;|&s;oon then as the <HI>Waters</HI> are broke, and the <HI>Infant</HI> felt to come upon the <HI>Feet,</HI> an <HI>Hand</HI> mu&s;t be &s;oftly introduced into the <HI>Womb</HI> (having rightly wrought the <HI>Orifice</HI> to a due <HI>Patency;</HI> for it may thus be dilated if &s;trait, and without wronging <HI>Mother</HI> or <HI>Infant</HI> any thing, yet only to the <HI>Breadth, Nature</HI>'s way, but not at all to the <HI>Length,</HI> le&s;t the <HI>Ligaments</HI> be broken) to find <HI>Them,</HI> and draw it out thereby. And if its one <HI>Foot</HI> only pre&s;ent, as whiles, the <HI>Other</HI> plyed upwards, or turned &s;ome <HI>Way</HI> off from the <HI>Orifice,</HI> this mu&s;t be &s;ought, and fetcht to it: For though &s;ome <HI>Pains</HI> may haply &s;et it on if near, yet both mu&s;t now be brought to advance &s;treight together, as
<PB N="189" REF="104"> al&s;o where they &s;tradle abroad at the <HI>Orifice:</HI> And the be&s;t way to get the ab&s;ent <HI>Foot,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">s al&s;o to find they both Joyn the &s;ame <HI>Body</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">which <HI>One</HI> mu&s;t then be well a&s;&s;ured of) <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">s by pa&s;&s;ing up the <HI>Hand,</HI> along&s;t the <HI>Leg</HI> and <HI>Thigh</HI> of the <HI>Foot</HI> pre&s;ents (to which <HI>Some</HI> will have a <HI>Ribban</HI> fa&s;tened with a run|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ng <HI>Knot,</HI> that &s;o it may not be to &s;eek again when the <HI>Other</HI> is found, and then returned out of the <HI>Way</HI> into the <HI>Womb</HI>) to the <HI>Twi&s;t,</HI> thence to the oppo&s;ite and fellow <HI>Limb,</HI> &s;traighting it down to the <HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> and then conduct both out together; griping after with both <HI>Hands</HI> above the <HI>Ancles,</HI> and keeping them al&s;o joyned, <HI>He</HI> may pull on equally thereby, piece and piece, as the <HI>Pain</HI> returns: And &s;o &s;till more upwards, by the <HI>Legs</HI> and <HI>Thighs</HI> as they are come at, till the <HI>Hips</HI> be got forth, and then taking good hold under the &s;ame, draw it &s;o down to the beginning of the <HI>Breast,</HI> where the <HI>Arms</HI> mu&s;t be taken (which are whiles turned a&s;ide, and <HI>Some</HI> have them rai&s;ed above the <HI>Head,</HI> and &s;uch may be born thus, if the <HI>Orifice</HI> be more large) and &s;tretched &s;oftly down along&s;t the <HI>Sides,</HI> that they may not be broken, and ea&s;ily di&s;engaged from the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age,</HI> the <HI>One</HI> after the <HI>Other,</HI> hold|ing
<PB N="190" REF="105"> by the <HI>Hands</HI> about the <HI>Fi&s;t</HI> (though <HI>Some</HI> thru&s;t up the <HI>One</HI> above along&s;t the <HI>Neck,</HI> le&s;t the <HI>Orifice</HI> &s;hould in&s;tantly lock about it, after the gro&s;&s;er trunk of the <HI>Body</HI> is pa&s;t, while <HI>Nature</HI> ha&s;ts to union, and &s;o &s;queez the <HI>Throat&punc;</HI> and &s;trangle the <HI>Infant</HI>) careful above all, the <HI>Belly</HI> and <HI>Face</HI> be had downwards, or towards the <HI>Mothers</HI> back (el&s;e the <HI>Head</HI> may &s;top by the <HI>Chin,</HI> over the <HI>Sbare-bone</HI>) which may ea&s;ily be placed &s;o, if while <HI>One</HI> begins to draw it by the <HI>Feet,</HI> he enclines them, in turning by little &amp; little, and the <HI>Body</HI> accordingly, as he advances its <HI>Extraction,</HI> till the <HI>Heels</HI> be where its <HI>Forefeet</HI> was, or look directly to the <HI>Mothers Belly:</HI> And if it be not altogether &s;o when he hath drawn it to the upper end of the <HI>Thighs,</HI> or yet higher, <HI>He</HI> may then di|rect his flat <HI>Hand</HI> to the Infants <HI>Share-bone,</HI> his <HI>Other</HI> holding its two <HI>Feet,</HI> and thus turn its <HI>Body</HI> by the <HI>Side</HI> it is mo&s;t di&s;po&s;ed to take that <HI>Situation,</HI> or be with its <HI>Brea&s;t</HI> and <HI>Face</HI> downwards: But be &s;ure the <HI>Head</HI> and whole <HI>Body</HI> move and turn the &s;ame <HI>Way</HI> together. Yet <HI>Midwifes</HI> Works on the way it comes, and brings it with the <HI>Face</HI> upwards, and hath le&s;s peril where the <HI>Head</HI> keeps &s;traight in the <HI>Way,</HI> and the <HI>Pains</HI>
<PB N="191" REF="105"> are &s;trong: But when it comes towards the <HI>Head,</HI> let the <HI>Woman</HI> bear well back, and let her <HI>Hips</HI> be rai&s;ed al&s;o. The next <HI>Care</HI> is, that being thus drawn out to the hight of the <HI>Shoulders,</HI> they may al&s;o be made to pa&s;s &s;o opportunely, at return of a <HI>Shower</HI> (the <HI>Woman</HI> then forceing &s;trongly down|wards) as the <HI>Head</HI> may immediatly enter their room, and the <HI>Neck</HI> not be locked in the <HI>Pa&s;sage.</HI></P>
<P>Sometimes a big <HI>Head</HI> may &s;top for all this, after the <HI>Body</HI> is pa&s;t: In which <HI>Ca&s;e,</HI> the <HI>Operator</HI> mu&s;t not pull hard by the <HI>Shouders</HI> only, to force it out, le&s;t he make a &s;eparation: But &s;oftly rid it from the <HI>Bones,</HI> having a <HI>Finger</HI> or <HI>two</HI> of his one <HI>Hand</HI> in|to its <HI>Mouth,</HI> his other <HI>Hand</HI> embracing the hinder <HI>Part</HI> of its <HI>Neck,</HI> that the <HI>Chin</HI> may be fir&s;t wholly di&s;engadged, and after, wile out the <HI>Head</HI> by little and little, with the <HI>Fingers</HI> of each <HI>Hand,</HI> &s;lid up on each <HI>Side</HI> thereof oppo&s;ite, &s;ometimes al&s;o above, and &s;ometimes under: making all the di&s;|patch po&s;&s;ible: For a &s;mall delay mu&s;t &s;trangle the <HI>Child.</HI></P>
<P>Here al&s;o, the <HI>Body</HI> through <HI>Putrefaction,</HI> or otherwi&s;e, may happen to be pulled away from the <HI>Head,</HI> which then remains alone
<PB N="192" REF="106"> in the <HI>Womb,</HI> and is hard to be got out. Its <HI>Extraction</HI> is e&s;&s;ayed, fir&s;t with the <HI>Hand</HI> im|mediatly introduced, pulling by a firm hold of the <HI>Jaw,</HI> which failng, the <HI>Instrument,</HI> or <HI>Crochet</HI> is tryed: To the mo&s;t &s;afe and effectu|al u&s;ing hereof, the <HI>Operator</HI> mu&s;t have his one <HI>Hand</HI> within the <HI>Womb,</HI> to catch and &s;tay the <HI>Head,</HI> and fix the <HI>Instrument</HI> right therein, and with his other, &s;oftly &s;lip up the <HI>Same,</HI> along&s;t the in&s;ide of his <HI>Hand</HI> with|in, keeping the <HI>Point</HI> clo&s;e thereto, that it touch not upon the <HI>Womb:</HI> And being thus &s;afely rai&s;ed the length of the <HI>Head,</HI> he mu&s;t turn it thereto, and &s;trick it firmly in|to an <HI>Eye</HI> or <HI>Ear</HI> hole, behind, in the <HI>Su|tures,</HI> or where he can be&s;t: and then draw it to the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age,</HI> where the <HI>Hand</HI> within mu&s;t be retired, yet keeping &s;till &s;ome <HI>Fing|er</HI> ends upon the <HI>Side</HI> of the <HI>Head,</HI> the bet|ter to di&s;ingage and &s;et it &s;traight out. The <HI>Head</HI> al&s;o may be kept from recoyling, with <HI>Hands</HI> held on the <HI>Belly</HI> without, com|pre&s;&s;ing the &s;ame from above, and at the <HI>Sides:</HI> carefull above all, that if the <HI>In&s;tru|ment</HI> &s;hould &s;lip, it neither offend the <HI>Womb</HI> nor the <HI>Neck</HI> thereof, nor yet make any hurt in the <HI>Extraction. Some</HI> drives it to the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age</HI> with a double <HI>Cloath</HI> put upon the
<PB N="193" REF="106"> lower <HI>Belly,</HI> or the <HI>Hands</HI> flatted above o|ther, that &s;o it may be extracted. And <HI>Some</HI> will have it more ea&s;ily and &s;afely ex|tracted, while clo&s;ely embraced in the middle of a &s;oft <HI>Fillet,</HI> or linnen <HI>Slip,</HI> of con|venient breadth and length, and &s;o draw|ing by the 2 ends thereof together. Yet if this <HI>Head</HI> be &s;o big, or the <HI>Pa&s;s</HI> &s;o &s;trait, as it can no <HI>Ways</HI> be got out whole, they order <HI>Pieces</HI> thereof to be cut off, or rather &s;ome of the <HI>Brains</HI> to be emptied by <HI>Inci&s;ion,</HI> chiefly at the open of the <HI>Crown,</HI> with a crooked <HI>Knife,</HI> which <HI>Some</HI> think be&s;t for the purpo&s;e, when &s;o &s;hort, as may be kept hid in the <HI>Hand</HI> within the <HI>Womb:</HI> Tho <HI>Others</HI> judge it more u&s;eful, Commodious and &s;afe, having a long <HI>Handle,</HI> &s;o as it may thereby be mov|ed, governed and guided with the <HI>Hand</HI> without the <HI>Womb,</HI> to any <HI>Part</HI> the <HI>Opera|tor</HI> plea&s;es, in his turning, thru&s;ting, draw|ing, or &s;lanting as is requi&s;ite: While di|rected al&s;o in the <HI>Operation</HI> by the <HI>Other</HI> within. The <HI>Head</HI> however mu&s;t fir&s;t be extracted ere the <HI>Burden</HI> be &s;tirred, if it yet cleave to the <HI>Womb:</HI> For &s;o it defends it from hurt or brui&s;e in the <HI>Operation,</HI> pre|vents al&s;o a <HI>Flooding:</HI> But if wholly &s;eparated therefrom, it mu&s;t fir&s;t be rid out, and &s;o the <HI>Head</HI> after.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="15" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="194" REF="107">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XV.</HI> How to do, when the <HI>Head</HI> thru&s;ts out the <HI>Neck</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI> before it.</HEAD>
<P>THis happens mo&s;tly, where the <HI>Womb</HI> hath born down before <HI>Conception,</HI> through the laxne&s;s of its <HI>Substance,</HI> in a Sickly <HI>State,</HI> from &s;ome cau&s;es: or through the exceeding <HI>Relaxation</HI> of its <HI>Ligaments:</HI> Whence the <HI>Neck</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI> may now be forced out (for the <HI>Body</HI> cannot) into &s;uch a great length and bigne&s;s, as to &s;traiten the <HI>Pa&s;s,</HI> and mar the Infants <HI>Egre&s;s:</HI> A total <HI>Pro|lap&s;e</HI> al&s;o, yea an entire <HI>Inver&s;ion</HI> may now en&s;ue after <HI>Labour,</HI> if it be not more skil|fully expede: And the <HI>Woman</HI> may &s;oon die through <HI>Bleeding, Pain, Feaver,</HI> and the other <HI>Accidents</HI> which hence arrive. And therefore when ever the <HI>Sheath,</HI> or <HI>Neck</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI> is found to pre&s;s forth in great <HI>Wrinkles</HI> (this <HI>Midwifes</HI> call the <HI>Felt</HI>) be|fore the Infants <HI>Head,</HI> as it advances, the travailing <HI>Woman</HI> mu&s;t not walk, nor &s;tand upright, neither u&s;e &s;harp or &s;trong <HI>Gly|sters,</HI>
<PB N="195" REF="107"> nor have her <HI>Infant</HI> drawn by the <HI>Head,</HI> and the re&s;t taught in a natural <HI>Labour</HI> (the&s;e here do hurt, endanger <HI>De&s;cent</HI> or <HI>Prolap&s;e</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI>) but be laid equally at lea&s;t in <HI>Bed,</HI> and &s;o mu&s;t force on the <HI>Child</HI> at each <HI>Pain,</HI> while the <HI>Midwife</HI> keeps both <HI>Hands</HI> about the <HI>Birth,</HI> to thru&s;t back and bear up, by re&s;i&s;ting the <HI>Pains</HI> as they come, the <HI>Womb</HI> only, yet make what way <HI>She</HI> can in the time for the Childs <HI>Egre&s;s:</HI> continu|ing &s;o to doe, till the <HI>Woman</HI> &s;hall have al|together of her &s;elf detruded the <HI>Child</HI> wholly: Yet if the <HI>Infant,</HI> having its <HI>Head</HI> thus born, &s;hall now &s;top there &s;o long, as to hazard its <HI>Suffocation,</HI> a 2d per&s;on mu&s;t &s;oftly draw it on thereby, while the <HI>Mid|wife</HI> thus carefully keeps back the <HI>Womb,</HI> which el&s;e may readily be drawn out with it: Again&s;t which al&s;o, <HI>She</HI> mu&s;t be cauti|ous and ea&s;ie in extracting the <HI>Burden,</HI> And after repone and &s;tay up the <HI>Womb</HI> in|to its natural <HI>Seat,</HI> if it bear down.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="16" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="196" REF="108">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XVI.</HI> How to fetch a <HI>Child,</HI> when coming right it &s;tops, be|ing too big, or the <HI>Way</HI> &s;trait.</HEAD>
<P>SOme big <HI>Heads,</HI> who&s;e <HI>Bones</HI> are larger, or yet more perfect, and goes not toge|ther nor yeelds in the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age,</HI> &s;ticks &s;tedfa&s;t 4 or 5 whole <HI>Dayes</HI> in the&s;e <HI>Straits,</HI> and can no <HI>Wayes</HI> be got out but by <HI>Art:</HI> Where the <HI>Infant</HI> mu&s;t certainly die, its <HI>Head</HI> being thus hard pinched therein &s;o long, after the <HI>Waters</HI> are broke. Yet this is &s;aid to hap|pen mo&s;tly in little <HI>Women</HI> (tho in <HI>Some</HI> larger al&s;o of the 1st. Child (and <HI>Some</HI> the 2d, if not more) e&s;pecially when well in <HI>Years</HI> (or yet very young) for <HI>Such</HI> have ever the mo&s;t tedious diffi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">il and dangerous <HI>Labours,</HI> and that by rea&s;on of a dry &s;trait confirmed <HI>Pa&s;s,</HI> want of good <HI>Pains</HI> to wid|en it, a Dead big <HI>Child,</HI> or yet &s;ome other <HI>Fault</HI> and <HI>Impediment</HI> in the <HI>Genitals.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Infant</HI> then is extracted with the <HI>In|&s;trument</HI>
<PB N="197" REF="108"> or <HI>Hook,</HI> and fixt in &s;ome hinder <HI>Part</HI> of the <HI>Head,</HI> to draw it out &s;traight as naturally, if po&s;&s;ible: Or rather in the <HI>Pa|rietal,</HI> or Temple <HI>Bone,</HI> with another in the oppo&s;ite <HI>Side</HI> if nece&s;&s;ar, to pull on e|qually: For the other <HI>Place</HI> being under the <HI>Share-Bone,</HI> is near the <HI>Bladder,</HI> which is &s;ore pre&s;t, and oftimes wounded or torn: Whence <HI>Some</HI> die, or never hold their <HI>Wa|ter</HI> again. <HI>Inci&s;ion</HI> al&s;o of this <HI>Head</HI> is or|dered, about the <HI>Sutures,</HI> to empty &s;ome of the <HI>Brain,</HI> and &s;o le&s;&s;en it: Fixing the <HI>Hook</HI> after in the <HI>Skull,</HI> at the &s;ame <HI>Place:</HI> And this extraction of the <HI>Infant</HI> is allowed, even while alive; &s;eeing it mu&s;t inevitably die in the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age</HI> however: Yea a&s;&s;oon al|&s;o as opportunity &s;erves, for &s;aving the <HI>Mo|ther,</HI> who el&s;e mu&s;t certainly &s;oon die with it, having no other <HI>Way</HI> of relief and <HI>Deli|very:</HI> Yet only in &s;uch <HI>Extremity,</HI> and after all <HI>Means</HI> and <HI>Endeavours</HI> are u&s;ed, to quicken the <HI>Pains,</HI> widen the <HI>Genitals,</HI> re|move the <HI>Difficulties</HI> of <HI>Labour,</HI> and have it brought with <HI>Hands,</HI> yet to no purpo&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="17" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="198" REF="109">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XVII.</HI> The <HI>Way</HI> of <HI>Delivery,</HI> when a <HI>Child</HI> pre&s;ents the <HI>Side</HI> of the <HI>Head,</HI> the <HI>Cheek,</HI> or <HI>Face.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ASSoon as ever an <HI>Infant</HI> is found to offer thus, let the <HI>Head</HI> be &s;et &s;traight into the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age,</HI> not waiting a better <HI>Po&s;ture</HI> as <HI>Midwives</HI> u&s;ually: For though <HI>Some</HI> &s;uch like may in <HI>Time</HI> come right and be born, when more near the <HI>Pa&s;sage,</HI> and the <HI>Pains</HI> are more frequent and &s;trong, the <HI>Place</HI> moi&s;t and &s;lippery, the <HI>Woman</HI> kept with|all in a convenient <HI>Po&s;ture:</HI> Yet many <HI>Chil|dren,</HI> and &s;ome <HI>Mothers</HI> have been lo&s;t by delayes: And <HI>Pains</HI> mu&s;t otherwi&s;e drive it &s;till further, and con&s;train it clo&s;er into this bad <HI>Posture,</HI> and &s;o cau&s;e greater <HI>Diffi|culty</HI> in its <HI>Correction,</HI> or <HI>Direction</HI> of the <HI>Head</HI> upon the right <HI>Way,</HI> as behooves e're it can be born, for thus it is impo&s;&s;ible. Wherefore an <HI>Hand</HI> mu&s;t now be &s;oftly put up betwixt the <HI>Infants Head,</HI> and the <HI>Side</HI>
<PB N="199" REF="109"> of the <HI>Womb</HI> it lyes to, the <HI>Woman</HI> being placed with her <HI>Hips</HI> a little higher then her <HI>Head,</HI> and made to incline to the op|po&s;ite <HI>Side,</HI> an <HI>Hand</HI> al&s;o helping upon the <HI>Place</HI> without: And in ca&s;e the <HI>Head</HI> be wryed &s;ome more a&s;ide, and &s;o clo&s;ely en|gaged, as it cannot thus be &s;et right, the <HI>Hand</HI> mu&s;t be reach'd up to the <HI>Infants Shoulders,</HI> to rai&s;e them a little back, by the one <HI>Side,</HI> or the other, as can be&s;t return the <HI>Head</HI> to the <HI>Orifice,</HI> and make it appear in a natural <HI>Form:</HI> A&s;&s;i&s;ting with the other <HI>Hand</HI> as far as nece&s;&s;ar: And then excite and procure its <HI>Birth,</HI> as in a right <HI>Labour.</HI></P>
<P>In this <HI>Manner</HI> al&s;o is the <HI>Delivery,</HI> when a <HI>Chi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d</HI> comes in the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age</HI> upon the <HI>Face,</HI> with the <HI>Head</HI> pre&s;&s;ed back upon the <HI>Neck,</HI> which <HI>Way</HI> it cannot &s;afely be born, but mu&s;t therefore be wrought unto the <HI>Crown</HI> to come naturally; and needs be done with all the ea&s;e and di&s;patch po&s;&s;ible: For in that <HI>Posture,</HI> the <HI>Face</HI> &s;oon becomes blew, black, and great &s;welled, as well by the hard and painful Compre&s;&s;ion of the place where it it &s;ticks, as by the <HI>Midwifes</HI> rudene&s;s in placing it right.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="18" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="200" REF="110">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XVIII.</HI> Of <HI>Delivery,</HI> when the <HI>Womb</HI> clo&s;eth about the <HI>Neck</HI> after the <HI>Head</HI> is born.</HEAD>
<P>ALbeit, where ever the <HI>Head</HI> pa&s;&s;es, be|ing big and round, the <HI>Body</HI> may readily follow, which therefore comes na|turally foremo&s;t: whence its <HI>Name.</HI> Yet this may happen (though rarely) where the <HI>Shoulders</HI> are far big beyond the <HI>Head,</HI> when al&s;o they are not made to come immediatly into its room in pa&s;&s;ing: When the <HI>Mother</HI> be&s;ide, or the <HI>Infant</HI> faints, the <HI>Shower</HI> breaks, the <HI>Wayes</HI> are again &s;traitned: If the <HI>Infant</HI> withall be dead &s;ome dayes in the <HI>Womb,</HI> for then its <HI>Head</HI> turns &s;oft, goes together, and is longi&s;h in pa&s;&s;ing, and having no more firmne&s;s, cannot form the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age</HI> &s;o well to the <HI>Shoulders:</HI> Yea &s;ometimes it is &s;o &s;mall, as it neither opens the <HI>Wayes,</HI> nor can be got handled &s;o ea&s;ily and rightly as becomes.</P>
<P>The <HI>Infant</HI> mu&s;t now have &s;peedy relief,
<PB N="201" REF="110"> el&s;e it quickly &s;trangles, while the <HI>Womb</HI> clo&s;eth about the <HI>Neck,</HI> and &s;queezeth the <HI>Throat,</HI> pulling it on by the <HI>Sides</HI> of the <HI>Head,</HI> or under the <HI>Chin</HI> and behind, by turns as it be&s;t advances; yet very gent|ly, for <HI>Violence</HI> may pull it off: Careful the <HI>Neck</HI> be not in the <HI>String.</HI> And if thus the <HI>Shoulders</HI> come not, &s;ome <HI>Fingers</HI> may be hooked inwards into the <HI>Arm-pitts,</HI> and &s;o pulled forward by little and little, and &s;et free, which the re&s;t of the <HI>Body</HI> then ea&s;ily follows, unle&s;s mon&s;truous, or (as happens mo&s;tly in this <HI>Ca&s;e</HI>) blown up by <HI>Drop&s;y</HI> in its <HI>Belly,</HI> whence it becomes impo&s;&s;ible to pa&s;s, till the <HI>Belly</HI> be pierced, and the <HI>Matter</HI> let out, of which afterwards.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="19" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XIX.</HI> Of a <HI>Delivery,</HI> when one or both <HI>Hands</HI> come with the <HI>Head,</HI> or when the one or both <HI>Hands</HI> offer alone.</HEAD>
<P>THe one or both <HI>Hands,</HI> are the on|ly <HI>Parts</HI> pre&s;ents with the <HI>Head,</HI> and
<PB N="202" REF="111"> mars the <HI>Infants</HI> Birth, while &s;o, part of the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age</HI> is filled up, or the <HI>Head</HI> turned on one <HI>Side.</HI> The appearing <HI>Hand</HI> there|fore (or both if they come) mu&s;t be &s;traight|way thru&s;t inwards, as much as may be, and turned down at the <HI>Sides:</HI> The <HI>Head</HI> al|&s;o, if turned a&s;ide, mu&s;t be brought upon the right <HI>Way,</HI> into a natural <HI>Form,</HI> that &s;o it may break forth in a &s;traight <HI>Line:</HI> Or el&s;e, an indu&s;truous <HI>Midwife</HI> may receive and pa&s;s it, while both <HI>Hands</HI> offer in the <HI>Orifice,</HI> being conjoyned as clo&s;e as can, and the <HI>Head</HI> &s;traight between them, the re&s;t of the <HI>Body</HI> after: And hath le&s;s peril, if there be good <HI>Pains,</HI> a large &s;lippery <HI>Pa&s;s,</HI> and the <HI>Infant</HI> more &s;mall.</P>
<P>Sometimes an <HI>Infant</HI> pre&s;ents its one <HI>Hand</HI> alone, and is more u&s;ual: Or both, which is more rare: And <HI>Some</HI> the <HI>Arm</HI> as far as the <HI>Elbow,</HI> yea oft, even to the very <HI>Shoulder,</HI> as far as it can come; which is the mo&s;t unhappy <HI>Po&s;ture</HI> of all, for that the <HI>Infant</HI> is mo&s;t rarely ever got alive, e&s;pe|cially if the <HI>Midwife</HI> make not timeous di&s;|covery, but tamper on till it come the ut|mo&s;t length: Be&s;ide, that the <HI>Mother</HI> &s;uf|fers &s;ore through difficulty and pain of the <HI>Delivery.</HI></P>
<PB N="203" REF="111">
<P><HI>One</HI> mu&s;t now &s;traightway thru&s;t back again into the <HI>Womb,</HI> this <HI>Member</HI> of the <HI>In|fant</HI> (or both if they offer) with his <HI>Hand,</HI> pa&s;&s;ing the &s;ame under its <HI>Brea&s;t</HI> and <HI>Belly,</HI> up to the <HI>Feet</HI> (and <HI>Some</HI> have them now rai&s;ed to the very <HI>Bottom</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI>) which he mu&s;t &s;oftly ply, and pull towards him, piece and piece, thus turning the <HI>Infant</HI> about, to draw it out thereby: And is held a more ea&s;y, &s;ure and &s;afe <HI>Way,</HI> then working to have it out in the natural <HI>Figure:</HI> Nor can it be brought &s;afely the <HI>Way</HI> it now of|fers, for tho the&s;e <HI>Parts</HI> appear, and &s;eem to afford an ea&s;y hold for drawing it forth, yet being thus pulled <HI>Travers</HI> or <HI>Cro&s;s,</HI> it comes doubled with its <HI>Head</HI> and <HI>Shoul|ders,</HI> whence the <HI>Arm</HI> may &s;ooner be rent from the <HI>Body,</HI> then the <HI>Infant</HI> be &s;o brought forth: Nor does it &s;ucceed when tryed, neither can it be tryed without the <HI>Mothers</HI> extream hurt: And tho <HI>Midwifes</HI> pull and works on this <HI>Way,</HI> yet whatever becomes of the <HI>Mother,</HI> be &s;ure the <HI>Child</HI> is lo&s;t: Neither mu&s;t one expect that the <HI>Infant</HI> tho alive, can by any <HI>Means</HI> be made to draw it in of its &s;elf, being once thus come out. <HI>Zarah</HI>'s ca&s;e is &s;ingular. Sometimes the ig|norant <HI>Midwife</HI> works on, &s;till thru&s;ting up
<PB N="204" REF="112"> the <HI>Arm,</HI> and letting it fall down again at each <HI>Pain,</HI> till it come almo&s;t to the <HI>Shoulder,</HI> and becomes &s;o big &s;welled al&s;o, and the <HI>Body</HI> &s;o clo&s;ely engaged to the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age,</HI> as it cannot be thru&s;t back, as well for the great <HI>Tumour</HI> of the Mothers <HI>Genitals,</HI> as the <HI>In|fants</HI> Arm; but mu&s;t be taken off: In which extremity (if the <HI>Child</HI> be certainly dead, and it is good to Be &s;ure) it may be twi&s;ted <HI>Twice</HI> or <HI>Thrice</HI> about, and &s;o &s;epa|rated from the <HI>Body,</HI> ju&s;t in the <HI>Joynt</HI> of the <HI>Shoulder,</HI> with the <HI>Shoulder-blade,</HI> and the <HI>Body</HI> after turned and brought by the <HI>Feet.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="20" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XX.</HI> Of a <HI>Delivery,</HI> when <HI>Hands</HI> and <HI>Feet</HI> offer together.</HEAD>
<P>AS this way of <HI>Birth</HI> is impo&s;&s;ible, the <HI>In|fant</HI> coming double; &s;o the <HI>pre&s;entation</HI> is more rare: And in which &s;ometimes, the <HI>Fingers</HI> and <HI>Toe</HI> going down to the <HI>Orifice,</HI> are &s;o mixt and pre&s;&s;ed together therein, as they are not ea&s;ily di&s;tingui&s;hed, feeling &s;o
<PB N="205" REF="112"> all of one <HI>Shape:</HI> Yet after the <HI>Womb</HI> is more open, and an <HI>Hand</HI> got up, they are &s;oon di&s;cerned. And then the <HI>Hand</HI> may be directed to the Infants <HI>Brea&s;t</HI> only, which now is very near, and &s;o gently &s;traight back its upper <HI>Parts,</HI> towards the <HI>Fund</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI> (which is almo&s;t done of it &s;elf, the <HI>Woman</HI> being duely placed) leaving the <HI>Feet</HI> at the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age,</HI> where they &s;tay ready to come: And &s;o draw it forth thereby.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="21" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXI.</HI> Of a <HI>Delivery,</HI> when the <HI>Knees</HI> offer.</HEAD>
<P>SOme <HI>Infants</HI> (though more rarely al&s;o) falls down to the <HI>Orifice</HI> upon their <HI>Bend|ed Knees,</HI> with their <HI>Legs</HI> plyed back to|wards the <HI>Buttocks:</HI> And here may <HI>One</HI> be deceived, touching but one of them, and t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ink it the <HI>Head,</HI> for its roundne&s;s and and hardne&s;s, e&s;pecially while being at a di|&s;tance, it can be reach'd with a <HI>Finger</HI> end only: Though yet as the <HI>Infant</HI> falls lower, that it can be handled &s;ome better, the <HI>Part</HI>
<PB N="208" REF="113"> then appears. And now the <HI>Knees</HI> mu&s;t b<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> thru&s;t upwards, for an ea&s;ier Explicatio<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> and Diduction of the <HI>Legs,</HI> and a <HI>Finger</HI> o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> two, put under the <HI>Ham</HI> of the one <HI>Leg,</HI> pa&s;|&s;ing the &s;ame down the back <HI>Side</HI> thereof<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> piece and piece, till the <HI>Foot</HI> be come at, draw|ing &s;till &s;omewhat &s;quint, to reach it the better: Which being brought thus to the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age,</HI> let the other be directed thither the &s;ame <HI>Way:</HI> And &s;o extract it by both, as when it comes <HI>Footling.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="22" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXII.</HI> Of a <HI>Delivery,</HI> when a <HI>Shoulder</HI> offers, the <HI>Back</HI> or <HI>Buttocks.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOr relief in the&s;e, the <HI>part</HI> pre&s;ents mu&s;t be &s;oftly thru&s;t back from the <HI>Orifice<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI> an <HI>Hand</HI> introduced, and pa&s;t along&s;t the <HI>In|fants</HI> Body the <HI>Way</HI> may be&s;t reach its <HI>Feet,</HI> to turn them to the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age,</HI> and &s;o roll about the <HI>Infant</HI> and bring it forth thereby: And thus the <HI>Shoulder</HI> is the wor&s;t of the&s;e three,
<PB N="207" REF="113"> being farre&s;t from the <HI>Feet;</HI> be&s;ide that the <HI>Infants Neck</HI> being thus wryed, and its <HI>Head</HI> turned a&s;ide, it is more painfully con&s;train|ed and lockt in this Situation then in the other.</P>
<P>When it comes upon the <HI>Loins, Breech,</HI> or <HI>Ar&s;-ward,</HI> it oftimes cannot be born &s;o, and not unle&s;s it be very &s;mall, the <HI>Mother</HI> big, the <HI>Way</HI> wide: Yet is then alwayes brought with great &s;tre&s;s, pain and detriment to both <HI>Mother</HI> and <HI>Infant:</HI> Which <HI>Way</HI> ought therefore to be ever avoided if po&s;&s;ible: So that a&s;&s;oon as the <HI>In ant</HI> is perceived to come thus, the <HI>But|tocks</HI> mu&s;t be thru&s;t back, an <HI>Hand</HI> intro|duced, and &s;lid up along&s;t the <HI>Thighs</HI> to the <HI>Legs</HI> and <HI>Feet,</HI> which <HI>One</HI> mu&s;t work about to the <HI>Orifice,</HI> the one after the other, by folding, &s;tretching, wagging, and draw|ing them toward the <HI>Side,</HI> and &s;till with all the indu&s;try and ea&s;e po&s;&s;ible, le&s;t they be hurt, or di&s;located, if pinched too much, or winded rudely: Yet &s;ometimes the <HI>Breech</HI> is pre&s;&s;ed far down, and &s;o &s;trongly en|gaged in the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age,</HI> that it cannot be put back, but mu&s;t be brought forth in this <HI>Po|&s;ture:</HI> Which yet hath great difficulty, pain and danger, wherein the <HI>Belly</HI> is &s;o pre&s;&s;ed,
<PB N="208" REF="114"> that oftimes the <HI>Ordure</HI> is expre&s;&s;ed: <HI>One</HI> may however help in this <HI>Birth,</HI> by crook|ing &s;ome <HI>Fingers</HI> inwards into each <HI>Groyn,</HI> and &s;o draw it through to the <HI>Thighs,</HI> and then by drawing and wagging it from <HI>Side</HI> to <HI>Side,</HI> di&s;ingage them from the <HI>Pa&s;sage,</HI> as al&s;o the <HI>Feet</HI> and <HI>Legs</HI> one after the other, &s;till careful of any hurt or <HI>Di&s;location:</HI> Fi|ni&s;hing the re&s;t as <HI>Footling.</HI></P>
<P>When an <HI>Infant</HI> falls to the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age</HI> upon its <HI>Back,</HI> the <HI>Body</HI> is folded inwards, and made almo&s;t double, its <HI>Brea&s;t</HI> al&s;o and <HI>Belly</HI> are &s;o pre&s;t together, and the more if there be &s;trong <HI>Pains,</HI> as it goes near to be choked, unle&s;s quickly turned to either end; for thus it can never be Born.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="23" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXIII.</HI> Of a <HI>Delivery,</HI> when the <HI>Brea&s;t, Belly</HI> or <HI>Side</HI> pre&s;ents.</HEAD>
<P>SOmetimes tho more rarely) the <HI>Infant</HI> offers upon its <HI>Breast,</HI> &s;ometimes al&s;o it lyes to the <HI>Orifice</HI> upon its <HI>Belly,</HI> which
<PB N="209" REF="114"> may be touched and the <HI>Navel</HI> al&s;o, the <HI>Hands</HI> and <HI>Feet</HI> rai&s;ed up, or ca&s;t, and turn|ed backwards; <HI>Wayes</HI> that <HI>Nature,</HI> and the <HI>Ca&s;e</HI> it &s;elf &s;hews it impo&s;&s;ible to be Born: And are the mo&s;t dangerous <HI>Po&s;tures</HI> of all, the mo&s;t cruel and tormenting, in which the <HI>Infant</HI> &s;oon mi&s;erably dies, being thus violently bended, and doubled backwards as into a <HI>Circle:</HI> Neither is it &s;oon turned to the <HI>Head,</HI> or <HI>Feet,</HI> by the <HI>Chyrurgion,</HI> or <HI>Mid|wife</HI> however expert. And the &s;ooner al&s;o it dies, for that now the <HI>String</HI> mo&s;tly falls out, is cooled, compre&s;&s;ed and falls toge|ther; &s;o that the <HI>Circulation</HI> is marred, and the <HI>Infant</HI> deprived of its vivifick <HI>Nectar,</HI> or vital <HI>Spirit.</HI></P>
<P>The &s;ole remedy for the <HI>Brea&s;t</HI> or <HI>Belly,</HI> is to turn the <HI>Infant</HI> and draw it forth by the <HI>Feet,</HI> and that with all &s;peed, being other|wi&s;e thus &s;ure to peri&s;h: Wherefore <HI>One</HI> mu&s;t &s;lid up his flat <HI>Hand</HI> to the middle of the <HI>Childs Brea&s;t,</HI> which he mu&s;t thru&s;t back from the <HI>Orifice,</HI> for to turn it (and is thus half turned already) pa&s;&s;ing up his <HI>Hand</HI> un|der its <HI>Belly</HI> till he reach the <HI>Feet,</HI> and then bring them about to the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age,</HI> and &s;o draw it forth thereby. In like <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nner</HI> al&s;o mu&s;t he pu&s;h it a little from the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age,</HI> if
<PB N="210" REF="115"> either <HI>Side</HI> offer, enter his <HI>Hand,</HI> and &s;lide it along&s;t the <HI>Thighs,</HI> till he reach the <HI>Legs</HI> and <HI>Feet,</HI> by which he mu&s;t turn it about to the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age,</HI> and &s;o draw it forth: And are better <HI>Wayes</HI> of <HI>Delivery,</HI> then to turn it into the right <HI>Form</HI> of a natural <HI>Birth,</HI> as &s;urer, and more &s;peedily effected for the <HI>Infant</HI> who mu&s;t needs die in the&s;e un|happy <HI>Po&s;tures,</HI> if not thus quickly delivered.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="24" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXIV.</HI> Of the <HI>Delivery,</HI> when &s;e|veral <HI>Infants</HI> pre&s;ent to|gether in &s;ome of the&s;e different <HI>Po&s;tures.</HI></HEAD>
<P>AS is the Ca&s;e with one &s;ingle <HI>Infant,</HI> &s;o with <HI>Twins</HI> or more: For as that hath one truly natural <HI>Form</HI> of <HI>Birth,</HI> and many <HI>Non natural,</HI> &s;o al&s;o they, and are both expede in the &s;ame manner: Yet the more <HI>Infants</HI> come to be born at once, the bigger al&s;o they be, the wor&s;e their <HI>Si|tuation</HI> and <HI>Form,</HI> the more pre&s;&s;ed and en|tangled,
<PB N="211" REF="115"> the greater is the difficulty, the pain and peril in <HI>Bearing.</HI></P>
<P>Sometimes <HI>Twins</HI> come both right, and &s;ometimes they both come wrong: But ofte&s;t the <HI>fir&s;t</HI> comes right, or by the <HI>Head,</HI> the <HI>&s;econd</HI> by the <HI>Feet,</HI> or other wor&s;e <HI>Way:</HI> The <HI>One</HI> al&s;o fir&s;t advances to the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age</HI> for the mo&s;t part &s;o far before the <HI>Other,</HI> as the 2d. is not perceived, till after the 1st. is born, that the <HI>Burden</HI> comes to be extracted: Yet they offer not alwayes thus to the <HI>Birth,</HI> nor can be born in the mo&s;t convenient <HI>Or|der,</HI> to wit, the <HI>Strong</HI> and <HI>Big</HI> making <HI>Way</HI> for the <HI>Weak</HI> and <HI>Small,</HI> the <HI>Living</HI> to expel the <HI>Dead:</HI> but &s;till the foremo&s;t what ever it is, or that which lyes next and mo&s;t commodiou&s;ly to the <HI>Orifice,</HI> mu&s;t ever come, or be brought away fir&s;t, if it can|not be born of it &s;elf: And that as &s;oon as may be, for a more &s;peedy relief to the 2d. in that ill <HI>Po&s;ture,</HI> which mu&s;t now be brought by the <HI>Feet,</HI> without trying to place it right, though it enclined &s;omewhat to the <HI>Head;</HI> unle&s;s the <HI>Pains</HI> continue more quick and frequent, the <HI>Woman</HI> more hearty, and while the fir&s;t <HI>Labour</HI> hath been withall more natural and ea&s;ie, the <HI>Way</HI> made large and patent: But u&s;ually, a <HI>Wo|man</HI>
<PB N="212" REF="116"> bringing <HI>Twins,</HI> is &s;o di&s;comfited with the <HI>Birth</HI> of the 1st, that <HI>She</HI> quite fails to hear of &s;u&s;taining a new conflict, and pangs of <HI>Labour</HI> with a 2d, So that &s;he hath &s;carce any Breathing from <HI>Pain</HI> (For <HI>Twins</HI> are born the &s;ame day, yea whiles the one at the others <HI>Heels</HI>) Whence &s;he hath after no more <HI>Pains</HI> and <HI>Throws,</HI> or very few, the&s;e al&s;o very languid, and of no force to bear this 2d, which having al&s;o &s;uffered much this while in a bad <HI>Posture,</HI> could hardly ever be born if placed right (yea, or yet now coming right) by <HI>Labour,</HI> or the &s;trength of <HI>Nature,</HI> but lying too long by the <HI>Way,</HI> might die: Which therefore mu&s;t be &s;peedily turned, and brought by the <HI>Feet,</HI> e&s;pecially if the <HI>Labour</HI> look tedious, or the <HI>Woman</HI> grow weaker: Breaking the <HI>Mem|branes</HI> al&s;o if needful, that it may be go<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> thus extracted.</P>
<P>When <HI>Twins</HI> offer <HI>Hands</HI> or <HI>Feet</HI> toge|ther, <HI>One</HI> mu&s;t be &s;ure the <HI>Bodies</HI> be not joyned, or any wayes <HI>Monstruous:</HI> And di&s;tingui&s;h well the <HI>Parts</HI> belong to each<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> that &s;o they be not drawn at together, bu<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> the <HI>One</HI> brought forth before the <HI>Other<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI> which <HI>He</HI> may do, in taking a&s;ide the righ<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> and left <HI>Foot</HI> he finds neare&s;t, and mo&s;t for|ward,
<PB N="113" REF="116"> and &s;liding up his <HI>Hand</HI> along&s;t the <HI>Legs</HI> and <HI>Thighs,</HI> to the <HI>Twist</HI> if forwards, to the <HI>Buttocks</HI> if backwards, where if he finds they joyn the &s;ame <HI>Body,</HI> he mu&s;t di&s;|patch its <HI>Birth,</HI> whatever it is, as &s;oon as po&s;|&s;ible, and ju&s;t the <HI>Way</HI> of one &s;ingle <HI>Child</HI> coming <HI>Footling:</HI> having put a&s;ide what ever <HI>Part</HI> the other <HI>Infant</HI> pre&s;ents, for a clearer <HI>Pa&s;s</HI> while the 1&s;t comes forth (yet a little only, le&s;t relap&s;ing into the <HI>Womb</HI> it &s;hould change into &s;ome wor&s;e <HI>Form</HI>) which be|ing born, let the <HI>Other</HI> be &s;traight way re|ceived as it ought, yet mu&s;t not the <HI>Burden</HI> be &s;tirred till both be born, becau&s;e of <HI>Flood|ing,</HI> being u&s;ually but <HI>One.</HI></P>
<P>What ever <HI>Pars</HI> el&s;e offer be&s;ide the <HI>Feet,</HI> or however otherwi&s;e wrong <HI>Twins</HI> pre&s;ent, the &s;ame <HI>Cour&s;e</HI> mu&s;t be taken to their <HI>Delivery,</HI> as in the &s;ingle <HI>Po&s;tures</HI> a|bove mentioned; bringing that alwayes fir&s;t which lye neare&s;t and mo&s;t commodiou&s;ly to the <HI>Way,</HI> and readie&s;t for <HI>Extraction</HI> be it dead or alive or however el&s;e.</P>
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<DIV2 N="25" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="216" REF="117">
<P>with fix'd &s;o low in the <HI>Bones,</HI> as it can|not go back, without great violence and torment to the <HI>Woman,</HI> it is better to hazard its <HI>Life</HI> in coming &s;o, (being mo&s;t rarely now &s;aved however) then de&s;troy the <HI>Mother</HI> by working thus to turn it.</P>
<P>The <HI>Burden</HI> may al&s;o &s;eparate and come fir&s;t in <HI>Labour,</HI> tho more rarely, whence the <HI>Infants</HI> &s;uddain <HI>Ruine,</HI> being &s;uffocated for want of <HI>Re&s;piration,</HI> which it immediatly needs, having no more <HI>Ventilation,</HI> or re|fre&s;hing by the <HI>String</HI> and <HI>Burden:</HI> being &s;moothered be&s;ide, and drowned with a <HI>Span</HI> of <HI>Flooding,</HI> which is ince&s;&s;ant, till the <HI>Womb</HI> be rid of all: whereby the <HI>Mother</HI> al&s;o is &s;oon de&s;troyed. And whiles the <HI>String</HI> hanks about the Infants <HI>Neck</HI> in the <HI>Womb,</HI> or &s;ome other <HI>Part</HI> of it, whence the <HI>Burden</HI> is continually drawn, and loo&s;ed by little and little before the time, if the <HI>Infant</HI> move but never &s;o little towards its <HI>Egre&s;s,</HI> till at length it &s;eparate entirely: yea even before the <HI>Bag</HI> break.</P>
<P>If the <HI>Burden</HI> pre&s;ent only, but comes not forth, and while the <HI>Bag</HI> is not yet broken, the <HI>Part</HI> of it which pre&s;ents mu&s;t be put a little a&s;ide, till the <HI>Bag</HI> come right: &s;ee|ing the <HI>Burden</HI> cannot be drawn out with|out
<PB N="217" REF="117"> the <HI>Bag,</HI> which mu&s;t then al&s;o be torn with the <HI>Fingers,</HI> the <HI>Infant</HI> turned and brought &s;traight by the <HI>Feet,</HI> and the <HI>Bur|den</HI> after: But if the <HI>Bag</HI> be quite &s;plit, and the <HI>Burden</HI> now fallen in the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age,</HI> near almo&s;t come forth, which is perceived by its &s;oftne&s;s, the <HI>String</HI> al&s;o annexed, and the <HI>Womans</HI> great <HI>Flooding,</HI> it mu&s;t not then be returned (much le&s;s when come wholly out) but brought forthwith away out of the <HI>Way,</HI> and the <HI>Infant</HI> &s;traight after by the <HI>Feet</HI> (the only <HI>Way</HI> if any of its pre&s;er|vation) even though it offer the <HI>Head:</HI> Not waiting to cut the <HI>String,</HI> till after <HI>De|livery,</HI> for a more &s;peedy di&s;patch of its re|lief, and that the Womans <HI>Flooding</HI> al&s;o may be the &s;ooner &s;topt; as comes to pa&s;s mo&s;tly as &s;oon as &s;he is Delivered.</P>
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<DIV2 N="26" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXVI.</HI> Of <HI>Floodings</HI> and <HI>Convul|&s;ions</HI> in <HI>Labour.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WE have &s;hown before in the 1st. Book, what mu&s;t be done for relief, when pregnant <HI>Women</HI> bleeds any from the
<PB N="218" REF="118"> <HI>Womb.</HI> But the only fit and &s;afe&s;t <HI>Cour&s;e</HI> here, in Ca&s;e the <HI>Bleeding</HI> come of a &s;udden, be copious and ince&s;&s;ant, a real <HI>Flooding</HI> which threaten <HI>Ruine</HI> to both <HI>Mother</HI> and <HI>Infant,</HI> is a &s;peedy and pre&s;ent <HI>Delivery:</HI> bring|ing the <HI>Child</HI> by the <HI>Feet:</HI> yea breaking its <HI>Membranes</HI> al&s;o, if the <HI>Womb</HI> be any little way open to have it thus extracted. Yet if her <HI>Bleeding</HI> now be very moderate, and begins only in the <HI>Travail,</HI> if the <HI>Woman</HI> al&s;o bear up, and have good &s;trong <HI>Pains, She</HI> may be left to <HI>Nature</HI>'s di&s;patch with the u&s;ual a&s;&s;i&s;tance.</P>
<P><HI>Convul&s;ions</HI> al&s;o &s;eizes <HI>Some</HI> in <HI>Labour,</HI> though more rarely, and may ari&s;e from too great plenty of <HI>Blood,</HI> carried to the <HI>Brain</HI> in the vehement <HI>Ae&s;tuation</HI> of <HI>Labour:</HI> From too great lo&s;s al&s;o of <HI>Blood:</HI> From a mo&s;t grievous <HI>Pain</HI> likewi&s;e in the vehement and utter <HI>Distention</HI> of the nervous <HI>Womb:</HI> Yea, and the <HI>Ten&s;ion</HI> of the whole <HI>Nerves,</HI> and more &s;en&s;ible <HI>Parts:</HI> As al&s;o from <HI>Irritation</HI> of &s;ome &s;harp <HI>Humour,</HI> or malignant impe|petuous <HI>Vapour,</HI> which cruelly pricks, and bites the <HI>Nerves</HI> to a <HI>Convul&s;ion.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Convul&s;ions</HI> in <HI>Labour</HI> are very terrible and dangerous, yea mo&s;tly the ruine of both <HI>Mother</HI> and <HI>Infant</HI> however they be cau&s;ed:
<PB N="219" REF="118"> And e&s;pecialy the more numerous, frequent, and &s;ore the <HI>Fitts:</HI> As when &s;he gna&s;hes her <HI>Teeth,</HI> fomes at <HI>Mouth</HI> and <HI>No&s;e, Snorts</HI> &s;trongly, remains quite benummed and <HI>Sen&s;ele&s;s:</HI> For then the <HI>Functions</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI> are perverted, irregular <HI>Motions</HI> pro|voked, the <HI>Parts</HI> of the <HI>Body</HI> wre&s;ted and wryed with a terrible <HI>Concu&s;&s;ion</HI> thereof: whence the <HI>Infant</HI> is &s;uffocated, and killed in the <HI>Womb,</HI> or then <HI>She</HI> cannot bear it through <HI>Weakne&s;s.</HI></P>
<P>The only relief in this <HI>Ca&s;e</HI> al&s;o is a &s;peedy <HI>Delivery,</HI> and if the <HI>Womb</HI> be not open enough while they come on, <HI>She</HI> may Bleed in the <HI>Foot,</HI> and in the <HI>Arm</HI> if there be <HI>Plethory,</HI> u&s;e frequent &s;trong <HI>Gly&s;ters</HI> till the <HI>Womb</HI> open that the <HI>Child</HI> can be got forth: proper <HI>Anodins</HI> al&s;o, and <HI>Emollients</HI> to appea&s;e the <HI>Pains,</HI> and &s;o &s;often the <HI>Torments</HI> of the <HI>Labour.</HI> Some Spirit of <HI>Harts-Horn</HI> likewi&s;e, of Salt <HI>Armoniack,</HI> Oyl of <HI>Amber,</HI> and other <HI>Antepilepticks,</HI> or what el&s;e may promove the <HI>Labour,</HI> and divert the <HI>Vapors</HI> to the lower <HI>Parts.</HI> What proceeds from too much lo&s;s of <HI>Blood</HI> is incureable.</P>
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<DIV2 N="27" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="220" REF="119">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXVII.</HI> Of the <HI>Delivery,</HI> when a <HI>Child</HI> is <HI>Hydropical,</HI> or <HI>Mon&s;truous.</HI></HEAD>
<P>SUch being thus far too big for the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age,</HI> the <HI>Birth</HI> or <HI>Delivery</HI> is impo&s;|&s;ible, till 1&s;t the <HI>Drop&s;y</HI> be let out: which is done by a &s;ingle <HI>Inci&s;ion,</HI> or <HI>Hole</HI> made at the <HI>Sutures</HI> of the <HI>Head,</HI> if the <HI>Matter</HI> be con|tained t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erein (as is known by its bigne&s;s and di&s;tention, a &s;eparation of the <HI>Sutures,</HI> and di&s;tance of the <HI>Bones</HI>) and &s;o le&s;&s;en its bigne&s;s, whereupon the re&s;t of the <HI>Body</HI> will be ea&s;ily extracted, its other <HI>Parts</HI> being then u&s;ually &s;mall and much con&s;umed. In like <HI>Manner</HI> al&s;o, mu&s;t <HI>Inci&s;ion,</HI> or a <HI>Slit</HI> be made in the <HI>Brea&s;t,</HI> or <HI>Belly,</HI> for Evacuati|on of the <HI>Drop&s;y,</HI> if contained therein: as is known, while after the <HI>Head</HI> is born, no more of its <HI>Body</HI> can be any <HI>Way</HI> got forth. And this is allowed even while the <HI>Infant</HI> &s;till lives, to &s;ave t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e <HI>Mother:</HI> Yet only in ca&s;e &s;he be brought in great and pre&s;ent danger of <HI>Life,</HI> and no other <HI>Way</HI> po&s;&s;ible of her
<PB N="221" REF="119"> <HI>Delivery</HI> and e&s;cape. If there be need al&s;o to Di&s;member a Mon&s;trous <HI>Child,</HI> and le&s;&s;en it for <HI>Extraction,</HI> or &s;eparate two conjoyned, let the <HI>Knife</HI> be directed ju&s;t to the <HI>Parts</HI> mu&s;t be taken away, cutting them off with all the Indu&s;try po&s;&s;ible, ju&s;t at the <HI>Joynt:</HI> As the double <HI>Bodies,</HI> ju&s;t at the <HI>Place</HI> of their <HI>Cohae&s;ion:</HI> Bringing them after by the <HI>Feet,</HI> 1st. <HI>One</HI> then the <HI>Other:</HI> And the&s;e are <HI>Operations</HI> of greater difficulty and La|bour, then the former, and require more <HI>Time</HI> and <HI>Skill</HI> to the effecting thereof: Though <HI>Such</HI> al&s;o have been &s;afe born entire and con|joyned. The be&s;t <HI>Fa&s;hion</HI> of <HI>In&s;trument</HI> is mentioned already, as is the <HI>Way</HI> of enter|ing and u&s;ing the &s;ame, with the greate&s;t &s;urety, conveniency, ea&s;e and &s;afety.</P>
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<DIV2 N="28" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXVIII.</HI> Of Delivering of a Dead <HI>Child.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe <HI>Labour</HI> with a dead <HI>Child</HI> is ever long and dangerous, and the <HI>Delivery</HI> never almo&s;t but by <HI>Art;</HI> for that it comes
<PB N="222" REF="120"> mo&s;t part wrong, and the <HI>Pains</HI> be&s;ide turn &s;low, weak, and quite ineffectual to its <HI>Birth;</HI> Yea readily gives over: So that it can only be got away with the <HI>Hands,</HI> or <HI>In&s;truments,</HI> whole or, by parts: And mu&s;t be done as &s;oon as can, yet only after all the more valid and vehement <HI>Means</HI> are u&s;ed&punc; to irritate the expul&s;ive <HI>Faculty</HI> &s;o much the more &s;trongly, bring on the <HI>Pains</HI> for detruding the <HI>Infant</HI> mightily, but no|thing avails hereto. In which Ca&s;e, the <HI>Infants Head,</HI> though now it offer right to the <HI>Orifice,</HI> mu&s;t be gently thru&s;t back, an <HI>Hand</HI> introduced into the <HI>Womb,</HI> and &s;lid all along under its <HI>Belly,</HI> up to the <HI>Feet,</HI> to turn them about, and bring it forth there|by, as is formerly taught. Careful in the Extraction, its <HI>Head</HI> lock not in the <HI>Pa&s;sage</HI> (the <HI>Brea&s;t</HI> and <HI>Face</HI> not being downwards) nor be &s;eparated from the <HI>Body,</HI> as may ea&s;ily through its <HI>Putrefaction:</HI> And if the <HI>Head</HI> &s;tick, not being thus directly right, the <HI>Body</HI> mu&s;t not be drawn, till it be placed &s;o, which may be done by putting a flat <HI>Hand</HI> upon the <HI>Face</HI> to cover its <HI>Inequalities,</HI> and help in embraceing it thus, to have it turn more ea&s;ily into that <HI>Situation:</HI> With &s;ome <HI>Fingers</HI> kept &s;till in the <HI>Mouth,</HI> to di&s;ingage
<PB N="223" REF="120"> the <HI>Chin</HI> out of the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age:</HI> Careful to cau&s;e its <HI>Body</HI> at that &s;ame time, follow the movement made to the <HI>Head.</HI> Yet if the <HI>Head</HI> be forced &s;o low, and fix'd &s;o clo&s;e in the <HI>Bones,</HI> as it cannot be put back to have the <HI>Feet</HI> turned to the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age,</HI> without great violence and torment to the <HI>Woman,</HI> it is then ordered to be pulled right forth with the <HI>Hook</HI> (&s;eeing <HI>Hands</HI> can get no firm hold thereof, and being now certainly dead) ea&s;ily pa&s;t up betwixt it and the <HI>Womb,</HI> and that as high as can without violence or hurt, and the <HI>point</HI> thereof to|wards the <HI>Head;</HI> fixing it firmly (that it may not &s;lip or turn) into one of the <HI>Bones</HI> of the <HI>Skull,</HI> and rather behind to draw it forth &s;traight; yet beware &s;o of hurting the <HI>Bladder:</HI> Or (for a better hold) into an <HI>Eye</HI> or <HI>Ear</HI> hole, if it can &s;afely be got &s;o high, wagging and drawing it out piece and piece, keeping &s;ome <HI>Finger</HI> ends upon the oppo&s;ite <HI>Part,</HI> the better to di&s;ingage, and conduct it thus directly out of the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age:</HI> Removing al&s;o the <HI>In&s;trument</HI> piece and piece higher if needful, as it is drawn lower, till thus the <HI>Head</HI> be wholly di&s;engaged and born: And taking hold thereof immediatly with the <HI>Hands</HI> only, the <HI>Shoulders</HI> may be
<PB N="225" REF="121"> drawn into the <HI>Pa&s;sage:</HI> Then &s;liding the <HI>Fingers</HI> of both <HI>Hands</HI> under its <HI>Arm-pitts,</HI> the <HI>Body</HI> may be quite pulled out, and the <HI>Delivery</HI> expede. If its <HI>Arm</HI> pre&s;ent up to the <HI>Shoulder,</HI> and &s;o big &s;welled al&s;o, as it cannot be returned without great Violence, it mu&s;t then be twi&s;ted off at the <HI>Joynt,</HI> and the <HI>Body</HI> turned and brought by the <HI>Feet.</HI> Though the&s;e <HI>Operations</HI> take place only, while no other <HI>Way</HI> or <HI>Mean</HI> is found for <HI>De|livery,</HI> and then mu&s;t be done to all po&s;&s;ible &s;atisfaction,</P>
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<DIV2 N="29" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXIX:</HI> Of Extracting a <HI>Mole</HI> and Fal&s;e <HI>Concepiton.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ALL diligence mu&s;t be given, to rid the <HI>Womb</HI> of &s;uch <HI>Praeternatural</HI> things, e&s;pecially the <HI>Mole:</HI> And that as &s;oon as po&s;&s;ible, for the longer it &s;tays therein, the bigger it grows, and clo&s;er it cleaves, the more it hurts and weakens, by rea&s;on of the&s;e wrackful <HI>Symptoms</HI> accompany.</P>
<P>All <HI>Anti-Hy&s;tericks</HI> are u&s;ed, and applyed
<PB N="225" REF="121"> for its <HI>Expul&s;ion,</HI> as what al&s;o expels the 2<HI>din,</HI> the dead <HI>Child,</HI> or helps in hard <HI>Labour</HI> (the <HI>Genitals</HI> being alwayes before that, fo|mented and anointed with relaxant and &s;oft|ning <HI>Things</HI>) like as <HI>Phlebotomy,</HI> a &s;mall <HI>Dyet,</HI> and <HI>Baths:</HI> which things may readily work its <HI>Expul&s;ion,</HI> in ca&s;e it be but of an indifferent bigne&s;s, and that it adheres but little, or not at all to the <HI>Womb:</HI> For other|wi&s;e, an <HI>Hand</HI> mu&s;t be introduced into the <HI>Womb,</HI> to &s;eparate it therefrom being <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lmo&s;t ever joyned, and &s;ticking immediatly to &s;ome place thereof, without <HI>Water<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> or <HI>String</HI>) and that on the &s;ame wi&s;e, as the &s;ticking <HI>Burden</HI> when the <HI>String</HI> is broke off: U&s;ing the <HI>Crotchet</HI> al&s;o, or <HI>Knife</HI> to draw it forth, or divide it if nece&s;&s;ar, which yet is ea&s;ily brought away whole, when once &s;eparated: But &s;ometimes they are &s;o confu&s;ed together, as both compo&s;e but one and the &s;ame <HI>Body,</HI> and is then incurable, while it cannot be got off.</P>
<P>The fal&s;e <HI>Conception,</HI> from which a <HI>Mole</HI> alwayes proceeds, though much le&s;s, yet often perils the <HI>Womans</HI> Life, through that horrible <HI>Flooding</HI> it procures, and Ince&s;&s;ant al&s;o, while the <HI>Womb</HI> continually enforces to its <HI>Expul&s;ion:</HI> Which yet &s;ometimes is
<PB N="226" REF="122"> hardly got rid off, while &s;o &s;mall, and the <HI>Womb</HI> &s;o little di&s;tended therewith, as can|not be thru&s;t and compre&s;&s;ed &s;o &s;trongly with the <HI>Impul&s;e</HI> of her <HI>Throws,</HI> as when bigger. Neither &s;ometimes can more then one <HI>Finger</HI> only. or <HI>Two</HI> be got entered (the <HI>Orifice</HI> u&s;ually opening in proportion only to the &s;mall <HI>Bulk</HI> it contain<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">) with which <HI>One</HI> mu&s;t labour to get hold thereof, and bring it clean away, with the Clods of <HI>Blood</HI> found there, whereby the <HI>Flooding</HI> will certainly cea&s;e: Or yet loo&s;en it, that it may be expelled: Or that, being by this means mortified, it may di&s;&s;olve after by little and little in <HI>Suppuration,</HI> which may be pro|moved as in the 2<HI>din:</HI> And oftimes the <HI>Blooding</HI> cea&s;es al&s;o when it is quite loo&s;ed. But if one <HI>Finger</HI> only can be entered, and this <HI>Flooding</HI> withall be &s;o vehement, as may quickly kill her, the <HI>In&s;trument Crans-bill</HI> mu&s;t be u&s;ed, or a <HI>Forceps,</HI> to loo&s;en and extract the &s;ame: Careful not to pinch the <HI>Womb</HI> therewith, conducting it up along&s;t the <HI>Finger</HI> fir&s;t introduced, with the touch whereof, <HI>One</HI> may di&s;cern between this <HI>Con|ception,</HI> and the &s;ub&s;tance of the <HI>Womb:</HI> Care|ful al&s;o not to pull too hard at fir&s;t, le&s;t it rent, but a little obliquely, from &s;ide to
<PB N="227" REF="122"> &s;ide, and that he keep the fir&s;t <HI>Grip,</HI> till he get another higher as he draws it off from the <HI>Womb.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="30" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXX.</HI> Of the Cae&s;arean <HI>Section.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT is a skilfull, and dextrous <HI>Extraction</HI> of an <HI>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">fans</HI> from the Mot<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ers <HI>Womb,</HI> her <HI>to wit,</HI> who could otherwi&s;e never be delivered, or by no ot er <HI>Means</HI> exclude her <HI>Birth,</HI> then by a convenient <HI>Section,</HI> as well of the outer <HI>Belly,</HI> as of the <HI>Womb</HI> it &s;elf under it, and the <HI>Membranes;</HI> and &s;o bring it forth indeed by her <HI>Side:</HI> And this without any peril of the <HI>Life</HI> of either, or both, in ca&s;e they be not &s;eized with &s;ome &s;upervenient <HI>Symptom:</HI> pre&s;erving with|all to the <HI>Mother</HI> for the future, her <HI>Fecun|dity,</HI> or <HI>Faculty</HI> of conceiving intire. And under this is comprehended the like <HI>Ex|traction</HI> of a dead <HI>Cbild</HI> from the Mothers <HI>Womb,</HI> while <HI>She</HI> cannot be delivered of it, neither by the <HI>Midwife, Medicaments,</HI> nor the more ea&s;ie and &s;urer help of <HI>Chyrurgery,</HI> and &s;o remaining &s;till inclo&s;ed therein, <HI>She</HI> is put in hazard of <HI>Life,</HI> yea lo&s;t, unle&s;s
<PB N="230" REF="123"> &s;uccoured by this <HI>Section,</HI> the only <HI>Remedy</HI> and <HI>Mean</HI> of her pre&s;ervation. And through the neglect of which in this <HI>Ca&s;e,</HI> a great many as well of the lower, as higher <HI>Rank,</HI> are daily lo&s;t, being evi&s;cerated, and mi|&s;erably butchered to <HI>Death</HI> by ba&s;e <HI>Chyrur|geons,</HI> who boldly try <HI>Experiments</HI> in the <HI>Operations</HI> of <HI>Art</HI> at any rate. They are called Cae&s;arean <HI>Births,</HI> in imitation of the fir&s;t <HI>Roman</HI> Emperor, <HI>to wit Scipio Africa|nus,</HI> who for being thus cut out of his Mo|thers <HI>Womb,</HI> got the Name of <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> though the <HI>Mother</HI> was there killed, and this may be done without her Death. The&s;e who urge the <HI>Belief</HI> and <HI>Practice</HI> hereof, as &s;o very u&s;eful and nece&s;&s;ar for the good of <HI>Mankind,</HI> &s;eek to illu&s;trate and make good the &s;ame, by many <HI>Rea&s;ons,</HI> wonderful <HI>Stories,</HI> and <HI>Examples</HI> of the thing it &s;elf performed with &s;ucce&s;s: With <HI>Examples</HI> al|&s;o of the like, or a wor&s;e and more dange|rous <HI>Operation,</HI> in the &s;ame <HI>Parts</HI> of the <HI>Body</HI> that are here to be cut, <HI>to wit,</HI> the <HI>Mu&s;|cles,</HI> the <HI>Peritoneum,</HI> and the <HI>Womb</HI> it &s;elf; or the&s;e near to them: Yea, in <HI>Some</HI> more noble, and more lae&s;ed, the <HI>Cure</HI> notwith|&s;tanding of which &s;ucceeded happily: adding <HI>Stories</HI> al&s;o and <HI>Ca&s;es</HI> which hath happened
<PB N="231" REF="123"> to the <HI>Womb,</HI> far more difficult then this <HI>Section,</HI> as that the inner part of its <HI>Bottom</HI> hath putrified, yea, and with &s;uch a great <HI>Ulcer,</HI> as dead <HI>Infants</HI> have fallen out there-through upon the <HI>Inte&s;tins,</HI> and b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">en drawn out by the <HI>Belly,</HI> yet the <HI>Woman</HI> recovered: As <HI>Others</HI> al&s;o, who&s;e <HI>Wombs</HI> after <HI>Praecipita|tion,</HI> and perfect <HI>Putrefaction</HI> and <HI>Gangren,</HI> or other <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e,</HI> have been totally cut away: Yea <HI>Others,</HI> from whom it fell away of its own accord, after it was very wa&s;ted and putrid, yet without <HI>Death,</HI> or other &s;ub&s;e|quent <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e:</HI> And many other like <HI>Stories.</HI></P>
<P>The thing however is commonly held fal&s;e and impo&s;&s;ible, and the&s;e <HI>Stories</HI> to be meer <HI>Fables,</HI> and the <HI>Imposture</HI> of their <HI>Authors,</HI> while the <HI>Practice</HI> of it had ever bad &s;ucce&s;s, the <HI>Women</HI> &s;till dying im|mediatly, or &s;oon after this Cruel and Fa|tal <HI>Operation:</HI> and who could not e&s;cape, becau&s;e of the big and irregular <HI>Wound</HI> mu&s;t be made in the <HI>Belly,</HI> and &s;ub&s;tance of the <HI>Womb,</HI> And that Vehement and Mor|tal <HI>Haemorragy</HI> mu&s;t needs hence en&s;ue, the <HI>Womb</HI> and its <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> being now &s;o va&s;tly <HI>Turgid,</HI> and di&s;tent with <HI>Blood:</HI> Be|&s;ide that the <HI>Cicratrize</HI> which comes on after the <HI>Wound</HI> is healed, would marr the
<PB N="232" REF="124"> dilataion of the <HI>Womb</HI> to a new <HI>Birth:</HI> And &s;o for the&s;e and other <HI>Cau&s;es,</HI> they cannot think of &s;uch a <HI>Cure,</HI> &s;o full of danger, Terror, and De&s;peration: and which a pru|dent <HI>Phy&s;ician,</HI> who con&s;ults his own <HI>Cre|dit,</HI> mu&s;t rarely, or never try upon a living <HI>Woman.</HI> Tho yet when it is &s;ure a <HI>Woman</HI> is already dead, or near to <HI>Death,</HI> in the <HI>A|gony</HI> of it&punc; and the <HI>Infant</HI> &s;till alive, but all hope of <HI>Delivery</HI> t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ken away, this <HI>S ction</HI> is to be performed for its pre&s;ervation, and that mo&s;t quickly, all things nece&s;&s;ar being got ready; for much lyes now in a few <HI>Mo|ments</HI> di&s;patch: Nor does the keeping open of her <HI>Mouth</HI> and <HI>Genital<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> avail. So that as &s;oon ever <HI>She</HI> expires, let her <HI>Belly</HI> be cut down along&s;t, to wit, the <HI>Skin, Mu&s;cles,</HI> and the <HI>Peritoneum,</HI> yet mu&s;t not the <HI>Inte&s;tins</HI> be hurt: Next the <HI>Womb,</HI> which mu&s;t be lift up to be cut, le&s;t the <HI>Knife</HI> might haply touch the <HI>Infant:</HI> The <HI>Membranes</HI> &s;traight after, for remaining inclo&s;ed in the&s;e, it &s;oon &s;uffocates: And then let the <HI>Infant</HI> be immediatly taken out with the <HI>Burden&punc;</HI> which mu&s;t be nimbly &s;eparated from the <HI>Fund</HI> of the <HI>Womb.</HI> And now great care mu&s;t be taken of the <HI>Infant,</HI> and <HI>Means</HI> u&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> to recover it of its weakne&s;s, &s;uch as are
<PB N="233" REF="124"> mentioned in the 21 <HI>Chap.</HI> of the 3d. <HI>Book,</HI> if there be <HI>Signs</HI> of <HI>Life;</HI> and &s;ometimes it is hardly di&s;cerned if dead or alive, not any part of its <HI>Body</HI> being perceived to &s;tir.</P>
<P>Having thus briefly treated of <HI>Labours</HI> Natural and Unnatural&punc; and of the be&s;t <HI>Wayes</HI> and <HI>Means</HI> of <HI>Delivery</HI> in either, it remains now to treat of the <HI>Government</HI> of <HI>Women</HI> in <HI>Child bed,</HI> and how new born <HI>Infants</HI> &s;hould be well ordered: As al&s;o of the vari|ous <HI>Indi&s;po&s;itions</HI> and <HI>Di&s;ea&s;es</HI> of both, all which they mu&s;t yet nece&s;&s;arly know that intend the practice of <HI>Deliveries,</HI> and &s;hall be the &s;ubject of the following 3d. and la&s;t <HI>Book.</HI></P>
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<PB N="234" REF="125">
<HEAD>BOOK III.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Of <HI>Women</HI> in <HI>Child-bed,</HI> and of <HI>Children</HI> new-born, with the various <HI>Indi&s;po&s;itions</HI> and <HI>Di&s;|ea&s;es</HI> incident to both.</HEAD>
<P>HAving already brought the big <HI>Wo|man</HI> &s;afely to her <HI>Port,</HI> unloaded al&s;o, or fairly twin'd her and the <HI>Infant,</HI> it yet remains rightly to order both, and &s;hew the <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ans,</HI> may be&s;t prevent and remedy the various <HI>Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">es</HI> they are readily taken with in this new State: Beginning at the <HI>Mother.</HI></P>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. I.</HI> Of Ordering a <HI>Woman</HI> new laid, and Naturally De|livered.</HEAD>
<P>AFter the <HI>Infant</HI> is come, with all its <HI>Flitting,</HI> and &s;o the <HI>Woman</HI> fully de|livered,
<PB N="235" REF="125"> a &s;oft, thick plyed <HI>Clo&s;ure,</HI> mu&s;t be put warm to the <HI>Birth</HI> (being now &s;o open and receptive of <HI>Cold</HI>) and <HI>S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e</HI> then &s;weetly committed to <HI>Bed,</HI> ready warmed (for then al&s;o are <HI>Women</HI> not a little cooled) and duely ordered to her <HI>Ca&s;e:</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">laceing <HI>Her</HI> therein <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;t on the middle of her <HI>Back</HI> (tho <HI>Midwifes</HI> &s;o u&s;ually lay her upon one <HI>Side,</HI> as to make a <HI>Proverb</HI>) her upper <HI>Tarts</HI> a little more rai&s;ed, her <HI>Thighs</HI> and <HI>Legs</HI> &s;tretched down (clo&s;e together &s;ay <HI>Some,</HI> for fear of <HI>Col<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> entring the <HI>Womb,</HI> and for a more &s;peedy Union: Somewhat di&s;tant &s;ay <HI>Others,</HI> that nothing be &s;topt which &s;hould come out) with a &s;mall <HI>Pillow</HI> under each <HI>Ham:</HI> And &s;o &s;he lyes ea&s;ier&punc; Breaths freer, clean&s;es better, the <HI>Womb</HI> al&s;o thus &s;ettles be&s;t into its proper and natural <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lace. And being then a little &s;etled after the gr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at commotion of Labour (<HI>Some</HI> &s;ay 7 or 8 <HI>Hours, Some</HI> even 2 dayes) <HI>She</HI> gets for her refre&s;h|ment, &s;trengthening, and to hinder the <HI>Grind</HI> a little <HI>Caudle, Po&s;&s;et, Panado,</HI> &s;imple <HI>Broth, Gelly,</HI> a To&s;t in Hippocras <HI>Wine,</HI> or the like, as <HI>She</HI> needs, and may &s;afely take. Some order water <HI>Gruel,</HI> of 3 parts <HI>Water,</HI> and one of white <HI>Wine:</HI> Or of <HI>Water</HI> and &s;trong <HI>Beer.</HI> The cu&s;tome is to give new
<PB N="236" REF="126"> drawn Almond <HI>Oyl,</HI> with <HI>Syrup</HI> of <HI>Maiden-Hair</HI> as &s;oon as &s;he is delivered, both for the <HI>Grinding&punc;</HI> and for any roughne&s;s of her <HI>T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">roat</HI> with crying, and then an <HI>Hour</HI> or 2 after, &s;ome <HI>Brot&punc;</HI> of Foul, Veal, and with Mut|ton al&s;o, if nothing more grievous &s;uper|veen: And <HI>Some</HI> give rather a little good <HI>Broth</HI> only: <HI>Some</HI> order <HI>W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e-&s;hot</HI> in burnt <HI>Wine,</HI> or <HI>Julep</HI> of Ro&s;es, morning and evening if the <HI>Labour</HI> hath been long and hard.</P>
<P><HI>She</HI> is ordered after to darkne&s;s (<HI>Labour</HI> giving a great &s;tre&s;s to the <HI>Eyes,</HI> &s;ilence and re&s;t, in a <HI>Chamber</HI> well fenced from <HI>Air</HI> and <HI>Cold,</HI> with a <HI>Nur&s;e-Keeper</HI> by her: Yet <HI>Some</HI> do not let her &s;leep till 4 or 5 Hours after, to be &s;ure all keep right, le&s;t chance|ing to <HI>Flood,</HI> She fall in <HI>Swoon,</HI> yea expire as <HI>Some</HI> who were l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ft fa&s;t &s;leeping: or (as <HI>Some</HI> al&s;o) fall in dangerous &s;leepy <HI>Fits,</HI> by Rea&s;on of a long and &s;ore <HI>Labour.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="237" REF="126">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. II.</HI> Of <HI>Applications</HI> to her <HI>Birth, Belly,</HI> and <HI>Brea&s;ts.</HI></HEAD>
<P>SOme <HI>Infants,</HI> of more big and confirmed <HI>Heads,</HI> does &s;o extreamly compre&s;s and &s;tretch the <HI>Birth</HI> or <HI>Genitals,</HI> in pa&s;&s;ing, as to cau&s;e great and painful <HI>Contu&s;ions,</HI> and <HI>Excoriations,</HI> yea &s;ometimes <HI>Dilacerations</HI> thereof. To temper and appea&s;e the&s;e <HI>Pains,</HI> and prevent <HI>Inflammation, One</HI> may apply thereto, Oyl of <HI>Almonds,,</HI> St. <HI>John</HI>'s <HI>wort, Ro&s;es, Chamemel,</HI> the white <HI>Oyntment, Nutritum,</HI> and the like: Or an anodin Oyntment may be applyed, made of fre&s;h Oyl of <HI>Almonds,</HI> yolks of <HI>Eggs,</HI> white <HI>Wax,</HI> with a little <HI>Turpentine:</HI> And in ca&s;e they be more grievous, &s;ome fre&s;h <HI>Eggs</HI> may be beat with the&s;e <HI>Oyls,</HI> or with fre&s;h <HI>Butter,</HI> and &s;tirred over hot <HI>Embers</HI> into a <HI>Pultis,</HI> then laid warm upon the lower <HI>Belly</HI> and <HI>Privities,</HI> the <HI>Clo&s;ures</HI> being fir&s;t re|moved, and any <HI>Clods</HI> of Blood left there. <HI>Some</HI> will have the bearing <HI>Place</HI> fomented 2, 3, or 4 times a day, for the 1&s;t. 5 or 6 dayes, with a lukewarm <HI>Decoction</HI> of <HI>Barley</HI>
<PB N="238" REF="127"> and <HI>Orpin Leaves:</HI> Or of <HI>Barley, Lin&s;eed, Chervil:</HI> Or of <HI>Mar&s;h-Mallows</HI> and <HI>Violet</HI> leaves, adding Honey of <HI>Ro&s;es:</HI> Spunging &s;oftly, to clean&s;e them from the Blood, Clods, and other Filth, le&s;t through too much Moi&s;ture, Acrimony, or Corruption there|of, they Scald, Canker, Corrode or Ulce|rate; changing the <HI>Clo&s;ure</HI> al&s;o by that time it contract nothing of <HI>Stink. Some</HI> u&s;e lukewarm <HI>Milk</HI> only, and &s;ome Barley <HI>Wa|ter:</HI> Though that <HI>Lotion</HI> is be&s;t forborn the 1&s;t. 2, or 3. dayes, and to be u&s;ed al&s;o under the Cloaths, that no <HI>Cold</HI> come near, or enter the&s;e <HI>Parts,</HI> then &s;o very patent (there being nothing more mi&s;chievous) e&s;pecially if the <HI>Sea&s;on</HI> be more Cold, or the <HI>Woman</HI> tender and delicate, and after a warmer <HI>Labour.</HI> Let nothing be&s;ide be applyed, may cool or much commove her, to di&s;turb, or &s;top her due <HI>Cour&s;e</HI> of <HI>Clean&s;ing:</HI> whence many grievous, and oftimes dead|ly <HI>Symptoms:</HI> For which al&s;o let no <HI>A&s;trin|gents</HI> be u&s;ed.</P>
<P>They appoint A&s;tringent Fomentations al&s;o, or Lotions for the&s;e lower <HI>Parts,</HI> u&s;ed Evenings and Mornings after perfect <HI>Clean|&s;ing,</HI> to contract their great Laxity and Di&s;tention, Settle, Fortify, and confirm
<PB N="139" REF="127"> the &s;ame after &s;uch <HI>Violence,</HI> and dry up the remaining <HI>Moi&s;ture</HI> thereof: Made of <HI>Mil|foil, Ladies-Mantle, Hor&s;e-tail, Mou&s;e-ear, Plantain, Flowers</HI> and <HI>Peel</HI> of Pomegranates, <HI>Acorns,</HI> Cupre&s;s <HI>Nutts,</HI> Mirtle <HI>Berries,</HI> and other <HI>A&s;tringents,</HI> prepared in <HI>Smiths</HI> water, or au&s;ter red <HI>Wine,</HI> or a mixture thereof: And with the&s;e are commended (who need or require them yet &s;tronger) Fine <HI>Bole,</HI> Scaled <HI>Earth,</HI> Dragons <HI>Blood, Corral, Ma|&s;tick, Allom:</HI> Though &s;uch <HI>Preparations</HI> are rarely &s;ought, or yet needed: For that the <HI>Womb</HI> in&s;tantly after <HI>Labour,</HI> betakes its &s;elf into its own place, begins to contract, and by degrees, as the <HI>Clean&s;ings</HI> flow away, Clings and Crines (gathering to it &s;elf all its <HI>Sub&s;tance</HI>) &s;o that again in few <HI>Dayes</HI> after, 6, 7, 14. (yet <HI>Some</HI> far longer, for their <HI>Nature</HI> and <HI>Di&s;po&s;ition,</HI> or in a more Humid, Lax, Sickly <HI>State</HI>) it returns to the former &s;olidity and firmne&s;s, pri&s;tin <HI>Form</HI> and <HI>Magnitude,</HI> with a <HI>Cavity</HI> little enough: Its <HI>Parts</HI> al&s;o recover their former Integrity and Soundne&s;s of <HI>Con&s;titution,</HI> as if they had never &s;o gaped, or &s;uffered any &s;uch di|&s;tention, unle&s;s it hath been more violent, or there be <HI>Laceration,</HI> great <HI>Excoriation, In|flammation,</HI> or <HI>&V;lcer:</HI> It &s;erving for ordi|nar,
<PB N="140" REF="128"> to keep them dry and clean, well &s;e|cured again&s;t the lea&s;t Cold. the <HI>Woman</HI> al&s;o in right <HI>Condition.</HI> As for her <HI>Belly, Some</HI> appoint the 2<HI>din.</HI> while yet warm from the <HI>Womb,</HI> to be in&s;tantly ap|plyed to her <HI>Navel,</HI> and after it is removed, a <HI>Sheep-skin</HI> flaid alive, to be laid over her whole <HI>Belly, Loyns</HI> and <HI>Reins,</HI> or yet a <HI>Hares-Skin:</HI> And <HI>Some</HI> will have the <HI>Bur|den</HI> applyed to the region of the <HI>Womb,</HI> e&s;pe|cially in the <HI>Winter,</HI> and the <HI>Sheep-skin</HI> in the <HI>Summer:</HI> But this is not in u&s;e. She mu&s;t have a Plai&s;ter of <HI>Galbanum</HI> to her <HI>Navel,</HI> with a little <HI>Musk,</HI> or <HI>Civet</HI> in the midle, though its <HI>Smell</HI> mu&s;t not come at her <HI>No&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>A <HI>Swath</HI> and <HI>Bol&s;ter</HI> al&s;o, may be apply|ed to her <HI>Belly,</HI> 4 or 5 hours after Delivery, or the next day: Where <HI>Some</HI> u&s;e a four plyed hand breadth <HI>Linnen</HI> only, which they pin but once only about the <HI>Belly,</HI> and chiefly the region of the <HI>Navel,</HI> that the <HI>Womb</HI> &s;o va&s;tly blown up by the Pregnancy, and dilated above it, may be ea&s;ily reduced to its proper <HI>Seat,</HI> and the di&s;tended <HI>Belly</HI> al&s;o to its Amplitude and u&s;ual bigne&s;s. <HI>Some</HI> u&s;e Others, which they roll oft about, and place lower, therewith to &s;upport the
<PB N="241" REF="128"> <HI>Womb,</HI> keep it un&s;haken, &s;teady and even, without enclining, or tumbling to the one <HI>Side</HI> or other. It is be&s;t however, they be made more &s;lack and ea&s;ie, the 1st 7 or 8 days, chiefly after a painful <HI>Labour,</HI> el&s;e the <HI>Womb</HI> having &s;uffe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed great Violence and Compre&s;|&s;ion, made &s;ore and tender thereby, is now &s;till much hurt, and mu&s;t &s;oon inflame by this clo&s;e, and &s;trait <HI>Swathing</HI> after.</P>
<P>Her <HI>Brea&s;ts</HI> mu&s;t be k<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pt very ea&s;ie, clo&s;e and warm, to prevent a Curdling of the <HI>Milk,</HI> or the other <HI>Troubles</HI> &s;oon incurrs, when any way hurt, or yet expo&s;ed to the <HI>Air.</HI> It is be&s;t al&s;o, they be not Suckt for &s;ome dayes, till the <HI>Humours</HI> &s;o vehement|ly agitated, or jumbled and heated in the to&s;s of <HI>Labour,</HI> be &s;omewhat &s;etled, and that more copious <HI>Ru&s;h</HI> of <HI>Milk,</HI> which then &s;prings up, and &s;o exceedingly pre|vails in the <HI>Brea&s;ts</HI> of new laid <HI>Women,</HI> be al&s;o a&s;&s;waged and &s;pent:</P>
<P>If there be danger of a too great reple|tion, <HI>One</HI> may apply &s;oft <HI>Rags,</HI> with Oyl or Oyntment of <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> or Oyl of <HI>Myrtles,</HI> with a little <HI>Vinegar:</HI> Or equal parts of <HI>Poplar</HI> Oyntment, and <HI>Galen</HI>'s Cer-Cloth: Or Ho|ney of <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> or of <HI>Mulberries,</HI> or the u&s;ual <HI>Wax-cloaths,</HI> and &s;uch like Anodin, gent|ly
<PB N="143" REF="129"> a&s;tringent and repercu&s;&s;ive things <HI>She</HI> mu&s;t feed al&s;o &s;paringly e&s;pecially of things more liq<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">id, care<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ul withall to keep an open <HI>Be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">,</HI> and clean&s;e well, (a new laid <HI>Wo|man</HI> being he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d a great <HI>Ditch</HI> and <HI>Sink</HI> of Filth) that thus the <HI>Humours</HI> may be drawn downward from the <HI>Brea&s;ts</HI> into the <HI>Womb,</HI> and &s;o be evacuated.</P>
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<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. III.</HI> How to Govern <HI>Women</HI> in <HI>Child-bed,</HI> when there is no ill <HI>Accident.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Special care of &s;uch is very requi&s;ite, to &s;ecure again&s;t many unh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ppy <HI>Evil</HI> mo&s;t frequently then befalls them, whereby all Joy for the born <HI>Child</HI> is marred; and that not only by rea&s;on of the <HI>Labour</HI> it &s;elf or of the <HI>Womb</HI> and after <HI>Purgations,</HI> and others peculiar only to <HI>Child-bed,</HI> but ever through the lea&s;t neglect and Error in th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <HI>Tenaing:</HI> and by the&s;e al&s;o which may &s;eiz<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> them at other <HI>Occa&s;ions,</HI> though now mor<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> acute and grievous: Yet the chief care i<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">
<PB N="243" REF="129"> again&s;t a <HI>Feaver,</HI> to which they are then &s;o &s;ubject, as it is u&s;ually &s;aid to bear a <HI>Child,</HI> is to be &s;ick of a <HI>Feaver;</HI> and mu&s;t fall in with more vehemency and peril, after a hard <HI>Labour:</HI> Yet if it be not great, one needs not much fear other <HI>Symptoms,</HI> altho terrible: For <HI>Some</HI> &s;uffering mo&s;t griev|ou&s;ly, have been oftimes quickly re&s;tored. They mu&s;t therefore forbear the more &s;trong and &s;olid <HI>Meats, Spieceries, Wine:</HI> Chief|ly they in the fir&s;t <HI>Child,</HI> beyond Others who are more &s;ecure of the <HI>Event:</HI> And at lea&s;t while the <HI>Feaver</HI> of <HI>Milk</HI> is imminent and la&s;ts, which ever happens the 2d, 3d or 4th day, while they are concerned for Suckling the <HI>Child.</HI> And is whiles very &s;ore, continuing mo&s;tly till the 9th, when it u&s;ually goes off with Sweating: Being di&s;tingui&s;hed from the <HI>Putrid,</HI> in that th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ir <HI>Brea&s;ts</HI> begin to fill with <HI>Milk,</HI> have hardne&s;s, Pain and weight; there is a weight al&s;o and heat of their <HI>Back</HI> and <HI>Shoulders:</HI> And the <HI>Purgations</HI> flow rightly, which mo&s;t rarely happens in the <HI>Putrid.</HI> They mu&s;t al|&s;o feed &s;parely, of a &s;mall &s;imple <HI>Dyet,</HI> chiefly where the <HI>Labour</HI> is more cruel, and the <HI>Event</HI> more doubtful: As thin Water <HI>Gruels,</HI> Oat-Meal <HI>Caudles, Panado's,</HI> Broths
<PB N="244" REF="130"> made of <HI>Foul,</HI> of <HI>Veal,</HI> or yet <HI>Mutton,</HI> with <HI>Barly, Currans, Rai&s;ans, A&s;paragus</HI> or <HI>Cich<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ry</HI> Roots: <HI>Gelly</HI> with a little <HI>Saffron:</HI> Or a <HI>Caudle</HI> well Boiled, of whole <HI>Water,</HI> half <HI>Wine</HI> more or le&s;s, and <HI>Yolks</HI> of Eggs: Which may al&s;o he mixed with &s;ome Chicken <HI>Broth.</HI> Drinking <HI>Pti&s;an,</HI> of <HI>Gra&s;s</HI> and <HI>Altaea</HI> Roots, with <HI>Liquiri&s;h</HI> and <HI>Ani&s;eeds:</HI> Or <HI>Wa|ter</HI> boyled with <HI>Cinamon:</HI> Or <HI>Decoction</HI> of <HI>Barley</HI> with Syrup of <HI>Maden-hair:</HI> Or boyl|ed <HI>Water,</HI> with Juyce of <HI>Oranges,</HI> and a little <HI>Cinamon:</HI> Or the <HI>Decoction</HI> of <HI>Mugwort</HI> and <HI>Maiden-hair, Vervain,</HI> or Mother of <HI>Time,</HI> with a little <HI>Wine</HI> or <HI>Broth:</HI> Or a &s;mall <HI>Rheni&s;h</HI> or white <HI>Wine Po&s;set,</HI> or yet of <HI>Sock,</HI> if they be weak, and without <HI>Feaver,</HI> and the re&s;t which may promove the Clean|&s;ings, prevent <HI>Feaver.</HI> They mu&s;t be &s;pare however of Drinking the 1&s;t. 7 days, for their Brea&s;ts: And have it al&s;o lukwarm, for ex|citing grips: Forbearing all things notably <HI>Cold,</HI> too cooling, or acid, more hot al&s;o, o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> vehemently warming: As all things binding. When all trouble of the <HI>Milk</HI> is over, and that <HI>Feaver</HI> truly &s;ettled, they may have at <HI>Midday,</HI> a little of &s;ome more &s;olid <HI>Meat,</HI> yet rather boyled than Ro&s;ted: Advan|cing after to their <HI>Re&s;tauration</HI> if no com|plaints
<PB N="245" REF="130"> occurr, in the Kinds and Quantity of <HI>Meat</HI> and drink, both at <HI>Supper</HI> and <HI>Dinner:</HI> Yet &s;till according to their <HI>Strength</HI> and <HI>Condition</HI> (by which the <HI>Indication</HI> of their <HI>Dyet</HI> mu&s;t ever be regulated, which is &s;till to be &s;uch, as a <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e</HI> may never either hence ari&s;e, or yet augment, and that <HI>Na|ture</HI> be &s;till &s;tronger then the <HI>Meat,</HI> and not the <HI>Meat</HI> &s;tronger then <HI>Nature</HI>) the <HI>Sea&s;on</HI> al&s;o, their <HI>Con&s;titution, Custom,</HI> manner of <HI>Delivery</HI> and the like: Whence <HI>Some</HI> may take &s;olid <HI>Meat</HI> once a day, from the very 1&s;t 8. or 10. hours after <HI>Delivery,</HI> and <HI>&s;ome</HI> may &s;afely take the double, twice al&s;o to <HI>Others</HI> once: And <HI>Somes</HI> Meat, may be <HI>O|thers</HI> Poy&s;on: Yet a &s;pare &s;mall <HI>Dyet</HI> is &s;ecure&s;t for all, of convenient juyce and Temperature, of good ea&s;y <HI>Digestion,</HI> rather little and ofter, till all fear of <HI>Feaver</HI> be over: For <HI>Experience</HI> te&s;tifies how &s;ore back ca&s;ts many <HI>Women</HI> get through mi|&s;takes, and too much indulgence herein, even after they appeared pa&s;t all the dangers and troubles of <HI>Labour.</HI></P>
<P><HI>She</HI> mu&s;t ly well warm in Bed, e&s;pecial|ly in a colder <HI>Sea&s;on</HI> (for the <HI>Air</HI> now ea&s;ily enters the empty <HI>Womb</HI>) very &s;till and quiet in a right <HI>Po&s;ture,</HI> that the <HI>Womb</HI> may
<PB N="246" REF="131"> &s;ettle the better, keep calm and tranquil in <HI>Mind,</HI> free from Concern or care of Bu&s;i|ne&s;s: &s;ecured again&s;t <HI>Anger, Fright,</HI> Sur|prize and the like (For <HI>Some</HI> alarms at eve|ry <HI>Triffle</HI>) and e&s;pecially, that they get &s;ea|&s;onable, full, tranquil <HI>Sleep,</HI> a &s;afe <HI>Mean</HI> to pre&s;erve <HI>Health,</HI> and prevent the Gene|ration of <HI>Di&s;ea&s;es,</HI> and of greater power to recover and re&s;tore the <HI>Spirits,</HI> then <HI>Meats</HI> or <HI>Drinks</HI> of the highe&s;t preparations. There mu&s;t be no <HI>Company,</HI> or <HI>Comering,</HI> e&s;pecially during that Feaveri&s;h <HI>Emotion</HI> of the <HI>Milk:</HI> Nor mu&s;t their Body <HI>Cloatbs</HI> be ra&s;hly &s;hift|ed, till after the 1&s;t 5. or 7 dayes. It is be&s;t al&s;o they get <HI>Pa&s;&s;age</HI> each 2d or 3d day, u&s;ing <HI>Gly&s;ters</HI> for that effect, of <HI>Milk,</HI> or the <HI>Decoction</HI> of <HI>Mallows</HI> with <HI>Sugar:</HI> And make chiefly a due and natural <HI>Clean&s;ing.</HI> Then after 2 or 3 Weeks, more or le&s;s, for their <HI>Nature, Cu&s;tom</HI> and <HI>Di&s;po&s;ition,</HI> when perfectly Clean&s;ed and recovered, they may gently purge off what <HI>Impurity</HI> yet remains in the <HI>Body,</HI> and could not be carried out by the <HI>Womb:</HI> Yea (to accompli&s;h their <HI>Purification,</HI> and make every white clean) bath and wa&s;h once and again: And &s;o after live as they li&s;t.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="247" REF="131">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. IV.</HI> How to put away the <HI>Milk</HI> from <HI>The&s;e</HI> who give not <HI>Suck.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT is alike as to this, whether the <HI>Milk</HI> be made of any &s;ort of <HI>Blood,</HI> as was held of old: Or of <HI>Chyl,</HI> Crude, or yet Pre|pared, and precipitated, or filtered from the <HI>Blood</HI> in the <HI>Arteries,</HI> or then &s;eparated by &s;ome Acid <HI>Liquor</HI> or <HI>Ferment:</HI> Or if made of both the&s;e together: Or of the Chyl|ous <HI>Juyce,</HI> and a Serous part of the Arteri|al <HI>Blood:</HI> Or of &s;ome Arterial and Nervous <HI>Juyce:</HI> Or if it be a lymphatick <HI>Liquor,</HI> di&s;charged into the <HI>Brea&s;ts,</HI> and filtered from the <HI>Glandules,</HI> and driven forth from the <HI>Paps,</HI> through the Milky <HI>Channels,</HI> or what el&s;e.</P>
<P>To put it away, &s;ome <HI>Things</HI> are apply|ed over the <HI>Brea&s;ts,</HI> which are A&s;tringent and Cooling, may &s;omewhat contract the <HI>Ve&s;sels,</HI> and <HI>Pores</HI> of the <HI>Glanduls,</HI> &s;traiten and &s;top the Milk <HI>Pa&s;&s;ages,</HI> impede a &s;epa|ration and afflux of the <HI>Milk:</HI> Such already
<PB N="248" REF="132"> mentioned in the 2d Chap. <HI>Linnen</HI> al&s;o wet in <HI>Lees</HI> of Red <HI>Wine</HI> alone, or mixt with <HI>Oyl</HI> of <HI>Ro&s;es:</HI> Or wet in the <HI>Water</HI> or <HI>De|coction</HI> of Ladies <HI>Mantle, Horstail, Plantain Juyce</HI> of <HI>Medlars,</HI> di&s;&s;olution of <HI>Allom</HI> and the like.</P>
<P>Others again are applyed to re&s;olve, di&s;|cu&s;s and dry up the <HI>Milk</HI> therein, as a <HI>Pul|ti&s;e</HI> of Bean <HI>Meal</HI> with <HI>Oxymel,</HI> or of the other <HI>Meals</HI> al&s;o and a litle <HI>Cumin,</HI> boiled with the Decoction of <HI>Sage, Chervil,</HI> or <HI>Rue,</HI> or with white <HI>Wine,</HI> adding Oyntment of <HI>Althaeae,</HI> and Oyl of <HI>Chamemel:</HI> Or yet a Cercloath of white <HI>Wax, Whale-&s;hot, Galba|num, Saffron,</HI> and <HI>Oyl</HI> of <HI>Almonds. Some</HI> apply <HI>Honey</HI> only, and to make it an effectu|al <HI>Remedy,</HI> lay a <HI>Cabbage</HI> leaf therewith, a little deadened before the Fire: Or make a <HI>Pulti&s;e</HI> al&s;o of the <HI>Cabbage</HI> Boyled, and <HI>Oyl</HI> of <HI>Chamemel,</HI> The <HI>Ceru&s;s</HI> Plai&s;ter is u&s;ed, as is <HI>Diapalma,</HI> and <HI>Diachylon:</HI> A <HI>Fomenta|tion</HI> al&s;o of Sea <HI>Water:</HI> Or of an equal mixture of <HI>Wine,</HI> and <HI>Water</HI> of <HI>Rue,</HI> with Venice <HI>Soap.</HI> Nothing mu&s;t be applyed vehemently cooling, or a&s;tringent, or too deeply repelling: It is &s;afe&s;t al&s;o that 1st ru&s;h of the <HI>Milk</HI> be &s;oftly Suckt, or Milk|ed out, and after by degrees, Re&s;train. Re|pell,
<PB N="249" REF="132"> or di&s;cu&s;s as &s;hall be requi&s;ite: &s;till careful of the lea&s;t <HI>Cold</HI> in the application or removeal: For that any outward <HI>Cold,</HI> (as all actually cold things, is extreamly hurtful. <HI>She</HI> mu&s;t the while u&s;e a &s;pare &s;mall <HI>Dyet,</HI> le&s;s Humid, forbeariug <HI>Broths,</HI> white or &s;mall <HI>Wine,</HI> and other things more Liquid, mu&s;t al&s;o drink little, el&s;e it readily encrea&s;es. And be &s;ure above all, <HI>She</HI> makes an ample <HI>Clean&s;ing,</HI> which carries the <HI>Humours</HI> more downwards, and may be much advanced by ftequent <HI>Gly&s;ters. Some</HI> in the mean while advi&s;e <HI>Cupping Gla&s;&s;es</HI> to the inner part of the <HI>Thighs</HI> and <HI>Groyns,</HI> and above the <HI>Na|vel.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. V.</HI> Of <HI>Child-bed Clean&s;ings.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THey are held to be <HI>Blood</HI> and <HI>Humours</HI> I&s;&s;uing from the whole <HI>Body,</HI> but chiefly and immediatly from the <HI>Pores</HI> and <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> being ama&s;&s;ed therein during Pregnancy, and Suppre&s;&s;ion of the <HI>Cour&s;es,</HI> and wherewith its <HI>Spungy,</HI> &s;oft, more porous and thick Sub&s;tance is filled,
<PB N="250" REF="133"> and its <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> al&s;o di&s;tended, and rende|red &s;o very big and turgid, chiefly as the <HI>Labour</HI> approaches, by that abundance of <HI>Blood,</HI> which they then carry and contain, that being laid open, by &s;eparation of the 2<HI>din.</HI> there gu&s;hes out pure, mo&s;t florid <HI>Blood,</HI> as in all other great <HI>Wounds,</HI> and the very &s;ame with the re&s;t in the <HI>Body:</HI> There|after (this abundance &s;oon abating) that which is feculent and pale, lo&s;eing by degrees its Redne&s;s, and growing &s;till more Pale, and di&s;coloured: Which venting al&s;o &s;till le&s;s and le&s;s, clods in &s;mall <HI>Drops</HI> upon the <HI>Mouths</HI> of the <HI>Ve&s;&s;els,</HI> beginning now to fall toge|ther, and &s;tops them; whence the mo&s;t Se|rous <HI>Part,</HI> or <HI>Bloody</HI> and very pale <HI>Sero&s;ities</HI> only is evacuated: And in end (the <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> being near intirely clo&s;ed) a white Ichorous Purulent <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tter</HI> is excerned. And thus, all that is di&s;charged, which would mole&s;t not the <HI>Womb</HI> only, but the whole <HI>Body</HI> al&s;o: Whereby <HI>Women</HI> then are &s;o fair and well favoured. And thus al&s;o it is known, that there hath been a due and &s;ufficient <HI>Purgation</HI> after <HI>Labour,</HI> while there comes fir&s;t pure <HI>Blood,</HI> mo&s;t plentiful, then a feculent and &s;carcer, la&s;tly the purulent, yea this &s;ome|times more copious. <HI>Some</HI> make this latter
<PB N="251" REF="133"> <HI>Evacuation</HI> the meer Moi&s;ture, and &s;uper|fluous Humidity, which tran&s;udes the <HI>Pores</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> and the <HI>Ve&s;sels</HI> newly clo&s;ed, acquiring by the <HI>Heat</HI> of the&s;e <HI>Places,</HI> a <HI>Con|&s;i&s;tence</HI> &s;omewhat thick, and that more or le&s;s, for the manner of vent, and its &s;tay therein. <HI>Others</HI> make it the <HI>Humour</HI> which affords the Cry&s;tallin <HI>Liquor</HI> to the <HI>Infant,</HI> for that the <HI>Womb</HI> may be &s;een not whol|ly red and &s;tuffed with <HI>Blood,</HI> but with other <HI>Humours</HI> al&s;o: Be&s;ide, that in mo&s;t new laid <HI>Women,</HI> it vents with their ea&s;e, rather then hurt, &s;o that it would bring on alike ill <HI>Symptoms</HI> if &s;uppre&s;t: And to be either at lea&s;t excerned in place of the <HI>Blood,</HI> in <HI>The&s;e</HI> exhau&s;ted of it, or evacuated alone, which in a natual <HI>State,</HI> u&s;es and ought to flow together with it, from which it then receives a <HI>Tincture. Some</HI> make it the <HI>Brea&s;t Milk,</HI> being as it were <HI>Milk,</HI> and the <HI>Milk</HI> u&s;ually abating in proportion hereto, And this <HI>Evacuation</HI> al&s;o &s;oon drying up by Sucking the <HI>Brea&s;ts,</HI> And which may al&s;o flow by the <HI>Womb.</HI> as the <HI>Cour&s;es</HI> have come by the <HI>Brea&s;ts,</HI> tho mo&s;t rarely.</P>
<P>The <HI>Clean&s;ings</HI> however, ought to flow naturally, mo&s;t pure florid <HI>Blood</HI> &s;ome while at fir&s;t, and more copious (tho all are not
<PB N="252" REF="134"> herein alike) yet &s;till di&s;colour and dimi|ni&s;h by degrees, till they quite cea&s;e: And continue to Vent the while freely, without any &s;top: Be of an equal <HI>Con&s;istence</HI> al&s;o, and without <HI>Acrimony,</HI> ill <HI>Scent</HI> or other &s;trange <HI>Quality:</HI> Flowing be&s;ide with ea&s;e, in moderate <HI>Quantity,</HI> and Ju&s;t <HI>Continu|ance,</HI> according to <HI>Womens</HI> various <HI>Conditi|ons</HI> and <HI>Circum&s;tances:</HI> Yet &s;ometimes they are notably vitiated, through a bad <HI>Di&s;po|&s;ition</HI> of the <HI>Place</HI> whence they flow, their manner of <HI>Vent,</HI> and mixture of other <HI>Impu|rities</HI> and <HI>Corruption,</HI> there Stay al&s;o in the <HI>Womb</HI> after extrava&s;ation. Whence they are whiles Blacki&s;h, whiles pale, greeni&s;h al&s;o, whiles thinner, whiles more gro&s;s and <HI>Lum|py,</HI> whiles acrimonious or &s;oft, whiles al&s;o &s;tink more or le&s;s &s;trongly: Yea <HI>Some</HI> have them &s;o &s;tinking and &s;ordid, as they &s;eem wor&s;e than any other <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e:</HI> And &s;ignify mo&s;tly the Corruption and putrefaction of &s;ome <HI>Sub&s;tance</HI> left within, the <HI>Suppre&s;&s;ion</HI> or retention of the&s;e <HI>Purgations,</HI> whence they putrify: Or that &s;omething is torn and &s;epa|rated in the <HI>Infants</HI> pa&s;&s;age: Of all which it is fit to make mention. But the two chief <HI>Vices</HI> of the <HI>Clean&s;ings</HI> to be mentioned, are an im|moderate <HI>Flux</HI> thereof, and their <HI>Suppre&s;&s;ion.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="253" REF="134">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. VI.</HI> Of <HI>Floodings,</HI> or an immode|rate <HI>Flux</HI> of the <HI>Clean&s;|ings.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe chief <HI>Cau&s;es</HI> are, <HI>Dilaceration</HI> of the <HI>Veins</HI> and <HI>Arteries</HI> in the <HI>Neck</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> in the violent <HI>Labour</HI> of a big <HI>Child:</HI> a ra&s;h violent &s;eparation of the <HI>After-birth,</HI> and tearing of the <HI>Surface</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> and its turgid <HI>Ve&s;&s;els,</HI> &s;o many and &s;o pernicious <HI>Wounds:</HI> The Laxity al&s;o and too large Apertion of the&s;e <HI>Ve&s;sels:</HI> The im|petuo&s;ity of the <HI>Blood</HI> in a full <HI>Body:</HI> Its acrimony, thinne&s;s and fluidity, while much agitated, heated and rarified in a cruel <HI>La|bour,</HI> or by <HI>Meats</HI> or <HI>Medicines</HI> unskilfully u&s;ed at that time: The laxne&s;s al&s;o, or debi|lity of the <HI>Womb</HI> after &s;uch a a <HI>Labour,</HI> which cannot therefore contract it &s;elf: Any &s;trange <HI>Body</HI> lodged &s;till in its <HI>Cavity,</HI> be it a piece of the <HI>Burden,</HI> a fal&s;e <HI>Conception,</HI> or yet <HI>Clods</HI> of congealed <HI>Blood,</HI> making di&s;tention, Pains and this copious <HI>Bleeding,</HI> while it works for <HI>Expul&s;ion</HI> thereof.</P>
<PB N="254" REF="135">
<P>This is the mo&s;t dangerous and di&s;mal <HI>Accident</HI> of any, and hath mo&s;t quickly di&s;pat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hed <HI>Some</HI> (and who &s;eemed very happily laid, yea for all the <HI>Helps</HI> could be u&s;ed) through an immen&s;e Profu&s;ion of <HI>Blood,</HI> the trea&s;ure of their <HI>Life,</HI> &s;treaming out with &s;ome violence: yea <HI>Some</HI> while neither <HI>Midwife,</HI> nor any by did advert: And this <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> of their <HI>Death,</HI> the Bloody <HI>Bed</HI> they lay upon did well di&s;cover. If it be more moderat, yet continue long, it becomes incureable, or is with great dif|ficulty &s;topt and dryed: And &s;oon makes <HI>Cachexy, Atrophy, Decay,</HI> an ugly <HI>Complexi|on,</HI> continual <HI>Whites,</HI> oedematous <HI>Inflati|ons</HI> of the <HI>Legs:</HI> And oftimes a <HI>Tympany,</HI> or deadly <HI>Drop&s;y</HI> of the whole <HI>Body,</HI> chief|ly in an un&s;ound <HI>Con&s;titution, Elder Age,</HI> and after many and hard <HI>Travails.</HI> It is not &s;o fearful, from its <HI>Quantity</HI> and Conti|nuance (for <HI>Some Bleed</HI> a &s;pace, and more copiou&s;ly, without great <HI>Peril,</HI> while <HI>Others</HI> are &s;uddenly extinct for the various <HI>Cir|cum&s;tances</HI>) as from its unea&s;ine&s;s, and wrackful <HI>Symptoms,</HI> to wit, the &s;udden <HI>Ruin</HI> of <HI>Strength</HI> and <HI>Appetite,</HI> a languid, intermittent, yet &s;wifter <HI>Pulse, Vertigo,</HI> dim|ne&s;s of <HI>Sight,</HI> tingling of the <HI>Ears, Faintings,
<PB N="255" REF="135"> Suo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nings,</HI> light <HI>Convul&s;ions, Lethargick</HI> &s;leeping, and the re&s;t.</P>
<P>The <HI>Cure</HI> lyes in &s;top of the <HI>Blood,</HI> which being the trea&s;ure of <HI>Life,</HI> mu&s;t by all <HI>Means</HI> be &s;aved: Tho yet a ra&s;h and too &s;udden &s;top, hath been very pernicious, and pro|duced a <HI>Ro&s;e, Tumors,</HI> and other <HI>Preternatu|ral</HI> things in the <HI>Womb,</HI> Di&s;tention of the <HI>Belly,</HI> Pains under the &s;hort <HI>Ribs,</HI> hard <HI>Breathing, Suffocation,</HI> future <HI>Barrenne&s;s,</HI> and <HI>Death</HI> not &s;eldom.</P>
<P>The prime <HI>Intentions</HI> are, to temper and lenify the <HI>Blood,</HI> cool and incra&s;&s;ate the &s;ame, allay its Praeternatural <HI>Efferve&s;cence,</HI> &s;top its <HI>Impetuo&s;ity,</HI> that the <HI>Pores</HI> of the <HI>Ve&s;|&s;els</HI> may not be &s;o &s;trained by its vehement <HI>Ae&s;tuation:</HI> Heal and con&s;olidat the <HI>Excoriati|ons,</HI> fortify the laxer <HI>Parts</HI> and <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI> and the re&s;t, as the different <HI>Cau&s;es</HI> require.</P>
<P>In this ca&s;e, the <HI>Woman</HI> mu&s;t ly equally flat in <HI>Bed,</HI> very &s;till and calm, and be kept &s;omewhat cool. U&s;eng the more ea&s;y things at fir&s;t, while the <HI>Flux</HI> continues moderat, the <HI>Blood</HI> gro&s;s and party-coloured, and <HI>She</HI> weakens not much: Such as <HI>Panado's, Gellies, Rice,</HI> or <HI>Starch,</HI> with Broths of <HI>Veal Feet,</HI> or of <HI>Rams Head</HI> and <HI>Feet,</HI> or of
<PB N="256" REF="136"> <HI>Chickens,</HI> boyled with <HI>Sorrel, Pur&s;lain, Plan|tain Pimpinel,</HI> St. <HI>John</HI>'s <HI>wort:</HI> Ro&s;ted <HI>Chickens</HI> al&s;o, boyled <HI>Pears, Quinces,</HI> old Con&s;erve of <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> Emul&s;ions, chiefly of <HI>Barly</HI> and <HI>Almonds: Caudles</HI> boyled of <HI>Ro&s;e</HI> and <HI>Plantain</HI> water, <HI>Eggs</HI> and au&s;ter Red <HI>Wine: Pap</HI> of well &s;teeled <HI>Milk,</HI> with <HI>Meal</HI> of <HI>Wheat,</HI> or <HI>Rie, Beans, Rice,</HI> or <HI>Starch:</HI> And others &s;uch things, cooling, incra&s;&s;ant, drying and a&s;tringent, of an Empla&s;tick and &s;typtick, <HI>Faculty:</HI> Drinking <HI>Claret</HI> with <HI>Water,</HI> wherein <HI>Ma&s;tick,</HI> or its <HI>Wood</HI> hath been boyled, <HI>Iron</HI> or <HI>Gold</HI> oft quenched: Or the <HI>Water</HI> alone: Or midle Ale, wherein <HI>Leaves</HI> or <HI>Seed</HI> of <HI>Plantain,</HI> of <HI>Sorrel</HI> or <HI>Dock</HI> hath been infu&s;ed; advancing by little and little, to things &s;tronger if needful: u&s;ing <HI>Gly&s;ters</HI> al&s;o, if it appear to be maintained by hard <HI>Excrements,</HI> or <HI>Wind</HI> in the <HI>Gutts.</HI> And ridding the <HI>Womb</HI> e&s;pecially, of any thing may be left therein to cau&s;e it.</P>
<P>If it urge vehemently, and turn extream|ly perillous, as is known by her <HI>Pul&s;e,</HI> and o|ther <HI>Actions</HI> of <HI>Life,</HI> an ince&s;&s;ant violent <HI>Flooding</HI> of pure florid <HI>Blood, Medicines</HI> are ha&s;tened more potently a&s;tringent, inward and outward (regarding its &s;top only, for that it threatens <HI>Death</HI> mo&s;t quickly) the&s;e
<PB N="257" REF="136"> in <HI>Juleps, Powders, Opiats,</HI> and receiving chiefly, Waters of <HI>Frog-&s;paun, Plantain,</HI> Red <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> Water <HI>Lillies, Poppies, Milfoil, Knot|gra&s;s, Hor&s;etail,</HI> Ladies <HI>Mantle, Tormentil, Sheepherds-pur&s;e, Pur&s;lain:</HI> Syrups of <HI>Corral, Quinces, Comfrey,</HI> dryed <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> unripe <HI>Bram|bles, Myrtles,</HI> &s;harp <HI>Pomegranates:</HI> Powders of <HI>Salt Prunellae, Bole, Blood-stone, Dragons Blood, Corral, Pearl, Cochinel,</HI> &s;ealed <HI>Earth, Balausts, Crabs Eyes,</HI> burnt <HI>Harts-horn,</HI> Grains of <HI>Kermes, Troches</HI> al&s;o of <HI>Amber,</HI> of Earth of <HI>Lemnos,</HI> of <HI>Spodium,</HI> binding <HI>Crocus</HI> of <HI>Iron,</HI> Extract of <HI>Comfrey, Acacia, Hypoci&s;tis,</HI> Con&s;erve e&s;pecially of the Field <HI>Ro|&s;es,</HI> Con&s;erve of <HI>Comfrey,</HI> Marmalat of <HI>Quinces,</HI> Confection of <HI>Hyacinth,</HI> Rob of <HI>Sloes,</HI> and the re&s;t: Yea the &s;ame <HI>Blood</HI> in&s;tantly dryed in an Iron <HI>Ladle,</HI> and given in the raw <HI>Yolk</HI> of an <HI>Egg.</HI> And if any great <HI>Heat</HI> accompany, Acid <HI>Au&s;tere</HI> things are the be&s;t.</P>
<P>There are extern <HI>Applications</HI> about the <HI>Region</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> as a <HI>Spunge</HI> boyled in &s;tronge&s;t <HI>Vinegar</HI> to the <HI>Share-bone, Linnen</HI> w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tt in <HI>Oxycrate</HI> (cold if the <HI>Sea&s;on</HI> be very warm) to the <HI>Loyns:</HI> A&s;tringent <HI>Fo|mentations</HI> al&s;o, the &s;ame mentioned in the 2d. Chap: of this <HI>Book,</HI> u&s;ed &s;carce warm,
<PB N="258" REF="137"> or almo&s;t quite cold: And of the A&s;trin|gent <HI>Powders</HI> may <HI>&V;nguents</HI> be made, with Oyl of <HI>Myrtles,</HI> of <HI>Ma&s;tich,</HI> and the <HI>Coun|te&s;s</HI>'s Oyntment. <HI>Catapla&s;ms</HI> are likewi&s;e laid about the lower <HI>Belly, Share</HI> and <HI>Loyns,</HI> of <HI>Bole, Earth</HI> of Lemnos, Chimney <HI>Soot,</HI> Mill <HI>Dust,</HI> Dragons <HI>Blood, Ma&s;tich,</HI> Magi|&s;tery of <HI>Lead, Acacia,</HI> Spiders <HI>Webs, Pla|&s;ter,</HI> and the other &s;tronge&s;t Stypticks and A&s;tringents, incorporated with Juice of <HI>Plantain,</HI> a little Ro&s;e <HI>Vinegar,</HI> and Whites of <HI>Eggs. Defen&s;ive, Contra-rupture,</HI> and others A&s;tringent <HI>Plai&s;ters,</HI> are al&s;o applyed. <HI>Some</HI> u&s;e <HI>A&s;&s;es, Some Swines Dung.</HI></P>
<P>Vulnerary and A&s;tringent <HI>Injections</HI> are conveyed into the <HI>Womb,</HI> A&s;tringent glew|ing <HI>Pe&s;&s;aries</HI> put up therein, which yet can only touch the <HI>Ve&s;sels</HI> in the <HI>Neck</HI> of it, without reaching the <HI>Fund,</HI> if it bleed from thence. There are yet <HI>Frictions,</HI> and pain|ful <HI>Ligatures</HI> of the upper <HI>Parts,</HI> Cupping <HI>Gla&s;&s;es</HI> under the <HI>Paps,</HI> and to each <HI>Hypo|conder: Suaths</HI> to the <HI>Belly.</HI> In end, while nothing avails, <HI>She</HI> is to be laid on fre&s;h <HI>Straw,</HI> with a &s;ingle <HI>Sheet,</HI> or red <HI>Leather</HI> only, and <HI>Bleed</HI> in the <HI>Arm</HI> by little and little, and with &s;tops.</P>
<PB N="259" REF="137">
<P><HI>She</HI> may this while &s;mell to Ro&s;e <HI>Vine|gar,</HI> or <HI>Wine,</HI> and take a little of this al&s;o in ca&s;e of great weakne&s;s, (tho otherwi&s;e <HI>Some</HI> forbid it) take more frequently al&s;o, &s;ome good <HI>Broth</HI> with <HI>Gelly,</HI> and at whiles the <HI>Yolk</HI> of a new laid Egg, a Crumb of <HI>Bread</HI> in <HI>Wine,</HI> or &s;uch like mettal&s;ome re|fre&s;hment: And if <HI>She</HI> &s;leep (which were be&s;t quite debarred while <HI>She</HI> bleeds more ve|hemently, tho <HI>Some</HI> will have it more pro|found, as &s;ifting all <HI>Evacuations</HI> &s;ave <HI>Sweat</HI>) let <HI>One</HI> attend her <HI>Pul&s;e</HI> and <HI>Re&s;piration,</HI> le&s;t <HI>She</HI> &s;leep to <HI>Death.</HI> What <HI>Clods</HI> of Blood withal, may &s;tay in the <HI>Womb</HI> while it &s;tops, and there make Pain and Di&s;tention, mu&s;t be timely had out, for wor&s;e <HI>Effects:</HI> Yet mo&s;t warily, and with great ea&s;e, le&s;t other|wi&s;e the Bleeding be moved of new. <HI>Some</HI> have a <HI>Flux</HI> of <HI>Blood</HI> by the <HI>No&s;e,</HI> but not, except when they have born a <HI>Son.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. VII.</HI> Of the <HI>Suppre&s;&s;ion</HI> of Child-bed <HI>Clean&s;ings.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THey are quite &s;topt, or either are in le&s;s <HI>Quantity,</HI> and &s;horter while than
<PB N="260" REF="138"> ought. The <HI>Quantity</HI> and Time varies, for the <HI>Sea&s;on,</HI> the <HI>Countrey, Age, Con&s;titution, Temperament, Habit</HI> of <HI>Body,</HI> manner of Liv|ing, the longer, or &s;horter <HI>Apertures</HI> of the <HI>Ve&s;&s;els:</HI> Thus <HI>Some</HI> Clean&s;e very &s;parely, and without any notable hurt, as robu&s;t and Laborious <HI>Women,</HI> or <HI>The&s;e</HI> who live hardly: Such al&s;o, who have had any extraordinar <HI>Evacuation</HI> in, or before the <HI>Labour,</HI> or are in other bad <HI>Circum&s;tances:</HI> Others again purge largely enough, and in notable abundance, as <HI>The&s;e</HI> who fare rich|ly, are more <HI>Plethorick,</HI> and in the better <HI>Circum&s;tances:</HI> And for the mo&s;t part, the <HI>Mea&s;ure</HI> hereof, an&s;wers the <HI>Cour&s;es,</HI> that &s;uch who have few of <HI>The&s;e</HI> have little al&s;o of <HI>This.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Mo&s;es</HI> orders 30 days Purification for a <HI>Male,</HI> 42 for a <HI>Female: Hippocrates</HI> admits almo&s;t the &s;ame difference, which yet mu&s;t be under&s;tood in &s;ome other <HI>Sen&s;e,</HI> or el&s;e <HI>Women</HI> in the&s;e <HI>Eastern,</HI> and far hotter <HI>Countreys,</HI> as <HI>Judea</HI> and <HI>Greece,</HI> undergo much longer, and far different <HI>Fluxes,</HI> then with us, where none Clean&s;e more then a <HI>Month&punc;</HI> for either <HI>Sex</HI> (tho <HI>Some</HI> make it to be larger, and longer, after a <HI>Female,</HI> then a <HI>Male</HI>) and with <HI>Many</HI> it is over in
<PB N="261" REF="138"> 15 dayes, with <HI>Some</HI> in 7, with &s;ome al&s;o in the 3d. and that after <HI>Females:</HI> And albeit a while after, there remains &s;ome moi&s;tne&s;s, yet no manife&s;t <HI>Evacuation,</HI> except in the <HI>Whites,</HI> or in <HI>Some</HI> al&s;o who u&s;e <HI>Copulation</HI> too &s;oon, e&s;pecially if ofter, and more ar|dent; whereby they come to have conti|nual <HI>Voidances,</HI> with a great weakne&s;s and weight of the <HI>Womb,</HI> a good &s;pace after: And &s;till the longer, while they ab&s;tain not: A great marr to <HI>Conception.</HI> And what is &s;aid, mu&s;t be under&s;tood of perfect <HI>Labours,</HI> for the younger and &s;maller the <HI>Abortion</HI> is, the le&s;s mu&s;t the <HI>Clean&s;ings</HI> be.</P>
<P>A &s;udden and total <HI>Suppre&s;&s;ion</HI> is rare, and not without manife&s;t hurt and pe|ril (chiefly in the beginning, when they are in greater plenty) producing fear|ful and Truculent <HI>Symptoms,</HI> and Tragedies through the whole <HI>Body,</HI> while they be|gin to putrify, rage and &s;harpen: As pains and <HI>weight</HI> in the <HI>Head,</HI> Redne&s;s of <HI>Face,</HI> trouble of the <HI>Eyes, Frenzy, Con|vul&s;ions, Palpitations</HI> of the <HI>Heart, Faint|ings,</HI> hy&s;terick <HI>Di&s;ea&s;es, Obstructions</HI> of the <HI>Bowels</HI> and <HI>Ve&s;&s;els,</HI> difficult <HI>Breathing, Loathings, Vomitings,</HI> di&s;tention of the <HI>Belly, Feavers</HI> almo&s;t malignant, and with the
<PB N="262" REF="139"> wor&s;t of <HI>Symptoms,</HI> as frequent <HI>Chilne&s;s,</HI> great <HI>&V;nre&s;t, Repletion</HI> of the <HI>Head, Op|pre&s;&s;ion</HI> of the <HI>Vitals,</HI> a languid <HI>Pul&s;e, Stupor</HI> and the re&s;t.</P>
<P>From Stagnation al&s;o, and Corruption of the&s;e <HI>Impurities</HI> in the <HI>Sub&s;tance</HI> and <HI>Cavity</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> ari&s;es <HI>Pain, Infla|flammation, Ab&s;ce&s;s,</HI> or Schirrous <HI>Tumor</HI> therein: And &s;ometimes an incureable <HI>Cancer: Inflammations</HI> al&s;o and <HI>Apo&s;tems</HI> in the lower <HI>Belly, Ab&s;ce&s;ses</HI> in the <HI>Brea&s;ts, Inflammation</HI> of the <HI>Lungs, Quin&s;ies, Plu|rifies, Pains</HI> in the <HI>Loyns</HI> and <HI>Groyns, Scia|ticks, Lamene&s;s, Scabs,</HI> malignant <HI>Tumors,</HI> and all the other <HI>Evils</HI> accompany &s;uppre&s;t <HI>Cour&s;es,</HI> The Impurity thus di&s;per&s;ing through the whole <HI>Habit.</HI></P>
<P>The chief <HI>Cau&s;es</HI> of their <HI>Suppre&s;&s;ion</HI> are, a dull <HI>Ferment,</HI> the gro&s;&s;ne&s;s, Vi&s;co&s;ity, and &s;lowne&s;s of the <HI>Flux, Obctruction</HI> of the <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> &s;tufft therewith, a Part al&s;o of the <HI>Burden</HI> remaining fixt, or a <HI>Mole</HI> cleaving to the <HI>Womb,</HI> or clods of <HI>Blood</HI> therein: The <HI>Womans</HI> re&s;tle&s;sne&s;s al&s;o, and frequent to&s;&s;ing or tumbling in <HI>Bed,</HI> a <HI>Feaver</HI> whence &s;oever &s;uperveening, vehement <HI>Perturba|tion</HI> of <HI>Mind,</HI> being commoved with great <HI>Anger,</HI> or &s;trick with <HI>Pannick Fear:</HI> Other
<PB N="263" REF="139"> great <HI>Evacuations:</HI> A&s;tringent <HI>Medicines</HI> un|skilfully u&s;ed: <HI>Cold</HI> al&s;o entering the <HI>Womb,</HI> con&s;tricts and &s;huts the <HI>Mouths</HI> of the <HI>Ve&s;|&s;els,</HI> coagulates this <HI>Flux</HI> and quite &s;tops it: As does Cold things taken inwardly: A cold <HI>Shift,</HI> or <HI>Sheet</HI> may procure the &s;ame, e&s;pecially if any thing moi&s;t: And may happen likewi&s;e, while <HI>Some</HI> being weary of <HI>Bed,</HI> e&s;pecially in the 1&s;t Child, they ri&s;e too &s;oon, goes about to colder <HI>Rooms,</HI> and &s;o catch <HI>Cold:</HI> whence al&s;o <HI>Pleuri&s;ies, Rheums, Coughs,</HI> in which the more &s;oft, delicate and warmer kept, &s;uffer &s;oon|er, and &s;orer, then Country or common <HI>Women.</HI></P>
<P>We have &s;hown already the be&s;t Go|vernment in <HI>Child-bed,</HI> for her right Clean&s;ings and a happy I&s;&s;ue thereof: how|ever in this <HI>Ca&s;e,</HI> the <HI>Womb</HI> mu&s;t be rid of any <HI>Preternatural</HI> thing therein, the vi&s;cous, gro&s;s, or grumy <HI>Matter</HI> mu&s;t be attenuated, rarified and re&s;olved, the <HI>Uterin</HI> Parts mollified, and relaxed, the <HI>Ways</HI> made pa|tent, and the <HI>Humours</HI> carried downwards: For which there are opening and &s;olvent <HI>Gly&s;ters, Fommentations</HI> al&s;o to the <HI>Privities</HI> and lower <HI>Part</HI> of the <HI>Belly,</HI> with <HI>Woolen</HI> Cloaths, or <HI>Spung,</HI> of the <HI>Decoction</HI> of Aro|matick
<PB N="264" REF="140"> &s;olvent <HI>Plants</HI> (the&s;e chiefly called <HI>Uterins</HI>) &s;uch as, <HI>Malves, Althaea, Pelli|tory, Rue, Feverfew, Penny-Royal, Calamint, Savin,</HI> red <HI>Mugwort,</HI> Flowers of <HI>Chamemel, Melilot, Daucus</HI> Seeds, Roots of round <HI>Birth-worth,</HI> of <HI>Bria<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y,</HI> and the re&s;t u&s;ed in pro|voking the <HI>Cour&s;es.</HI> There are <HI>Applications</HI> be&s;ide about the <HI>Privities,</HI> in form of <HI>Un|guents, Plai&s;ters, Perfumes, Pe&s;&s;aries,</HI> of <HI>Things</HI> which have &s;harp and penetrating <HI>Exhala|tions,</HI> are Fragrant and Odoriferous: As <HI>Galbanum, Ammontacum, Sagapenum, A&s;&s;a Faetida, Musk, Zivet, Ca&s;tor,</HI> and the like. Uterin <HI>Gly&s;ters</HI> al&s;o, hard <HI>Frictions</HI> moreover of the <HI>Legs</HI> and <HI>Thighs</HI> downwards, pain|ful Tyes af the <HI>Toes, Cupping gla&s;&s;es</HI> to the <HI>Groins,</HI> or inner <HI>Roots</HI> of the <HI>T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ighs,</HI> and to the <HI>Haunches.</HI> Bleeding is added as a noble and choice <HI>Remedy</HI> in &s;uch <HI>Ca&s;es,</HI> fir&s;t in the <HI>Foot,</HI> or <HI>Hamm,</HI> and after (if that do not, and there be &s;u&s;picion of <HI>Plethory</HI>) in the <HI>Arm;</HI> and <HI>Some</HI> forthwith &s;uperadd the Other thereto: And <HI>Some</HI> will have bleed|ing in the <HI>Arm</HI> to precede, in Ca&s;e of <HI>Plethory,</HI> or &s;tagnation of the <HI>Blood</HI> about the <HI>Womb,</HI> Or fear of <HI>Inflammation</HI> there: And <HI>Some</HI> appoint this <HI>Bleeding</HI> only in Ca&s;e of <HI>Plethory,</HI> or hot burning <HI>Feaver,</HI> which yeeld not to other <HI>Helps.</HI></P>
<PB N="265" REF="140">
<P><HI>She</HI> may this while u&s;e <HI>Broths</HI> and <HI>Pti&s;ans,</HI> with the opening <HI>Roots, Capillaries, Mug|wort, Marigolds, Cinamon, Saffron, Cicers, Madder</HI> roots, <HI>Liquori&s;h:</HI> Po&s;&s;et of <HI>Mug|wort,</HI> or <HI>Penny-royal</HI> water: yea &s;tronger <HI>Things</HI> al&s;o if needful, as <HI>Aloes, Salt</HI> of <HI>Am|ber, Troches</HI> of <HI>Myrrh, Ca&s;tor,</HI> in <HI>Garlick, Leek,</HI> or <HI>Savin</HI> water: Or decoction of <HI>Ju|niper:</HI> And others al&s;o which are &s;aid to have a Specifick or peculiar Property to drive out the <HI>Birth,</HI> and <HI>After-birth:</HI> To which if <HI>Sudorificks</HI> be added, they may cure the better. <HI>She</HI> may al&s;o <HI>Purge</HI> gently a Week after <HI>Delivery:</HI> Yet regard mu&s;t &s;till be had to the various <HI>Symptoms</HI> which may accompa|ny, and the urgency thereof: For if the <HI>Woman</HI> &s;uffer little or no detriment, There is le&s;s to be done, e&s;pecially if &s;he give Suck.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. VIII.</HI> Of the <HI>Prolap&s;e</HI> of <HI>Womb</HI> and <HI>Fundament.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe <HI>Womb</HI> is &s;aid to change its &s;ituati|on, while it a&s;cends, reclines, or de|&s;cends. Of this de&s;cent there are &s;everal
<PB N="266" REF="141"> <HI>Differences</HI> or <HI>Degrees</HI> of more or le&s;s only, for &s;ometimes the inner <HI>Neck</HI> only falls upon the <HI>Privities,</HI> at other times the whole Body or <HI>Fund</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI> falls down upon the <HI>Sheath,</HI> yet comes not out, and in its <HI>Bor|der</HI> appears the inner <HI>Orifice,</HI> as it were the Nutt of the <HI>Yard</HI> with a manife&s;t hole, which &s;ometimes falls without the <HI>Privities,</HI> yea is inverted, as likewi&s;e its <HI>Fund,</HI> hanging down like a Man's <HI>Codd,</HI> or ones <HI>Head;</HI> in <HI>Some</HI> to the very <HI>Thighs:</HI> And then there mu&s;t be al&s;o a <HI>So<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ution</HI> of the <HI>Connexion</HI> of the <HI>Neck.</HI></P>
<P>This falling of the <HI>Womb</HI> is &s;aid to pro|ceed, from <HI>Di&s;ruption</HI> of the broad and chief <HI>Ligaments,</HI> implanted into the <HI>Fund</HI> thereof: And that by any external violence, hard and inequal &s;hakes of the <HI>Body,</HI> great Stret|ches, Strains, or what el&s;e makes cruel Compre&s;&s;ions, Concu&s;&s;ions, or forcible De|pre&s;&s;ions of the <HI>Womb,</HI> e&s;pecially when very big and heavy: As vehement Coughing, Sneezing, a Fall, Blow, Leapings, Dancings, running too &s;teep up or down, Vocifera|tions, lifting of a more weighty <HI>Burden,</HI> and violence of other <HI>Chances:</HI> but mo&s;t|ly it follows the mo&s;t heavy Carriage and grievous Weight of a bigger <HI>Ani|mal</HI> or <HI>Twins,</HI> &s;ore and unnatural <HI>La|bours,</HI>
<PB N="267" REF="141"> chiefly where the <HI>Child</HI> lies wrong, or does otherwi&s;e hardly pa&s;s; being, mov|ed in extream <HI>Efforts</HI> and &s;trong pre&s;&s;ing downwards to exclu&s;ion of it, or of-the <HI>After-birth:</HI> Yea with &s;uch force whiles and vehemency, that it is driven out. And then it comes of a &s;udden, hath greater pain, and is oft followed with a <HI>Flux</HI> of <HI>Blood.</HI> It may happen al&s;o through a rude, violent and ra&s;h <HI>Extraction</HI> of the <HI>Child,</HI> or of the <HI>Burden</HI> when it &s;ticks fa&s;t to the <HI>Womb,</HI> e&s;pecially while an unskilful <HI>Hand</HI> being put up to loo&s;e it, pulls the <HI>Womb</HI> in &s;teed thereof, as <HI>Some</HI> have done: As from <HI>Me|dicaments</HI> likewi&s;e prepo&s;terou&s;ly given to expell them: And &s;ometimes from vehe|ment <HI>Commotions</HI> of <HI>Mind.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Ligaments</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI> are al&s;o &s;poi|led and remits, and its <HI>&s;ub&s;tance</HI> becomes lax and weighty, and &s;o &s;lips downwards in a &s;ickly <HI>State,</HI> or while affected with a cold and humid <HI>Intemperature,</HI> or &s;oaked with a <HI>Deluge</HI> of <HI>Whites,</HI> or <HI>&s;notty</HI> Pituitous <HI>Matter,</HI> from plenty of like <HI>Tra&s;h</HI> through the <HI>Body,</HI> in <HI>Women</HI> given to <HI>Cups,</HI> a more gro&s;s and moi&s;t <HI>Dyet,</HI> day <HI>Sleep</HI> and what el&s;e promoves a Catarrhous <HI>Di&s;po&s;ition:</HI> And may happen likewi&s;e through a tedious
<PB N="270" REF="142"> <HI>Loo&s;ene&s;s,</HI> with great <HI>Pain</HI> and <HI>Needings:</HI> A cold moi&s;t <HI>Air</HI> al&s;o entering the <HI>Womb</HI> in <HI>Child-bed,</HI> and the like: And then it comes by degrees, and after a longer time, and hath le&s;s <HI>Pain.</HI></P>
<P>A bearing down, or falling out, may happen to any <HI>Woman,</HI> even <HI>Virgins,</HI> tho more rarely: An intire <HI>Inver&s;ion</HI> never, &s;ave immediatly after <HI>Labour,</HI> the <HI>Orifice</HI> being then only &s;o widened and open, as to let it out&punc; which at other times remains &s;hut.</P>
<P>The <HI>Malady</HI> is obvious to the Sen&s;es, both &s;een and felt: And makes be&s;ide great <HI>Pain</HI> in the <HI>Reins</HI> and <HI>Loins,</HI> a weight al&s;o in the lower <HI>Part</HI> of the <HI>Belly,</HI> and upon the <HI>Privities:</HI> And where there is a Rent, Corro|&s;ion, or any Putrefaction, a <HI>Bloody</HI> &s;anious <HI>Matter</HI> evacuates.</P>
<P>It is a frequent, mo&s;t mi&s;erable irk&s;ome trouble&punc; marrs Walking, <HI>Coition,</HI> and convenient vent of the <HI>Cour&s;es.</HI> And if it hang long or far out, it tumifies and inflames by the cold <HI>Air,</HI> hath great <HI>Heat</HI> and <HI>Pain,</HI> from &s;marting of the <HI>&V;rin</HI> and o|ther <HI>Filth:</HI> And being therewith continu|ally moi&s;tened, is ready to Corrupt and Gangren, to cau&s;e <HI>Fevers, Watchings, Con|vul&s;ions,</HI> yea <HI>Death</HI> in end. Tho in <HI>Some</HI> it
<PB N="271" REF="142"> is &s;aid to have rotted and fallen quite away: Yea <HI>Some</HI> have had it wholly cut off to &s;ave <HI>Life,</HI> when it could not be reduced, and that without <HI>Death</HI> or any grievous Di&s;ea&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Some</HI> however flatly deny any falling of the <HI>Womb,</HI> which they will have to con&s;i&s;t &s;till immoveably in its <HI>Place,</HI> by rea&s;on of its <HI>Con&s;titution</HI> and the enclo&s;ure of &s;uch &s;trong <HI>Walls,</HI> admitting only &s;ome Laxity of the <HI>Neck</HI> or <HI>Sheath,</HI> which thus comes out and turns, hanging down like a Man's <HI>Yard,</HI> or a <HI>Pudding,</HI> and the bigne&s;s at lea&s;t of an Hen <HI>Egg,</HI> the length al&s;o of 3, 4, or 5, Fingers: Or then the <HI>Membranes</HI> of the <HI>Share</HI> to lengthen &s;o, as the le&s;s skilled have taken it for the <HI>Womb,</HI></P>
<P>When recent and timely looked to, the <HI>Cure</HI> is more hopeful, in young <HI>Women</HI> if tractible, and when it is al&s;o a <HI>Relaxation</HI> only, or &s;mall <HI>Rent:</HI> for a thorow <HI>Rent</HI> is quite incurable. If it be far and long time out, the <HI>Woman</HI> old and peevi&s;h, it is de&s;perat, for tho reduced it quickly relap|&s;es. If it fall out in&s;tantly with the <HI>Child,</HI> it may Kill the <HI>Woman</HI> in a few <HI>Hours,</HI> if not &s;peedily reduced, becau&s;e of great <HI>Bleed|&icirc;ng, Pain, Inflammation,</HI> Swelling, and other grievous <HI>Symptoms</HI> &s;oon ari&s;es.</P>
<PB N="270" REF="143">
<P>For Cure, the <HI>Womb</HI> mu&s;t be returned into its right <HI>Place,</HI> &s;tayed up therein, its <HI>Ligaments</HI> al&s;o re&s;tored and fortified, with Glewing things, if there be a <HI>Ruption</HI> of the <HI>Fibres,</HI> with things Drying, A&s;tringent and Strengthening, if only a <HI>Relaxation.</HI></P>
<P>To its ea&s;ier <HI>Reduction,</HI> the <HI>Belly</HI> and <HI>Bladder</HI> mu&s;t be emptied, and the <HI>Woman</HI> laid on her <HI>Back,</HI> her <HI>Hips</HI> rai&s;ed, her <HI>Thighs</HI> &s;pread, and <HI>Knees</HI> thru&s;t upwards: The prolap&s;ed <HI>Part</HI> mu&s;t be cleaned, its <HI>Inflam|mation</HI> ea&s;ed, any <HI>Inflation</HI> chiefly, or <HI>Tu|mor</HI> thereof, which may marr its retru&s;ion, removed fir&s;t of all, by emollient <HI>Fomen|tations</HI> and <HI>Unctions:</HI> And then be &s;oftly pre&s;t up the <HI>Neck,</HI> thru&s;ting it inwards piece and piece, from &s;ide to &s;ide, till all be re|pa&s;t t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e <HI>Privities:</HI> U&s;ing al&s;o (if Hands &s;hould hardly d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">) the gro&s;&s;er end of a <HI>Stick,</HI> blun|ted and wrapt in <HI>Linnen:</HI> Or which hurts le&s;s, a firm Linnen <HI>Pe&s;&s;ary,</HI> accomodated to the u&s;e: Or a wax <HI>Candle</HI> of due bigne&s;s, to which they add <HI>A&s;&s;a Faetida,</HI> or <HI>Ca&s;tore|um:</HI> And by the&s;e it may be thru&s;t higher then with the <HI>Hands</HI> alone: <HI>Some</HI> appoint <HI>Vomiting</HI> as a good <HI>Mean</HI> for its <HI>Revocation. Some</HI> al&s;o give great fright and terror to the <HI>Woman,</HI> by feigning a burning <HI>Iron,</HI> or
<PB N="271" REF="143"> the like terrible thing upon the <HI>Part:</HI> Or putting living <HI>Mice, Frogs,</HI> or other fright|ful <HI>Creatures</HI> among her <HI>Thighs.</HI> To make it pa&s;s the Gliber, they anoint it with a <HI>Mucilag</HI> of <HI>Quince</HI> Seeds, <HI>Comfrey</HI> root, or <HI>Tragacanth:</HI> And after &s;traw upon it to hinder a relap&s;e, the fine Powder of <HI>Acacia, Hypocistis,</HI> Myrtle <HI>Berries, Balau&s;ts, Ro&s;es,</HI> Gum <HI>Arabick, Ma&s;tick, Sarcacol,</HI> and the o|ther glewing things, which have no a&s;pe|rity: With a <HI>Stoppel</HI> in the <HI>Entry,</HI> of <HI>Wool, Silk,</HI> or <HI>Spunge,</HI> conform in &s;hape and thick|ne&s;s, tramped in au&s;ter red <HI>Wine,</HI> or the di&s;&s;olution of <HI>Acacia</HI> or <HI>Hypoci&s;tis</HI> in red <HI>Ro&s;e</HI> Water.</P>
<P>During the <HI>Clean&s;ings,</HI> that they may be nothing marred, a right <HI>Situation</HI> alone mu&s;t &s;erve to its retention, &s;he lying to wit on her <HI>Back,</HI> or a little to the one <HI>&s;ide,</HI> her <HI>Hips</HI> rai&s;ed, her <HI>Thighs</HI> &s;tretched ea&s;ily down, and re&s;ted the one to the other, her <HI>Legs</HI> &s;omewhat cro&s;s; u&s;ing the <HI>Bed-pan</HI> in <HI>Bed,</HI> and lying along if po&s;&s;ible, and with|out prea&s;ing, with her <HI>Hands</HI> the while bearing up the <HI>Bottom</HI> of her <HI>Belly:</HI> Which may al&s;o be &s;upported with ea&s;ie <HI>Bolsters</HI> and <HI>Swaths. She</HI> mu&s;t have a gentle <HI>Glyster</HI> when Co&s;tive. After her <HI>Clean&s;ings</HI> are fi|ni&s;hed,
<PB N="274" REF="144"> <HI>She</HI> may ply the u&s;ual provi&s;ion with <HI>Others</HI> in that condition, for its &s;tay and Firmance: as &s;weet <HI>Smells</HI> to the <HI>No&s;e,</HI> &s;tinking to the inner part of the <HI>Pri|vities,</HI> large <HI>Cupping-Gla&s;&s;es</HI> under the <HI>Paps,</HI> and to the <HI>Navel</HI> frequently; as al&s;o to the <HI>Loyns.</HI> A&s;tringent <HI>Fomentations</HI> to the lower <HI>Belly</HI> and <HI>Privities,</HI> half <HI>Baths</HI> (providing it be &s;ecurely kept up in that <HI>Po&s;ture</HI>) a&s;trin|gent <HI>Powder:</HI> &s;trawed thereon, the <HI>Lini|ments</HI> and <HI>Plaisters</HI> mentioned in the former <HI>Chapter, Perfumes</HI> likewi&s;e, but chiefly a&s;tringent <HI>Injections.</HI> A&s;tringents and Ro|boratives are ordered by the <HI>Mouth</HI> al&s;o, to comfort the <HI>Womb,</HI> and help its retention: Such <HI>Medicines</HI> be&s;ide, as may evacuate, di&s;cu&s;s, and dry up the pituitous <HI>Matter, Mend</HI> any vitious <HI>Con&s;titution</HI> of the <HI>Body,</HI> the <HI>Intemperature</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> fortify and firm its <HI>Ligaments.</HI> And to &s;ecure again&s;t <HI>Relap&s;e,</HI> or &s;tay it up, where there is no hope of perfect Cure, <HI>She</HI> is made &s;till to wear a <HI>Band,</HI> much like the&s;e for <HI>Ruptures,</HI> and ever keep <HI>Pe&s;&s;aries,</HI> of &s;uch <HI>Matter</HI> and <HI>Shape,</HI> as may be mo&s;t commodious and fit to &s;tay it up in its <HI>Place,</HI> even &s;o &s;ay <HI>Some,</HI> as <HI>She</HI> may ply her ordinar bu&s;ine&s;s, copulat ea&s;ily, and the <HI>Husband</HI> never perceive it,
<PB N="275" REF="144"> Conceive al&s;o, Bear and bring forth. <HI>Some</HI> will have the&s;e <HI>Pe&s;&s;aries</HI> to remain only in the Neck of the <HI>Womb,</HI> it being impo&s;&s;ible to thru&s;t them further then the <HI>Mouth</HI> of the &s;ame, &s;ave in&s;tantly after the <HI>Delivery.</HI> Yet <HI>Others</HI> will have them enter its very <HI>Cavity,</HI> and never be taken out, where they have been found in <HI>Some</HI> after <HI>Death.</HI></P>
<P>If the <HI>Fundament</HI> force out, as whiles in the vehement <HI>Efforts</HI> of <HI>Labour,</HI> it is to be reduced the &s;ame <HI>Way</HI> as the <HI>Womb,</HI> and with <HI>A&s;tringents</HI> al&s;o (though &s;ometimes no <HI>Mean</HI> nor <HI>Art</HI> can make it &s;tay or &s;tick up) yet cannot be done till the <HI>Child</HI> be born, but mu&s;t as &s;oon after as po&s;&s;ible, for the <HI>Cold</HI> quickly makes it &s;well, and turn very painful: And the better to prevent its <HI>Prolap&s;e</HI> the time of <HI>Labour,</HI> the <HI>Woman</HI> mu&s;t not pre&s;s down too hard, nor force her <HI>Throws</HI> too &s;trongly, while the <HI>Child</HI> is very near and forward in the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age.</HI> It is nece&s;&s;ar al&s;o her <HI>Belly</HI> be kept ea&s;ie after, le&s;t it force out again through the hardned <HI>Excrements.</HI> The <HI>Haemerods</HI> likewi&s;e in <HI>Some</HI> &s;hoot far out in a hard and vehement <HI>Labour,</HI> become very big and painful, afflicting &s;ore in <HI>Child-bed.</HI> The means for their <HI>Ea&s;e</HI> and <HI>Cure</HI> are mentioned in the 17. Chap, of the
<PB N="274" REF="145"> 1st. Book, though the mo&s;t effectual here, is a plentiful <HI>Clean&s;ing,</HI> whereby the <HI>Blood</HI> is diverted, and they dimini&s;h: For which let <HI>Leeches</HI> be forborn till that be over; le&s;t it hereby be marred, and &s;o this trouble encrea&s;ed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. IX.</HI> Of Brui&s;es and Rents of the <HI>Birth,</HI> or outward Parts of the <HI>Womb.</HI></HEAD>
<P>SOme big <HI>Infants,</HI> takes &s;o great Vio|lence and force, for Expul&s;ion or Ex|traction from the <HI>Womb,</HI> and makes &s;uch a wide &s;tretch and &s;eparation of the&s;e <HI>Parts</HI> in Pa&s;&s;ing, &s;o clo&s;e a rub and com|pre&s;&s;ion thereof again&s;t the <HI>Bones,</HI> as oftimes produces painful <HI>Contu&s;ions, Excoriations,</HI> yea <HI>Dilacerations</HI> and <HI>Rents</HI> thereof: which happen mo&s;tly in Fir&s;t <HI>Labours,</HI> little <HI>Women,</HI> And the&s;e well old: in <HI>Others</HI> al&s;o, who have the&s;e <HI>Parts</HI> more &s;trait, &s;olid, dry: Or where the <HI>Infants</HI> Head is more big and firm, that the upper <HI>Bones</HI> goes nothing
<PB N="275" REF="145"> together in the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age</HI> by Compre&s;&s;ion, though in following <HI>Labours,</HI> they are &s;till dilated more ea&s;ily, and without &s;uch pain or hurt by this <HI>Di&s;&s;ention,</HI> in ca&s;e there be not long <HI>Time</HI> between, or that after <HI>In|fants</HI> exceed not far the 1&s;t. in bigne&s;s, for then the like mu&s;t al&s;o happen.</P>
<P><HI>One</HI> mu&s;t timely apply thereto, el&s;e they &s;oon inflame and ulcerate, through the Heat and great Moi&s;ture of the <HI>Place,</HI> the <HI>Acrimo|ny</HI> and <HI>Corruption</HI> of the <HI>Humours,</HI> which then continually flow. And if there be &s;imple <HI>Contu&s;ions</HI> or <HI>Excoriations</HI> only, they may be &s;oftly &s;punged and cleaned, with luke|warm <HI>Barley</HI> Water and Honey of <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> and get &s;oft <HI>Rags</HI> applyed, dipt in Oyl of <HI>Ro&s;es, Almonds, St. Johns-Wort:</HI> Or over|&s;pread with the White <HI>Oyntment, Nutritum,</HI> Oyntment of <HI>Ro&s;es:</HI> Or in ca&s;e the <HI>Hurts</HI> be more grievous, the other Anodin <HI>Ap|plications</HI> may be u&s;ed mentioned in the 2d. Chapter: The <HI>Parts</HI> withall mu&s;t be well &s;ecured from Touch and Smart of the <HI>Urin,</HI> If <HI>Inflammation</HI> and <HI>Apo&s;tem</HI> follow as in <HI>Some,</HI> it mu&s;t be rightly opened, the <HI>Matter</HI> evacuated, the <HI>Ulcer</HI> clean&s;ed with deter&s;ive and Vulnerary <HI>Injections,</HI> &s;uch as the <HI>Ca&s;e</HI> requires, and be thereafter dre&s;&s;ed
<PB N="276" REF="146"> and Cured as it ought: And &s;till with all the Care, Ea&s;e&punc; and Tenderne&s;s po&s;&s;ible, for fear of Pain, Corruption and <HI>Cancer;</HI> the <HI>Parts</HI> being of &s;uch exqui&s;ite <HI>Sen&s;e,</HI> hold|ing <HI>Commerce</HI> with the chief <HI>Parts</HI> of the <HI>Body,</HI> and very apt to draw all their <HI>Super|fluities</HI> thereon,</P>
<P><HI>Some</HI> be&s;ide, in the grievou&s;ne&s;s of hard <HI>Labour,</HI> e&s;pecially in the 1&s;t, Child, and when Dead, through the &s;traitne&s;s of the <HI>Sheath,</HI> or bigne&s;s of the pa&s;&s;ing <HI>Infant,</HI> or ra&s;h violence in the <HI>Operation,</HI> gets a <HI>Rup|ture</HI> of the <HI>Privities,</HI> and <HI>Dilaeceration</HI> of the right <HI>Gutt;</HI> being rent to the <HI>Fundament,</HI> and made one continued <HI>Cleft:</HI> So that the two <HI>Holes</HI> of the <HI>Privities</HI> and <HI>Fundament</HI> go together into one, and the <HI>Midwife</HI> may enter a <HI>Finger</HI> by the <HI>Fundament,</HI> and put the &s;ame out by the <HI>Privities:</HI> In which Ca&s;e, if a <HI>Reunion</HI> be de&s;ired, the <HI>Excrements</HI> and hardned <HI>Blood</HI> mu&s;t be clean&s;ed off, any begun <HI>Scar</HI> or <HI>Cicatrice</HI> cut away, the <HI>Rent</HI> &s;ecurely &s;ticht along&s;t and &s;ewed up, leaving the <HI>Lips</HI> a little &s;epa|tated, for an ea&s;ier <HI>Pa&s;s</HI> to after <HI>Children:</HI> With <HI>Glutinatives, Bal&s;om</HI> and <HI>Plai&s;ter</HI> ap|plyed, and a firm <HI>Compre&s;s</HI> above, to &s;ecure from hurt of the <HI>Urine</HI> and other <HI>Excrements:</HI>
<PB N="277" REF="146"> And for a &s;peedier <HI>Agglutination, She</HI> be&s;t ly with her <HI>Thighs</HI> clo&s;e together until &s;he be wholly &s;ound, careful by all <HI>Means,</HI> &s;he break not in bearing the next; though a marvel if &s;he do not, being thus &s;ewed &s;traiter, whence the <HI>Mother</HI> is unhappy for the future, in that while <HI>She</HI> Travails, the <HI>Genitals</HI> can never widen, nor be &s;ufficient|ly enlarged for the <HI>Infants</HI> pa&s;&s;age, by rea|&s;on of the <HI>Cicatrice</HI> grown thereon: For which it is be&s;t <HI>She</HI> never bear more, or continue open, though then the <HI>Rent</HI> re|mains a na&s;ty <HI>Privy,</HI> for rendering both <HI>Ordure</HI> and <HI>Urine</HI> together: Or el&s;e there is a nece&s;&s;ity to divide the <HI>Borders</HI> there|of in <HI>Labour</HI> with a <HI>Razor,</HI> and after rent it wholly a&s;&s;under.</P>
<P>The&s;e <HI>Rents</HI> happen mo&s;tly, where the <HI>Lips</HI> of the <HI>Privities</HI> are more <HI>Firm, Solid</HI> and <HI>Fle&s;hy,</HI> the <HI>Skin</HI> not being &s;o dilatable as the Membranous Sub&s;tance within: And happen yet the more readily, are al&s;o more con&s;iderable, where the <HI>Pains</HI> comes violent, and the <HI>Labour</HI> is &s;uddain, then when they advance moderatly and by de|grees, or where the&s;e <HI>Parts</HI> are Pulpy and pendant, di&s;tend and widen by little and little. Sometimes al&s;o through ignorance
<PB N="278" REF="147"> and ra&s;h Violence, in tedious &s;ore <HI>Travails,</HI> the <HI>Bladder</HI> is made to &s;plit, and never keeps <HI>Urine</HI> after: And &s;ometimes the <HI>Urine</HI> is &s;topt therein 4 or 5 dayes, its <HI>Neck</HI> being clo&s;ely compre&s;t by the Infants <HI>Head</HI> &s;ticking that while in the <HI>Bones:</HI> whence it Inflames, and intirely Suppurates into Fi&s;tu|lous <HI>Ulcers,</HI> with lo&s;s of &s;ome of its <HI>Sub|stance;</HI> Cau&s;ing al&s;o Incontinency of <HI>Urine,</HI> and incureable as the Other, e&s;pecially if the <HI>Holes</HI> be large, and any con&s;iderable <HI>Part</HI> of the <HI>Sub&s;tance</HI> of its <HI>Neck</HI> lo&s;t and away.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. X.</HI> Of <HI>After-Pains</HI> or <HI>Grind|ing.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THey are very common, and to <HI>Some</HI> more terrible by far then the <HI>Labour</HI> pains (e&s;pecially for &s;ome 1st. dayes, while they are mo&s;t grievous) yea whiles &s;o cruel and ince&s;&s;ant, in <HI>Women</HI> more de|licate, and of exqui&s;ite <HI>Sen&s;e,</HI> as to cau&s;e <HI>Feavers, Watchings, Ravings: Some</HI> al&s;o have been hereby quite broken and killed: Neither do they any white promove the
<PB N="279" REF="147"> <HI>Clean&s;ings,</HI> as <HI>Some</HI> alledge, but rather marrs them through this vehemency of <HI>Pain.</HI></P>
<P>They are held more rare the 1st. <HI>Labour,</HI> more frequent in the 2d. which would aug|ment in the following: And may happen &s;o whiles, e&s;pecially where they proceed from pulling away of the <HI>Burden,</HI> while it cleaves to the <HI>Womb,</HI> whence it becomes more tender and &s;en&s;ible, and &s;o the&s;e <HI>Pains</HI> wax wor&s;e through proce&s;s of <HI>Time,</HI> and repeated <HI>Births:</HI> Though otherwi&s;e, they happen indifferently after every <HI>Labour,</HI> ac|cording to the <HI>Cau&s;es,</HI> or the pre&s;ent and va|rious <HI>Di&s;po&s;itions</HI> which contribute thereto.</P>
<P>They are &s;aid to proceed from a <HI>Torrent</HI> of the <HI>Clean&s;ings,</HI> their gro&s;sne&s;s and fecu|lency, with a &s;traitne&s;s of the <HI>Ve&s;&s;els,</HI> from their acidity al&s;o and acrimony, the Mor|dacity and Ro&s;ion they make in pa&s;&s;ing, e&s;pecially where the <HI>Womb</HI> and its <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> hath been much brui&s;ed and made tender in a &s;ore <HI>Labour,</HI> or yet torn and excori|ated, by a violent &s;eparation of the <HI>Burden,</HI> which is &s;ometimes &s;o firmly fa&s;tened, and growing to the <HI>Womb,</HI> as can by no <HI>Means</HI> be got off, without <HI>Laceration</HI> of it &s;elf, and the very <HI>Womb</HI> al&s;o: And then they
<PB N="280" REF="148"> flow more copiou&s;ly. <HI>The&s;e</HI> may proceed likewi&s;e from a Total, or yet Partial <HI>Sup|pre&s;&s;ion</HI> of the <HI>Clean&s;ings,</HI> their Diffu&s;ion, and Stagnation throughont the whole <HI>Sub|&s;tance</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> and a tendency to <HI>In|flammation:</HI> From <HI>Wind</HI> al&s;o, or <HI>Cold</HI> receiv|ed into the <HI>Womb:</HI> From &s;ome &s;trange <HI>Body</HI> remaining &s;till therein after <HI>Labour,</HI> which it thus travails to expel: From a <HI>Stre&s;s</HI> or <HI>Hurt</HI> of its <HI>Ligaments:</HI> And &s;ome|times from it ri&s;ing and tumbling after hard <HI>Labour,</HI> raging as it were every way like a wild <HI>Bea&s;t</HI> of the <HI>Forre&s;t,</HI> by rea&s;on of its &s;udden <HI>Evacuation,</HI> whence a vehe|ment <HI>Pain:</HI> And may ari&s;e al&s;o from <HI>Wind,</HI> or Acrimonious <HI>Humours</HI> in the <HI>Gutts.</HI></P>
<P>We &s;hall conceive, by which one or other of <HI>The&s;e</HI> the <HI>Woman</HI> is thus mole&s;ted, from the evident <HI>Cau&s;es,</HI> as outward <HI>Cold,</HI> &s;ore <HI>Labour,</HI> grievous <HI>Pa&s;&s;ion</HI> or <HI>Perturbation</HI> of <HI>Mind, Meats, Medicines,</HI> and what el&s;e is done, or taken to wrong her. From the <HI>Nature</HI> al&s;o of the <HI>Pains,</HI> whereof &s;ome are Rending and Piercing, &s;ome Hot and Bur|ning, &s;ome Beating, &s;ome al&s;o Di&s;tending, &s;ome be&s;ide are Continual, tho mo&s;tly they return by <HI>Intervals,</HI> or &s;ome <HI>Inter|mi&s;&s;ion,</HI> yet more grievous: And are fixt
<PB N="281" REF="148"> al&s;o in this, or the other <HI>Part</HI> about the <HI>Womb,</HI> or flitting to and fro. The &s;ame is likewi&s;e di&s;covered from the Concomitant <HI>Symptoms,</HI> as the &s;top or copious flowing of the <HI>Clean&s;ings,</HI> her Bound or Loo&s;e <HI>Belly,</HI> Excretion or Retention of <HI>Wind,</HI> the <HI>Efflux</HI> of a mixt or putrid <HI>Humour</HI> from the <HI>Womb,</HI> the Scalding or Ro&s;ion of the <HI>Pa&s;|&s;age, Feaver, Ravings, Watchings,</HI> and the re&s;t. From the <HI>Hurters</HI> and <HI>Helpers</HI> al&s;o may the true <HI>Cau&s;es</HI> of &s;uch <HI>Pains</HI> be found out, They are differenced from other <HI>Pains</HI> by their Continuance, and <HI>Women</HI> them|&s;elves ea&s;ily di&s;tingui&s;h them from all others what&s;omever.</P>
<P>The <HI>Medicines</HI> then mu&s;t lenify and temper the <HI>Clean&s;ings,</HI> or attenuate the &s;ame, relax al&s;o the <HI>Pores,</HI> &s;olve the <HI>Ob|&s;truction,</HI> provoke and move them, di&s;cu&s;s the <HI>Flatuo&s;ity,</HI> expel any &s;trange <HI>Body,</HI> con|&s;olidate the <HI>Wounds</HI> and <HI>Extoriation,</HI> &s;top the vehemency of the <HI>Flux,</HI> ea&s;e the <HI>Pains,</HI> clean&s;e, &s;ettle, and roborate the <HI>Womb,</HI> and the re&s;t. For which chiefly (be&s;ides her <HI>Dyet</HI> and other <HI>Government</HI> as already directed, wherein the Good of all lyet) are inwardly, Oyl of <HI>Almonds,</HI> or <HI>Poppies,</HI> with Syrup of <HI>Maiden-hair,</HI> or <HI>Violets,</HI> a
<PB N="282" REF="149"> little white <HI>Wine,</HI> or <HI>Po&s;set.</HI> The <HI>Broth</HI> of an old <HI>Cock</HI> is commended, taken imme|diatly after <HI>Labour</HI> for 3 Mornings fa&s;ting, with a little <HI>Cinamon, Musk,</HI> or <HI>Amber-grys:</HI> As is <HI>Chicken</HI> Broth, boyled with <HI>Mugwort,</HI> Mother of <HI>Thyme, Maiden-hair,</HI> Par&s;ly <HI>Roots. Ale</HI> boyled with <HI>Chamamel</HI> Flowers. Pow|der al&s;o of <HI>Bay</HI> Berries, <HI>Anis,</HI> of <HI>Daucus,</HI> or <HI>Poppy</HI> Seeds, of Dates or Peach <HI>Kernels,</HI> of <HI>Saffron,</HI> of <HI>Ginamon, Nutmeg,</HI> and the re&s;t, in <HI>Broth, Rheni&s;h</HI> or White <HI>Wine. Whale Shot</HI> al&s;o is given, di&s;tilled Oyl of <HI>Nutmeg,</HI> and Others according to the various <HI>Indi|cations</HI> and <HI>Intentions,</HI> or the pre&s;ent Exi|gency; whereto <HI>Juleps</HI> and <HI>Mixtures</HI> like|wi&s;e are ordered, to be taken by Spoonfulls, of <HI>Penny-royal, Mugwort</HI> and <HI>Fennel</HI> Waters, with <HI>Treacle</HI> Water, Water of <HI>Briony,</HI> of <HI>Cinamon,</HI> Syrup of <HI>Mugwort, Maiden-hair, Poppies,</HI> adding <HI>A&s;tringents</HI> and <HI>Vulneraries</HI> in <HI>Floodings: Narcoticks</HI> al&s;o in vehemency of <HI>Pain:</HI> For many things can be perfor|med, and many <HI>Indications</HI> an&s;wered, by one and the &s;ame <HI>Medicament. Some</HI> order a Decoction of well wa&s;hed <HI>Faenogreek</HI> Seed, with <HI>Sugar</HI> and a little <HI>Cinamon. Some</HI> u&s;e water <HI>Gruel:</HI> And <HI>Some</HI> give a few <HI>Gutts</HI> of the <HI>Blood</HI> of the 2<HI>din</HI> as peculiar for this,
<PB N="283" REF="149"> <HI>Some</HI> al&s;o &s;ome give the <HI>Powder</HI> thereof. <HI>Gly&s;ters</HI> are us'd, of <HI>Milk, Sugar, Yolks</HI> of Eggs: or of <HI>Mugwort, Rue, Mallows,</HI> Melilot and Chamemel <HI>Flowers,</HI> Boiled in Chicken <HI>Broth,</HI> adding Oyl of <HI>Almonds</HI> and <HI>Yolks</HI> of Eggs. Or of <HI>Chamemel, Anis, Dill, Cumin,</HI> adding Muskadel <HI>Wine.</HI> Others al&s;o, as her <HI>Ca&s;e</HI> requires. Warm Cloaths are u&s;ed to the <HI>Belly,</HI> as are <HI>Oyls, Fomentations, Cata|pla&s;ms,</HI> Aromatick, Aperient, Carminative, and Anodin. <HI>Some</HI> anoint the lower <HI>Parts,</HI> yea all the <HI>Belly,</HI> with Oyl of <HI>Amber,</HI> and apply <HI>Flannel</HI> very hot over the &s;ame, moi|&s;tened therewith. <HI>Some</HI> al&s;o in extremity, will apply to the <HI>Genitals, Belly,</HI> and <HI>Reins</HI> warm bags of <HI>Oats</HI> and <HI>Millet,</HI> fryed in a Frying-pan with a little White <HI>Wine.</HI> Ano|din <HI>Plai&s;ters</HI> are ordered to the <HI>Loyns:</HI> An Hy&s;terick <HI>Plai&s;ter</HI> to the <HI>Navel.</HI> For purg|ing, Bleeding, Sweating and the re&s;t, they come to be u&s;ed or forborn, for the <HI>Occa|&s;ion,</HI> the pre&s;ence or ab&s;ence of other <HI>Troubles.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="11" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="284" REF="150">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XI.</HI> Of <HI>Inflammation</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI> after <HI>Labour.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ITs chief <HI>Cau&s;es</HI> are, a rude violent &s;epa|ration, or Extraction of the 2<HI>din.</HI> A copious Ru&s;h of the <HI>Clean&s;ings,</HI> or of <HI>Blood</HI> and <HI>Humours</HI> from the whole <HI>Body</HI> there|on, after a &s;ore <HI>Labour,</HI> being therein ve|hemently agitated and overheated; atract|ed al&s;o through Heat or Pain of the <HI>Womb,</HI> made by violence of <HI>Labour,</HI> or painful car|riage of the <HI>Child,</HI> being either big or in ill Po&s;ture: The &s;top likewi&s;e, or &s;tagna|tion of the&s;e <HI>Purgations</HI> in the Sub&s;tance of the Womb, chiefly in the beginning of <HI>Child-bed,</HI> through &s;uddain <HI>Cold</HI> &s;ucceeding to <HI>Heat,</HI> whence they acquire Acrimony and Corruption: A violent handling of the <HI>Genitals</HI> in <HI>Labour:</HI> A Painful hard &s;wathing of the <HI>Belly</HI> after, or any painful Compre&s;&s;ion, Brui&s;e, or hurt thereof; whence comes al&s;o <HI>Inflammations</HI> &s;ometimes, in the lower <HI>Belly.</HI> A <HI>Prolap&s;e</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI> may cau&s;e this Inflammation, as may any &s;trange <HI>Body</HI> or <HI>Corruption</HI> remaining in its
<PB N="285" REF="150"> <HI>Cavity.</HI> Vehement <HI>Pa&s;&s;ions</HI> of <HI>Mind</HI> and the re&s;t.</P>
<P>It is di&s;cerned, by a <HI>Tumor, Heat</HI> and burning <HI>Pain</HI> in &s;ome <HI>One</HI> or other <HI>Part</HI> of the <HI>Region</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> or over all, as it is affected. There is al&s;o a great <HI>Weight</HI> therein, a trouble and <HI>Pain</HI> in rendering the <HI>Urine</HI> or <HI>Ordure,</HI> as the <HI>Bladder</HI> or right <HI>Gutt</HI> participates: A continual burning <HI>Feaver</HI> be&s;ide, great <HI>Pain</HI> and <HI>Inflation</HI> of the <HI>Hypocondres</HI> and <HI>Brea&s;t,</HI> difficulty of <HI>Breathing,</HI> great troubles of the <HI>Stomach, Pains</HI> in the <HI>Head,</HI> and the re&s;t, all which augments and encrea&s;es while it tends to <HI>Suppuration:</HI> And upon In&s;pection of the <HI>Genitals,</HI> the inner <HI>Orifice</HI> will look Tu|mid, drawn inwards and painful, the <HI>Neck</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI> red and inflamed, the little <HI>Veins</HI> di&s;per&s;ed therethrough, &s;wel|ling every where towards the interior <HI>Parts.</HI></P>
<P>It is a very perillous Malady, and mo&s;t part deadly, for if not timely heeded, it may readily re&s;olve into <HI>Apo&s;tems, Ulcers, Schirrous</HI> hardne&s;s, <HI>Cancer,</HI> or <HI>Gangreen:</HI> If the whole <HI>Womb</HI> become inflamed, or Apo&s;temated, the <HI>Cure</HI> is hard; and where <HI>Raving</HI> &s;uperveens, <HI>Convul&s;ions, Hiccoughs
<PB N="286" REF="151"> Vomiting,</HI> Coldne&s;s of the <HI>Extremities,</HI> cold <HI>Sweats, Death</HI> may then be quickly ex|pected.</P>
<P>For <HI>Cure,</HI> her <HI>Dyet</HI> mu&s;t be Humectant and Cooling, as <HI>Barley</HI> Broth, Stewed <HI>Barley</HI> with <HI>Currans: Panado's</HI> of <HI>Pullet</HI> Broth, wherein <HI>Endive</HI> and <HI>Sorrel</HI> have been boiled: Drinking <HI>Pti&s;an,</HI> &s;mall <HI>Ale,</HI> Barley <HI>Water</HI> boil|ed with <HI>Liquori&s;h.</HI> There may be al&s;o cooling <HI>Juleps</HI> and <HI>Emul&s;ions,</HI> for her great <HI>Pain, Heat, Feaver.</HI> Little cooling Anodin <HI>Gly|&s;ters</HI> are ordered, if her <HI>Belly</HI> bind: Gentle Lenient <HI>Purges</HI> al&s;o are u&s;ed, if noxious <HI>Humors</HI> abound in the <HI>Body. Bleeding</HI> like|wi&s;e in the <HI>Arm,</HI> and to be repeated ac|cording to her Strength, vehemency of the <HI>Inflammation,</HI> and the <HI>Symptoms: Frictions</HI> be&s;ide and <HI>Ligatures</HI> of her upper <HI>Parts Cup|ping-Gla&s;ses</HI> to the <HI>Shoulders, Back</HI> and <HI>Loyns.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Humor</HI> being thus tempered and dimini&s;hed, the <HI>Fluxion</HI> intercepted, di|verted or &s;ettled, and the wor&s;t of the trouble ever, her lower <HI>Veins</HI> may al&s;o be opened. There may be outwardly to the <HI>Place,</HI> things again&s;t <HI>Inflammation,</HI> as <HI>Gaelens</HI> cooling Oyntment, Oyl or Oyntment of <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> or Oyl of <HI>Myrtles,</HI> with <HI>Vinegar:</HI> Or Ro&s;e <HI>Vinegar</HI> alone: Or <HI>Plantain, Ro&s;e</HI> and
<PB N="287" REF="151"> <HI>Elder Flower</HI> Water, with <HI>Vinegar</HI> and <HI>Cam|phor:</HI> Or <HI>Bole Armen, Blood-&s;tone,</HI> with Ro&s;e <HI>Vinegar</HI> and <HI>Glare</HI> of <HI>Eggs:</HI> or a <HI>Ca|tapla&s;m,</HI> boiled of Sweet <HI>Milk,</HI> with &s;ome fine grated wheat <HI>Bread,</HI> adding <HI>Yolks</HI> of <HI>Eggs,</HI> with a little Oyl of <HI>Ro&s;es, Juyce</HI> of <HI>Henbane,</HI> or <HI>Night&s;hade:</HI> And other Ano|din, Cooling, and repellent things: which yet are fit only in the beginning, while the <HI>Inflammation</HI> is le&s;s: with &s;uch after as may gently mollify, open and re&s;olve: And <HI>Dige&s;tives</HI> in greater quantity, if the <HI>Symp|toms</HI> daily aggravate, and the <HI>Inflammation</HI> advance: As <HI>Di&s;cu&s;&s;ives,</HI> if they remit, and the trouble encline to a Re&s;olution.</P>
<P>Such <HI>Injections</HI> are ordered, and <HI>Pe&s;&s;aries,</HI> as may temper the <HI>Heat</HI> and <HI>Inflammation,</HI> and allay the <HI>Pain:</HI> Yet mu&s;t make no <HI>A&s;triction,</HI> where the <HI>Clean&s;ings</HI> flow: And to be immitted with all <HI>Ea&s;e</HI> and <HI>Caution,</HI> that there be no irritation or hurt to the <HI>Part:</HI> And thereto <HI>Narcoticks</HI> may be added, which may al&s;o be taken inwardly a part, in extream <HI>Pain</HI> and <HI>Unrest.</HI></P>
<P>If the <HI>Matter</HI> will neither repel nor di&s;|cu&s;s, but mu&s;t Suppurate, &s;uch <HI>Medicines</HI> are added, as mollify and ripen: And to be continued till a <HI>Matter</HI> be made; which is
<PB N="288" REF="152"> known by ea&s;e of the <HI>Heat</HI> and <HI>Pain:</HI> And after <HI>Ruption</HI> of the <HI>Apostem,</HI> and vent of that <HI>Matter,</HI> deter&s;ive <HI>Injections</HI> are u&s;ed, for wa&s;hing all <HI>Corruption</HI> from the <HI>Ulcer;</HI> advancing from the more &s;oft, to &s;tronger, as the <HI>Matter</HI> is more or le&s;s virulent, the <HI>Ulcer</HI> more &s;imple or &s;ordid: With <HI>In|jections</HI> in end, to dry, clo&s;e, and con&s;oli|date the &s;ame, yet not till all <HI>Inflammation</HI> be removed, and all <HI>Pain</HI> allayed: If the <HI>Ulcer</HI> be in the <HI>Neck</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> it may be anointed with clean&s;ing and drying <HI>Li|niments:</HI> And <HI>Suffumigations</HI> are prepared for drying the <HI>Ulcers</HI> when &s;eated higher, toward the <HI>Fund</HI> thereof. This while gentle <HI>Purges</HI> mu&s;t be u&s;ed more frequently, and a Vulnerary <HI>Drink</HI> in the <HI>Intervals:</HI> With what el&s;e is nece&s;&s;ar for <HI>Cure</HI> of the remain|ing <HI>Symptoms.</HI> The&s;e &s;ame almo&s;t are the <HI>Wayes</HI> and <HI>Means</HI> for Cure of <HI>Inflammations</HI> and <HI>Apo&s;tems,</HI> which happens to &s;ome in their lower <HI>Belly,</HI> which being more &s;uper|ficial and near, hath le&s;s difficulty: Yet are &s;ometimes very con&s;iderable and fa|&s;cheu&s;e.</P>
<P>Sometimes there &s;ucceeds this <HI>Inflamma|tion</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> when ill Cured, a <HI>Schir|rous</HI> or hard painle&s;s <HI>Tumor,</HI> which is ever
<PB N="289" REF="152"> rarely removed, notwith&s;tanding of <HI>Bleed|ing</HI> above, or below, <HI>Haemorrhoids, Purging, Aperients,</HI> or Others, u&s;ed for <HI>Evacuation, Di|ver&s;ion,</HI> or <HI>Derivation</HI> of the antecedent <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> or &s;uperfluous <HI>Humour:</HI> Nor are the <HI>Ap|plications</HI> of any great force or <HI>Effect</HI> to mol|lify, re&s;olve, or di&s;&s;ipate the &s;ame: Whe|ther <HI>Fomentations, Unguents, Catapla&s;ms, Plai&s;ters, Gly&s;ters,</HI> or uterin <HI>Injections:</HI> And when big, or ob&s;tinate it brings on the <HI>Drop&s;y,</HI> and if unskilfully tampered with, may turn to <HI>Cancer</HI> (as may ea&s;ily al&s;o &s;uch <HI>Impo&s;thumes</HI>) a cruel and ever incureable <HI>Malady</HI> in that <HI>Place,</HI> be it Ulcerous or not.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="12" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XII.</HI> Of a <HI>Belly</HI> Flux after <HI>La|bour.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis may proceed of <HI>Cold,</HI> from a bad <HI>Di&s;po&s;ition</HI> of the <HI>Air</HI> or Sea&s;on, from Acrimonious <HI>Humours,</HI> or <HI>Rheums</HI> al|&s;o, abounding in a Cacochymick <HI>Body,</HI> through a bad <HI>Cour&s;e</HI> of <HI>Dyet,</HI> or otherwi&s;e, and now &s;o furiou&s;ly &s;tirred and heated in the <HI>Labour,</HI> and falling down upon the <HI>In|te&s;tines.</HI>
<PB N="290" REF="153"> The <HI>Aliments</HI> be&s;ide in the <HI>Sto|mack,</HI> and <HI>Excrements</HI> in the <HI>Gutts,</HI> are &s;o vehemently to&s;&s;ed and tumbled during <HI>Labour,</HI> and the&s;e <HI>Parts</HI> &s;o pained and weak|ned from their <HI>&V;&s;e</HI> and <HI>Office,</HI> by &s;o many &s;trong <HI>Contor&s;ions</HI> and <HI>Compre&s;&s;ions</HI> of the <HI>Belly</HI> thereon in the <HI>Showers,</HI> that not be|ing able to Govern them more, or retain, tran&s;mit and expel them rightly, a <HI>Flux</HI> ari&s;es: The <HI>Gutts</HI> being greatly irritated withal, by the Acrimony of <HI>Excrements</HI> &s;o long retained. It may proceed al&s;o from their irritation by the <HI>Reliques</HI> of &s;ome &s;harp <HI>Gly&s;ter</HI> given to provoke the <HI>Pains,</HI> or &s;ome <HI>Noxious</HI> Thing el&s;e taken the time of <HI>La|bour.</HI></P>
<P>It is very perillous, and mo&s;t part Dead|ly, if it happen the 2d. 3d. or 4t. day, e|&s;pecially coming after a &s;ore Hara&s;s of <HI>La|bour,</HI> and if more frequent, Copious and Painful: Be&s;ide that it may divert and marr her <HI>Clean&s;ings.</HI> And now,</P>
<P>The contrair <HI>Indications</HI> of the&s;e two <HI>Flux|es,</HI> gives difficulty in the <HI>Pre&s;criptions:</HI> For that the One cannot be &s;topped, the Other flowing, as is chiefly requi&s;ite. In the mean time, &s;ome good <HI>Gellies</HI> may be u&s;ed, <HI>Con&s;umme</HI>'s or other proper metal&s;ome <HI>Ali|ment,</HI>
<PB N="291" REF="153"> to maintain her Strength: Anodin <HI>Gly&s;ters</HI> al&s;o, of <HI>Milk</HI> and Yolks of <HI>Eggs,</HI> or others like. And if more peril threaten through the vehemency of this <HI>Flux,</HI> then could ari&s;e from &s;topping her <HI>Clean&s;ings,</HI> &s;uch <HI>Means</HI> may then be u&s;ed, for her Re|lief and &s;top thereof, as are mentioned in the 18 Chap: of the 1&s;t. Book, tho thus her <HI>Clean&s;ings</HI> &s;hould now be made to &s;top likewi&s;e, yet be provoked after, the be&s;t way can. She may Bleed to &s;upply the defect of her <HI>Purgations,</HI> as in ca&s;e al&s;o of <HI>Feaver,</HI> which may happen hereby, or any <HI>Accident</HI> el&s;e which yields not to other <HI>Remedies. Laudanum</HI> &s;i&s;ts the <HI>Flux,</HI> yet not the <HI>Clean&s;ings.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="13" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XIII.</HI> Of <HI>Tumors</HI> and <HI>Ruptures</HI> of the <HI>Belly and others.</HI></HEAD>
<P>SOmetimes, the Impregnat <HI>Womb</HI> grows &s;o va&s;tly big, fills and di&s;tends its bounds &s;o exceedingly, as the <HI>Peritonum</HI> being uncapable of a farther Dilatation, or to contain it, is forced to &s;plit, and the
<PB N="292" REF="154"> <HI>Mu&s;cles</HI> to &s;eparate: Whence <HI>Tumors</HI> ari&s;e in the &s;ame place, while the <HI>Inte&s;tine,</HI> or <HI>Caul,</HI> or both &s;lides therein: where <HI>Some</HI> al&s;o are &s;aid to have had the very <HI>Womb</HI> with the <HI>Infant</HI> therein tumbled, and almo&s;t wholly lodged. The&s;e <HI>Ruptures</HI> may happen whiles above the <HI>Navel,</HI> oftimes about it, whiles al&s;o below, betwixt the right <HI>Mu&s;|cles</HI> (though this more rarely, the <HI>Perito|naeum</HI> being thicker from below the <HI>Navel,</HI> that in the carrying of the <HI>Infant</HI> it could be the more di&s;tended) in the <HI>Groyns</HI> al&s;o, and every where in the lower <HI>Belly,</HI> when ever the <HI>Peritonaeum</HI> &s;plits, cleaves, or relaxes.</P>
<P>The chief <HI>Cau&s;es</HI> are, the huge di&s;tention of the <HI>Abdomen,</HI> by the big <HI>Womb,</HI> vehement <HI>Vomitings, Coughings,</HI> frequent <HI>Sneezings</HI> while thus &s;o tumid, <HI>Blows</HI> thereon, a <HI>Fall,</HI> or other &s;uddain violence, &s;trait <HI>Lacing</HI> up|wards, and the re&s;t: But mo&s;tly they ari&s;e of violent and &s;training <HI>Efforts</HI> in hard <HI>La|bours:</HI> Whence <HI>Some</HI> al&s;o get dimne&s;s of <HI>Sight, Some</HI> dulne&s;s of <HI>Hearing,</HI> through &s;trels of the <HI>Nerves,</HI> in that mo&s;t vehement <HI>Intention,</HI> and great influx of <HI>Spirits,</HI> to a valid <HI>Expul&s;ion</HI> of the <HI>Infant.</HI> And <HI>Some</HI> have thus got a <HI>Tumor</HI> below the <HI>Navel,</HI> pain|ful to the <HI>Touch,</HI> moveable, hard, which
<PB N="293" REF="154"> could not be di&s;cu&s;&s;ed by <HI>Emollients</HI> and <HI>Carminants,</HI> but haply remained till <HI>Death,</HI> like a grown to <HI>Weight</HI> under the <HI>Caul.</HI></P>
<P>Such <HI>Ruptures</HI> are ugly, and very hurt|ful, refrigerates the <HI>Stomach</HI> and <HI>Inte&s;tins,</HI> while the <HI>Caul</HI> falls down, which cheri&s;hes the heat thereof; whence the more unhap|py <HI>Coctions, Vomitings</HI> al&s;o, painful <HI>Cho|licks, Catarrhs, Fluxes</HI> of the <HI>Belly, Phthi&s;is</HI> and the like, chiefly while the <HI>Rupture</HI> can|not be reduced. Sometimes at the begin|ning of <HI>Pregnancy,</HI> the <HI>Womb</HI> hath come out in the&s;e <HI>Ruptures,</HI> which hath killed the <HI>Woman,</HI> the <HI>Infant</HI> remaining and growing &s;o big without the <HI>Belly,</HI> as it could not be got turned in, but been carried to the <HI>Time,</HI> as in a <HI>Sack,</HI> covered only with the <HI>Womb</HI> and the <HI>Skin. Some</HI> are thus deform|ed with <HI>Varices</HI> in both <HI>Limbs,</HI> with <HI>Tu|mors</HI> al&s;o in the <HI>Nock,</HI> which cannot be mol|lified, or di&s;cu&s;s'd, coming of dilated <HI>Arteries</HI> where <HI>Astringents</HI> are needful: but <HI>The&s;e</HI> not being very ugly, and nothing unea&s;ie, they &s;eldom have <HI>Applications:</HI> For the Di|latation indeed of an <HI>Artery,</HI> though not without all danger, yet brings not &s;uddain <HI>Death,</HI> except there be a thorow <HI>Ruption,</HI> and the <HI>Blood</HI> flow forth into a more noble
<PB N="294" REF="155"> <HI>Cavity,</HI> or unexpectedly ru&s;h out with &s;ome violence, as hath happened to &s;ome La|bouring <HI>Women,</HI> who through negligence of <HI>The&s;e</HI> were by, have &s;o been &s;uddainly killed. <HI>Women</HI> when big, mu&s;t carefully avoid all the fore&s;aid <HI>Cau&s;es</HI> thereof, and where they happen, a <HI>Band</HI> and <HI>Com|pre&s;&s;es</HI> mu&s;t be kept upon the <HI>Tumor,</HI> or prolap&s;ed <HI>Part,</HI> to bear it within the <HI>Rup|ture,</HI> and if it be in a place, where the <HI>Womb</HI> may wholly pre&s;s out, the <HI>Woman</HI> then, if <HI>She</HI> know her &s;elf with <HI>Child,</HI> had be&s;t keep Bed, to hinder that the <HI>Rupture</HI> enlarge not through her waxing bigne&s;s, as it will el&s;e almo&s;t dayly.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="14" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XIV.</HI> Of <HI>Inflammation</HI> of New|lighter Womens <HI>Brea&s;ts.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THey very readily then harden, become painful and inflame, or &s;well with redne&s;s, and beating (in which it differs from <HI>Curdling</HI> of the <HI>Milk</HI>) from a copious ru&s;h and repletion of <HI>Milk,</HI> of <HI>Blood</HI> al&s;o and other <HI>Humours,</HI> &s;o vehemently moved
<PB N="295" REF="155"> and heated in the <HI>Labour,</HI> attracted or tran&s;mitted thither: Which being ea&s;ily im|bibed, and diffu&s;ed throughout their &s;pun|gy and <HI>Glandulous Sub&s;tance,</HI> thus painfully di&s;tends the <HI>Same:</HI> And remaining therein unemptied, Heats, Corrupts, turns Acri|monious, and threatens <HI>Suppuration</HI> and <HI>Feaver;</HI> yea with <HI>Fury</HI> al&s;o and <HI>Phrenzy,</HI> while carried thither &s;uddenly, and in too great abundance: E&s;pecially in a full <HI>Body,</HI> after tedious &s;ore <HI>Labour,</HI> and where the <HI>Clean&s;ings</HI> go not &s;o right. The &s;ame may happen from acce&s;s of a Cold &s;harp <HI>Air,</HI> the touch or <HI>Application</HI> of any cold Thing, from <HI>Blows</HI> al&s;o, or any outward hurt or brui&s;e thereof: <HI>Some</HI> get great <HI>Pain</HI> and <HI>Inflammation,</HI> or a kind of <HI>Ro&s;e,</HI> in their <HI>Brea&s;ts,</HI> which &s;ometimes &s;uppurates, in that agui&s;h Di&s;temper they call <HI>Widow Non|fall,</HI> very incident to Child-bed <HI>Women,</HI> from the lea&s;t error or neglect in their <HI>Dyet</HI> or <HI>Tending;</HI> coming fir&s;t with <HI>Shiver|ings,</HI> and followed with a great burning <HI>Feaver,</HI> in the heat of which if they unco|ver them&s;elves, or ca&s;t out their <HI>Arms</HI> ne|ver &s;o little, the <HI>Fit</HI> renews: This trouble continues &s;ometimes longer, &s;ometimes &s;horter, is whiles &s;orer, whiles more ea&s;ie:
<PB N="296" REF="156"> And here <HI>Diaphoreticks</HI> are proper, if time|ly admini&s;tred, and while the <HI>Shiverings</HI> fall on. Oyntment of <HI>Althaea</HI> is u&s;ed to the <HI>Brea&s;ts,</HI> or Diachylon <HI>Plai&s;ter</HI> with Suck|ing. In a Light <HI>Ro&s;e,</HI> Cream of <HI>Milk</HI> with <HI>Cha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lk</HI> or Elder <HI>Water.</HI></P>
<P>If the <HI>Brea&s;ts</HI> be in danger to <HI>Inflame,</HI> let the <HI>Woman</HI> Bleed in the <HI>Arm,</HI> after in the <HI>Foot:</HI> U&s;e <HI>Glysters</HI> more frequently, and what el&s;e may move the <HI>Humors</HI> downwards, in ca&s;e the <HI>Clean&s;ings</HI> come not freely, an ample <HI>Evacuation</HI> whereof, is a great <HI>Mean</HI> to pre|vent it: U&s;ing the while a thin &s;pare <HI>Dyet,</HI> cooling al&s;o and moi&s;tening. The <HI>Topicks</HI> mu&s;t be Cooling, Anodin, and gently re|pellent, while the <HI>Inflammation</HI> is le&s;s, yet without great <HI>A&s;tr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ction:</HI> So in the begin|ning, <HI>One</HI> may chafe well into them Oyl of <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> with &s;hap <HI>Vinegar</HI> beat together, and after lay thereto, &s;ome of <HI>Galens</HI> cool|ing Oyntment, with a little of <HI>Poplar:</HI> Or a <HI>Catapla&s;m</HI> made of the <HI>Clay,</HI> which &s;ettles in the bottom of a <HI>Cutlers</HI> Grind-&s;tone, mixt with Oyl of <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> and a little <HI>Vinegar,</HI> and laid on lukewarm: This is thought to allay the <HI>Pain,</HI> compe&s;ce the <HI>Inflammation,</HI> and quickly repel the <HI>Milk:</HI> In the Increa&s;e, a <HI>Fomentation</HI> of <HI>Butter</HI> and <HI>Ale</HI> is held good.
<PB N="297" REF="156"> If there be great <HI>Pain,</HI> a <HI>Pultife</HI> of Boiled <HI>Chamemel, Mallows</HI> and <HI>Hemlock:</HI> Or of <HI>Althaea</HI> roots, and <HI>Henbane</HI> leaves (in <HI>Winter</HI> the <HI>Roots</HI> hereof ro&s;ted in <HI>Embers,</HI> and made in a <HI>Pultis</HI> with Hogs <HI>Lard</HI>) boiled, pulped and reboiled in &s;weet <HI>Milk,</HI> adding &s;till &s;ome Oyl of <HI>Ro&s;es:</HI> Or a <HI>Pultis</HI> of fine grated white <HI>Bread,</HI> boiled in &s;weet <HI>Milk,</HI> adding <HI>Yolks</HI> of Eggs, &s;ome <HI>Saffron, But|ter</HI> al&s;o, or Oyl of <HI>Ro&s;es</HI> and <HI>Chamemel:</HI> And above the&s;e <HI>Compre&s;&s;es</HI> dipt in <HI>Plantain</HI> or <HI>Ro&s;e</HI> Water, with <HI>Vinegar.</HI> Every ex|ternal <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> mu&s;t withall be avoided, as well <HI>Fortuitous,</HI> as what may come from the <HI>&s;ix Non-natural</HI> things; le&s;t the <HI>Evil</HI> el&s;e augment, or at le&s;t elude the force of <HI>Medicaments.</HI> The <HI>Brea&s;ts</HI> mu&s;t be kept &s;lack, and very ea&s;ie, not &s;uffered to hang, for which <HI>She</HI> be&s;t ly in <HI>Bed</HI> on her <HI>Back,</HI> and &s;tir her <HI>Arms</HI> as little as can.</P>
<P>The <HI>Pain</HI> being allayed, the <HI>Humor</HI> re|&s;trained, and turned off, the <HI>Height</HI> of the <HI>Inflammation</HI> pa&s;t, no fear of any further <HI>Fluxion</HI> to be made, or of <HI>Suppuration,</HI> the <HI>Brea&s;ts</HI> may be &s;uckt, if <HI>Milk</HI> abound there|in, and the <HI>Woman</HI> to be a <HI>Nur&s;e:</HI> Or then <HI>Di&s;cu&s;&s;ives</HI> may be u&s;ed, to re&s;olve, di&s;&s;i|pate and con&s;ume the &s;ame; &s;uch already
<PB N="298" REF="157"> mentioned in the 4th. <HI>Chap.</HI> of this <HI>Book.</HI> She may after purge when convenient. Yet if nothing can hinder the <HI>Suppuration,</HI> but that it manife&s;tly advances, things then Emollient and ripening mu&s;t be added, to ha&s;ten and bring it on.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="15" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XV.</HI> Of the <HI>Curdling</HI> and <HI>Clod|ding</HI> of the <HI>Milk.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis happens through its redundancy in the <HI>Brea&s;ts,</HI> where remaining too long, it heats, thickens (its <HI>Serous</HI> parts being re&s;olved) goes together into a kind of <HI>Chee&s;e</HI> and &s;pongious <HI>Den&s;ity,</HI> &s;tag|nating in the whole <HI>Breast,</HI> or in &s;ome of its <HI>Glandules;</HI> which hence painfully &s;well, ri&s;e rugged and uneven, di&s;tinct and &s;epa|rated, being thus filled therewith. It is held to proceed al&s;o from <HI>Vi&s;co&s;ity</HI> of the <HI>Milk,</HI> from <HI>Cold,</HI> from any <HI>Acid</HI> whence|&s;oever, be it a Curdling <HI>Humour</HI> or <HI>Juyce, Grief</HI> or great <HI>Terror</HI> of mind: From any Acid <HI>Application</HI> al&s;o, Cold or &s;harp <HI>Air</HI> peircing the <HI>Brea&s;ts</HI> when Sweating: which
<PB N="299" REF="157"> according to the <HI>Degrees</HI> of its too great Acidity, <HI>Sharpne&s;s</HI> and Au&s;terity, procures various <HI>Coagulations</HI> thereof. And &s;ome|times the <HI>Humors</HI> in the <HI>Brea&s;ts</HI> are found to become Schirrous, hard as a <HI>Stone,</HI> which afterwards have changed the <HI>Substance</HI> thereof, into a <HI>Cancer:</HI> Whence they oft turn into a hard firm <HI>Gristle. Milk</HI> is known to Curdle, while the <HI>Paps</HI> being di&s;tent therewith, yet none or very little flows out: Be&s;ide, that the &s;welling <HI>Brea&s;t</HI> grows more white: A <HI>Weight</HI> al&s;o is perceived in it, and all about, hath great <HI>Pain</HI> al&s;o: There may come a <HI>Feaver</HI> be&s;ide, and <HI>Pain</HI> of the <HI>Head.</HI></P>
<P>In this <HI>Ca&s;e,</HI> the Curdling mu&s;t be remov|ed, the <HI>Brea&s;ts</HI> drawn empty, if the <HI>Wo|maen</HI> be a <HI>Nur&s;e:</HI> Who mu&s;t now al&s;o ab|&s;tain what ever breeds much <HI>Blood</HI> and <HI>Milk,</HI> or ha&s;tens it to the <HI>Brea&s;ts,</HI> to pre|vent its too great increa&s;e therein: And mu&s;t u&s;e a &s;mall <HI>Dyet,</HI> keep an open <HI>Belly,</HI> and be &s;ure to Clean&s;e duely, if it happen then: her lower <HI>Parts</HI> may be exerci&s;ed, rubbed and tyed. If the <HI>Woman</HI> give not Suck, her <HI>Breasts</HI> mu&s;t not be drawn, but <HI>She</HI> is to Bleed in the <HI>Arm,</HI> if the <HI>Milk</HI> exuberates through the &s;ole <HI>Plethory</HI> of
<PB N="300" REF="158"> the whole <HI>Body,</HI> in the <HI>Foot</HI> al&s;o, have <HI>Cupping-Gla&s;&s;es</HI> to each <HI>Groyn,</HI> or the <HI>Share:</HI> U&s;e &s;trong <HI>Gly&s;ters:</HI> Yea purge if nece&s;&s;ar: And take al&s;o what extingui&s;hes the <HI>Milk.</HI> Let the <HI>Topicks</HI> be fir&s;t repellent, then after &s;uch as may incide, attenuate, re&s;olve and di&s;&s;ipate the <HI>Matter</HI> in&s;en&s;ibly, as <HI>Smallag, Fennel, Wormwood, Rue, Mint, Cumin, Co|riander,</HI> and other powerfully di&s;cu&s;&s;ing <HI>Aromaticks: Chervil</HI> al&s;o, <HI>Solomons Seal,</HI> and the re&s;t boiled in white <HI>Wine,</HI> or <HI>Oxycrat,</HI> and oft applyed, <HI>Some</HI> u&s;e a <HI>Spunge</HI> dipt in the <HI>Decoction</HI> of <HI>Cumin</HI> and <HI>Corriander</HI> with <HI>Vinegar. Some</HI> a <HI>Bag</HI> of <HI>Rice, Millet</HI> and <HI>Oats. Some</HI> a <HI>Catapla&s;m</HI> of <HI>Hemlock</HI> and <HI>Mint:</HI> (yet nothing of a malignant quality &s;hould be applyed) The&s;e al&s;o mentioned in the 4t. chap. and the re&s;t: Yet &s;ome|times the <HI>Curdling</HI> for all this &s;till abides, and the <HI>Milk</HI> by its long &s;tay there corrupts, becomes Acrimonious and turns to <HI>Matter</HI> and <HI>Abce&s;s.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="16" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="301" REF="158">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XVI.</HI> Of <HI>Apo&s;thumes</HI> of the <HI>Brea&s;ts.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF nothing can hinder a <HI>Suppuration</HI> (and mo&s;t rarely the <HI>Matter</HI> is di&s;&s;ipated in&s;en|&s;ibly) but that it manife&s;tly advances, as ap|pears by the great <HI>pain,</HI> &s;trong beating in one <HI>Part,</HI> with a <HI>Livid</HI> hardne&s;s, pointing &s;oft in the <HI>Midle</HI> of the <HI>Tumor,</HI> then Emollient and ripening <HI>Applications</HI> mu&s;t be ha&s;tened, that the <HI>Suppuration</HI> or <HI>Generation</HI> of <HI>Matter</HI> may be promoved without great <HI>Pain,</HI> chiefly <HI>Ca|tapla&s;ms</HI> of <HI>Althaea</HI> roots, roots of <HI>Lillies,</HI> ro&s;ted <HI>Onions,</HI> tops of both <HI>Mallows, Boars-Breach,</HI> Wood <HI>Sorrel,</HI> Flowers of <HI>Chamemel,</HI> of <HI>Me|lilot,</HI> Meal of <HI>Wheat,</HI> of <HI>Lin&s;eed, Faenogreek,</HI> Yolks of <HI>Eggs, Figs, Saffron</HI> and the like; with Oyl of <HI>Lillies, Chamemel,</HI> Oyntment of <HI>Althaea, Ba&s;ilicon</HI> (a little whereof may be applyed alone about the <HI>Place</HI> of <HI>Suppu|ration) Butter, Marrow, Fat</HI> or <HI>Grea&s;e,</HI> Plai|&s;ter of <HI>Diachylon,</HI> of <HI>Mucilages</HI> compound, and the re&s;t: to be applyed and continued, till a perfect <HI>Suppuration,</HI> or <HI>Ripne&s;s:</HI> Which is known by the whitene&s;s, &s;oftne&s;s, fluctua|tion
<PB N="302" REF="159"> of the <HI>Matter</HI> (unle&s;s it be very gro&s;s) a pointing of the <HI>Tumor,</HI> and abating of the <HI>Feaver, Pain, Ten&s;ion, Hardne&s;s</HI> and the other <HI>Symptoms.</HI> It mu&s;t then be opened in time for &s;eldom a deeper rooted <HI>Apo|&s;tem</HI> breaks of it &s;elf, and not but in a longer <HI>Space</HI>) for ea&s;e of the <HI>Pain,</HI> and le&s;s hurt to the <HI>Place;</HI> El&s;e the <HI>Matter</HI> turning more &s;harp by its &s;tay, Communicates to the <HI>Kernels</HI> and milk <HI>Ve&s;&s;els,</HI> and corrodes the &s;ame. It mu&s;t however be fully ripe, be|cau&s;e of too much <HI>Pain.</HI> The <HI>Apertion</HI> is made with a grain of potential <HI>Cauter,</HI> or rather a <HI>Lancet,</HI> thru&s;t into the very <HI>Heart</HI> of the <HI>Matter,</HI> which pre&s;ently and cer|tainly brings the &s;ame, neither leaves &s;uch an ugly <HI>Scar:</HI> And mu&s;t be made in a de|clive <HI>Place</HI> of the ri&s;ing <HI>Part:</HI> The <HI>Section</HI> mu&s;t be mo&s;t quickly with the lea&s;t <HI>Pain</HI> and hurt, Chiefly careful of hurting the <HI>Veins</HI> and <HI>Arteries,</HI> the principal of which are towards the <HI>Arm-pitts,</HI> The <HI>Nerves,</HI> or <HI>Fibres</HI> of the <HI>Mu&s;cles.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Apertion</HI> mu&s;t be large enough for <HI>Evacuation</HI> of any <HI>Clods</HI> of <HI>Matter,</HI> which yet mu&s;t not be let out too plentifully, or at once, if it be a big <HI>Ab&s;ce&s;s,</HI> for fear of fainting, &s;wooning, whiles <HI>Death</HI> it &s;elf, in the more feeble, delicate, fearful.</P>
<PB N="303" REF="159">
<P>If the <HI>Woman</HI> will not admit to open it either wayes, that the <HI>Matter</HI> may then be drawn to the <HI>Surface,</HI> and the Corroded <HI>Skin</HI> &s;ooner perforated thereby, <HI>Some</HI> apply fine <HI>Honey, Rye</HI> Leaven, and the <HI>Yolk</HI> of an Egg boiled to a <HI>Plai&s;ter: Some</HI> al&s;o lay <HI>Figgs,</HI> beat into a <HI>Catapla&s;m,</HI> to the &s;ofte&s;t and mo&s;t ri&s;ing part, to facilitate and pro|move its <HI>Apertion, Diachylon</HI> Plai&s;ter breaks an <HI>Ab&s;ce&s;s.</HI> The <HI>Matter</HI> however being vent|ed, the <HI>Wound</HI> mu&s;t be wipt clean, and get &s;oft ea&s;ie <HI>Tents,</HI> armed with <HI>Ba&s;ilicon, Lini|ment, Bal&s;om</HI> of <HI>Sulphur,</HI> or of <HI>Peru:</HI> Or yet <HI>Turpentine</HI> with the Yolk of an Egg (<HI>May</HI> Butter may be added) as a <HI>Dige&s;tive,</HI> if there be great <HI>Pain,</HI> or any thing yet to &s;uppurate. The <HI>Tents</HI> mu&s;t not be thru&s;t in too far: Let a <HI>Thread</HI> al&s;o be tyed about the 1&s;t, if requi&s;ite, the better to pull it back: <HI>Deter&s;ives</HI> al&s;o, and <HI>Mundifiers</HI> are to be u&s;ed, as <HI>Honey</HI> of <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> the <HI>Apo&s;tles</HI> Oyntment, Tincture of <HI>Myrrh, Aloes, In|cen&s;e:</HI> Such <HI>Applications</HI> be&s;ide mu&s;t &s;ee con|tinued, as mollify any remaining hardne&s;s.</P>
<P>Oftimes &s;everal <HI>Kernels</HI> Apo&s;thumates, and the <HI>Brea&s;t</HI> yeilds <HI>Matter</HI> in diver&s;e <HI>Places,</HI> yet then it &s;uffices to make one or 2 large <HI>Orifices</HI> only, in the mo&s;t declive
<PB N="304" REF="160"> part of the <HI>Brea&s;t,</HI> for emptying and dry|ing up all the re&s;t; the whole <HI>Matter</HI> there|in &s;eeking quickly thither. Then the mo&s;t &s;peedy and &s;ure way, after the <HI>Matter</HI> is drawn off, to heal the&s;e <HI>Impo&s;thumes,</HI> dry up and clo&s;e the <HI>Ulcers,</HI> and their Fi&s;tulous <HI>Orifices</HI> is to put the <HI>Milk</HI> from both <HI>Brea&s;ts,</HI> the &s;ound as well as the &s;ore. The <HI>Woman</HI> this while mu&s;t keep an open <HI>Belly,</HI> purge now and then, u&s;e al&s;o a very &s;lender <HI>Dyet.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="17" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XVII.</HI> Of <HI>Excoriations</HI> and lo&s;s of the <HI>Nipples.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe <HI>Excoriations, Exulcerations</HI> and <HI>Fi&s;&s;ures</HI> of the <HI>Nipples,</HI> which <HI>Nur&s;es</HI> very oft get, e&s;pecially the 1&s;t. time, cau&s;e horrid, &s;harp, and intolerable <HI>Pains,</HI> whiles <HI>Infants</HI> Suck, for el&s;e they have litle or none, and that by rea&s;on of the mo&s;t tender <HI>Skin,</HI> and exqui&s;ite <HI>Sen&s;e</HI> of the <HI>Part,</HI> from a Concour&s;e of <HI>Nerves, Arteries</HI> and <HI>Veins</HI> thereon: And becomes yet &s;orer, the har|der Milkt they be, as in the 1&s;t. Child, the
<PB N="305" REF="160"> Milk <HI>Conduits</HI> not being patent enough, but ob&s;tructed or otherwi&s;e &s;traitened. They ari&s;e from <HI>Childrens</HI> &s;harp and more greedy Sucking, when very dry and hungery, and where they get not <HI>Milk</HI> &s;oon and ea&s;ily: whence they do bite and mump the <HI>Nipple</HI> &s;o fiercely, whether with &s;harp Fore-teeth, or yet <HI>Gu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">s,</HI> as they make the&s;e <HI>Chops</HI> and <HI>Excoriations,</HI> Which are thus &s;o encrea&s;ed in continual Sucking, as they become raw: And &s;ome are in end quite taken away from the <HI>Breasts,</HI> an <HI>Ulcer</HI> &s;ometimes ari|&s;ing, hard to be Cured. They may happen al&s;o from a <HI>Thru&s;h</HI> in the <HI>Infants</HI> Mouth: Or yet when it hath the <HI>Pox,</HI> whence the <HI>Breast</HI> it Sucks is &s;oon thus infected and &s;poiled.</P>
<P>As &s;oon as ever the <HI>Nipples</HI> turns &s;ore, or any way painful, the <HI>Nur&s;e</HI> be&s;t forbear to have them Suckt, till they be made whole and &s;ound: The <HI>Milk</HI> for &s;ome while mu&s;t be kept back from the <HI>Breasts:</HI> Yet if the one <HI>Nipple</HI> be whole, <HI>She</HI> may give Suck with that. For <HI>Cure,</HI> of the&s;e <HI>Excoriations</HI> and <HI>Fi&s;&s;ures,</HI> they apply Honey of <HI>Ro&s;es, Rags</HI> wet in <HI>Allom, Lime,</HI> or <HI>Plantain</HI> wa|ter: Or in <HI>Vinegar</HI> boiled with <HI>Litharg, Pomat</HI> al&s;o, <HI>Diapompholigos,</HI> or <HI>Cream,</HI> with <HI>Chaulk</HI>
<PB N="306" REF="161"> Starch Flower of <HI>Brim&s;tone,</HI> wa&s;hed <HI>Tutty,</HI> or <HI>Calaminar</HI> &s;tone: Plai&s;ter of <HI>Ceru&s;s,</HI> of <HI>Chaulk:</HI> A gut of Oyl of <HI>Wax,</HI> of <HI>Myrrh,</HI> or <HI>Eggs,</HI> may now and then be droped or rubbed thereon: <HI>Natural</HI> Bal&s;om al&s;o for <HI>Exulcerations, Bal|&s;om</HI> of <HI>Sulphur Ani&s;at, Lime</HI> water, where|in <HI>Mercurius Dulcis</HI> is boiled: Yet while the <HI>Child</HI> Sucks, let nothing be u&s;ed may di&s;|gu&s;t it: And the better to &s;ecure them from hurt, let her put thereon, little holed <HI>Caps,</HI> like <HI>Hatts,</HI> of pure <HI>Wax, Wood,</HI> or yet of <HI>Lead,</HI> for this by it &s;elf is a <HI>Remedy</HI> to the <HI>Ulcers.</HI> If the <HI>Nipples</HI> be taken off. <HI>She</HI> cannot then give any more Suck, and &s;o the <HI>Milk</HI> mu&s;t be quite dryed away, till perfectly Cured: Yet after, if <HI>She</HI> will, the <HI>Roots</HI> of her old <HI>Nipples</HI> may be un&s;top'd, and formed out into new <HI>Ones,</HI> if the&s;e be not the nearer taken off; by Sucking them with the <HI>Mouth,</HI> or a brea&s;t <HI>Gla&s;s,</HI> and put|ting upon them (for a better <HI>Shape,</HI> and to hinder their &s;inking in again) the little <HI>Caps</HI> abovementioned; Then, being rai&s;ed and formed new <HI>Niples,</HI> &s;he may try to give Suck again, So far briefly of the right <HI>Government</HI> of <HI>Child-bed</HI> Women, of their principal <HI>Indi&s;po&s;itions</HI> al&s;o, with the mo&s;t plea&s;ant, ea&s;ie, innocent <HI>Cures.</HI> For the
<PB N="307" REF="161"> <HI>Whites,</HI> which are very grievous to many &s;uch, they are mentioned in the 1&s;t Book, as is the Swelling of their <HI>Legs</HI> and <HI>Thighs,</HI> which ari&s;ing mo&s;tly from the <HI>Burden</HI> of a big <HI>Belly,</HI> mu&s;t now evani&s;h when lighter, through ea&s;e, warmth and good Guiding. And the <HI>Anti-hy&s;tericks</HI> appointed for hard <HI>Labour,</HI> or &s;uppre&s;&s;ed <HI>Clean&s;ings,</HI> take <HI>Place</HI> in <HI>Hy&s;terick Pa&s;&s;ions,</HI> or <HI>Suffocations</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> then very u&s;ual. Now follows</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="18" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XVIII.</HI> Of the <HI>Feavers</HI> of <HI>Child-Bed-Women.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe continual putrid <HI>Feavers</HI> &s;uper|veens mo&s;tly, and ari&s;es either from a <HI>Suppre&s;&s;ion,</HI> or <HI>Diminution</HI> of the <HI>Cour&s;es,</HI> their Corruption and Virulent Ma|lignity: Or if it happen while the&s;e flow right, it then proceeds from &s;tore of bad <HI>Humors,</HI> cumulated in the <HI>Body</HI> the time of <HI>Pregnancy;</HI> which being furiou&s;ly agitated, in the <HI>Fervor,</HI> and vehemency of a &s;ore and tedious <HI>Labour,</HI> ea&s;ily inflames and rages beyond all bounds con&s;tituting the&s;e
<PB N="308" REF="162"> <HI>Feavers:</HI> Which may al&s;o happen to the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> from <HI>Errours</HI> in their <HI>Dyet</HI> and <HI>Tending,</HI> chiefly while cramed with <HI>Meats,</HI> unfit both in <HI>Quality</HI> and <HI>Quantity,</HI> or while they ra&s;hly expo&s;e them&s;elves to the <HI>Air</HI> and gets <HI>Cold,</HI> e&s;pecially when Sweating in the <HI>Hight</HI> of the <HI>Feaver</HI> of <HI>Milk.</HI> It proceeds al&s;o oft enough, while the 2<HI>din.</HI> comes not whol|ly away, but &s;ome <HI>Part,</HI> e&s;pecially of the <HI>Womb Liver,</HI> is left annexed to the <HI>Womb,</HI> which putrifies, whence the <HI>Clean&s;ings</HI> are Greeni&s;h, Faetid, and Cadaverous: And unle&s;s it be quickly loo&s;ed and got away, the <HI>Woman</HI> is put in great peril of Life: noi&s;ome <HI>Vapors</HI> flying up to the <HI>Head, Heart,</HI> and <HI>Stomach.</HI> In <HI>Some</HI> al&s;o, the <HI>Orifice</HI> of the <HI>Womb</HI> &s;o &s;traitens and clo&s;es in&s;tantly after <HI>Labour,</HI> that the <HI>Blood</HI> is detained, Clots and Putrifies therein: Whence the&s;e <HI>Feavers,</HI> with divers other mo&s;t horrible <HI>Symptoms,</HI> of which (if it can no way be got out) they &s;oon die. Yet u&s;ually while &s;uch <HI>Clotts,</HI> or other Praeternatural <HI>Thing</HI> re|main in the <HI>Cavity</HI> of the <HI>Womb,</HI> the neck thereof is &s;oft, lax and patent: Neither does the inner <HI>Orifice</HI> clo&s;e, nor the <HI>Womb</HI> &s;ettle and draw back, as where all goes right after <HI>Labour.</HI></P>
<PB N="309" REF="162">
<P><HI>Feavers</HI> of <HI>Child-Bed</HI> are mo&s;t dange|rous, both for that the Strength is broken by the <HI>Labour,</HI> and through <HI>Suppre&s;&s;ion</HI> of the <HI>Clean&s;ings,</HI> there is a greater redundan|cy of mo&s;t vile putrid <HI>Humors</HI> in the <HI>Veins</HI> and <HI>Ma&s;s</HI> of <HI>Blood,</HI> which mu&s;t exagitate the &s;ame to an acute Feaveri&s;h malignant <HI>Ebullition.</HI> It helps al&s;o the Progno&s;tick of the&s;e Feavers, and fore&s;ight of the Cri&s;is e&s;pecially, that a due computation be made of the <HI>Beginning,</HI> or number of the <HI>Dayes</HI> thereof: As to which, if there hath be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n a natural <HI>Labour,</HI> with no grievous <HI>Symp|toms,</HI> the <HI>Clean&s;ings</HI> al&s;o go right after, a &s;ub&s;equent <HI>Feaver</HI> whence &s;oever, mu&s;t compute from its <HI>Beginning:</HI> But if the <HI>La|bour</HI> hath been hard and praeternatural, the <HI>Feaver</HI> tho ari&s;ing 3 or 4 dayes after, mu&s;t count from the day of <HI>Labour,</HI> the <HI>Cra&s;is</HI> of all, being from that everted, the <HI>Oeconomy,</HI> or <HI>Functions</HI> of the whole <HI>Body</HI> marred, or in ill order. As the <HI>Feavers</HI> of Child-bed <HI>Wo|men,</HI> hath no peculiar <HI>E&s;&s;ence</HI> or <HI>Diagno|&s;tick,</HI> &s;o there is little or no difference or difficulty of Cure in their Ca&s;e; except as to <HI>Bleeding</HI> and <HI>Purging:</HI> And for <HI>Bleeding</HI> in the <HI>Arm,</HI> there is great difficulty, be|cau&s;e of the quite oppo&s;ite <HI>Indications;</HI> the
<PB N="310" REF="163"> <HI>Feaver</HI> greatly requiring it in the u&s;ual <HI>Method,</HI> the Child-bed <HI>State</HI> flatly forbid|ing it, for marr of the <HI>Clean&s;ings.</HI></P>
<P>However as to <HI>Bleeding,</HI> their <HI>Feavers</HI> come either in the beginning, in the midle, or at the end of <HI>Child-bed:</HI> and according|ly the <HI>Clean&s;ings</HI> either &s;till flow natural|ly, and in that abundance they ought for the time, &s;o that the <HI>Woman</HI> purges &s;uf|ficiently, and then there mu&s;t be no other <HI>Bleeding,</HI> while <HI>Nature</HI> thus bleeds <HI>Her</HI> &s;o right and largely: Or the <HI>Clean&s;ings,</HI> hap|pens now to be &s;uppre&s;t or dimini&s;hed, and then her lower <HI>Veins</HI> are to be opened, and bleed copiou&s;ly, that &s;o they may be pro|voked, and the <HI>Morbifick</HI> matter al&s;o dimi|ni&s;hed: And the &s;ame <HI>Veins</HI> are al&s;o to be opened, even tho <HI>She</HI> &s;hould be Clean&s;ed &s;ufficiently, if the <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e</HI> increa&s;e, &s;o as the natural <HI>Evacuation</HI> &s;hould not &s;uffice, and &s;o much <HI>Blood</HI> taken, as by both <HI>Evacuati|ons</HI> the pre&s;ent <HI>Exigency</HI> may be Supplyed: But if the <HI>Feaver</HI> turn ardent, vehement, or exceeding inten&s;e, her upper <HI>Veins</HI> mu&s;t be forthwith opened (as al&s;o in a <HI>Peripneu|mony, Pleuri&s;y, Quin&s;y,</HI> or other particular acute Di&s;ea&s;e, which puts her in eminent peril of <HI>Life,</HI> and yeilds not to other <HI>Re|medies</HI>)
<PB N="311" REF="163"> and no fear that thus the <HI>Blood</HI> may be drawn back from the <HI>Womb,</HI> &s;ee|ing then the upper <HI>Parts</HI> &s;o abound there|with, that albeit much be drawn, yet the <HI>Veins</HI> are not &s;o emptied, as that they mu&s;t attract new <HI>Blood</HI> from thence: Tho for the more &s;ecurity, or con&s;ervation of her <HI>Clean&s;ings,</HI> it is good before it be done, to rub the <HI>Thighs,</HI> and after make painful <HI>Li|gatures</HI> in the midle thereof, not to be loo&s;ed till a little after the <HI>Bleeding:</HI> And now and then al&s;o to apply <HI>Cupping-Gla&s;ses</HI> to the &s;ame <HI>Parts,</HI> or at lea&s;t repeat the <HI>Frictions.</HI> Yet if the <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e</HI> and its <HI>Vehemency</HI> do not &s;o pre&s;s, and urge, and the <HI>Clean&s;ings</HI> with|all be copious, it is to be performed with the greater premeditation, or rather quite for born, while <HI>Nature</HI> thus keeps right, and e&s;pecially the nearer the <HI>Delivery,</HI> for the more remote, the more &s;afely it may be done.</P>
<P>As to <HI>Purgation,</HI> it mu&s;t not come while the <HI>Clean&s;ings</HI> flow naturally: Though if they &s;top, &s;o as the <HI>Woman</HI> purge either nothing at all, or in&s;ufficiently, and all fit remedies for provoking thereof are <HI>E&s;&s;ayed</HI> in vain, And if the <HI>Morbi&s;ick Matter</HI> appear dige&s;t|ed, after 8 10 or 12 dayes from the <HI>Labour
<PB N="312" REF="164"> She</HI> may be purged, but with a more gentle <HI>Medicine</HI> only, and according to the great|er or le&s;&s;er exigency of the <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e</HI> and her &s;trength. If al&s;o the <HI>Flux</HI> come white&s;h, or of other unnatural <HI>Colour,</HI> the <HI>Matter</HI> withall be ripe, <HI>She</HI> may &s;afely purge in the la&s;t period of <HI>Child-bed:</HI> And in gene|ral, this is here to be ob&s;erved, that the far|ther removed from the day of <HI>Delivery She</HI> be, the more &s;afely <HI>She</HI> may purge, the the nearer the more peril, as in the 2d. 3d. or 4t. day: Hence a <HI>Loo&s;ne&s;s</HI> then is u&s;ual|ly Mortal.</P>
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<DIV2 N="19" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XIX.</HI> Of Right Ordering and Dre&s;&s;ing New-born <HI>In|fants.</HI></HEAD>
<P>HAving already taught their &s;afe pro|duction into the World, no le&s;s Skill and Indu&s;try is &s;till requi&s;ite to their <HI>Pre|&s;ervation:</HI> Being of them&s;elves now, and long time after, Silly, Infirm, and &s;o Pitiful|ly Impotent, as without the aid and &s;uc|cour
<PB N="313" REF="164"> of <HI>Others</HI> they mu&s;t in&s;tantly peri&s;h: So who helps now is a <HI>God</HI> to him in the <HI>Metaphor</HI> of the <HI>Proverb.</HI> And here fir&s;t of ordering the <HI>Navel-String.</HI></P>
<P>As &s;oon as the <HI>Infant</HI> is born, and the <HI>After-birth</HI> (for this mu&s;t be excluded al&s;o, ere the <HI>String</HI> be cut, unle&s;s it &s;tick too long) and the <HI>Birth</HI> clo&s;ed up, let them be brought together before the <HI>Fire</HI> (the <HI>In|fant</HI> being put in a warm <HI>Bed</HI> and <HI>Blanket</HI>) and the <HI>String</HI> then tyed, with a &s;trong gro&s;s Thread, &s;oftly twi&s;ted 3 or 4 fold, about a <HI>Foot</HI> or <HI>Quarier</HI> long, having a <HI>Knot</HI> on each end, and got ready before, with a pair of &s;harp <HI>Sci&s;sars,</HI> or <HI>Razor.</HI> The <HI>Tye</HI> may be applyed an <HI>Inch</HI> 2 or 3. (that is no matter) from the <HI>Belly,</HI> and requires no greater length in <HI>Males</HI> then <HI>Females,</HI> as &s;ay <HI>Some,</HI> who will give the&s;e a larger <HI>Mea&s;ure,</HI> that the <HI>Yard</HI> may hence become greater: But a le&s;s <HI>Portion,</HI> or cut nearer the <HI>Belly</HI> in the <HI>Other,</HI> that the <HI>Womb</HI> may be &s;eated higher, and its <HI>Neck</HI> made &s;traiter: Tho yet there is no con&s;ent of the <HI>Yard</HI> or <HI>Womb</HI> with the <HI>Navel:</HI> Nor were this any favour done to <HI>Women.</HI></P>
<P>Let 2 or 3 firm tyings be made about the <HI>String,</HI> with a double <HI>Knot</HI> each turn, to
<PB N="314" REF="165"> make &s;ure no <HI>Blood</HI> flow out, whence &s;ome <HI>Infants</HI> have been lo&s;t: Yet mu&s;t not be made &s;o &s;trait as to cut it through.</P>
<P>The <HI>Tye</HI> being expede, the <HI>String</HI> is to be cut off, 2 or 3 <HI>Inches</HI> without the &s;ame, towards the <HI>Burden</HI> (the end thereof &s;ay <HI>Some,</HI> mu&s;t not touch the <HI>Ground,</HI> el&s;e the <HI>Child</HI> will never hold its <HI>Water</HI>) then let the cutting which remains at the <HI>Navel,</HI> be wrapt up in a &s;mall <HI>Rag,</HI> dry, or yet dipt in Oyl of <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> or <HI>Almonds,</HI> and turned upwards above the <HI>Navel</HI> (that the <HI>Blood</HI> may not &s;o readily flow out) and laid up|on a <HI>Compre&s;s,</HI> that thus it touch not the naked <HI>Belly,</HI> to cau&s;e <HI>Grips</HI> by its Coldne&s;s: With another <HI>Compre&s;s</HI> a top, and a <HI>Belly</HI> band above all, that &s;o it be kept firm in a certain <HI>Place,</HI> and not roll too and fro, or be forced off &s;ooner then it ought; the <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> not being entirely clo&s;ed and healed up: whence a <HI>Flux</HI> of <HI>Blood,</HI> or an <HI>Ulcer,</HI> hard to be Cured. Careful &s;till, while the <HI>Child</HI> is opened, to &s;ee the <HI>Tye</HI> bide fa&s;t and clo&s;e (it readily &s;lacking in big &s;wol|len <HI>Strings,</HI> as they wither and dry: whence al&s;o &s;ome <HI>Infants</HI> have been lo&s;t un|awares, by this effu&s;ion of <HI>Blood</HI>) till the the <HI>String</HI> corrupt, or dry, die and fall a|way
<PB N="315" REF="165"> of it &s;elf with the <HI>Tye,</HI> being thereby deprived of <HI>Aliment</HI> and <HI>Heat.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Time</HI> thereof varies, though mo&s;t fall the 6th. or 7th. day, <HI>Some</HI> the 5th. and the&s;e <HI>Infants</HI> Midwives makes to be long lived: <HI>Some</HI> the 3d. and &s;uch again they Prophecy &s;hort lived. <HI>Some</HI> are after the 8th. or 9th. day but very rarely. A <HI>Com|pre&s;s</HI> and <HI>Swath</HI> mu&s;t &s;till be kept upon the <HI>Place</HI> for &s;ome time after, till it be &s;olidated with a firm <HI>Skin,</HI> wholly depre&s;&s;ed, and as it were &s;unk inwards and formed a &s;ound <HI>Navel.</HI> That it may be drawn together the better, and for its greater <HI>Ex&s;iccation, Some</HI> Straw thereon the Powder of a rotten <HI>Walnut-Tree,</HI> a little <HI>Chaulk, Bole,</HI> Burnt <HI>Lead, Snail</HI> Shells, or apply the Powder of <HI>Ma&s;tick</HI> with the <HI>White</HI> of an Egg.</P>
<P><HI>Some</HI> are in u&s;e, where the <HI>Infant</HI> is more weak, and as it were half dead, before they tye and cut the <HI>String,</HI> to drive back all the <HI>Blood</HI> therein, to its inward <HI>Parts,</HI> whereby they will have the <HI>Infant,</HI> who ju&s;t now was &s;ailing without <HI>Blood,</HI> to be in&s;tantly re&s;tored to <HI>Life,</HI> revived and made vigorous by <HI>Acce&s;&s;ion</HI> hereof: which yet being cooled by approach of the outward <HI>Air,</HI> deprived of its <HI>Spirits,</HI> clodded al&s;o
<PB N="316" REF="166"> and half congealed, can have no &s;uch <HI>Effect,</HI> but mu&s;t do a weak <HI>Infant</HI> great hurt and danger: No &s;uch thing therefore ought to be &s;uffered. And with as little rea&s;on, do <HI>Some</HI> give to the <HI>Child</HI> in its faintings, 3 or 4 drops of the <HI>Blood</HI> &s;queezed out of the <HI>Navel-String</HI> in a little brea&s;t <HI>Milk</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Infant</HI> mu&s;t next be clean&s;ed before the <HI>Fire,</HI> from all <HI>Excrements,</HI> fir&s;t that kind of Oyly Mucous <HI>Filth,</HI> or Clammy <HI>Humour</HI> upon its <HI>Body</HI> without, like <HI>Cream</HI> of <HI>Milk,</HI> or &s;oft <HI>Chee&s;e,</HI> which is &s;aid to pro|ceed from the <HI>Slime</HI> of its <HI>Waters,</HI> or the <HI>Milky</HI> Liquor it &s;wims in: <HI>Some</HI> hold it an <HI>Excrement</HI> of the 3d. Concoction, made in the whole <HI>Habit: Others</HI> an <HI>Excrement</HI> fal|ling from the <HI>Brain</HI> through its <HI>Mouth</HI> and <HI>No&s;trils:</HI> And the &s;ame being in greate&s;t plenty about the <HI>Head. Arm-pitts,</HI> folds of the <HI>Groyns,</HI> and <HI>Codds</HI> (though <HI>Some</HI> are wholly be&s;meared therewith) the&s;e <HI>Parts</HI> mu&s;t be clean&s;ed more exactly, and bathed with a &s;oft <HI>Rag,</HI> or <HI>Spunge</HI> tramped in Lukewarm <HI>Claret,</HI> with a 3d. part <HI>Wa|ter:</HI> Or in warm <HI>Ale: Some</HI> u&s;e <HI>Decoction</HI> of <HI>Sage</HI> and <HI>Ro&s;es</HI> in <HI>Wine;</HI> adding where it is tough, and ill to come off, a little Oyl
<PB N="317" REF="166"> of <HI>Almonds, Cream,</HI> or fre&s;h <HI>Butter:</HI> And &s;o be all wipt clean, and dryed off. Let its <HI>Mouth</HI> be opened, and the <HI>Phlegm</HI> drawn out, the <HI>Snott</HI> al&s;o from its <HI>No&s;e:</HI> The <HI>Ears</HI> mu&s;t be clean&s;ed of their <HI>Filth,</HI> u&s;ing &s;mall rag <HI>Tents</HI> dipt in that <HI>Liquor,</HI> to un|&s;top and clear them, as al&s;o the <HI>No&s;trils.</HI> The <HI>Eye-lids</HI> are to be opened, and the <HI>Eyes</HI> made clean; yet with a &s;oft dry linnen <HI>Rag</HI> only, or then wet in lukewarm <HI>Water:</HI> For neither <HI>Wine, Butter,</HI> nor <HI>Oyl</HI> agrees thereto. Let them al&s;o be covered, e&s;peci|ally careful they be kept from the <HI>Light.</HI></P>
<P>While it is thus made clean from that outward <HI>Impurity,</HI> all its <HI>Parts</HI> and <HI>Mem|bers</HI> mu&s;t be diligently viewed, that there be no deformity or fault in the <HI>Figure</HI> or <HI>Con|formation,</HI> nor any <HI>Thing</HI> praeternatural, nei|ther any <HI>Hurt, Di&s;location,</HI> or <HI>Fracture</HI> in bearing: Whiah <HI>Things</HI> mu&s;t be corrected and amended, while the <HI>Limbs</HI> and <HI>Joynts</HI> are &s;oft and yeilding; yet hardly can, in <HI>Ca&s;e</HI> they be vitiou&s;ly <HI>Figured,</HI> as very oft, in the 1&s;t <HI>Conformation</HI> of the <HI>Parts</HI> in the <HI>Womb.</HI> Every <HI>Finger</HI> and <HI>Toe</HI> mu&s;t be hand|led and &s;pread open, the <HI>Joynts</HI> al&s;o of the <HI>Thighs</HI> and <HI>Arms</HI> extended and contracted &s;everal times a day, for &s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e while, that
<PB N="318" REF="167"> the Excrementitious <HI>Humours</HI> abounding therein, may be thus re&s;olved. The <HI>Con|formation</HI> of its <HI>Head</HI> mu&s;t chiefly be heed|ed, for being divided into many <HI>Parts,</HI> and more &s;traitly compre&s;&s;ed, in &s;ome 1&s;t. and difficult <HI>Labours,</HI> through an u&s;ual bigne&s;s, or &s;traitne&s;s of the <HI>Way</HI> (and very oft the <HI>Midwifs</HI> rude or ra&s;h <HI>Hands</HI> does much hurt then upon the tender <HI>Gri&s;tles</HI> of the <HI>Temples</HI>) there is frequently made a <HI>Protuberancy</HI> or <HI>Depre&s;&s;ion:</HI> Yea its due <HI>Mould</HI> is oft mar|red and &s;poiled, that for the right and natural <HI>Figure,</HI> round and a little long, to wit, behind and before a little protube|rant, and depre&s;&s;ed at the <HI>Sidei,</HI> it is made long and flat, or exactly <HI>Sphaerical:</HI> But mo&s;t frequently of all, an acuminated or oval <HI>Figure</HI> ari&s;es hence, the <HI>Head</HI> as it were thru&s;t out into a <HI>Point,</HI> or &s;harpne&s;s up|wards, being more &s;oft above, and not as yet &s;olidated with a firm <HI>Bone:</HI> And all &s;uch marred and hurtful <HI>Figurations,</HI> in whole, or in part, ea&s;ily perverts the <HI>Frame</HI> of the mo&s;t &s;oft and Humid <HI>Brain,</HI> and more or le&s;s, according as it is made to recede from the Natural: And through mi&s;placing of the <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> of the <HI>Brain,</HI> even without <HI>Di&s;ruption</HI> thereof, a <HI>Fatuity</HI> may
<PB N="319" REF="167"> follow, yea and incurable: But &s;eeing the <HI>Sutures,</HI> or greater <HI>Seams</HI> of the <HI>Head,</HI> are then &s;oft and moveable, and &s;o may be ea&s;ily removed and &s;et right to their due <HI>Place,</HI> &s;uch <HI>Figures</HI> are to be corrected with the <HI>Hand,</HI> and re&s;tored to the natu|ral, by &s;oftly compre&s;&s;ing the <HI>Head,</HI> and making it plain and even: Which yet re|quires great Skill and Caution. The <HI>Ca|nal</HI> chiefly of <HI>Urine,</HI> and the <HI>Fundament</HI> mu&s;t be &s;een patent, which is &s;oon known, the <HI>Urine</HI> being u&s;ually pa&s;t immediatly after its Birth, e&s;pecially at the <HI>Heat</HI> of the <HI>Fire,</HI> and while the&s;e <HI>Parts</HI> are handled and &s;troaked: And whiles its <HI>Ordure</HI> then al&s;o, that black <HI>Excrement</HI> called the <HI>Meconium</HI> or <HI>Papaver,</HI> or in a &s;hort time after: Tho <HI>Some</HI> for 3 dayes, di&s;charge nothing of this <HI>Meconium,</HI> nor no <HI>Excrements</HI> of the <HI>Belly:</HI> But this is rare. If it vent not the 1&s;t. day, it had be&s;t be provoked, lea&s;t <HI>Grips</HI> ari&s;e, giving a Sugar'd <HI>Almond,</HI> rubbed over with a little boiled <HI>Honey,</HI> for a <HI>Suppo&s;itory:</HI> Or a &s;mall piece of <HI>Ca&s;tile-Soap,</HI> rubbed over with fre&s;h <HI>Butter:</HI> And by the <HI>Mouth</HI> Syrup of <HI>Ro&s;es</HI> or <HI>Violets,</HI> with new drawn Oyl of <HI>Almonds,</HI> or a little <HI>Manna:</HI> The In|fants <HI>Belly</HI> may al&s;o be anointed with the &s;ame <HI>Oyl,</HI> or fre&s;h <HI>Butter.</HI></P>
<PB N="320" REF="168">
<P>This <HI>Matter</HI> found in its gro&s;s <HI>Inte&s;tins,</HI> like a black <HI>Electuary,</HI> or pulp of <HI>Ca&s;&s;ia</HI> (of other <HI>Colours</HI> al&s;o) and which it excerns from the <HI>Fundament</HI> after it is born, is made the more gro&s;s <HI>Part,</HI> or re&s;iduous <HI>Dregs</HI> of &s;ome <HI>Aliment,</HI> a&s;&s;umed by the <HI>Mouth,</HI> and &s;wal|lowed, the more &s;ubtile peircing the <HI>Guts</HI> unto the <HI>Blood,</HI> receiving &s;ome <HI>Con&s;i&s;tence</HI> from the &s;tay they make in the <HI>Circumvolu|tions,</HI> or turns of the <HI>Guts. Some</HI> will have it redound in the <HI>Guts,</HI> from the faeculent &s;uperfluous <HI>Blood</HI> only di&s;charged there|into by little and little: And <HI>Some</HI> make it the <HI>Juyce</HI> of the <HI>Sweat-bread</HI> with the <HI>Bale,</HI> falling down by little and little upon the <HI>Inte&s;tins.</HI></P>
<P>It gathers and remains in the Infants <HI>Guts,</HI> keeping them di&s;tent for their future <HI>Office,</HI> and is in &s;o &s;mall quantity (what <HI>Food</HI> it gets in the <HI>Womb</HI> being pure, and &s;o wholly converted into its <HI>Nouri&s;hment</HI> and <HI>Growth</HI>) that nothing is voided, till after it is born, and begins to be fed (yet <HI>Some</HI> make its more liquid <HI>Excrements</HI> to encrea&s;e the <HI>Waters</HI>) then plenty of new and far wor&s;e &s;cented <HI>Encrements,</HI> are cumulated therein, by little and little, thru&s;ts down and expels the <HI>Meconium,</HI> which is then
<PB N="321" REF="168"> known to be all voided, when its <HI>Stools</HI> turns from black to pale, about the 2d. or 3d. day: Lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ing &s;till by degrees that <HI>Tincture</HI> according as the new <HI>Excrements</HI> de&s;cends and mixe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> thereto.</P>
<P>The <HI>Infant</HI> is now to be laid into Sw<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d|ling <HI>Cloaths,</HI> all his <HI>Parts</HI> and <HI>Members</HI> &s;oft|ly extended, and each laid fitly in its own <HI>Place,</HI> not crookedly or confu&s;ed, with &s;oft <HI>Rags</HI> behind the <HI>Ears,</HI> in the <HI>Arm-pits</HI> and <HI>Groyns,</HI> the better to &s;uck up the <HI>Filth</HI> comes out, and keep from Scalding: And &s;o be trimly Swathed up, beginning at the <HI>Head,</HI> the <HI>Mould</HI> or &s;oft <HI>Part</HI> whereof, mu&s;t he covered for <HI>Cold</HI> or outward <HI>Hurt,</HI> with a 4 or 5 plyed Linnen <HI>Compre&s;s</HI> under its <HI>Biggin,</HI> and fa&s;t pinned thereto: Let his <HI>Arms</HI> next be wrapt up in his <HI>Bed,</HI> and &s;traighted down clo&s;e along&s;t the <HI>Sides,</HI> his <HI>Thighs</HI> al&s;o, <HI>Legs</HI> and <HI>Feet,</HI> equally extend|ed, and bound down together, that they may ly more &s;traight, and not turn crook|ed, or wry, grow firm al&s;o and &s;table, that &s;o he may be able in time to rai&s;e him|&s;elf, &s;tand upon his <HI>Feet,</HI> and come to go upright: With a &s;oft <HI>Linnen</HI> between, to hinder their Galling: Having al&s;o a <HI>Stay|band</HI> pinned on each &s;ide the <HI>Blanket,</HI> to
<PB N="322" REF="169"> keep its <HI>Head</HI> &s;teady: And &s;o its whole <HI>Body</HI> being thus equally contained in the <HI>Swaths,</HI> and in a &s;traight <HI>Figure</HI> from <HI>Top</HI> to <HI>Toe,</HI> due and decent for <HI>Mankind,</HI> may be thereby rightly conformed and perfited, its <HI>Bones</HI> made firm and &s;table. Whence <HI>Some</HI> will not have it loo&s;ed from the <HI>Swaths</HI> for 60 dayes, yet <HI>Some</HI> make the 1&s;t. 40 dayes enough to be kept in them: But the <HI>Time</HI> is indeed uncertain, for the more feeble an <HI>Infant</HI> is, the longer time he needs be Swathed, the more robu&s;t the &s;horter. In Swathing the <HI>Infant, One</HI> mu&s;t be &s;ure to keep his <HI>Brea&s;t</HI> more &s;lack, for a free <HI>Re|&s;piration,</HI> el&s;e he may Suffocate: His <HI>Sto|mach</HI> al&s;o, el&s;e the <HI>Milk</HI> he &s;ucks &s;hall not have <HI>Place</HI> therein, and &s;o be ca&s;t up: Nei|ther mu&s;t the <HI>Swaths</HI> be too &s;lack, nor yet too &s;trait, le&s;t its tender <HI>Members</HI> be wre&s;t|ed: And be &s;ure al&s;o the <HI>Pins</HI> prick him not, whence <HI>Some</HI> have died, let <HI>Women</HI> &s;ee to the re&s;t.</P>
<P>After it is Dre&s;&s;ed and Swathed, and be|fore it &s;hould Suck or take any <HI>Meat, Some</HI> will have it placed at the <HI>Mothers</HI> left <HI>Side</HI> near the <HI>Heart,</HI> the 1&s;t. time, per&s;wading them&s;elves that by this, the <HI>Infant</HI> will be pre&s;erved all its Life from <HI>Convul&s;ion</HI> and
<PB N="323" REF="169"> <HI>Le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ry,</HI> while the <HI>Mother</HI> draws naturally from it all <HI>Di&s;ea&s;es,</HI> and voids away again with her <HI>Clean&s;ings,</HI> whatever <HI>Hurt</HI> &s;he hath drawn, without any peril.</P>
<P>There is yet another <HI>Excrement,</HI> a &s;ort of tougher <HI>Phlegm</HI> &s;ticking in his <HI>Stomach,</HI> which he is now and then puking up, for &s;ome little time after he is born: And to facilitate its <HI>Ejection</HI> (for it be&s;t be off ere he Suck) he is ordered a little Sugar'd <HI>Wine,</HI> or <HI>Ale:</HI> Or &s;ome new drawn Oyl of <HI>Almonds</HI> with <HI>Sugar-Candy,</HI> or Syrup of <HI>Violets:</HI> Or a little <HI>Butter</HI> and <HI>Sugar,</HI> or <HI>Honey</HI> (though &s;ome approves not either of <HI>Butter</HI> or <HI>Honey</HI> to that purpo&s;e) and after laid a little forward, that the <HI>Phlegm</HI> may vent the freer, which el&s;e if laid on his <HI>Back,</HI> might fall on his <HI>Gullet</HI> and choak him: And this they u&s;e for one day, or more, till a <HI>Brea&s;t</HI> be got, and that he hath ca&s;t up all that <HI>Pituit.</HI> Some <HI>Women</HI> have in <HI>Cu&s;tom,</HI> to make the <HI>Infant</HI> get &s;omething by the <HI>Mouth,</HI> as &s;oon as ever it is born, whence they fancy &s;ome <HI>Di&s;ea&s;es</HI> may be prevented: And e&s;pecially <HI>Some</HI> give 1&s;t. and before it get any thing el&s;e, a few <HI>Grains</HI> of prepared red <HI>Corral</HI> in the Mo|thers <HI>Milk: Others</HI> &s;ome <HI>Gutts</HI> of the <HI>Navel
<PB N="324" REF="170"> Blood</HI> again&s;t their ever having <HI>Convul&s;ions:</HI> And <HI>Some</HI> give a little powder of <HI>Bezoar.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="20" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XX.</HI> Of <HI>Dyeting</HI> and <HI>Ordering</HI> the New-born <HI>Infant.</HI></HEAD>
<P>SOme little time being elap&s;ed, and the mo&s;t part of that <HI>Pituit</HI> got off, he may get a <HI>Brea&s;t,</HI> though not the <HI>Mothers</HI> for the 1&s;t. 8 dayes at lea&s;t (<HI>Some</HI> &s;ay not till after her <HI>Clean&s;ing</HI>) that <HI>She</HI> be &s;omewhat Setled and Clean&s;ed, her <HI>Milk</HI> purified: El&s;e the <HI>Milk</HI> of the <HI>Clean&s;ings,</HI> or of the 1st. dayes, being Foul, Turbid, Curdy, without Concoction and other due <HI>Quali|ties,</HI> might rai&s;e <HI>Grips,</HI> and loo&s;e the <HI>Belly</HI> (Though <HI>Some</HI> therefore hold it good as carrying off the <HI>Excrements</HI> therein) But <HI>Some</HI> will give Suck from the very 1&s;t. day, and <HI>Some</HI> may, to wit, robu&s;t health|ful <HI>Women</HI> and in ea&s;ie <HI>Labours:</HI> Though yet all <HI>Women</HI> had be&s;t forbear, till they Setle and Clean&s;e a little, the foul <HI>Milk</HI> be brought away, and the <HI>Brea&s;ts</HI> withall won ea&s;ie for the <HI>Infant:</HI> And to make him take
<PB N="325" REF="170"> it (for <HI>Some</HI> will not in 3 or 4 dayes) let a little be milked into his <HI>Mouth,</HI> and up|on his <HI>Lips,</HI> that he may ta&s;te it, and after put the <HI>Nipple</HI> droping into it, &s;oftly &s;queezing out the <HI>Milk</HI> when once he is fa&s;tened, that he may have it come ea&s;ily: And &s;o be thus brought on to Suck by degrees. He mu&s;t Suck little at fir&s;t, and ofter, yet not too oft, but as his little <HI>Sto|mach</HI> can ea&s;ily contain and dige&s;t, with|out oppre&s;&s;ion and Vomiting: Advancing dayly for his <HI>Age, Strength</HI> and <HI>Appetite,</HI> till he may &s;afely take a fill, and that <HI>Night</HI> and <HI>Day</HI> when he will: Yet &s;till in all Mode|ration, for <HI>Milk</HI> is of great Nouri&s;hment, and &s;o if given in greater plenty, then that the native <HI>Heat</HI> can well dige&s;t, or convert it into a perfect Sub&s;tance of <HI>Fle&s;h,</HI> it ea&s;ily goes to <HI>Fatt:</HI> Whence <HI>Infants</HI> have the &s;ame <HI>Troubles,</HI> which Elder <HI>People</HI> gets through <HI>Surfeit.</HI></P>
<P>It is thought be&s;t he feed on <HI>Milk</HI> alone, in ca&s;e there be plenty of it, for 2 or 3 Months at lea&s;t (and many are content with <HI>Milk</HI> alone, and refu&s;es <HI>Pap</HI> all that time) it proving &s;ometimes very perni|cious to a tender <HI>Infant,</HI> to get <HI>Pap</HI> too &s;oon, or largely, e&s;pecially if Thick and
<PB N="326" REF="171"> Vi&s;cous, by rea&s;on of its <HI>Indige&s;tion,</HI> the <HI>Ob&s;tructions</HI> and <HI>Con&s;tipations</HI> it makes &s;carce finding pa&s;&s;age, the great <HI>Oppre&s;&s;ions, Stop|pages</HI> and Infirmities of the <HI>Brea&s;t; Gripes, Swellings</HI> and <HI>Pains</HI> of the <HI>Belly:</HI> Yet <HI>Some Finger-fed Infants</HI> are &s;een to thrive as well as they who Suckle. As &s;oon as there is need, he may get a little of <HI>Some</HI> other <HI>Nouri&s;hment</HI> al&s;o, which yet in <HI>Vertue</HI> and <HI>Con&s;i&s;tence,</HI> would not be unlike the <HI>Milk,</HI> of good ea&s;ie <HI>Coction</HI> and <HI>Distribution,</HI> as <HI>Pap</HI> of new milked <HI>Milk,</HI> clear <HI>Ale,</HI> or yet <HI>Water,</HI> and Meal well dryed to be le&s;s Vi&s;cid and Crud: Or rather <HI>Crumbs</HI> of white <HI>Bread</HI> gently Boiled to a moderate <HI>Con&s;i&s;tence</HI> (though <HI>Some</HI> order the <HI>Milk</HI> raw, as being of a Clean&s;ing <HI>Quality,</HI> ea&s;ie of <HI>Dige&s;tion,</HI> and excellent to prevent all <HI>Convul&s;ions</HI> and Griping <HI>Pains</HI> of the <HI>Sto|mach,</HI> attending windy <HI>Di&s;ea&s;es</HI> in <HI>Children</HI>) adding a little <HI>Sugar, Butter,</HI> or Powder of <HI>Anis:</HI> And this to be given once a day, e&s;pecially in the <HI>Morning,</HI> or twice at mo&s;t: Though yet the <HI>Dyet</HI> mu&s;t vary, for the various <HI>Nature, Habit, Temperature.</HI> After he is thus dre&s;&s;ed and fed, he is turned in upon the Nur&s;es <HI>Bo&s;om,</HI> who &s;troakes him down over his <HI>Back,</HI> to the very <HI>Toes,</HI> gives
<PB N="327" REF="171"> him, a little <HI>Suck,</HI> to wa&s;h down the <HI>Milk</HI> and help its <HI>Concoction,</HI> and then layes him to &s;leep: Yet hence are Infants <HI>Crudities</HI> cumulated dayly in abundance, for that all <HI>Nur&s;es</HI> almo&s;t, ever permits them to &s;leep in&s;tantly after the u&s;e of any <HI>Mea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> what&s;oever. He is to ly in a <HI>Cradle</HI> by <HI>Day,</HI> (by <HI>Night</HI> al&s;o till he be a little more robu&s;t, le&s;t he be overlaid) upon his <HI>Back</HI> al&s;o, while the <HI>Bones</HI> are le&s;s &s;olid and knit: For that being as the <HI>Keel</HI> of the <HI>Ship,</HI> the <HI>Ba&s;is</HI> and chief &s;tay of the whole <HI>Body,</HI> he may more &s;afely and ea&s;ily ly thereon, then on either <HI>Side;</HI> el&s;e, the gri&s;tly tender <HI>Bones</HI> of the <HI>Ribs,</HI> would yeeld and be wre&s;ted, under the <HI>Weight</HI> of the re&s;t of the <HI>Body,</HI> and he would become Gibbous. Though when he is elder, takes more &s;olid <HI>Food,</HI> becomes &s;tronger and more firm in his <HI>Bones</HI> and the <HI>Frame</HI> thereof, he may accu&s;tom by little and little, whiles to the one <HI>Side,</HI> whiles to the other. He mu&s;t alwayes receive the <HI>Light</HI> directly op|po&s;ite, el&s;e he painfully bends him&s;elf, here and there every way after it, wre&s;ts his <HI>Head</HI> and <HI>Eyes,</HI> whereby they either be|come Squint, or twinkling, rolling and in&s;table: But for this <HI>Experience</HI> hath
<PB N="328" REF="172"> taught to cover the head of the <HI>Cradle,</HI> and &s;o keep him from the <HI>Light,</HI> as from any o|ther hurt or injury: Yet he mu&s;t not ly too warm or clo&s;e from the <HI>Air:</HI> His <HI>Head</HI> mu&s;t al&s;o be a little rai&s;ed, and &s;o calmly rocked: Though he be&s;t be u&s;ed to &s;leep unrocked. He may get &s;leep when ever he will (and <HI>Infants</HI> u&s;e to &s;leep more then wake, and &s;o much the better) nor needs it be broken or marred, unle&s;s very im+moderate, turning him languid, dull and &s;tupid.</P>
<P>He mu&s;t be opened and changed at a <HI>Fire,</HI> Evening and Morning, or Night and Day when ever he is foulded and waking; being fit to keep him ever clean of <HI>Filth</HI> and <HI>Excrements,</HI> in dry warm <HI>Cloaths,</HI> and well wa&s;hed al&s;o, that they may not Itch and Gall him: Nor mu&s;t they grow hard, rough or wrinkly about him. The <HI>String</HI> this while mu&s;t yet be looked to, that it do not loo&s;e and bleed, nor be forced off e're its <HI>Ve&s;sels</HI> clo&s;e. A warm <HI>Compre&s;s</HI> mu&s;t ly clo&s;e upon the <HI>Open</HI> of the <HI>Head,</HI> for Cold or outward hurt, e&s;pecially where it is more large. Careful al&s;o to keep him from <HI>Sealding,</HI> and that he Cry not too much, e&s;pecially in the begining, le&s;t the
<PB N="329" REF="172"> <HI>Navel</HI> be forced outwards, or dilated in|to an <HI>Exomphale,</HI> or that he get a <HI>Rupture,</HI> or <HI>Fluxions</HI> upon his <HI>Eyes.</HI> And &s;o to quiet him give the Brea&s;t, lay him clean and dry. rock him in the <HI>Cradle,</HI> Sing to him and the re&s;t.</P>
<P>Thus far of the <HI>Dyet</HI> and ordering of new born <HI>Infants</HI> in Health, for pre&s;er|vation of it. Now follows to treat of the principal <HI>Maladies</HI> may befall them, from their Birth till they be 7 or 8 Months old (though they are reckoned <HI>Infants</HI> till the 4th. year) in which time a great many die: And as to which we may here in general ob&s;erve, that <HI>Some</HI> makes Infants <HI>Di&s;ea&s;es</HI> very few in <HI>Kind,</HI> and to differ only in de|gree: Yea &s;tands not to affirm, their whole <HI>Di&s;ea&s;es</HI> to be of the &s;ame <HI>Kind,</HI> and pro|duced from <HI>One</HI> and the &s;ame next and im|mediate <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> an <HI>Acid</HI> to wit, or &s;harpen|ing <HI>Corruption</HI> prevailing exceedingly: And &s;o the &s;ame very <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e</HI> to get various <HI>Names,</HI> as divers <HI>Parts</HI> of the <HI>Body</HI> may be affected, upper or lower, to wit, as the <HI>Stomach, Inte&s;tins, Lungs, Head,</HI> and <HI>Nerves</HI> are chiefly &s;tre&s;&s;ed: And thus all the An|tecedent and mediate <HI>Cau&s;es</HI> of Infants <HI>Ma|ladies,</HI> how many &s;oever they truly may be,
<PB N="330" REF="173"> or can he imagined, are inclo&s;ed at length in the fore&s;aid <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> to which as the true <HI>Parent,</HI> each <HI>Symptom</HI> of <HI>Infants</HI> owes its ri&s;e; proceeding far ofter from a too great <HI>Coagulation,</HI> or <HI>Incra&s;&s;ation</HI> of the <HI>Ali|ment</HI> (which is &s;tayed upon &s;ome degree of this <HI>Acidity,</HI> or at lea&s;t comes therefrom) then from other <HI>Cau&s;e.</HI> And as <HI>Infants</HI> falls mo&s;t ea&s;ily into <HI>Di&s;ea&s;es,</HI> &s;o if rightly guid|ed, they mo&s;t ea&s;ily al&s;o recover: And their <HI>Cure</HI> is much more &s;afe and ea&s;ie, then of <HI>Men</HI> and <HI>Women:</HI> Which accordingly they make to be be&s;t performed by &s;uch <HI>Things</HI> as are wholly <HI>Temperate,</HI> which in|fringe, contemper, blunt, &s;ecurely drink up and remove this predomining <HI>Acidity,</HI> &s;olve the <HI>Coagulations,</HI> allay the <HI>Ebullition</HI> by little and little, and without rai&s;ing any new warmth, heat and &s;tir of the <HI>Body:</HI> And &s;o become potentially <HI>Anodin</HI> and &s;afe, yea Soporiferous: Yet mu&s;t be both given and repeated in a <HI>Do&s;e</HI> requi&s;ite to attain the end. Such chiefly are Crabs <HI>Eyes</HI> and <HI>Claws,</HI> Shells of <HI>Oy&s;ters,</HI> of <HI>Shell-fi&s;h,</HI> Bone of the <HI>Cuttle-fi&s;h, Chaulk, Corral, Corralin, Pearle,</HI> Mother of <HI>Pearl,</HI> both <HI>Bezoar</HI> &s;tone, burnt <HI>Harts-Horn,</HI> burnt <HI>Ivory,</HI> the bone of a <HI>Stags</HI> Heart, ra&s;ped <HI>Harts</HI> or <HI>Uni|corns</HI>
<PB N="331" REF="173"> Horn, <HI>Bole Armen,</HI> Sealed <HI>Earth, Blood|&s;tone, Ga&s;coins</HI> Powder, <HI>Species</HI> of the <HI>Con|fection</HI> of <HI>Hyacinth</HI> and the like, mo&s;t &s;imple <HI>Medicaments,</HI> receding little from their na|tural <HI>State:</HI> So that the <HI>Acid</HI> being thus fir&s;t rightly prepared, or wholly broken and deprived of its <HI>Sting,</HI> and quite allayed, may then be purged off, with due or mo&s;t gentle <HI>Catha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ticks,</HI> among all which, <HI>Rheubarb</HI> is held far the be&s;t, and mo&s;t accomodated to <HI>Infants,</HI> whether afflicted with <HI>Feave<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> or otherwi&s;e. And for <HI>The&s;e</HI> of a more La|borious <HI>Preparation,</HI> as <HI>Volatile-Salts,</HI> Oylous and Spirituous, <HI>Bezoar Mineral, Solar, Lu|nar,</HI> Spirit of <HI>Salt-Armoniack,</HI> of <HI>Harts-Horn,</HI> tho excellent for &s;heathing the <HI>Acid,</HI> yet are refu&s;ed for their <HI>Heat:</HI> And there|fore al&s;o the <HI>Lixivial Salts,</HI> the hotter and more &s;trong Cordial <HI>Waters,</HI> which mu&s;t not be u&s;ed, &s;ave in the &s;malle&s;t quan|tity, that they may be &s;o weakned with o|thers more Temperate, as their warming force may &s;carce be &s;en&s;ible to the <HI>Ta&s;te.</HI> But now of their principal Di&s;ea&s;es in par|ticular.</P>
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<DIV2 N="21" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="332" REF="174">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXI.</HI> Of Infants <HI>Weakne&s;s</HI> when Born.</HEAD>
<P>THis happens partly by <HI>Nature,</HI> but mo&s;tly by &s;tre&s;s of a &s;ore long <HI>Pra|vail</HI> (e&s;pecially a feeble <HI>Child,</HI> a bad <HI>Po&s;ture</HI> and a perplexed <HI>Pa&s;&s;age</HI>) whence <HI>Some</HI> are &s;o di&s;comfited, that when born, it is hard to know whether they be dead or alive, no <HI>Part</HI> of the <HI>Body</HI> being perceived to &s;tir, which is &s;ometimes &s;o pre&s;&s;ed and contu&s;ed, made &s;o blew and livid, e&s;pecially the <HI>Face,</HI> as they appear quite choaked: Who yet many times revive and recover, by little and little, after &s;everal <HI>Hours</HI> in that <HI>Con|dition,</HI> are brought back from the very <HI>Con|fines</HI> of <HI>Death</HI> and the <HI>Grave,</HI> even when taken for Dead. <HI>Life</HI> likely yet remains in the <HI>Infant,</HI> if the <HI>Mother</HI> felt it &s;tir &s;trong|ly a little before <HI>Delivery,</HI> if <HI>She</HI> had not very &s;ore or long <HI>Labour,</HI> or a more vio|lent <HI>Delivery,</HI> much flooding, fainting, or other grievous <HI>Symptom:</HI> And he is &s;urely alive, however weak, if his <HI>Heart</HI> be felt &s;tirring, or the <HI>Navel String,</HI> e&s;pecially
<PB N="333" REF="174"> when touched near the <HI>Belly:</HI> And then mu&s;t all <HI>Means</HI> be u&s;ed for his recovery from that <HI>Weakne&s;s,</HI> who therefore mu&s;t be put warm, his <HI>Mouth</HI> kept a little open, and his <HI>Face</HI> uncovered; upon which the <HI>Mid|wife</HI> may &s;pout &s;harply, and more near, a little Odoriferous <HI>Wine,</HI> or <HI>Mallag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> with &s;ome Cordial <HI>Powder,</HI> as oft as there is <HI>Occa&s;ion,</HI> may foment the <HI>Navel</HI> therewith, and lay warm to his <HI>Brea&s;t</HI> and <HI>Belly,</HI> Com|pre&s;&s;es wet therein: Or yet &s;ome other Cordial <HI>Epithem.</HI> Small <HI>Tents</HI> al&s;o may be dipt in this <HI>Wine,</HI> and put up his <HI>Nostrils:</HI> Let every <HI>Part</HI> of his <HI>Body</HI> be well chafed with warm Cloaths, to bring back the <HI>Blood</HI> and <HI>Spirits</HI> to the Circuits thereof, if there be Suffocation, or overcharge of the <HI>Ventricles</HI> of the <HI>Heart,</HI> through their vehement reflux thereto. <HI>Some</HI> order him to be put in a <HI>Laver</HI> of <HI>Mallago</HI> and <HI>Water,</HI> and wa&s;hed by little and little. <HI>Some</HI> &s;mite his <HI>Hips</HI> and <HI>Soles. Some</HI> hold a &s;lice of <HI>U<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">on</HI> to his <HI>No&s;e,</HI> or put it into his <HI>Mouth. Some</HI> again put the <HI>Burden</HI> into the <HI>Fire,</HI> e're it be &s;eparated: And <HI>Some</HI> among warm <HI>Wine,</HI> but the&s;e do little good. <HI>Some</HI> al&s;o apply it very warm upon his <HI>Belly,</HI> as <HI>O|thers</HI> drive inward all the <HI>Blood</HI> in the <HI>String,</HI>
<PB N="334" REF="175"> and the&s;e may al&s;o thus do him great hurt.</P>
<P><HI>Infants</HI> born weak, are &s;ometimes &s;o by <HI>Nature,</HI> as coming before the time, and the longer before the wor&s;e: Or being begotten of &s;ickly infirm <HI>Parents,</HI> as al&s;o if the <HI>Mother</HI> while with Child, &s;hould &s;uffer various <HI>Symptoms</HI> and be brought very low: And &s;uch take very careful tending, yet hardly brought any length, being &s;oon foiled by the lea&s;t <HI>Indi&s;po&s;ition</HI> takes them.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="22" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXII.</HI> Of <HI>Contu&s;ions</HI> and <HI>Hurts</HI> of the <HI>Head</HI> and other <HI>Parts.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe tender little <HI>Bodies</HI> of <HI>Infants,</HI> are ea&s;ily hurt and brui&s;ed in bearing, yea their &s;oft gri&s;tly <HI>Bones</HI> broken and di&s;|located, while long pre&s;&s;ed, or violently handled and twi&s;ted, in a hard <HI>Labour,</HI> or a wrong <HI>Po&s;ture:</HI> But the mo&s;t frequent <HI>Hurts,</HI> are brui&s;ed <HI>Tumors, Knobs,</HI> or <HI>Promi|nences,</HI> manife&s;tly appear oftimes upon their <HI>Crowns,</HI> the <HI>Front</HI> al&s;o, and other <HI>Parts,</HI>
<PB N="335" REF="175"> mo&s;tly in 1&s;t Labours, Elder <HI>Woman,</HI> a more big firm <HI>Head,</HI> and &s;traiter <HI>Pa&s;s:</HI> So that the inner <HI>Orifice</HI> being more &s;trait, firm or Callous, or the <HI>Bones</HI> ill to part, the In|fants <HI>Head</HI> is &s;o &s;traitly therewith begirt, as it were a <HI>Circle</HI> (chiefly its upper <HI>Part,</HI> which enters fir&s;t, and e&s;pecially while it yet &s;ticks dry in the <HI>Straits</HI> of the <HI>Ori|fice,</HI> after the <HI>Waters</HI> are &s;pent, and the <HI>Pains</HI> wax &s;tronger) that the <HI>Blood</HI> and <HI>Hu|mours</HI> being &s;topt in their progre&s;ive <HI>Mo|tion,</HI> and kept &s;tagnating in the <HI>Place,</HI> are ex|trava&s;ated, or pre&s;&s;ed out into the void <HI>Parts,</HI> and thus fill and di&s;tend the &s;ame: Where &s;taying too long, the <HI>Spirits</HI> there|in are &s;uffocated, whence they can never again move, or return to circulate, but mu&s;t be di&s;cu&s;&s;ed and re&s;olved, or brought to <HI>Suppuration. Midwifes</HI> al&s;o may contri|bute hereto, putting on their hands too oft, or too roughly, while thus it &s;ticks in the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age.</HI> Some ri&s;e &s;o big and high as they may feel to be a <HI>Buttock, Shoulder,</HI> or <HI>Knee:</HI> Yet are di&s;tingui&s;hed by their greater hardne&s;s and di&s;tention, by the <HI>Hair</HI> al&s;o thereon, but better if a <HI>Finger</HI> can be got over it, to feel the <HI>Bones</HI> or <HI>Parts</HI> of the <HI>Head</HI> within the <HI>Orifice</HI> which &s;well not.</P>
<PB N="336" REF="176">
<P>To prevent the&s;e <HI>Tumors,</HI> the <HI>Orifice</HI> mu&s;t be well mollified, for its better dila|tation, a more ea&s;y and &s;peedy <HI>Pa&s;sage</HI> to the <HI>Head.</HI> To re&s;olve the &s;ame (for that is be&s;t, while &s;o it makes not another <HI>Di&s;|ea&s;e</HI> to the <HI>Infant, Suppuration</HI> and <HI>Inci&s;ion</HI> being dangerous &s;o near the <HI>Brain,</HI> and for an Afflux of <HI>Humors, Inflammation, Con|vul&s;ion</HI>) they may be fomented, twice or thrice a day, with Lukewarm <HI>Wine,</HI> or Spirit of <HI>Wine:</HI> Or equal <HI>Parts</HI> of this and Oyl of St. <HI>Johns Wort,</HI> and have <HI>Compre&s;&s;es</HI> applyed wett therein. The Plai&s;ter of <HI>Dates</HI> may al&s;o be applyed, with Oyl of <HI>Ro&s;es.</HI> If the&s;e <HI>Tumors</HI> &s;uppurate, the <HI>Matter</HI> mu&s;t be timely let out with a <HI>Lan|cet,</HI> le&s;t (being of its own <HI>Nature</HI> acid, and rendered more acrimonious by its &s;tay, it Corrode the <HI>Ve&s;&s;els,</HI> or <HI>Parts</HI> about, alter or foul the <HI>Bone</HI>) the <HI>&V;lcer</HI> mu&s;t be cured, keeping thereat the Plai&s;ter of <HI>Be|tony.</HI> When a <HI>Leg, Arm,</HI> or any other <HI>Part,</HI> is contu&s;ed and &s;welled, while long pre&s;&s;ed in the <HI>Pa&s;&s;age,</HI> and in a <HI>Posture</HI> hard con&s;trained, or being come forth, it may be fomented and wrapt up, with <HI>Compre&s;ses,</HI> wet in a <HI>Decoction</HI> of <HI>Wine,</HI> with flowers of <HI>Ro&s;es, Chamemel. Melilot, Elder</HI> and the
<PB N="337" REF="176"> like, which is proper al&s;o for any &s;welling of the <HI>Infants Codds,</HI> whether by hurt in bearing, or with <HI>Water</HI> or <HI>Wind</HI> contained in their <HI>Membranes.</HI> If there be <HI>Fracture</HI> or <HI>di&s;location,</HI> the <HI>Bones</HI> mu&s;t be rightly adapted and conjoyned, and &s;ecurely kept in their natural <HI>Place</HI> and <HI>Figure,</HI> with <HI>Bolsters</HI> or <HI>Splinters,</HI> till they be well clo&s;ed and fortified.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="23" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXIII.</HI> Of the <HI>Mould</HI> and <HI>Sutures</HI> of the <HI>Head</HI> being too open.</HEAD>
<P>WEakly <HI>Infants,</HI> and &s;uch who come before the time, the&s;e al&s;o Corpu|lent and Fat, abounding with <HI>Potuit,</HI> have the <HI>Fountain</HI> or Mould of the <HI>Head</HI> very open and large a long time, &s;oft and beg|ging, the <HI>Bones</HI> &s;o far di&s;tant, as they are almo&s;t without &s;upport, yeilding to each &s;ide, &s;ome the breadth of a <HI>Finger:</HI> And &s;uch are mo&s;t &s;ubject to the <HI>Rickets, Chin-Cough,</HI> bad <HI>Thru&s;hes,</HI> and at length to <HI>Scrofu|la</HI>'s.</P>
<PB N="338" REF="177">
<P>The&s;e <HI>Heads</HI> mu&s;t not then be pre&s;t clo&s;e together, nor bound &s;trait, el&s;e the <HI>Frame</HI> of the <HI>Brain</HI> may be too much perverted, and its <HI>Motion</HI> marred, with out which <HI>One</HI> cannnot live: But be ea&s;ily upheld, and made &s;omewhat &s;teady, with a little <HI>Cro&s;s|cloath</HI> &s;oftly tyed about; keeping al&s;o a warm <HI>Compre&s;s</HI> of <HI>Wool, Scarlet,</HI> or a <HI>Pla&s;ter</HI> upon the <HI>Open,</HI> while by degrees with the <HI>Age,</HI> it &s;traiten, grow together and clo&s;e: Or that &s;oft <HI>Membrane,</HI> dry and &s;olidate into a bony hardne&s;s: Tho' <HI>Some</HI> will have it &s;till a <HI>Membrane,</HI> and that the <HI>Bones</HI> them&s;elves grow out under its borders by little and little, till at length they go to|gether and fill up that <HI>Gap.</HI> The&s;e <HI>Bones</HI> unite, and the <HI>Head</HI> clo&s;es &s;ooner or later, as the <HI>Infant</HI> is more or le&s;s &s;trong, or a|bounds with more or le&s;s <HI>Humidity:</HI> and not till after 9 or 10 Months, mo&s;tly when they begin to &s;peak, or about the end of 2 years: <HI>Some</HI> are 3. yea and not &s;eldom to the 4t. or 5t. <HI>Some</HI> even to the 8t. or 10th Though that &s;oftne&s;s mo&s;t rarely remains in elder <HI>Per&s;ons,</HI> yet found in <HI>Some</HI> even to old <HI>Age.</HI> Yet <HI>Some</HI> will have this Mem|branous &s;oft <HI>Cover,</HI> or <HI>Gap</HI> to be ever &s;olidat|ed when <HI>Children</HI> begin to &s;peak di&s;tinctly.</P>
<PB N="339" REF="177">
<P>The <HI>Fountain</HI> or <HI>Mould</HI> of the <HI>Head</HI> is la&s;t hardened and clo&s;ed, at the joyning to wit of the <HI>Sagital Suture</HI> in the midle of the <HI>Coronal,</HI> which pa&s;&s;ing, it ever di|vides in two (as al&s;o the <HI>Bone</HI> of the <HI>Front,</HI> of which the <HI>Gap</HI> of the <HI>Fountain</HI> is con&s;ti|tuted, rather then of that of the <HI>Forehead</HI>) and runs out to the <HI>Root</HI> of the <HI>No&s;e:</HI> And found very oft to &s;tretch back al&s;o, to the beginning of the <HI>Spinal Marrow,</HI> through the <HI>Midle</HI> of the <HI>Hind-Head,</HI> dividing the &s;ame likewi&s;e. <HI>Some</HI> have the <HI>Sutures</HI> kept wide open, and the <HI>Bones</HI> far di&s;tant, in an <HI>Hydrocephale,</HI> or <HI>Drop&s;y</HI> of the <HI>Head,</HI> from extrava&s;ated <HI>Water,</HI> or <HI>Serum</HI> of the <HI>Blood,</HI> though this more rare: And is of different <HI>Sorts</HI> more or le&s;s dangerous, as it is intern or extern, or as the <HI>Matter</HI> is collected nearer, or further from, or in the <HI>Brain.</HI> The blame hereof is frequently laid to <HI>Midwifes</HI> ignorance, in handling or pre&s;&s;ing the <HI>Head</HI> too rudely in the <HI>Labour:</HI> Or the <HI>Nur&s;e</HI> in wringing it exceedingly, or busk|ing it too &s;trait, whereby the <HI>Commi&s;&s;ures</HI> are rent and mi&s;placed, the little <HI>Conduits</HI> and Lymphatick <HI>Ve&s;sels</HI> chiefly, are &s;ome|what wre&s;ted, and gets a non-natural <HI>Si|tuation;</HI> whence the <HI>Motion</HI> of the <HI>Humors</HI>
<PB N="340" REF="178"> is impeded and a little &s;i&s;ted, and &s;o the <HI>Humidity</HI> expre&s;&s;ed and collected within the <HI>Skull,</HI> recoyling upon the <HI>Ventricles, Membranes</HI> and <HI>Bones:</HI> Great prudence therefore, is requi&s;ite and circum&s;pection in handling the &s;ame. Yet is generated &s;ometimes and collected in the <HI>Womb.</HI> It is a <HI>Malady</HI> mo&s;t familiar, and almo&s;t pro|per to <HI>Infants,</HI> yet rarely Cures for that they cannot &s;uffer the <HI>Hydragogues</HI> and more valid <HI>Di&s;cu&s;&s;ives:</HI> Yea is quite de&s;perate, when the <HI>Waters</HI> are in great abundance among the <HI>Membranes</HI> under the <HI>Skull,</HI> or while the Lymphatick <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> within the <HI>Head</HI> are ob&s;tructed and &s;plit, and the <HI>Hu|mor</HI> effu&s;ed upon the <HI>Brain,</HI> its <HI>Circuits, Wondings</HI> and <HI>Cavity.</HI></P>
<P>For Cure, the <HI>Head</HI> is to be gently &s;wa|thed and kept warm, the <HI>Infants</HI> Crying, Cough, Sneezing evited, the <HI>Excretion</HI> of <HI>Snot</HI> promoted, all warm <HI>Cephalicks</HI> al&s;o are u&s;ed, <HI>Aromaticks</HI> and others, which may incide, attenuate, open, dry and evacuate the extrava&s;ated <HI>Matter:</HI> In <HI>Fomentations,</HI> Spirituous <HI>Tinctures, Liniments, Catapla&s;ms, Plai&s;ters:</HI> The <HI>Nur&s;e</HI> be&s;ide mu&s;t keep a a convenient <HI>Dyet;</HI> and if the&s;e in &s;ome time avail not, <HI>Cauters</HI> are applyed to the
<PB N="341" REF="178"> <HI>Hinder-head,</HI> or <HI>Neck,</HI> to the protuberant <HI>Part,</HI> or <HI>Sutures</HI> of the <HI>Head,</HI> yet without piercing the <HI>Bone:</HI> And may profit, if the <HI>Matter</HI> be without the <HI>Skull,</HI> Yet are dangerous, the &s;oft <HI>Brain</HI> being near: <HI>Cupping-Gla&s;&s;es</HI> al&s;o are ordered, as is <HI>Inci&s;ion,</HI> &s;afe&s;t of all; and that either by a &s;imple <HI>Line, Cro&s;s</HI> or otherwi&s;e, that the <HI>Water</HI> may be evacuated, which yet mu&s;t not come all, or too much at once, but by little and little: Careful the Cold <HI>Air</HI> hurt not the <HI>Brain:</HI> Though the&s;e <HI>Operations</HI> hath readily bad &s;ucce&s;s, <HI>Convul&s;ions</HI> and <HI>Feavers</HI> ari&s;ing.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="24" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXIV.</HI> Of the Clo&s;ed <HI>Fundament.</HI></HEAD>
<P>SOme of both <HI>Sex,</HI> are born (though truly rare) having the <HI>Fundament</HI> im|perforated, or quite clo&s;ed: Yea even So|lid. And <HI>Some</HI> have had the <HI>Gutt</HI> twice grown together by the <HI>Sides,</HI> twice al&s;o intercepted with a double Orbicular <HI>Mem|brane:</HI> And mu&s;t therefore be &s;peedily opened, el&s;e they die. The <HI>Apertion</HI> is difficil and dangerous, le&s;t while the <HI>Funda|ment</HI>
<PB N="342" REF="179"> is perforated, the <HI>Sphincter</HI> &s;hould be hurt, or that it grow together again, and &s;o all labour be lo&s;t. <HI>One</HI> mu&s;t here dili|gently heed, whether the <HI>Fundament</HI> may be opened, without wronging the <HI>Sphincter:</HI> Becau&s;e if haply the whole <HI>Mu&s;cle</HI> be grown together, and the <HI>Cavity</HI> of the <HI>Gutt</HI> entire|ly clo&s;ed, yet <HI>Nature</HI> hath formed another <HI>Way</HI> for the <HI>Excrements</HI> of the <HI>Belly,</HI> to the <HI>Privities</HI> in the <HI>Girle,</HI> who voids them there-through, to the <HI>Bladder</HI> in the <HI>Boy,</HI> who voids them by the <HI>Urine</HI> in plenty enough, <HI>Inci&s;ion</HI> is not to be tryed: yet <HI>Some</HI> are found, who can excern nothing either <HI>Way,</HI> and &s;uch be &s;ure cannot live unopened.</P>
<P>Where the <HI>End</HI> of the <HI>Gutt</HI> is covered with a &s;ingle <HI>Membrane,</HI> or <HI>Skin</HI> grown over, the <HI>Operation</HI> is more &s;ecure, the right <HI>Place</HI> for <HI>Inci&s;ion</HI> being manife&s;t, by the livid <HI>Impre&s;&s;ion</HI> of the <HI>Excrements</HI> with a <HI>Softne&s;s;</HI> and if the <HI>Membrane</HI> be tender and fine, it may be pierced with the <HI>Fin|ger,</HI> if thick and robu&s;t, it mu&s;t be open|ed with a <HI>Knife</HI> (&s;ome &s;ay a <HI>Cau&s;tick</HI>) the <HI>Place</HI> being mo&s;t diligently marked. <HI>Some</HI> order the <HI>Inci&s;ion</HI> &s;imple or length wayes, <HI>Others Cro&s;s,</HI> and <HI>Some</HI> round, not being &s;o ready to grow together again.
<PB N="343" REF="179"> If the <HI>Excrements</HI> be hardned and vent not by the <HI>Apertion,</HI> a little Emollient <HI>Gly&s;ter</HI> may be given. The <HI>Inci&s;ion</HI> mu&s;t be kept open, with a little <HI>Tent</HI> of <HI>Linnen, Spunge</HI> or <HI>Lead;</HI> to be armed at fir&s;t with Honey of <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> and toward the end with &s;ome drying a&s;tringent <HI>Medicine,</HI> which brings a <HI>Cicatrice,</HI> and ab&s;olves the <HI>Cure.</HI> Careful this while to clean the little tender <HI>Wound</HI> of the Infants <HI>Excrements</HI> a&s;&s;oon, and as oft, as ever he renders them, and dre&s;s it again. Sometimes a &s;ort of thick Fle&s;h grows up into the <HI>Fundament,</HI> &s;o that the end of the <HI>Gutt</HI> can be no way perceived, and then the <HI>Inci&s;ion</HI> is very difficil, and hath great ha|zard; yet mu&s;t be performed (being <HI>Death</HI> however) to wit, by entering a little <HI>Knife</HI> of one <HI>Edge,</HI> and with the <HI>Back</HI> turned up, into the void <HI>Place,</HI> within half an <HI>Inch</HI> of the <HI>Rump,</HI> again&s;t the <HI>End</HI> of the <HI>Gutt,</HI> thru&s;ting it &s;o forward, as to make <HI>Open</HI> enough for free vent to the <HI>Matter:</HI> Very careful of the <HI>Sphincter,</HI> dre&s;&s;ing the <HI>Wound</HI> as above directed, and with regard to the en&s;uing <HI>Accidents.</HI> If the Urinary <HI>Pa&s;s</HI> be &s;topt, either in <HI>Male</HI> by Coale&s;cence of the <HI>Prepuce.</HI> or clo&s;ure of the <HI>Hole</HI> of the <HI>Nutt:</HI> Or in <HI>Female,</HI> by <HI>Coale&s;cence</HI> or clo&s;ure of
<PB N="344" REF="180"> the <HI>Vulva, Apertion</HI> mu&s;t in like manner be made, for the rent to the <HI>Urine.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="25" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXV.</HI> Of Cutting the <HI>Tongue</HI> when tyed.</HEAD>
<P>THe great <HI>Creator,</HI> hath provided to the <HI>Tongue</HI> (be&s;ide other <HI>Tyes</HI>) a Mem|branous valid <HI>Ligament</HI> in its midle beneath, for Strength, Stability and in&s;ertion of its <HI>Mu&s;cles,</HI> And whereby it is fa&s;tened to the under <HI>Parts,</HI> le&s;t it &s;hould be moved every way more then is meet: <HI>Nature</HI> hereby &s;hewing what moderation is to be had in the u&s;e of it: The <HI>String</HI> is only the lax end or extremity of this <HI>Ligament,</HI> which mu&s;t leave the <HI>Tongue</HI> &s;o free at <HI>Tip</HI> and both <HI>Sides,</HI> as to be rightly turned and moved to all differences of <HI>Motion,</HI> or every way at plea&s;ure. Yet this is very oft too &s;hort, and extended almo&s;t to the end of the <HI>Tongue,</HI> in a &s;mall Membranous <HI>Production,</HI> whiles al&s;o along&s;t both <HI>Sides,</HI> thus fettering the &s;ame &s;o wholly, as to marr its free and convenient <HI>Motion:</HI> And &s;o makes frequent|ly
<PB N="345" REF="180"> a nece&s;&s;ity of cutting it, le&s;t it &s;hould be an <HI>Impediment</HI> of the <HI>Childs</HI> &s;ucking and future Speech: Yet &s;carce <HI>One</HI> of 100s needs this <HI>Operation,</HI> except it manife&s;tly hinder the putting out of its <HI>Tongue</HI> and Sucking: But many think the Speech would not be perfect without it, and <HI>Some</HI> would have it forborn till the time of &s;peaking.</P>
<P>This <HI>Section</HI> though ea&s;ie, and <HI>Midwifes</HI> u&s;ually do it (yea <HI>Some</HI> with their <HI>Nails,</HI> a pernicious <HI>Cu&s;tom</HI>) yet needs a skilful <HI>Hand,</HI> and a clear view of the <HI>Part,</HI> for avoiding the adjoyning <HI>Parts,</HI> the <HI>Branches</HI> of <HI>Veins,</HI> the <HI>Nerves</HI> beneath, upon pricking of which a &s;uddain <HI>Convul&s;ion</HI> of the <HI>Tongue</HI> u&s;es to &s;uperveen: Yea the Salival <HI>Ducts,</HI> which lying &s;o near the <HI>String,</HI> are mo&s;t ea&s;ily hurt by deep Cutting, whence a continual <HI>Sa|livation. Some</HI> have been immediatly <HI>Choak|ed</HI> with <HI>Blood:</HI> and whiles there ari&s;es <HI>In|flammation</HI> with <HI>Pain,</HI> which hinders the Sucking whence <HI>Death.</HI></P>
<P>To cut the <HI>Tongue</HI> right, which mu&s;t be done with a <HI>Bi&s;tery,</HI> or broad pointed &s;harp <HI>Sci&s;&s;ars,</HI> let it be heaved &s;traight up, with a <HI>Finger</HI> on each &s;ide of the <HI>String,</HI> or rather with the <HI>Branches</HI> of a &s;mall <HI>Fork</HI> blunt at the <HI>Points,</HI> then cutting dextrou&s;ly
<PB N="346" REF="181"> cro&s;s &s;o much thereof as is nece&s;&s;ar: And to prevent its growing together again, let a clean <HI>Finger,</HI> dry, or wet in Honey of <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> be pa&s;t between 3 or 4 times a day, yet very foftly, le&s;t the little <HI>Wound</HI> be fret|ted into <HI>Inflammation</HI> or <HI>Ulcer.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="26" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXVI.</HI> Of <HI>Pains</HI> and <HI>Grips</HI> of the <HI>Belly.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THey are very oft the 1st. and a mo&s;t common affliction to new born <HI>Babes:</HI> So very atrocious and ince&s;&s;ant in <HI>Some,</HI> that they cry, to&s;s and wake perpetually till they die: And oftimes kindles a mo&s;t acute <HI>Fea|ver,</HI> which being le&s;s skilfully guided, be|reaves mo&s;t <HI>Infants</HI> of their <HI>Lives.</HI> They are &s;aid to proceed in general and for the mo&s;t part, from the &s;udden change of its <HI>State:</HI> In particular (though the <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> is oftimes hid) from &s;ome pricking <HI>Matter</HI> in the <HI>Gut<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s,</HI> be it the <HI>Excrements</HI> new or old, or &s;ome acid <HI>Humor</HI> or <HI>Juyce,</HI> corroding and &s;hearing the &s;ame (for <HI>Acidity</HI> exerts it force chiefly in the 1&s;t&punc; wayes of all) or then a
<PB N="347" REF="181"> <HI>Flatuo&s;ity</HI> or <HI>Wind</HI> di&s;tending them. A foul or more gro&s;s <HI>Milk</HI> gives ri&s;e thereto, as does al&s;o an overcharge or oppre&s;&s;ion of <HI>Milk,</HI> or <HI>Pap,</HI> if Vi&s;cuous and Flatulent: whence <HI>Ob&s;tructions, Indige&s;tions, Crudity, Cor|ruptions, Grips,</HI> and many other <HI>Evils,</HI> e&s;pe|cially while they get both together. <HI>Cold</HI> likewi&s;e, chiefly of the Evening: And &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">metimes <HI>Worms,</HI> though they hardly breed before the u&s;e of more &s;olid, or milk <HI>Meats.</HI> Sometimes there is a <HI>Loo&s;ne&s;s</HI> therewith, green, yellow, or other <HI>Colour:</HI> And &s;ome- al&s;o the <HI>Epilep&s;y</HI> or Convul&s;ion <HI>Fitts.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Grips</HI> Epidemick to <HI>Infants,</HI> grow every year &s;o frequent, from the middle of <HI>July,</HI> to the middle of <HI>September,</HI> that more &s;mall ones die in one <HI>Month</HI> that time, then in 3 or 4 other <HI>Months</HI> more temperate: for that the yearly <HI>Heat</HI> of the <HI>Sea&s;on,</HI> u&s;es to ex|hau&s;t their &s;trength quite.</P>
<P>The <HI>Cure</HI> mu&s;t chiefly tend to Correct, Temper and blunt the excruciant <HI>Matter,</HI> that it may then be evacuated, &s;olve the <HI>Coagulation,</HI> remove the <HI>Ob&s;truction,</HI> di&s;cu&s;s and expel the <HI>Flatuo&s;ity</HI> (a mo&s;t frequent <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> thereof) and the re&s;t: Which are held be&s;t performed by the <HI>Te&s;taceous</HI> Bo|dies above mentioned, in full and fre|quent
<PB N="348" REF="182"> <HI>Do&s;e,</HI> and <HI>Reubarb&punc;</HI> Oyl of <HI>Almonds</HI> is held good with Sugar <HI>Penid:</HI> As is Sy|rup of <HI>Ani&s;ceds:</HI> Some <HI>Gutts</HI> al&s;o of the <HI>Oyl,</HI> with <HI>Sugar</HI> and <HI>Milk</HI> in the Morning: The <HI>Powder</HI> thereof likewi&s;e, with <HI>Powder</HI> of <HI>Saffron, Florence-orris</HI> and paeony <HI>Roots</HI> &s;ome <HI>Dayes</HI> together. One may rub al&s;o upon the <HI>Belly</HI> and <HI>Navel,</HI> or apply with greazy <HI>Wool,</HI> Oyl of <HI>Almonds,</HI> of <HI>Orris-roots, Chamemel, Walnuts, Dill, Caraweys, Cumin, Fennel, Nutmeg, Bricks,</HI> Oyntment of <HI>Althaea,</HI> or other Aromatick warming Anodin and di&s;cutient <HI>Applications.</HI> Careful withal, the <HI>Infant</HI> be kept from <HI>Cold,</HI> and be fed &s;pa|ringly this while: getting nothing Vi&s;cous or Flatulent: let his <HI>Belly</HI> al&s;o be kept open. <HI>Some</HI> make the <HI>Nur&s;e</HI> u&s;e <HI>Spices, Anis, Fen|nel,</HI> or <HI>Carrawe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> Seeds, or their Oyl in all <HI>She Eats</HI> or Drinks. A <HI>Plaister</HI> is laid to the <HI>Navel</HI> for <HI>Worms,</HI> of <HI>Aloes, Centaury, Savin,</HI> Chamemel <HI>Flowers,</HI> with <HI>Burgundy Pitch</HI> and <HI>Turpentine:</HI> To which &s;ometimes a little <HI>Colocinth</HI> may be added. And if the <HI>Grips</HI> encrea&s;e, an <HI>Antidote</HI> or <HI>Cordial</HI> is u&s;ed, which mu&s;t be rightly accomodated to the Infant <HI>State,</HI> the <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> of the <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e</HI> and its <HI>Symptoms.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="27" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="349" REF="182">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXVII.</HI> Of the <HI>Inflamation, Ulce|ration,</HI> &s;hooting forth, and <HI>Rupture</HI> of the <HI>Navel.</HI></HEAD>
<P>SOme <HI>Infants</HI> are &s;o cruelly to&s;&s;ed with the&s;e <HI>Grips</HI> in the beginning&punc; and keep &s;o ince&s;&s;ant in fierce <HI>Cryes,</HI> that the <HI>String</HI> is forced off ere the <HI>Navel</HI> clo&s;e, or be intirely cicatriced and &s;ound: whereupon happens <HI>Inflammation</HI> and <HI>&V;lcer.</HI> And this way al&s;o (as by the force of a mo&s;t griev|ous <HI>Cough</HI> and violent agitation of the <HI>Brea&s;t</HI> and <HI>Belly</HI>) comes the <HI>Exomphale,</HI> or &s;hooting forth of the <HI>Navel,</HI> which in <HI>Some</HI> is hugely dilated and thru&s;t outward, the bigne&s;s of an <HI>Egg,</HI> even when outwardly healed, the <HI>Blood</HI> being thus driven back into the remaining end of the <HI>Vein,</HI> which it oftimes opens by its acrimony, and makes this Dilatation of the <HI>Navel;</HI> And corrup|ting therein by its &s;tay, mu&s;t needs cau&s;e an <HI>Inflammation:</HI> The tyed <HI>Part</HI> al&s;o coming now to fall off, before it was perfectly healed, there remains a very bad <HI>&V;lcer:</HI> Hence
<PB N="350" REF="183"> &s;ometimes great bleeding en&s;ues, the <HI>Na|vel</HI> being broken within, and perhaps <HI>Death. Some</HI> will have it to be thus Inflamed and Ulcerated, from the ill Tying and Cutting (appearing thus &s;oon after) as too hard, or too near: Or when a larger part is left than ought: <HI>Others</HI> for that the &s;erous <HI>Humor</HI> or <HI>&V;rin</HI> hath flowed thither. Sometimes it &s;tands our like the <HI>Yard,</HI> which <HI>Some</HI> judge to be the <HI>Inte&s;tin</HI> broken out there, <HI>Some</HI> the <HI>Caul, Some</HI> a &s;erous <HI>Humor, Some Wind:</HI> And <HI>Some</HI> to be <HI>Fle&s;h</HI> grown up, which hath been made to fall away, being deadned with a <HI>Ty</HI> drawn every day &s;trait|er. And tho the <HI>Navel</HI> be common to all as a beauty, placed in the midle of the <HI>Belly,</HI> yea of the whole <HI>Body;</HI> yet when thus it &s;tands out further than it ought, it is mon&s;truous and ugly.</P>
<P>The chief care in this ca&s;e mu&s;t be, to remove what makes the Infant Cough and Cry, and appea&s;e him. <HI>One</HI> may apply to the Inflamed <HI>Navel</HI> (for <HI>Suppuration</HI> would be prevented) little <HI>Compre&s;&s;es</HI> wet in <HI>Ro&s;e</HI> water with Sugar of <HI>Lead:</HI> Or in Oyl of <HI>Ro&s;es</HI> with a little <HI>Vinegar:</HI> Or lay thereto <HI>&V;nguentum Ro&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tum</HI> and <HI>Album,</HI> or <HI>Nutri|tum</HI> mixed: Or <HI>Bole</HI> Armen, <HI>Blood-stone,</HI>
<PB N="351" REF="183"> with Ro&s;e <HI>Vinegar</HI> and <HI>Whites</HI> of <HI>Egg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">:</HI> The re&s;t al&s;o again&s;t <HI>Inflammation.</HI> If it remain ulcered after the <HI>String</HI> is off, the <HI>Red</HI> dry|ing <HI>Oyntment</HI> may be applyed, <HI>Diapompholi|gos,</HI> the <HI>Ceru&s;s</HI> or <HI>Chaulk</HI> Pla&s;ter, or <HI>Dia|palma:</HI> Or <HI>Rags</HI> wet in <HI>Lime</HI> Water alone, or boyled with <HI>Mercurius Dulcis,</HI> or wet with the Di&s;&s;olution of <HI>Alum,</HI> or white <HI>Vitriol</HI> in <HI>Plaintain</HI> water. If the <HI>&V;lcer</HI> be &s;mall, dry Linnen &s;erves alone, or with a little Powder of <HI>Chaulk, Bole,</HI> wa&s;hed <HI>Tutty, Ca|laminar</HI> &s;tone, or of a worm eaten Tree: keeping &s;till a <HI>Compre&s;s</HI> and <HI>Swath</HI> thereat, till it be whole and &s;ound.</P>
<P>The <HI>Ruptures</HI> of Infants <HI>Navels,</HI> be they bigger or le&s;s, mu&s;t only have <HI>Compre&s;s</HI> and <HI>Ligature</HI> applyed: <HI>Some</HI> make al&s;o Glewing and A&s;tringent <HI>Applications,</HI> as in other <HI>Rup|tures.</HI> If the <HI>Navel</HI> &s;hould be too much extenuated, or made thin (and &s;ometimes it is dilated even to receiving the <HI>Intestins</HI> in its <HI>Rupture</HI>) it may &s;plit and the <HI>Gutts</HI> fall out. If an <HI>Imposthum</HI> of any depth or bigne&s;s &s;ucceed an <HI>Inflammation,</HI> it ever kills the <HI>In|fant,</HI> who mu&s;t not be medled with, but let die, e&s;pecially if weak: For that if the <HI>Impo&s;thum</HI> be opened, the <HI>Matter</HI> vents, but the <HI>Gutts</HI> mu&s;t al&s;o &s;oon come after.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="28" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="352" REF="184">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXVIII.</HI> Of Infants <HI>Scaldings.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THey happen mo&s;tly in their <HI>Gro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ns, Buttocks</HI> and <HI>Thighs,</HI> which &s;oon turn Red and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nflamed, the tender <HI>Skin</HI> being ea&s;ily hurt and eaten off, by the <HI>Heat, Moi|&s;ture</HI> and <HI>Acrimony</HI> of their <HI>Excrements,</HI> if they ly &s;wathed, wet and foull a little too long, through the <HI>Nur&s;es</HI> neglect.</P>
<P>For the prevention thereof, let the <HI>In|fant</HI> be &s;till kept Clean and Dry, timely &s;hifted with well wa&s;hed dry <HI>Clouts</HI> and <HI>Blanket,</HI> carefully ragging up the&s;e <HI>Parts</HI> each time. For Cure, let the <HI>Place</HI> be well clean&s;ed of <HI>Excrements,</HI> and then fomented with <HI>Plantain</HI> and a little <HI>Lime</HI> Water mix|ed, or with a Di&s;&s;olution of White <HI>Vitriol.</HI> If there be great Pain and Redne&s;s, with &s;ome lukewarm <HI>Milk</HI> or <HI>Pti&s;an:</HI> There may be al&s;o &s;trawed on it, a little <HI>Ceru&s;s,</HI> wa&s;hed <HI>Tutty, Calaminar Stone,</HI> Powder of rotten <HI>Trees,</HI> or white <HI>Starch:</HI> It may be &s;troaked over with <HI>&V;nguentum Album, Nutri|tum,</HI> or <HI>Diapompholigos:</HI> The <HI>Nur&s;e</HI> be|&s;ides mu&s;t keep a cooling Dyet, to temper
<PB N="353" REF="184"> the Acrimony of the Infants <HI>&V;rin,</HI> con|tracted by her <HI>Heat,</HI> or hot <HI>Nutriment.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="29" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXIX.</HI> Of <HI>Ulcers</HI> of the <HI>Mouth.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THey proceed chiefly from the Heat, Acrimony, or other bad <HI>Quality</HI> of the <HI>Milk,</HI> which thus affects their <HI>Mouths</HI> in pa&s;&s;ing: From its Indige&s;tion al&s;o and Corruption in the <HI>Stomach,</HI> upon &s;urcharge, or through &s;ome fault thereof; from whence (as from intern <HI>Inflammation,</HI> a preterna|tural <HI>Efferv<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;cence</HI> of the <HI>Body,</HI> happening about the <HI>Hypoconders</HI>) acrimonious &s;harp <HI>Vapours</HI> ari&s;e and flee up, as from a Caldron, through the breathing hole of the <HI>Mouth,</HI> fixing into a kind of Chaulky <HI>Excrement</HI> (yet <HI>Some</HI> are Red, <HI>Others</HI> Black, which are the wor&s;t) over the whole <HI>Mouth</HI> and <HI>Tongue,</HI> beginning at the <HI>Gums,</HI> pricking, eating and quickly ulcerating the little thin <HI>Skin,</HI> by rea&s;on of its &s;oftne&s;s and lax <HI>Pores:</HI> Marring the liberty of Sucking, cau&s;ing Death al&s;o, if not Cured.</P>
<PB N="354" REF="185">
<P>If they ari&s;e from a &s;imple <HI>Intemperature</HI> of the <HI>Nur&s;e</HI> and <HI>Milk,</HI> or of the Infants <HI>Bowels</HI> or <HI>Humors,</HI> they are &s;mall, &s;uper|ficial, without Inflammation, and ea&s;ily Cure without &s;preading: If Venereal, Ma|lignant, Scorbutick, they turn putrid, make Corro&s;ion and deep <HI>Cru&s;ts,</HI> &s;preading to the <HI>Jawes</HI> and <HI>Gullet,</HI> Yea <HI>Some</HI> thorow to the very <HI>Fundament,</HI> chiefly the Venereal, increa&s;ing and wa&s;ting the &s;oft and tender <HI>Infant,</HI> which can rarely then recover, be|ing unable for the&s;e &s;evere <HI>Specificks,</HI> with|out which they Cure not.</P>
<P>For Cure of the&s;e more benign (be&s;ide the change of the <HI>Nur&s;e,</HI> or correction of her <HI>Milk,</HI> by a convenient cooling <HI>Dyet, Blee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing</HI> al&s;o and gentle <HI>Purging</HI> if nece&s;&s;ar) the Infants <HI>Belly</HI> mu&s;t be kept open, to carry the <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> downward, u&s;ing Syrup of <HI>Ru|barb, Violets, Ro&s;es Solutive, Manna,</HI> and the re&s;t: There may be frequently &s;troak|ed into his <HI>Mouth,</HI> a little Honey, or Syrup of <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> or of <HI>Mulberries, Brambles, Pomgra|nats,</HI> and others Cooling and A&s;tringent: or a <HI>Gargle</HI> may be made, mixing there|with water of <HI>Plantain,</HI> of <HI>Ro&s;es, Barley, Sage, Strawberries,</HI> and the like, a little <HI>Juyce</HI> of <HI>Lemons,</HI> a gut al&s;o of Spirit of <HI>Vi|triol,</HI>
<PB N="355" REF="185"> if there be no <HI>Inflamation</HI> (for then may <HI>Juyce</HI> of <HI>Hou&s;leek</HI> be added, of <HI>Pur&s;lain,</HI> or <HI>Night-&s;hade</HI>) a little Salt <HI>Prunell,</HI> or in in its place a grain or two of crude <HI>Allom:</HI> wa&s;hing &s;oftly with a &s;mall <HI>Ragg,</HI> or <HI>Cotton,</HI> upon a <HI>Stick,</HI> and dipt therein. Some u&s;e a mixture of <HI>Rape</HI> Oyl, or Oyl of <HI>Almonds:</HI> or yet <HI>Honey</HI> and <HI>Sugar</HI> mid way thick: <HI>Some</HI> the <HI>Yolk</HI> of an <HI>Egg</HI> beaten with <HI>Ro&s;e</HI> Water: <HI>Some</HI> mix <HI>Milk</HI> with <HI>Ro&s;e</HI> or <HI>Bar|ley</HI> Water, <HI>Mucilag</HI> al&s;o of <HI>Althea</HI> Roots, and <HI>Quince</HI> Seeds. <HI>Some</HI> u&s;e the decocti|on of <HI>Fluellin,</HI> or <HI>Speedwel,</HI> of <HI>Vervain</HI> al&s;o, with Honey of <HI>Ro&s;es:</HI> Fir&s;t rubbing twice or thrice after &s;ucking, with the decocti|on of <HI>Jews</HI> Ears in <HI>Milk.</HI> Yet the <HI>Te&s;tace|ons</HI> Powders above-mentioned, which pow|erfully retund, yea, even remove the Acrimo|ny, and mo&s;t gentle <HI>Catharticks</HI> are held far better to be u&s;ed then <HI>Gargari&s;ms.</HI></P>
<P>The Malignant <HI>&V;lcers</HI> requires <HI>Applica|tions</HI> more &s;harp and &s;trong, and that to their Bigne&s;s, Depth, and Corruption; which may operate as in an <HI>Infant,</HI> with a mo&s;t &s;wift light <HI>touch,</HI> Cauterizing the &s;ame, to oppo&s;e the pravity of the <HI>Hu|mours</HI> which cau&s;e them, and &s;o prevent their increa&s;e: As Spirit of <HI>Vitriol,</HI> or <HI>Sul|phur,</HI>
<PB N="356" REF="186"> with Honey of <HI>Ro&s;es;</HI> burnt <HI>Allom</HI> al&s;o, <HI>Allom</HI> water, <HI>Aegyptian</HI> Oyntment, and the re&s;t: yet mu&s;t be u&s;ed in &s;uch <HI>form,</HI> as they may not go further then the <HI>Pal|lat,</HI> &s;till mixing what is grateful to the <HI>ta&s;te:</HI> wa&s;hing the <HI>Mouth</HI> after with Plantain <HI>wa|ter,</HI> or a <HI>decoction</HI> of <HI>Barley</HI> and <HI>Agrimony,</HI> and honey of <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> that no &s;harp Sero&s;i|ties may di&s;til upon the <HI>places</HI> not yet Ul|cered, and upon the <HI>Throat.</HI> Repeating the&s;e &s;o oft as is needful, and till they be found to &s;pread no further.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="30" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXX.</HI> Of <HI>Teething.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THE <HI>Teeth</HI> being bred, or begun in the <HI>Womb</HI> with the other <HI>Parts,</HI> and hid &s;ome while, gradually perfecting in the <HI>Jaws</HI> and <HI>Gums</HI> (for it is rare and &s;trange to be born Teethed, yet is not found to for|token ill in men, though of black and di&s;|mal con&s;equence in Women) cut the &s;ame, and &s;tart out 7 or 8 Months mo&s;tly after the Nativity, though in &s;ome much &s;ooner, even from the <HI>Fifth,</HI> who are &s;aid to have le&s;s pain, yet the Teeth weaker: Others
<PB N="357" REF="186"> are much later, &s;ome even over the <HI>Year,</HI> and &s;uch have greater <HI>pain,</HI> but &s;tronger <HI>Teeth;</HI> yea, <HI>&s;ome</HI> to the third or fourth, though more rarely. And mo&s;tly al&s;o comes the upper &s;oone&s;t, (yet to &s;ome the neather &s;ooner) and fir&s;t the <HI>Cutters</HI> or <HI>Foreteeth,</HI> as &s;ooner perfect, more &s;mall and &s;harp, the <HI>Jaw</HI> thinner in that <HI>Part,</HI> and they with|al fir&s;t needed. Next the <HI>Eye</HI> or <HI>Dog-teeth<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> La&s;t the <HI>Grinders</HI> or <HI>Cheek-teeth. Some</HI> have been found born with one continued <HI>Tooth</HI> in the upper <HI>Jaw.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Teeth</HI> cuts the <HI>Gums</HI> and breaks out, with more grievous &s;harp <HI>Pain,</HI> than <HI>Pricks</HI> in the <HI>Fle&s;h:</HI> Whence many health|ful thriving Infants, take <HI>Coughs, Thru&s;hes, Fluxes</HI> of the <HI>Belly,</HI> or yet <HI>Con&s;tipations</HI> thereof, <HI>Feavers, Epilep&s;ies, Convu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ions, Sw<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|ings</HI> and others, of which many die, e&s;pe|cially while the <HI>Dog-teeth</HI> comes out: As al&s;o where the <HI>Gums</HI> are more &s;olid and hard, the <HI>Teeth</HI> broad and blunt, and come our &s;lower, or many together: And in In|fants very gro&s;s, humori&s;h and co&s;tive (for they who have a loo&s;e <HI>Belly,</HI> are ever bet|ter than they who are bound) whence a greater <HI>Flux</HI> of <HI>Humors</HI> to the pained <HI>Place.</HI> Yet <HI>Some</HI> are &s;till more, &s;ome le&s;s afflicted,
<PB N="358" REF="187"> for their natural <HI>Conctitution,</HI> or as the <HI>Fle&s;h</HI> of the <HI>Gums</HI> is &s;ofter or more hard.</P>
<P><HI>Signs</HI> of Teething, are Itch, Pain, and Swelling of the <HI>Gums,</HI> a great heat and dry|ne&s;s of their <HI>Mouths,</HI> into which they have oft their <HI>Fingers,</HI> Slavers much, Wakes, Frets, To&s;&s;es, Whines, Crys, have <HI>Gripings,</HI> green <HI>Stools</HI> and <HI>Vomiting, Feavers, Convul&s;ions,</HI> and the other forenamed <HI>Symptoms:</HI> Wak|ens Starting and Crying, the <HI>Teeth</HI> may be al&s;o di&s;cerned pointing the <HI>Gums,</HI> which are thin and pale, or white at <HI>Top,</HI> where they &s;tart out, and red at the <HI>Sides.</HI></P>
<P>In the painful Teething, the <HI>Infant</HI> mu&s;t &s;uck a good, cool, well tempered <HI>Milk:</HI> and may get whiles again&s;t its great <HI>Heat</HI> and <HI>Ebullitions</HI> of the <HI>Blood,</HI> &s;ome Syrup of white <HI>Poppies</HI> in <HI>Cichory</HI> water, or Syrup of <HI>Le|mons, Pomegranates,</HI> or <HI>Rizars</HI> in boyled water: Yet mu&s;t not hold any thing actu|ally cold in his <HI>Mouth.</HI> His <HI>Belly</HI> mu&s;t be kept open, which yet readily then exceeds. His <HI>Gums</HI> al&s;o may be &s;oftly rubbed now and then with ones <HI>Finger,</HI> or a little pou|dered <HI>Sugar,</HI> to be rarified, and more ea&s;i|ly cut. Some <HI>In&s;trument</HI> u&s;es to be provid|ed for him to rub upon, of <HI>Ivory, Cry&s;tal, Silver,</HI> or other &s;olid &s;mooth <HI>Matter:</HI> U&s;ual|ly
<PB N="359" REF="187"> a Silver <HI>Corral</HI> with <HI>Bells. Some</HI> put a <HI>Wolfs</HI> Tooth: He may have a litle new Wax <HI>Candle,</HI> or <HI>Liquiri&s;h</HI> &s;tick to champ on. Several things be&s;ide are to be rubbed upon the <HI>Gums,</HI> held &s;pecial for ea&s;y Teeth|ing, as <HI>Hares, Rabbits, Pigs</HI> or <HI>Sheeps Brains,</HI> with pure <HI>Honey: A&s;hes</HI> of <HI>Dogs Teeth</HI> with <HI>Butter,</HI> or <HI>Honey: Fat</HI> of <HI>Hens: Blood</HI> hot from a <HI>Cock</HI>'s Comb, and many others: Which yet avail only as they &s;often and rarify the <HI>Gums,</HI> and ea&s;e the <HI>Pain:</HI> For which <HI>One</HI> may u&s;e Oyl of <HI>Almonds, Pop|pies, Cream, Butter, Honey:</HI> Unwa&s;hen grea|zy <HI>Wool</HI> about its <HI>Neck</HI> gives ea&s;e. And where nothing can further their Eruption, becau&s;e of the hardne&s;s, thickne&s;s and &s;o|lidity of the <HI>Gums,</HI> or the <HI>Infants</HI> weakne&s;s, they may be cut open, to prevent mortal <HI>Symptoms:</HI> Yet mu&s;t only be done when the <HI>Tooth</HI> is now become more big and large, &s;wells and notably inflames the <HI>Gum,</HI> being ready to come out, and working with all force to break thorow it: And with a <HI>Pen Knife</HI> al&s;o, or other which hath a thick <HI>Back</HI> like a <HI>Raz<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r,</HI> and not a <HI>Lan|cet,</HI> which doth hurt, or is quite ineffe|ctual, and this without peril of great <HI>Pain, Bleeding</HI> or <HI>Inflammation.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="31" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="360" REF="188">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXXI.</HI> Of Infants <HI>Loo&s;ene&s;s.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>INfants</HI> being of a &s;oft &s;oluble <HI>Sub&s;tance,</HI> &amp; &s;u&s;tained with a moi&s;t liquid <HI>Food,</HI> take readily a <HI>Loo&s;ene&s;s</HI> upon the lea&s;t <HI>Indi&s;po&s;i|tion,</HI> e&s;pecially in Teething, having then Watchings, Unre&s;t, a great Commotion and Ebullitions of the <HI>Blood,</HI> Fluxions from the <HI>Head:</HI> Whence the <HI>Coctions</HI> are blunted, indige&s;tions, Crudities, and Corruption a|bound, and &s;tore of Salt acrimonious &s;ti|mulating <HI>Humors</HI> are generated, which fall down and trouble the <HI>Gutts:</HI> Or from a turgency of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ile</HI> there, with a predomining <HI>Acid.</HI> It may ari&s;e al&s;o from bad and im|pure <HI>Milk,</HI> or when too plentifully Suckt, which &s;ours and comes off Grumy: From a weak humid Lax <HI>Stomach,</HI> debility of the retentive <HI>Faculty,</HI> and the re&s;t as in the arged.</P>
<P>An ea&s;y moderat <HI>Loo&s;ne&s;s</HI> is nothing in the beginning, and in a &s;trong gro&s;s Humo|ri&s;h <HI>Child,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hich al&s;o in the of Pain Teeth|ing &s;aves from <HI>Cenvul&s;ions,</HI> and is not then to be ra&s;hly &s;topped: Yet if tedious and vex|ing, with <HI>Grips, Feaver, Drought,</HI> ill <HI>Smell,</HI>
<PB N="361" REF="188"> lo&s;s of <HI>Appetite</HI> and the like, it mu&s;t &s;oon melt and wa&s;h its &s;oft delicate <HI>Substance,</HI> di&s;&s;ipate the <HI>Spirits,</HI> and enfeeble it much. And &s;o for <HI>Cure,</HI> a &s;light <HI>Infu&s;ion</HI> of <HI>Reu|barb</HI> may be given, or a little of the Pow|der, or &s;ome of the compound <HI>Syrup</HI> of <HI>Cichery,</HI> to purge off any noxious <HI>Humors</HI> from the <HI>Guts:</HI> Litle <HI>Gly&s;ters</HI> al&s;o of <HI>Milk</HI> with the Yolk of an <HI>Egg,</HI> a little <HI>Sugar</HI> or <HI>Honey</HI> of <HI>Violets.</HI> And after &s;ufficient <HI>Eva|cuation,</HI> a&s;tringent <HI>Glysters</HI> may be given: <HI>Astringents</HI> likeways and <HI>R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">boratives</HI> by the <HI>Mouth</HI> if needful, as Syrup of <HI>Corral,</HI> of dryed <HI>Ro&s;es, Quinces, Myrtles:</HI> A litle <HI>Di|a&s;cordium, Con<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ection</HI> of <HI>Hyacinth, Mithridat,</HI> prepared <HI>Corral</HI> or <HI>Tincture</HI> of it, &s;ealed <HI>Earth,</HI> burnt <HI>Harts-horn, Bole Armen,</HI> pow|der of <HI>Dock</HI> or <HI>S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">rel</HI> Seed, of Tormentil <HI>Root</HI> and the like. Milk <HI>Meat</HI> al&s;o with the Yolk of an <HI>Egg.</HI> The <HI>Belly</HI> is to be rubbed with Oyl of <HI>Quinces, Ma&s;tick, Myr|tles:</HI> The <HI>Stomach</HI> fomented with Red <HI>Wine</HI> and Oyl of <HI>Quinces,</HI> or get <HI>Compre&s;&s;es</HI> laid thereon wet in Red <HI>Wine,</HI> boyled with <HI>Ro&s;es, Balau&s;ts, Sumach, Anis,</HI> and the like. A|&s;tringent <HI>Catapla&s;ms</HI> al&s;o are u&s;ed, <HI>Piai&s;ters,</HI> and others, according as the vehemency of the <HI>Flux,</HI> its Cau&s;es and Accidents may
<PB N="362" REF="189"> require: Yet <HI>Some</HI> will not have it &s;topt with <HI>Astringents</HI> properly called, nor <HI>Narcoticks,</HI> but with things which mi|tigates the Sourne&s;s that makes all the trouble: Such as <HI>Chaulk, Corral, Pearl</HI> and others of that <HI>Kind,</HI> which &s;tills the rag|ing <HI>Humors,</HI> that &s;o they may be purged off. The <HI>Infant</HI> mu&s;t have good <HI>Milk,</HI> &s;uck moderatly, and let the <HI>Nur&s;e</HI> keep a proper <HI>Dyet.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="32" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXXII.</HI> Of Infants <HI>Vomitings.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>SOme</HI> Vomit the <HI>Milk</HI> pre&s;ently, altho' they have not &s;uckt much, and then the fault is in the <HI>Milk</HI> or <HI>Stomach,</HI> and &s;uch decay. <HI>Some</HI> vomit only when they &s;uck more than the <HI>Stomach</HI> can bear, and ca&s;ts up only that which oppre&s;&s;es, yet keeps and dige&s;ts the re&s;t: And then they are not &s;ick, but become more Cheary; For the <HI>Sto|mach</HI> is right, and they &s;uffer only through <HI>Repletion:</HI> So that their Vomiting is either from the ill <HI>Quality</HI> of the <HI>Milk,</HI> or its In|congruity with the <HI>Stomach:</HI> Or then from &s;ome Acid, Au&s;tere, Irritive <HI>Humor,</HI> or Heterogeneous <HI>Matter</HI> in it: And either
<PB N="360" REF="189"> generated therein, or conveyed thither from far, by <HI>Arteries</HI> and <HI>Nerves,</HI> which pricks, bites and irritates its intern <HI>Surface,</HI> and chiefly its &s;en&s;ible <HI>Orifice:</HI> From <HI>Overcharge</HI> al&s;o of <HI>Milk,</HI> or a delinquency in the <HI>Mea|&s;ure</HI> and <HI>Manner</HI> of taking it: And &s;ome|times from its tepid <HI>Sweetne&s;s:</HI> As by a too great <HI>Agitation</HI> thereof in the <HI>Stomach,</HI> while rudely dandled or rocked: From a too &s;trait and painful <HI>Suath<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ng</HI> upwards: From <HI>Cough</HI> al&s;o. <HI>Some</HI> void <HI>Pituit,</HI> but that is ofte&s;t the time of Teething. <HI>Vomitings</HI> are very u&s;ual to Infants, but litle heeded: Yet turns whiles exce&s;&s;ive, with &s;ore <HI>Symp|toms,</HI> and mi&s;erably afflicting, being a vio|lent <HI>Motion</HI> of the <HI>Stomach,</HI> very oft in|voluntary, and mo&s;t ju&s;tly held <HI>Convul|&s;ive:</HI> And if habitual, mu&s;t kill the <HI>Child</HI> through a continual <HI>Ejection</HI> of <HI>Aliment.</HI></P>
<P>For Cure (be&s;ide the <HI>Infants</HI> right Go|vernment as to outward <HI>Cau&s;es</HI>) the peccant <HI>Matter</HI> is to be gently purged off, with a little <HI>Infu&s;ion</HI> of <HI>Rubarb,</HI> Syrup of <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> or of <HI>Cichory</HI> Compound: And the <HI>Stomach</HI> af|ter fortified, giving now and then while empty, a little Syrup of <HI>Quinces, Mint,</HI> &s;harp <HI>Pomegranates, Lemons</HI> with a grain <HI>Salt</HI> of <HI>Wormwood,</HI> or <HI>Mint:</HI> Outwardly Oyl
<PB N="364" REF="190"> of <HI>Mace, Quinces, Ma&s;tick, Mint:</HI> Plai&s;ter of <HI>Cru&s;t</HI> of <HI>Bread,</HI> or of <HI>Mastick,</HI> or <HI>Tacama|haca:</HI> Or a <HI>Compre&s;s</HI> wet in <HI>Juyce</HI> or <HI>Water</HI> of <HI>Mint,</HI> or <HI>Wormwood,</HI> or in <HI>Vinegar,</HI> or in &s;trong Red <HI>Wine,</HI> wherein are boyled <HI>Ro&s;es, Mint, Cloves, Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e, Cinamon:</HI> Or a <HI>Cru&s;t</HI> of <HI>Bread</HI> with the&s;e <HI>Aromaticks. The<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iac</HI> al&s;o, <HI>Mithridat</HI> and the like. Yet the <HI>Te|staceous</HI> things formerly mentioned, with|out the&s;e, <HI>Emeticks</HI> or <HI>Narcoticks</HI> are held to do notably (yea be even <HI>Specificks,</HI> if any thing el&s;e) in this <HI>Ca&s;e,</HI> for tempering and &s;heathing the <HI>Acid,</HI> that &s;o it may be pur|ged off.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="33" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXXIII.</HI> Of <HI>Epilep&s;y</HI> and <HI>Convul|&s;ion.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THey are held to proceed from the ir|ritation of &s;ome notably &s;harp, au|&s;tere, pricking <HI>Liquor</HI> or <HI>Juyce (Fumes</HI> al&s;o or impetuous putrid <HI>Vapors</HI>) which if it oppre&s;s, pinch and afflict what is within the <HI>Skull,</HI> it then produces that horrible trouble of the <HI>Epilep&s;y,</HI> by a Colluctation
<PB N="365" REF="190"> as it were, and Combat of the <HI>Brain</HI> there|with: But if the <HI>Matter</HI> flow in upon the <HI>Nerves</HI> without, &s;ting and &s;timulate the &s;mall <HI>Fibres</HI> thereof, the <HI>Membranes</HI> that involves them, and all the <HI>Parts</HI> under their rule, there ari&s;e <HI>Convul&s;ions</HI> only, where there is not &s;uch cruel <HI>Symptoms,</HI> but only an involuntary <HI>Motton</HI> of the <HI>Parts,</HI> with their Ventrico&s;ity, Hardne&s;s, &s;harp Pain, Coldne&s;s and the re&s;t. And thus as this <HI>Matter</HI> is variou&s;ly lodged, fermented and moves, within or without the <HI>Brain,</HI> &s;o are the&s;e troubles excited, the <HI>Epilep&s;y</HI> or <HI>Convul&s;ion,</HI> Erratick and Perodick <HI>Fitts</HI> produced; and that upon fome one or other <HI>Member</HI> or <HI>Mu&s;cle,</HI> or more, as they are affected and <HI>Spirits</HI> &s;ent to their relief. This Morbifick <HI>Matter</HI> is either contained within the <HI>Brain,</HI> or flows out from other <HI>parts</HI> &amp; carried thither by the circulation, as when the <HI>Meconium</HI> is too long retained, or while a greedy fill of <HI>Milk</HI> or <HI>Meat</HI> Sours and turns to <HI>Poy&s;on</HI> in the <HI>Stomach:</HI> And for the <HI>Nature</HI> thereof, the <HI>Fits</HI> are greater or lefs, longer or &s;horter, repeated or more rate: and the <HI>Symptoms</HI> appear more gentle or griev|ous. Yet <HI>Convul&s;ions</HI> depends as well upon the <HI>Infants</HI> &s;trength now near &s;pent and ex|hau&s;ted,
<PB N="366" REF="191"> as upon the Acrimony of that <HI>Mat|ter,</HI> extimulating the <HI>Nerves,</HI> irritating and pricking the <HI>Spirits,</HI> and exagitating them into di&s;ordered <HI>Motions,</HI> or a tumult: And thus after little <HI>Ones</HI> are &s;ore weakened with this or that <HI>Malady,</HI> or &s;ome mi&s;guiding, <HI>Convul&s;ions,</HI> or at lea&s;t <HI>Draughts,</HI> or &s;haking of the <HI>Members</HI> &s;eizes them for all, and puts an end to the mi&s;eries they are tortured with.</P>
<P>They are mo&s;t familiar to <HI>Infants,</HI> in whom they are mo&s;tly acute, and very oft fune&s;t, killing many, either by rea&s;on of the rebellant <HI>Matter,</HI> or of the mo&s;t grie|vous &s;ub&s;equent <HI>Accidents,</HI> and death it &s;elf happening oft upon the fir&s;t <HI>Fit;</HI> and that by rea&s;on oft times the <HI>Membranes</HI> of the <HI>Brain</HI> are eroded by the &s;harpne&s;s of the <HI>Humour,</HI> whence it is wholly overflowed and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ppre&s;&s;ed therewith.</P>
<P>As to <HI>Cure,</HI> the Irritative <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> mu&s;t be removed, the <HI>Reliques</HI> amended, the &s;trength pre&s;erved and &s;upplied &s;o far as po&s;&s;ible: And thus <HI>Evacuations</HI> are u&s;ed up|wards and downwards, if the <HI>Humour</HI> be fallen upon the <HI>Nerves</HI> without: <HI>Oyls, Bal|&s;ome,</HI> and <HI>Oyntments</HI> mixt with <HI>Spirituous</HI> things are applied to the <HI>Back-bone,</HI> and
<PB N="367" REF="191"> the parts affected, in a <HI>Convul&s;ion</HI> of &s;ome particular <HI>Member,</HI> as Oyl of <HI>Turpentine</HI> with Ambered <HI>Spirit</HI> of <HI>Wine:</HI> Oyl al&s;o of <HI>Amber,</HI> of <HI>Marjoram,</HI> of Earth <HI>Worms, Foxes, Ca&s;tor:</HI> The <HI>Nerve</HI> Oyntment, Oynt|ment of <HI>Rue,</HI> and the like. A <HI>Cau&s;tick</HI> is or|dered to the <HI>Hinder-head</HI> (yet profits mo&s;t where the di&s;ea&s;e is <HI>Idiopathick</HI>) as is a <HI>Plai|&s;ter</HI> of <HI>Ammoniack, Cupping-Gla&s;&s;es</HI> al&s;o to the <HI>Shoulders</HI> and <HI>Loins:</HI> A <HI>Ve&s;icatory</HI> to the <HI>Nape</HI> of the <HI>Neck,</HI> a corroborant <HI>Plai&s;ter</HI> to the <HI>Fore-head. Antepilepticks</HI> are u&s;ed in|wardly, from black <HI>Cherries</HI> chiefly, <HI>Lilly</HI> of the <HI>Valley,</HI> Male <HI>Paeony, Lime,</HI> or <HI>Lin|den</HI> Tree, Divels <HI>Bite, Primero&s;es, Lavender, Betony, Ca&s;tor: Langius</HI> his <HI>Water,</HI> Syrup of <HI>Staechas,</HI> Spirit of <HI>Harts-Horn,</HI> of <HI>Salt Ar|moniack:</HI> Oyl al&s;o of <HI>Amber,</HI> of <HI>Juniper,</HI> which may be infu&s;ed into the <HI>Mouth:</HI> as al&s;o the <HI>Volatil Salts,</HI> applyed and rubbed on the <HI>Nostrils</HI> and <HI>Temples</HI> in the&s;e <HI>Fits,</HI> in which al&s;o the <HI>Smoak</HI> of <HI>Tobacco</HI> is blown into its <HI>Mouth.</HI> The <HI>Powder</HI> of <HI>Gutteta</HI> is mo&s;t frequently u&s;ed, and &s;ome commend the Powder of the 2<HI>din.</HI> dryed in the &s;hade, but that it be of the 1&s;t Child, and a <HI>Male</HI> is &s;uper&s;titious. <HI>Mi&s;&s;elto</HI> of the <HI>Oak</HI> is made a &s;pecifick (that part chiefly cut near|e&s;t
<PB N="368" REF="192"> the <HI>Oak</HI> held the more noble) as is the wild <HI>Valerian</HI> Root: the <HI>Gall</HI> al&s;o of a black <HI>Puppy,</HI> mixt with <HI>Vinegar,</HI> or given in <HI>Powder,</HI> is held a &s;pecial Cure. Let the <HI>Infant</HI> &s;uck a tryed <HI>Nur&s;e,</HI> and may feed up|on the <HI>Milk</HI> only: She mu&s;t u&s;e an attenu|ating, temperate whol&s;ome <HI>Dyet,</HI> of con|venient <HI>Juyce</HI> and <HI>Temperature,</HI> ab&s;taining things of bad <HI>Juyce,</HI> of hard or bad dige|&s;tion, or whatever may vitiate or breed ill <HI>Milk.</HI> Such who have a hereditary <HI>Di&s;po&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ion</HI> to the <HI>Epilep&s;y</HI> (and &s;ome <HI>Families</HI> u&s;es to have all their <HI>Children</HI> killed there|with) are to get as &s;oon as born for pre|&s;ervation (for which al&s;o <HI>&s;ome</HI> order the pregnant Woman <HI>Antepilepticks</HI> each new <HI>Moon</HI> after the <HI>quickening</HI>) &s;ome <HI>do&s;es</HI> of the powder of <HI>Gutteta,</HI> a <HI>Cau&s;tick</HI> al&s;o to the <HI>Neck</HI> fome days after the birth, and mu&s;t be purged twice a <HI>Month,</HI> each New <HI>Moon</HI> al&s;o, yea, every quarter thereof, and in all humid and more changeable <HI>Weather,</HI> get of the fore&s;aid <HI>Powder,</HI> have a &s;trengthen|ning <HI>Cep,</HI> &s;meeking <HI>Powders,</HI> Powders al&s;o for the <HI>Hair. Some</HI> for pre&s;ervation moi|&s;tens the Infants <HI>Body</HI> a little warmly&punc; with the <HI>Infu&s;ion</HI> of <HI>Ca&s;tor</HI> and <HI>Paeony</HI> Roots in fine <HI>Spirit</HI> of <HI>Wine,</HI> or with the <HI>decoction</HI>
<PB N="369" REF="192"> of lenient and &s;pirituous <HI>Herbs:</HI> Which things are al&s;o to be u&s;ed for <HI>The&s;e</HI> who have had it (for <HI>Some</HI> are &s;o obnoxious thereto, that tho once Cured, it returns) having ever re&s;pect to the <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> the <HI>Part</HI> primarily affected, the <HI>Age, Strength</HI> and morbifick <HI>In&s;ults. Some</HI> only add <HI>Ca&s;tor</HI> to the <HI>Te&s;taceous</HI> Powders for Blunting the <HI>A|cidity,</HI> that &s;o it may be carried off.</P>
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<DIV2 N="34" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXXIV.</HI> Of Infants <HI>Ruptures.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THey ari&s;e mo&s;tly, from the falling of the <HI>Inte&s;tin,</HI> through Laxity, or then Rupture of the <HI>Peritonaeum,</HI> tho that rather becau&s;e of Humidity; and then the <HI>Tumor</HI> is &s;oft, with Fluctuation and Murmur, and appears on a &s;udden. In <HI>Some</HI> it &s;tops in the <HI>Groyn</HI> (as may the <HI>Te&s;ticles</HI> al&s;o oft, long ere they come down, and be taken for a <HI>Rupture</HI> in that part) in <HI>Others</HI> it falls com|pleatly into the <HI>Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s:</HI> Sometimes the <HI>Caul</HI> falls down therewith, and whiles the <HI>Caul</HI> alone, and then the <HI>Tumor</HI> is le&s;s, more Inequal, Slippery, yeilds more hardly to the <HI>Touch,</HI> is without Noi&s;e or Fluctuation,
<PB N="370" REF="193"> and ofter on the <HI>Share-bone</HI> than the <HI>Cods,</HI> Where the <HI>Intestin</HI> or <HI>Caul</HI> fixes upon the <HI>Scrotum,</HI> if <HI>Inflammation</HI> follow it is deadly.</P>
<P>The <HI>Cau&s;es</HI> may be, a too great Repleti|on of <HI>Meat,</HI> their more vehement and long Crying, while abandoned by mercile&s;s <HI>Nur|&s;es,</HI> a <HI>Cough</HI> al&s;o, and e&s;pecially if then they be too &s;trait &s;wathed upwards, plenty of <HI>Wind,</HI> &s;trong prea&s;ing at <HI>Stool,</HI> and the like. And as <HI>Ruptures</HI> happen thus more ea&s;ily in the &s;oft moi&s;t <HI>Bodies</HI> of <HI>Infants,</HI> &s;o the <HI>Bor|ders</HI> of the &s;eparated <HI>Mu&s;cles</HI> of the <HI>Belly,</HI> or Rents of the <HI>Peritonaeum,</HI> more ea&s;ily re|unite in them, clo&s;e and grow together, dry and fortifie, that nothing can more &s;lide out or fall down, if the <HI>Cure</HI> be en|deavoured upon its fir&s;t appearing: For which, the prolap&s;ed <HI>Part</HI> mu&s;t be gently in|truded and returned into its natural <HI>Place,</HI> by the <HI>Way</HI> it fell down, and kept therein, with a <HI>Swath</HI> or <HI>Tru&s;s</HI> (which mu&s;t be clo&s;ed &s;trait enough about the <HI>Body&punc;</HI> and by which alone, when rightly fitted, it hath oft Cu|red of its &s;elf) the <HI>Place</HI> being fomented before with &s;ome a&s;tringent <HI>Decoction,</HI> co|vered al&s;o with the <HI>Plai&s;ter</HI> for <HI>Ruptures,</HI> or other like binding and glewing: With con|&s;olidating
<PB N="371" REF="193"> and a&s;tringent <HI>Medicines</HI> inward|ly, tho all hope be in the <HI>Externs:</HI> Hin|dering by all means his Crying, Cough Sneezing, Vomiting: Careful withal he be ea&s;ie &s;wathed, and not pre&s;s hard at <HI>Stool,</HI> or what el&s;e may force a <HI>Relap&s;e:</HI> And for a &s;peedier <HI>Cure,</HI> he is to keep <HI>Bed</HI> a good time.</P>
<P><HI>Some</HI> have a Collection of <HI>Wind,</HI> or yet <HI>Water</HI> upon the <HI>Scrotum,</HI> con&s;picuous be|twixt and the light, coming from the up|per <HI>Parts,</HI> or generated there, through na|tural weakne&s;s of the <HI>Part,</HI> or violence of the <HI>Labour,</HI> the <HI>Ve&s;&s;els</HI> being thus cru&s;hed or broken, and the <HI>Aliment</HI> converting in|to a <HI>Serous</HI> watry <HI>Sub&s;tance:</HI> for which <HI>Fo|mentations</HI> are u&s;ed, to open, re&s;olve and di&s;cu&s;s the <HI>Matter,</HI> of <HI>Calamint, Bay, Mar|joram, Ro&s;emary, Rue, Sage, Savin,</HI> Flowers of <HI>Chamemel, Melilot, Elder, Lavender,</HI> Seeds of <HI>Cumin, Anis, Daucus</HI> and the like. A <HI>Spung</HI> al&s;o, with Lime <HI>Water</HI> and a little Crude <HI>Allom</HI> to dry up the <HI>Water:</HI> Or <HI>De|&s;iccativum Rubrum</HI> with the Counte&s;s's <HI>Oynt|ment:</HI> Plai&s;ter of <HI>Bay-berries</HI> and <HI>Cumin,</HI> with <HI>Sulphur</HI> vive, <HI>Allum</HI> and the like: and the greate&s;t part being di&s;cu&s;&s;ed and dryed up, The <HI>Part</HI> in end is to be fortified with the
<PB N="372" REF="194"> <HI>Decoction</HI> of &s;trong Red <HI>Wine, Ro&s;es</HI> and <HI>Allum:</HI> Ever regarding the original <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> hereof: And if it yeild not to the&s;e, <HI>Chi|rurgery</HI> is u&s;ed by a &s;imple <HI>Inci&s;ion,</HI> which is ea&s;y and without peril: Tho yet at length it may di&s;cu&s;s through tran&s;mutation of the <HI>Age</HI> into a more robu&s;t and dry <HI>Nature.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="35" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXXV.</HI> Of <HI>Scabs</HI> on the <HI>Heads</HI> and <HI>Faces</HI> of <HI>Infants.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THey are the purulency of <HI>Humors</HI> cor|rupted in litle <HI>Pimples,</HI> which perfo|rating the <HI>Skin,</HI> dry and harden about into &s;anious <HI>Cru&s;ts,</HI> or contagious little <HI>&V;lcers,</HI> or <HI>Scabs,</HI> running together, and over&s;pread|ing the whole <HI>Heads</HI> and <HI>Faces</HI> of <HI>Some,</HI> whiles al&s;o in the re&s;t of the <HI>Body;</HI> Ari&s;ing &s;ooner or later, mo&s;tly when they begin to Suck, and in the <HI>Winter.</HI> Of the&s;e <HI>&V;lcers, Some</HI> are Dry and Skaly, <HI>Others</HI> are Humid, which al&s;o are various: <HI>Some</HI> again are Su|perficial and White, called then the milky <HI>Cru&s;t:</HI> Or yet are Yellowi&s;h, with the <HI>Skin</HI> red beneath: <HI>Others</HI> are Black, Thick, Ma|lignant,
<PB N="373" REF="194"> where the <HI>Sanies</HI> corrod and ulce|rat deeply, &s;poiling &s;ometimes even the <HI>Skul,</HI> that the very <HI>Membranes</HI> may be &s;een. They are held to be generated in the <HI>Womb,</HI> from &s;ome <HI>Reliques</HI> of the men&s;truous <HI>Blood:</HI> Or then after the Birth, through the Indi|ge&s;tion and Corruption, or Badne&s;s and Impurity of the <HI>Milk,</HI> The <HI>Nur&s;e</HI> being ill of a &s;alti&s;h <HI>Intemperature:</HI> Is &s;ometimes al&s;o hereditary.</P>
<P>There mu&s;t be no &s;top of the <HI>Humor,</HI> being Nature's Provident and benefi|cial <HI>Ejection</HI> of &s;uch Impurity, and a mean of the <HI>Infants</HI> future Health and Im|munity from many great <HI>Di&s;ea&s;es,</HI> as <HI>Fea|vers, Epilep&s;ies</HI> (which oftimes ari&s;e, while the&s;e <HI>&V;lcers</HI> di&s;appear) and others. He therefore mu&s;t only have a good healthful <HI>Nur&s;e</HI> (for if it come of the <HI>Nur&s;e,</HI> &s;he mu&s;t be changed, or the <HI>Infant</HI> weaned, el&s;e tho it were forced away, it would in&s;tant|ly return) who is to u&s;e the be&s;t <HI>Dyet,</HI> that &s;o He may &s;uck pure good <HI>Milk,</HI> to correct and temper the&s;e ill <HI>Humors,</HI> and prevent any more generation thereof. Let his <HI>Belly</HI> be kept open, and let him be purged if nece&s;&s;ar, with Syrup of <HI>Cichory,</HI> or of <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> or with <HI>Manna.</HI> Sometimes this <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e</HI> is
<PB N="374" REF="195"> is &s;tubborn and hard to Cure, for that the intern Cure u&s;es not to be looked unto. The <HI>Cru&s;t</HI> may al&s;o be brought off for a freer <HI>Vent</HI> to the <HI>Humor,</HI> rubbing thereon &s;ome Oyl of <HI>Almonds, Pomat, Cream</HI> or fre&s;h <HI>Butter:</HI> If it go in, a headed <HI>Cabbadge,</HI> or <HI>Best</HI> Leaf may be applied warm, which will &s;uppurate the <HI>Humor</HI> and make it run again, whereby the <HI>Place</HI> will come to dry and heal, and &s;o the <HI>Cru&s;t</HI> then fall away of it &s;elf. Secure the Infants <HI>Hands</HI> the while from Rubbing and Scratching thereof, le&s;t the place Inflame.</P>
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<DIV2 N="35" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXXV.</HI> Of the Small <HI>Pox</HI> and <HI>Mea|zils.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THey are purulent itching <HI>Pustuls,</HI> dri|ven out through <HI>Ebullition</HI> of the <HI>Blood</HI> (as <HI>dregs</HI> from new <HI>Liquor</HI>) here and there, over the whole <HI>Body,</HI> chiefly the <HI>Face</HI> and <HI>Extremities;</HI> of &s;ome peculiar <HI>matter,</HI> or gro&s;s &s;harp Corro&s;ive <HI>Impurity,</HI> lodged in the <HI>Pores</HI> of the <HI>Parts</HI> from the <HI>Womb</HI> (hence none almo&s;t e&s;capes) till &s;ome <HI>ferment</HI> ar|rive
<PB N="375" REF="195"> from the <HI>Stars,</HI> or other pocky <HI>Per|&s;ons</HI> (being mo&s;t part Epidemick, and in certain <HI>Years</HI> and <HI>Sea&s;ons</HI>) which excite, expell or eject it, that mixing with the <HI>Blood,</HI> it is thus &s;eparated and ca&s;t out; &s;ei&s;ing mo&s;tly the young and tender <HI>Bodies,</HI> very rarely ofter then once, though in <HI>Some</HI> twice thrice: Yet <HI>Some</HI> (but mo&s;t rarely) never at all. The <HI>Meazils</HI> differ in degree, hardly in <HI>kind,</HI> and &s;carce di&s;tingui&s;hable the 1&s;t. 2. or 3. dayes, till the <HI>Pox</HI> begin to ri&s;e manife&s;tly into <HI>Pu&s;tuls,</HI> while the other remains fiery red <HI>Spots,</HI> or a&s;perities of the <HI>Skin</HI> like <HI>Ro&s;es,</HI> ri&s;ing &s;carce higher then the <HI>Skin,</HI> and are &s;oon di&s;cu&s;&s;ed without &s;uppu|ration; Yet invades more fiercely in the beginning, there being a greater difficulty of breathing, a &s;orer <HI>Feaver,</HI> more <HI>Tears</HI> extilling from the <HI>Eyes,</HI> and mo&s;t part &s;har|per, Breaks out al&s;o for the mo&s;t part &s;ud|denly, and over the whole <HI>Body,</HI> though &s;oone&s;t and principally upon the <HI>Face:</HI> The <HI>Pox</HI> &s;lower and &s;ucce&s;&s;ively, now in this <HI>part,</HI> then in the other. The <HI>Blibes</HI> are a <HI>di&s;ea&s;e</HI> familiar to <HI>Children,</HI> yet not &s;o univer&s;al, nor &s;ore; &s;trike out here and there over the <HI>Skin,</HI> in <HI>bigne&s;s</HI> and <HI>figure</HI> like the <HI>Pox,</HI> mo&s;tly without <HI>Feaver,</HI> are
<PB N="376" REF="196"> white, and as it were little clear <HI>Bladders,</HI> full of &s;erous <HI>Matter</HI> or <HI>Water,</HI> break and dry up in 2 or 3 dayes, without trouble or peril.</P>
<P>The u&s;ual <HI>&s;igns</HI> precede the <HI>Pox</HI> (being &s;een when pre&s;ent) are a continual great <HI>Feaver, Drought,</HI> a big and frequent <HI>Pul&s;e,</HI> great <HI>Sotti&s;hne&s;s,</HI> frequent <HI>Reachings,</HI> &s;wel|ling of the <HI>Face,</HI> redne&s;s of the <HI>Eyes, Tears, Itching</HI> of the <HI>No&s;e, Sneezing, Vomiting, Hoar&s;ne&s;s, Cough,</HI> hard <HI>Breathing,</HI> great <HI>un|re&s;t, To&s;&s;ing, Heat, Itch</HI> and <HI>Stingings</HI> of the <HI>Body, Frights</HI> in the <HI>&s;leep,</HI> Raving: Sometimes <HI>Tremblings, Convul&s;ions,</HI> whiti&s;h and trou|bled <HI>&V;rin</HI> al&s;o, and others which cannot be well di&s;cerned in <HI>Infants:</HI> All which pre|cede not always in every <HI>One,</HI> yet the more, the &s;urer prediction of the di&s;ea&s;e.</P>
<P>The <HI>Pox</HI> is a <HI>di&s;ea&s;e</HI> mo&s;t acute, vile and dangerous: and peril there is not only of great <HI>hurt</HI> and <HI>deformity,</HI> but even of <HI>death.</HI> In <HI>&s;ome</HI> the <HI>body</HI> decays; yea, whiles &s;ome <HI>bones,</HI> and the very <HI>bowels</HI> corrupt: whence <HI>Dy&s;entery Con&s;umption, Drop&s;ie:</HI> oft-times al&s;o they exulcerate the <HI>Jaws, Stomach,</HI> and even the <HI>Lungs.</HI></P>
<P>They look deadly, when the <HI>Feaver, Drought, Sickne&s;s,</HI> &s;hortne&s;s of <HI>Breath,</HI> and
<PB N="377" REF="196"> the other <HI>Symptoms</HI> continue and augment after they are out: And yet more, when they come out &s;lowly, or turn not into <HI>Matter,</HI> or into a bad &s;anious watry <HI>Mas|ter:</HI> Are in great number, big, double, run together, turn hard, flat, e&s;pecially with a black &s;pot in the middle: The green al&s;o, livid, black, are ever bad: And the&s;e mo&s;t of all, that di&s;appear quickly, and e&s;pe|cially with a <HI>loo&s;ne&s;s</HI> or <HI>dy&s;entery;</HI> as al&s;o where <HI>blood</HI> is excerned by <HI>&V;rin, Stool,</HI> or any other <HI>wayes:</HI> nor yet are livid or black <HI>Excrements</HI> or <HI>Urin</HI> good, neither livid or black <HI>&s;pots</HI> intermixed with the <HI>Pox.</HI> If on the contrair, they come &s;oon and ea&s;ily out, be few, the inner <HI>Parts</HI> well and more free, be in the beginning <HI>red,</HI> after wax <HI>white,</HI> fills well, and ripens &s;oon, of good <HI>Matter,</HI> are &s;oft, di&s;tinct, and rai&s;ed to a <HI>Point,</HI> comes in a good <HI>&s;ea&s;on,</HI> with laudible <HI>Symptoms</HI> the while, and the re&s;t, the <HI>Infant</HI> comes ea&s;ily off, if but rightly guided.</P>
<P>As to this, it is chiefly nece&s;&s;ar, an e|qual <HI>Tenor</HI> be pre&s;erved in the <HI>Ebullition</HI> of the <HI>Blood,</HI> Natures time and pace attended, in its due &s;eparation, univer&s;al de&s;puma|tion (which is made the 1st. 4. dayes) and expul&s;ion of the <HI>Matter</HI> by the <HI>Pores</HI> of the
<PB N="378" REF="197"> <HI>Skin,</HI> the mo&s;t &s;afe way and not unknown to Nature: that they al&s;o bide duely out, and reach their appointed <HI>Period</HI> and <HI>Hight</HI> rightly, in the 8, or 9 day. And if this <HI>Excretton</HI> go duely thorow, and other <HI>Symp|toms</HI> urge not, the matter may be commit|ted to Nature alone, and needs little alte|ration in <HI>Dyet</HI> or <HI>Government,</HI> nor other provi&s;ion from what was in health; which is even &s;o commonly known, that for the mo&s;t part this <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e</HI> is not &s;o much com|mitted to <HI>Phy&s;icians,</HI> as to Old <HI>Wives.</HI> Yet if this <HI>Motion</HI> of <HI>Nature</HI> &s;ucceed not &s;o right|ly, as is known by vehemency of the <HI>Symp|toms,</HI> or if it become languid, as in <HI>Some</HI> phlegmatick (the&s;e of a thiner <HI>Matter</HI> comes &s;oone&s;t out) or are very low through &s;ome <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e,</HI> or have a <HI>Loo&s;ne&s;s,</HI> the <HI>Phy&s;ician</HI> is needed, and <HI>Nature</HI> is to be &s;uccoured partly by <HI>Sudorificks,</HI> as <HI>Bezoar Mineral,</HI> new diaphoretick <HI>Antimony,</HI> calcined <HI>Harts-horn, Bezoar-&s;tone, Contrayerva</HI> and the like: Partly by <HI>Alexipharmicks,</HI> Confection <HI>Al|kermes, Hyacinth,</HI> Magi&s;tery of <HI>Corral,</HI> of <HI>Pearl, Ga&s;coins</HI> Powder and the re&s;t: E&s;pe|cially when they are <HI>Epidemick,</HI> or have greater <HI>Malignity:</HI> And oft w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th one <HI>Do&s;e</HI> of the&s;e, they forthwith break out: And
<PB N="379" REF="197"> as happily &s;ometimes with a little warm <HI>W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e</HI> and <HI>Saffron</HI> (this being held an <HI>Anti|dot,</HI> whence all <HI>Cordials</HI> here mu&s;t con&s;i&s;t of <HI>Saffron</HI>) &s;weet <HI>Navew</HI> Seed is held good for <HI>Eruption,</HI> as is Seed of <HI>Cre&s;&s;es,</HI> of <HI>Colum|bin, Sheeps</HI> Dung al&s;o (which is held a <HI>Specifick</HI> haply for no rea&s;on) a <HI>Decoction</HI> of <HI>Figs, Rai&s;ins</HI> and Par&s;ley <HI>Roots.</HI></P>
<P>If again through neglect, mi&s;take, or other <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> the <HI>Blood</HI> heat, inflame, rage and boyl beyond all <HI>Mea&s;ure,</HI> with a fulne&s;s be&s;ide, inten&s;e <HI>Feaver, Anxiety,</HI> difficulty of <HI>Breathing,</HI> thick red <HI>&V;rin,</HI> and other great <HI>Symptoms,</HI> Bleeding is allowed in the beginning, and while none or but few ap|pear (which yet is not &s;o readily admitted to <HI>Infants</HI>) a freer <HI>Air, Dyet</HI> al&s;o and <HI>Me|dicines,</HI> not only temperate, but a little more, yea, very Cooling: Yet &s;uch as are agree|able to the <HI>Stomach,</HI> may plea&s;e and com|fort it. But &s;eing the &s;ucking <HI>Infant</HI> can take little &s;ave the <HI>Milk,</HI> it ought to be tempered, altered and prepared, as may be&s;t &s;erve the <HI>Intent</HI> and an&s;wer the <HI>Indica|tions.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Belly</HI> tho bound, mu&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> not be ra&s;h|ly opened, and with a gentle <HI>Gly&s;te<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> only, The <HI>Eyes</HI> for defence are to be kept wet
<PB N="380" REF="198"> with Brea&s;t <HI>Milk</HI> and <HI>Saffron:</HI> or a <HI>Collyr</HI> of <HI>Plantain</HI> and <HI>Ro&s;e</HI> Water, <HI>Camphor</HI> or <HI>Su|gar</HI> of <HI>Lead,</HI> and a little <HI>Saffron.</HI> To the <HI>Throat</HI> is applyed a <HI>Band</HI> of <HI>Saffron,</HI> dipt in Brea&s;t <HI>Milk,</HI> For the <HI>Brea&s;t</HI> and Hoar&s;ne&s;s, Syrup of <HI>Injubes</HI> is given, of <HI>Maiden-hair,</HI> dryed <HI>Ro&s;es, Poppies</HI> and the like: Some Syrup of <HI>Lemons</HI> al&s;o, of <HI>Pomgranates,</HI> or of <HI>Vinegar</HI> to cut the <HI>Phlegm:</HI> Or &s;ome <HI>Mix|ture</HI> proper for the&s;e <HI>Intents,</HI> or to pre&s;erve the Inwards. They order for the <HI>Face,</HI> Oyl of <HI>Almonds</HI> chiefly, <HI>Some</HI> a&s;&s;oon as they appear, to facilitate their Suppuration, and prevent deep <HI>Marks: Others</HI> not till they are already ripe, u&s;ually about the 9 day. <HI>Some</HI> add a little <HI>Cream: Others</HI> u&s;e fre&s;h <HI>Butter</HI> only: <HI>Some,</HI> pure old <HI>Hogs Grea&s;e</HI> well wa&s;hed in <HI>Ro&s;e Water,</HI> which they continue till all be Cured. <HI>Some</HI> u&s;e Oyl of <HI>Walnuts</HI> and <HI>Ro&s;e Water</HI> beaten together. And <HI>Some</HI> to hinder the <HI>Marks</HI> will open them when ripe, with a <HI>Steel</HI> or <HI>Silver Needle,</HI> for eva|cuation of the <HI>Matter,</HI> which putrifying therein makes the&s;e <HI>Marks.</HI> Oyl of <HI>Eggs</HI> is u&s;ed for removing the <HI>Marks,</HI> Oyl of <HI>Al|monds,</HI> Sheeps <HI>Suet,</HI> Hogs <HI>Grea&s;e</HI> with <HI>Cam|phor, Whale-&s;hot</HI> with <HI>Pomat.</HI> And <HI>Some</HI> order as a great Secret, the Oyl which di|&s;tills
<PB N="381" REF="198"> before the <HI>Fire</HI> from a Sheeps <HI>Web</HI> &s;trawed with Grains of <HI>Barley:</HI> let the <HI>In|fant</HI> al&s;o be re&s;trained from rubbing and piking them. For the <HI>Itching</HI> and <HI>&V;lcers,</HI> and to remove the <HI>Skales, One</HI> may apply &s;ome Oyl of <HI>Poppies,</HI> the White <HI>Oyntment, Nutritum, Pomat</HI> or Oyntment of <HI>Lead,</HI> Many things more might have been added anent the&s;e <HI>Di&s;ea&s;es</HI> and the various <HI>Symp|toms,</HI> but the Ca&s;e being with <HI>Infants,</HI> where few things take place, and where <HI>Women</HI> take mo&s;tly upon them, the&s;e &s;hall &s;uffice.</P>
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<DIV2 N="37" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXXVII.</HI> Of the <HI>Venereal</HI> Pox.</HEAD>
<P>THis <HI>Pox</HI> is more Wrackful and Infecti|ous than the former, imparting its <HI>Venom</HI> to <HI>Infants</HI> by every Conver&s;e. This they either bring from the <HI>Womb</HI> of a pocky <HI>Mother,</HI> which appears in <HI>Pu&s;tuls</HI> and <HI>&V;l|cers</HI> here and there, chiefly about the <HI>Belly</HI> and <HI>Hipps,</HI> near the <HI>Fundament,</HI> the in&s;ide of the <HI>Thigs,</HI> and upon the <HI>Head:</HI> and &s;ome are vilely Scabbed all over. Or are poy&s;o|ned
<PB N="382" REF="199"> by a foul <HI>Nur&s;e</HI> (as many be) and breaks out in <HI>&V;lcers</HI> about its <HI>Mouth</HI> fir&s;t and <HI>Jaws,</HI> yet di&s;per&s;ing Contaminats in time all its other <HI>Parts. Infants</HI> &s;o born, rarely Cure, but Die, &s;ooner or later, being vi|tiated in their <HI>Principles</HI> and whole <HI>Sub&s;tance,</HI> or engendered and formed in the <HI>Womb</HI> of the polluted <HI>Seed</HI> of either, or both <HI>Parents,</HI> and vilely al&s;o Nouri&s;hed therein. When it comes by the <HI>Nur&s;e,</HI> it is not &s;o bad, for that <HI>She</HI> may be removed: B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ide that her <HI>Milk</HI> receives <HI>Concoction</HI> in the Infants <HI>Stomach,</HI> and depuration from the <HI>Excre|ments,</HI> and &s;o &s;ome <HI>Correction:</HI> Yet &s;till retains a pernicious <HI>Quality,</HI> whence it al&s;o invenoms and &s;tains the whole <HI>Infant</HI> by Degrees.</P>
<P>A compleat <HI>Cure</HI> hereof is rarely wrought in <HI>Infants,</HI> for that becau&s;e of their <HI>Non-Age</HI> and <HI>Imbecillity,</HI> they cannot take, nor endure the proper <HI>Remedies</HI> without peril of Life: And &s;o were be&s;t palliated to a greater <HI>Age</HI> and <HI>Strength:</HI> Tho yet this vile <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e,</HI> and its horrible <HI>Symptoms,</HI> does &s;o &s;peedily and deeply impre&s;s, and makes &s;uch havock of their &s;oft delicate <HI>Bodies,</HI> that they are &s;oon lo&s;t without it. How mi&s;erably then are &s;uch <HI>Infants</HI> &s;tated? How|ever
<PB N="383" REF="199"> as to <HI>Cure,</HI> let a clean <HI>Nur&s;e</HI> be got, who mu&s;t u&s;e &s;uch <HI>Dyet</HI> and <HI>Others</HI> as may be&s;t qualify her <HI>Milk,</HI> pre&s;erve her al&s;o from the Infection. And if no <HI>Nur&s;e</HI> can be had, the <HI>Infant</HI> is to be Nouri&s;hed the next be&s;t way may be.</P>
<P>The <HI>Way</HI> of exciting a <HI>Flux</HI> in <HI>Infants</HI> (the only <HI>Mean</HI> of their perfect <HI>Cure</HI>) is by <HI>Mercurial</HI> Unctions (tho <HI>Some</HI> al&s;o give <HI>Mercury</HI> inwardly) and upon the <HI>Pu&s;tuls</HI> and <HI>&V;lcers</HI> only, for a &s;mall <HI>Flux,</HI> which mu&s;t begin almo&s;t in&s;en&s;ible, and be rai&s;ed by degrees, yet &s;till very &s;lowly, with re|iterated <HI>Frictions</HI> (more frequent al&s;o, and a &s;tronger <HI>Do&s;e</HI> in the progre&s;s if nece&s;&s;ar) according to the <HI>Strength,</HI> the diver&s;e <HI>Habits,</HI> and ea&s;ine&s;s to <HI>Flux,</HI> in which there is great difference: Carefully ob&s;erving the <HI>Effects:</HI> S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oping therefore &s;ome <HI>Days</HI> after a <HI>Friction</HI> or two, to try its operation and the de|gree thereof, the only &s;ure way: And &s;o &s;afe&s;t to proceed &s;lowly, and take longer tsme: Ea&s;ier al&s;o, to repeat and augment a weak <HI>Do&s;e,</HI> then &s;top the <HI>Effects</HI> when it ex|ceeds, or while the <HI>Humors</HI> are moved with &s;uch a force, as the <HI>Glanduls</HI> being &s;o huge|ly filled therewith, the <HI>Infant</HI> may be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uf|focated, or its &s;ucking marred and <HI>&V;lcers</HI>
<PB N="384" REF="200"> rai&s;ed. Let the <HI>Frictions</HI> be once each or other day (before the <HI>Fire</HI>) in a warm <HI>Chamber,</HI> where he mu&s;t be kept &s;ecure from <HI>Cold</HI> or <HI>Air,</HI> with purging al&s;o: And while the <HI>Flux</HI> continues, he is to be kept to one <HI>Side,</HI> for a better Evacuation of the <HI>Humors,</HI> whieh mu&s;t be frequently wiped from its <HI>Mouth,</HI> u&s;ing <HI>Gargles</HI> al&s;o of <HI>Poppy, Plantain, Ro&s;e, Self heal</HI> Waters and the like: Or of <HI>Barley</HI> Water boiled with <HI>Agrimony,</HI> adding Honey of <HI>Ro&s;es</HI> or <HI>Mulberries, Salt-prunel</HI> and the re&s;t. And in great pain, luke|warm <HI>Milk</HI> with <HI>Ro&s;e</HI> Water, or the <HI>Yolk</HI> of an <HI>Egg,</HI> Mucilag of <HI>Althaea</HI> Roots, or <HI>Quince</HI> Seeds. Supporting the <HI>Infant</HI> all that can, to endure the <HI>Flux</HI> throughly, till it dimini&s;h and cea&s;e of it &s;elf.</P>
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<DIV2 N="38" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXXVIII.</HI> Of keeping <HI>Infants</HI> from be|ing <HI>Glied, Awry, Croo|ked</HI> or <HI>Lame.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Ju&s;t decent <HI>Figure</HI> and <HI>Conformation</HI> of the <HI>Parts</HI> and <HI>Members</HI> of Hu|mane <HI>Bodies</HI> is part of Health, a great and
<PB N="385" REF="200"> valueable Beauty, yet &s;o ea&s;ily and very oft marred and &s;poiled in <HI>Infants</HI> (their <HI>Limbs</HI> and <HI>Joints</HI> being wre&s;ted and forced out of due place by rea&s;on of their &s;oftne&s;s and delicacy) that all Providence, Care and Indu&s;try is needed to its Pre&s;ervation, and no le&s;s to a Rectification of the Hurts and Deformities thereof, which yet is ea&s;ier prevented than mended.</P>
<P>To prevent Squinting of the <HI>Eyes,</HI> the noble <HI>Luminaries</HI> and <HI>Lanterns</HI> of our <HI>Bodies,</HI> let <HI>Nur&s;es</HI> have no &s;uch <HI>Deformity,</HI> neither any more intimat to <HI>Infants:</HI> And that the <HI>Eyes</HI> may hold &s;table, and look &s;traight on, let the Light, or what el&s;e they &s;hall look to, be directly before them. To cor|rect this in <HI>Infants</HI> (for in the <HI>Elder</HI> it is not Cured) a <HI>Mask</HI> is ordered for their <HI>Faces,</HI> with 2 little <HI>Holes</HI> an&s;wering right to the <HI>Eyes,</HI> that &s;eeing or receiving the <HI>Rayes</HI> by the&s;e only, they may be confor|med and reduced to their genuin <HI>Situation.</HI> To pre&s;erve them from turning Awry, Crooked or Lame, let the <HI>Parts</HI> and <HI>Mem|bers</HI> be dre&s;&s;ed as formerly directed, each rightly extended and laid in its own <HI>Place,</HI> and all neatly tyed up in a &s;traight <HI>Figure</HI> (&s;wathing whiles one way, whiles
<PB N="386" REF="201"> another, yet not too hard, which oft deforms the <HI>Body</HI> and de&s;troys the <HI>Proportion</HI>) and ever laid in a &s;traight <HI>Situation.</HI> And when they come to be carried, they mu&s;t not be kept &s;till &s;itting in one <HI>Arm,</HI> nor after one manner, fa&s;t catched about the <HI>Knees</HI> and crouching together, as mo&s;t <HI>Nur&s;es</HI> do, which mu&s;t &s;oon Craze and Crook them in the <HI>Knees</HI> and <HI>Legs;</HI> and is almo&s;t the only <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> thereof. The disfigured <HI>Parts</HI> of young <HI>Infants,</HI> mu&s;t be helped and kept in right po&s;ture, with <HI>Swaths</HI> and <HI>Bol&s;ters</HI> only: Yet when grown &s;ome bigger, <HI>Boots</HI> are u&s;ed for the Crooked <HI>Legs,</HI> and <HI>Shoes</HI> hightned at one &s;ide for the wry <HI>Feet,</HI> and clo&s;s <HI>Stayes,</HI> well &s;tiffed with <HI>Whale-bone, Pastboord</HI> or <HI>T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">,</HI> for the disfiguration of <HI>Back</HI> or <HI>Brea&s;t,</HI> to hinder the further &s;hut|ting, and hide the Deformity. Some <HI>In|fanes</HI> by falling, have their <HI>Skull</HI> depre&s;&s;ed, yet without <HI>Fracture</HI> (for the <HI>Bones</HI> there|of are very thin, &s;o as they may be bowed by a &s;mall Pre&s;&s;ion of any hard thing) &amp; tho then no Hurt appear, yet in time they may hence become Dull, Stupid, Fools, &s;ubject to <HI>Catarrhs</HI> and <HI>Pains,</HI> while the <HI>Brain</HI> moves not freely, and &s;o the <HI>Animal</HI> Spirits are badly elaborated: Such Depre&s;&s;ions there|fore
<PB N="387" REF="201"> ought to be pre&s;ently lift up, by &s;ome &s;ticking <HI>Plai&s;ter, Cupping-gla&s;s,</HI> or <HI>In&s;trumen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> of <HI>Horn. Nur&s;es</HI> al&s;o mu&s;t bewar, that in feeding the <HI>Infant,</HI> they deform not its <HI>Mouth,</HI> making it too wide, or choak it. Thus far briefly of the mo&s;t u&s;ual <HI>Mala|dies</HI> of <HI>Infants:</HI> And for any others may befall them, being common with the aged, have nothing to be con&s;idered peculiar to them in the Cure, &s;ave their <HI>Age</HI> and de|licacy.</P>
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<DIV2 N="39" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XXXIX.</HI> Of a <HI>Nur&s;e.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT were be&s;t, all <HI>Mothers</HI> might nur&s;e their own <HI>Children,</HI> not only becau&s;e of a mutual agreement of the <HI>Temperaments,</HI> the far greater <HI>Analogy</HI> of their <HI>Milk,</HI> with the <HI>Food</HI> received in the <HI>Womb,</HI> but al&s;o for their greater <HI>bowels</HI> of Love and Ten|derne&s;s towards their own <HI>Fruit,</HI> being in|flamed with an <HI>Affection</HI> almo&s;t invincible, panting after their wellfare, as their own; while hired <HI>Nur&s;es</HI> plea&s;es them&s;elves too much, and are kind only as they are &s;et by and rewarded: whence oft-times from the
<PB N="388" REF="202"> perver&s;ene&s;s of their <HI>Minds,</HI> unruline&s;s of <HI>Dyet,</HI> &s;ecret <HI>Mal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dies,</HI> naughtine&s;s of their <HI>Milk</HI> and other <HI>D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">baucheries,</HI> many <HI>Infants</HI> (e&s;pecially the&s;e given out) are either piti|fully killed, or gets what they never claw off, but lives mi&s;erable lives. Few <HI>Mo|thers</HI> however with us now a days do it, &s;ave the poorer, being wondrous delicate, or becau&s;e of <HI>Cu&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">m,</HI> or le&s;t it &s;poil their <HI>Brea&s;t,</HI> morr their <HI>Bea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> ha&s;ten their <HI>decay,</HI> &s;traiten their <HI>Plea&s;ure</HI> and <HI>Diver<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;e|ment,</HI> re&s;trict their <HI>Dyet,</HI> and other <HI>Mor|tifications</HI> too hard for <HI>the&s;e</HI> of Quality: yet very many are quite unfit, being weak and &s;ick after <HI>Labour&punc;</HI> or ill di&s;po&s;ed in the <HI>Bowels</HI> of <HI>Nutrition,</HI> have ill <HI>Milk,</HI> are worn out and wants <HI>Milk,</HI> have &s;ore <HI>Brea&s;ts</HI> al&s;o and the like; And then the <HI>Children</HI> of &s;uch are more happy in good <HI>Nur&s;es:</HI> For as &s;ome <HI>Trees</HI> luxuriates more happily, while tran&s;planted to a &s;trange <HI>Soyl,</HI> and the more fierce <HI>Creatures</HI> tame with &s;ucking &s;ome milder. &s;o many <HI>In|fants</HI> are found to recover of the <HI>Inte<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">era|ture</HI> they contracted in the Mothers <HI>Womb,</HI> by &s;ucking a different tempered <HI>Milk:</HI> Nor are good <HI>Nur&s;es</HI> hard to be got, and with all the laudible <HI>Properties,</HI> which are
<PB N="389" REF="202"> u&s;ually taken from their <HI>Age,</HI> habit of <HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|dy,</HI> good <HI>Manners,</HI> the condition and <HI>Na|ture</HI> of their <HI>Milk,</HI> the <HI>Form,</HI> not only of their <HI>Paps,</HI> but of the <HI>Niples</HI> al&s;o, the <HI>&s;pace</HI> from their <HI>delivery,</HI> the <HI>Sex</HI> of their la&s;t <HI>Infant</HI> and the re&s;t. Her <HI>Age</HI> is order|ed from 25 years to 35, being then in prime Health, Vigor, and Strength: though <HI>Some</HI> will not have her exceed <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">0, for the greater force and efficacy of <HI>Heat,</HI> a greater plenty of <HI>Milk,</HI> and le&s;s of <HI>Ex|crements:</HI> yet <HI>Others</HI> make her indifferent good from 20 to 40, though rarely before or after. <HI>She</HI> is to be al&s;o of a middle <HI>Sta|ture,</HI> of a goodly <HI>Structure</HI> and <HI>Symmetry</HI> of <HI>Parts,</HI> a &s;olid firm <HI>habit</HI> of body, mid|way fle&s;hy, of a vivid <HI>Colour</HI> or <HI>Complexion</HI> al&s;o, clear Skin'd, and the <HI>Veins</HI> Con&s;pi|cuous: Of a comely <HI>Face,</HI> with full Splen|did, &s;prightly <HI>Eyes,</HI> of a plea&s;ant &s;miling <HI>Countenance,</HI> be clear Voic'd, freely and di&s;tinctly &s;poken, having good white <HI>Teeth,</HI> a &s;weet <HI>Breath,</HI> Black or Che&s;s-nut <HI>Hair. She</HI> mu&s;t be neat al&s;o and cleanly, healthful and &s;ound of <HI>Body</HI> throughout, not di&s;po|&s;ed or affected with <HI>Gout, Gravel, Con&s;ump|tion, King</HI>'s-<HI>Evil, Scurvy&punc; Venereal</HI> di&s;ea&s;e, or other contagious <HI>Malady,</HI> nor be come
<PB N="390" REF="203"> of any &s;uch, neither intimately Conver|&s;ant with them: Not <HI>Fairntickled, Pox</HI> marked: And have neither <HI>Itch, Scab, Sc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d&punc; Lice,</HI> or other outward <HI>Blemi&s;h</HI> or <HI>Impurity. She</HI> mu&s;t not have her <HI>Cour&s;es,</HI> nor be &s;ubject to the <HI>Whites,</HI> neither be with <HI>Child. She</HI> mu&s;t next be of prai&s;ed <HI>Manners</HI> and di&s;po&s;ition of <HI>Mind,</HI> not Dull, Silly, Melancho|lick, neither Surly, Moro&s;e, Quarrel&s;ome, Wrathful, quickly or vehemently affected with <HI>Pa&s;&s;ion,</HI> (which either puts away the <HI>Milk,</HI> or troubles it, hurts the Child, and haply gives it the <HI>Epilep&s;y</HI>) but of a tranquill calm, meek <HI>Spirit,</HI> Prudent, Rational, Merry and Plea&s;ant, Sober al&s;o and Tem|perate, Vigilant, Cha&s;t (tho' if &s;he be Hy&s;te|rick, to wit, of a more tender and delicate Temperament however Cha&s;t, the Milk degenerates and is more gro&s;s) avoiding &s;trong <HI>Drink,</HI> or <HI>Venery</HI> and all <HI>Incentives</HI> thereof, tho' yet &s;he is allowed a Li|berty in the la&s;t with her own <HI>Husband:</HI> yea, and to be with <HI>Child</HI> al&s;o without &s;pilling the <HI>Milk:</HI> Though it is be&s;t <HI>&s;he</HI> keep free, or forbear after from giving <HI>Suck.</HI> As to the <HI>Nature</HI> and <HI>Condition</HI> of the <HI>Milk,</HI> it is requi&s;ite <HI>&s;he</HI> have great plenty there|of, rather too much then too little, the
<PB N="391" REF="203"> over-plus&punc; may be turned away: Good al|&s;o, pure and &s;incere, not too Serous, Thin and Fluid, nor very Vi&s;cous, gro&s;s and Chee&s;y, but of a middle Con&s;i&s;tence, that if dropped upon the <HI>Nail,</HI> or <HI>Hand, Gla&s;s,</HI> or <HI>Platter,</HI> it coheres and &s;tands unite like a <HI>Pearl,</HI> yet remains not fixt, but &s;lides gently off, in proportion to the turning of the <HI>Hand,</HI> leaving the <HI>place</HI> a little &s;tained: Or if putting a <HI>Hair</HI> therein, it &s;tick to it, the <HI>Con&s;i&s;tence</HI> is &s;aid good, if it run down it is thin. It mu&s;t be &s;weet al&s;o, of an in&s;ipid not &s;ugar'd &s;weetne&s;s, pecu|liar to all <HI>Milk:</HI> Free of all Acrimony, Bitterne&s;s, Acidity, and Saltne&s;s: And &s;mell &s;weetly, ca&s;ting out at lea&s;t &s;ome lit|tle thing of a plea&s;ant &s;mell, and have no &s;our &s;tinking or bad <HI>Scent,</HI> as in <HI>Some.</HI> It mu&s;t have al&s;o a good or Milky <HI>Colour,</HI> a blewi&s;h or pale <HI>white:</HI> Yet the more bright and purer white the better. As to the <HI>Form</HI> of her <HI>Paps,</HI> they are required indiffe|rent big, fle&s;hy, firm, yet not den&s;e, nei|ther flaggy, pond<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ous and hanging, as <HI>Some</HI> who have them the length of their <HI>Bellies,</HI> or can turn them over their <HI>Shoul|ders:</HI> Full of many big and &s;oft <HI>Glanduls,</HI> &s;treams of large and patent <HI>Ve&s;&s;els:</HI> And
<PB N="392" REF="204"> mu&s;t not be wrinkled, nor have any Ex|ternal <HI>Blemi&s;h.</HI> The <HI>Niples</HI> mu&s;t be of a middle Magnitude and Length, for the Infants <HI>Mouth,</HI> being a <HI>Funel</HI> to convey the <HI>Milk</HI> thereinto: of a moderate firmne&s;s, yet not hard or griftly: Mu&s;t be &s;ound al&s;o and entire, well holed, ea&s;ily &s;uckt. It is required moreover to a good <HI>Nur&s;e,</HI> that &s;he be not in u&s;e to <HI>Part,</HI> and been brought to <HI>Bed</HI> at full time, of a lively Boy, the 2d. al&s;o or 3d. and &s;o have given proof: fully al&s;o clean&s;ed, well &s;ettled and reco|vered of <HI>Child-Bed:</HI> A <HI>Mouth</HI> at lea&s;t af|ter <HI>Labour:</HI> Yet the <HI>Milk</HI> not older: Care|ful &s;o far as po&s;&s;ible, that her <HI>Delivery,</HI> and the <HI>Birth</HI> of the <HI>Child</HI> &s;he is to Nur&s;e fall near together; for that a more &s;erous and thinner <HI>Milk</HI> is be&s;t for new born <HI>In|fants,</HI> that it may purge the more: While an old <HI>Milk</HI> is gro&s;&s;er and &s;o le&s;s apt: But this is mo&s;tly neglected, &s;o that one and the &s;ame <HI>Nur&s;e</HI> is &s;ometimes continued &s;till for the next <HI>Child</HI> al&s;o, giving it only for clean&s;ing, Syrup of <HI>Violets,</HI> or <HI>Ro&s;es:</HI> Or Oyl of &s;weet <HI>Alm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nds</HI> with <HI>Sugar.</HI> A <HI>Nur&s;e</HI> however with the&s;e <HI>Properties</HI> may well be preferred, yea. for a <HI>Prince;</HI> Pro|viding &s;till &s;he keep a regular <HI>Dyet,</HI> or u&s;e
<PB N="393" REF="204"> good whole&s;ome <HI>Victuals,</HI> of convenient Juyce and Temperature and here are <HI>Phy|&s;itians</HI> no le&s;s concerned then in their Ele|ction, the goodne&s;s of the <HI>Milk,</HI> and the <HI>Infants</HI> wellfare, as well as their own depen|ding thereon) ab&s;taining the more hot <HI>A|liments,</HI> and Drink, or <HI>Liquors</HI> exceeding|ly wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ming: The&s;e al&s;o which are of hard dige&s;tion: <HI>Victuals</HI> likewi&s;e colder then ought, of indefecate impure <HI>Ju<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ces.</HI> All things moreover which are of bad dige&s;ti|on, or any wi&s;e Intemperate: And mu&s;t al&s;o keep good Order and due Mediocrity in &s;leeping and waking, Exerci&s;e and Mo|tion and the re&s;t. If be&s;ide, <HI>&s;he</HI> fall &s;ickly and indi&s;po&s;ed, or her <HI>Milk</HI> any way al|tered and vicious, <HI>&s;he</HI> be&s;t be removed, for that a bad <HI>Milk</HI> can never be mended, &s;ave when it happens &s;o by ill <HI>Dyet.</HI></P>
<P>The&s;e are the things mo&s;t Courteous <HI>Reader,</HI> which I have ob&s;erved, and col|lected here and there, as they have been profitably delivered by many: which al&s;o I have for my intended brevity&punc; thus pre|pared, and was willing to publi&s;h, for the utility and wellfare of bearing <HI>Women</HI> and <HI>Infants:</HI> Which if well liked, I may haply yet publi&s;h more of that kind for the pub|lick
<PB N="394" REF="205"> good. Or if any <HI>Others</HI> of more e|gregious <HI>Gifts</HI> of <HI>Mind,</HI> would by their finer Ingine, poli&s;h and trim this Cour&s;e and Imperfect Work, and render it more Com|pleat, they might never repent the Enter|pri&s;e, being &s;o nece&s;&s;ar to Mankind, &s;o glo|rious and profitable to them&s;elves: Accor|ding as other excellent Men, and eminent in the Medical Art, have as to this part thereof, left very famous Monuments of their Ingine, and publi&s;hed it at &s;everal times: And I be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ure &s;hould take it well: in the mean time u&s;e the&s;e to the be&s;t ad|vantage till better come.</P>
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<TRAILER>The End.</TRAILER>
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<BACK>
<DIV1 TYPE="table of contents">
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<HEAD>A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>BOOK I.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>OF various Di&s;ea&s;es and Indi&s;po&s;itions of Women with Child, from their Conception to the full term of La|bour. <HI>Page</HI> 1.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 1. Of the Fertility and Sterility of Women. <HI>p.</HI> 2.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 2. Of Conception. <HI>p.</HI> 9.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 3. Of Signs of Conception, <HI>p.</HI> 16.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 4. Of the Infants Formation. <HI>p.</HI> 20.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 5. Of a True and Fal&s;e big Belly and their Signs. <HI>p.</HI> 29.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 6. How to know the different Times, and the true Term of Pregnancy. <HI>p.</HI> 33.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 7. If a Woman go with Boy or Girl, and if &s;he have more then one. <HI>p.</HI> 38.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 8: Of Superfaetation, <HI>p.</HI> 41.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 9. Of a Mole. <HI>p.</HI> 44.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Chap. 10. Of a right Government in Preg|nancy again&s;t bad Accidents&punc; <HI>p.</HI> 49.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 11. Of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">regnant Womens Vomitings. <HI>p.</HI> 59.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 12. Of pains in their Back, Reins, Hips, and Groyns. <HI>p.</HI> 64.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 13. Of pains of their Brea&s;ts. <HI>p.</HI> 66.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 14. Of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ncontinency and Difficulty of U|rine. <HI>p.</HI> 67.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 15. Of a Cough and difficult Breathing. <HI>p.</HI> 70.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 16. Of the &s;welling and Pains of their Thighs and Legs. <HI>p.</HI> 75.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 17. Of the Haemorrhoids. <HI>p.</HI> 78.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 18. Of Pregnant Women's Belly Flu|xes. <HI>p.</HI> 82.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 19. Of their Cour&s;es, of Flooding and Whites. <HI>p.</HI> 88.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 20. Of the weight, or bearing down of the Womb. <HI>p.</HI> 94.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 21. Of the Drop&s;ie of the Womb, and Oede|matous &s;welling of the Lips of the Pri|vities. <HI>p.</HI> 96.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 22. Of the Venereal Di&s;ea&s;e in Pregnant Women. <HI>p.</HI> 100.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 23. Of Abortion: <HI>p.</HI> 102.</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>BOOK II.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of Labours Natural and Unnatural, with the be&s;t and mo&s;t effectual Ways and Means of delivery in either. <HI>p.</HI> 110.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Chap. 1. Of Labours Natural and Unnatural.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 2. Of the Signs Antecedent and Concomitant, of a Natural Labour and the Non-na|tural. <HI>p.</HI> 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">6.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 3. Of the Membranes and Waters inclo&s;ed therein. <HI>p.</HI> 121.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 4. Of the Burden and Navel-&s;tring. <HI>p.</HI> 130.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 5. Of the various Situations of the Infant in the Womb. <HI>p.</HI> 144.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 6. What the big Woman is to do when her Time draws near. <HI>p.</HI> 148.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 7 What mu&s;t be done when the Woman falls in Labour. <HI>p.</HI> 151.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 8. The manner of expeding a natural La|bour, of one, or more Children. <HI>p.</HI> 158.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 9. How to fetch away the After-bur|den. <HI>p.</HI> 162.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 10. Of the Cau&s;es and Cures of bad and un|natural Labours. <HI>p.</HI> 165.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 11. The way of manual Operation in unna|tural Labours. <HI>p.</HI> 173.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 12. Signs if the Child be dead or alive. <HI>p.</HI> 177.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 13. How to fetch the After-birth, when the String is broke. <HI>p.</HI> 180.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 14. Of bringing a Child footling. <HI>p.</HI> 186.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 15. How to do, when the Head thru&s;ts out the neck of the W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mb before it. <HI>p.</HI> 194.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Chap. 16. How to fetch a Child, when coming right it &s;tops, being too big, or the Way &s;trait&punc; <HI>p.</HI> 196.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 17. The way of delivery when a Child pre&s;ents the &s;ide of the Head, the Cheek or Face. <HI>p.</HI> 198.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 18. Of Delivery, when the Womb clo&s;eth about the Neck, after the Head is born. <HI>p.</HI> 200.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 19. Of a Delivery, when one or both Hands come with the Head, or when the one or both Hands offer alone. <HI>p.</HI> 201.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 20. Of a Delivery, when Hands and Feet of|fer together. <HI>p.</HI> 204.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 21. Of a Delivery, when the Knees of|fer. <HI>p.</HI> 205.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 22. Of the Delivery, when a Shoulder of|fers, the Back, or Buttocks. <HI>p.</HI> 208.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">3. Of a Delivery, when the Brea&s;t, Bel|ly, or Side pre&s;ents. <HI>ibid.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 24. Of the Delivery. when &s;everal Infants pre&s;ent together in &s;ome of the&s;e diffe|rent Po&s;tures. <HI>p.</HI> 210.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 25. Of Delivery where String or Burden comes fir&s;t. <HI>p.</HI> 214.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 26. Of Floodings and Convul&s;ions in La|bour. <HI>p.</HI> 217.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Chap. 27. Of the Delivery when a Child is Hydropical or Mon&s;truous. <HI>p.</HI> 220.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 28. Of Delivering of a dead Child. <HI>p.</HI> 221.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 29. Of extracting a Mole and fal&s;e Con|ception. <HI>p.</HI> 225.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 30. Of the <HI>Cae&s;arean&middot;</HI> Section. <HI>p.</HI> 227.</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="book">
<HEAD>BOOK III.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of Women in Child-bed, and of Children new born, with the various Indi&s;po&s;iti|ons and Di&s;ea&s;es incident to both.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 1. Of ordering a Woman new laid and naturally delivered. <HI>p.</HI> 234.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 2. Of Applications to her Birth, Belly, and Brea&s;ts. <HI>p.</HI> 237.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 3. How to govern Women in Child-Bed, when there is no ill Accident. <HI>p.</HI> 243.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 4. How to put away the Milk from the&s;e who give not Suck. <HI>p.</HI> 247.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 5. Of Child-bed Clean&s;ings. <HI>p.</HI> 249.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 6. Of Floodings, or an immoderate Flux of the Clean&s;ings. <HI>p.</HI> 253.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 7. Of the Suppre&s;&s;ion of Child-bed Clean|&s;ings. <HI>p.</HI> 259.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 8. Of the Prolap&s;e of Womb and Funda|ment. <HI>p.</HI> 265.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 9. Of Brui&s;es and Rents of the Birth, or
<PB REF="208"> out|ward parts of the Womb. <HI>p.</HI> 276.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 10. Of after-pains or Grinding. <HI>p.</HI> 278.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 11. Of Inflammation of the Womb after Labour. <HI>p.</HI> 284.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 12&punc; Of a Belly Flux after Labour. <HI>p.</HI> 289.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 13. Of Tumors and Ruptures of the Belly and others. <HI>p.</HI> 291.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 14. Of Inflammation of new-lighter Wo|mens Brea&s;ts. <HI>p.</HI> 294.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 15. Of the Curdling and Clodding of the Milk. <HI>p.</HI> 298.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 16. Of Apo&s;thumes of the Brea&s;ts. <HI>p.</HI> 301.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 17. Of Excoriations and lo&s;s of the Nip|ples. <HI>p.</HI> 304.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 18. Of the Feavers of Child-Bed Wo|men. <HI>p.</HI> 307.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 19. Of right ordering and dre&s;&s;ing New-born Infants. <HI>p.</HI> 312.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 20: Of dyeting and ordering the New-born Infants. <HI>p.</HI> 324.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 21. Of Infants weakne&s;s when born. <HI>p.</HI> 332.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 22. Of Contu&s;ions and Hurts of the Head and other Parts. <HI>p.</HI> 334.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 23. Of the Mould and Sutures of the Head being too open. <HI>p.</HI> 337.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 24. Of the clo&s;ed Fundament. <HI>p.</HI> 341.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 25. Of Cutting the Tongue when tyed. <HI>p.</HI> 344.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Chap. 26. Of Pains and Gripes of the Belly. <HI>p.</HI> 346.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 27. Of the Inflammation, Ulceration, &s;hoot|ing forth and Rupture of the Na|vel. <HI>p.</HI> 3<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">9.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 28. Of Infants Scaldings. <HI>p.</HI> 352.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 29. Of Ulcers of the Mouth. <HI>p.</HI> 353.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 30. Of Teething. <HI>p.</HI> 356.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 31. Of Infants Loo&s;ene&s;s. <HI>p.</HI> 360.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 32. Of Infants Vomitings. <HI>p.</HI> 362.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 33. Of Epilep&s;y and Convul&s;ion. <HI>p.</HI> 364.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 34. Of Infants Ruptures. <HI>p.</HI> 369.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 35. Of Scabs on the Heads and Faces of Infants. <HI>p.</HI> 372.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 36. Of the Small Pox and Meazils. <HI>p.</HI> 374.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 37. Of the Venereal Pox. <HI>p.</HI> 381.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 38. From keeping of Infants from being Glied, Awry, Crooked, or Lame. <HI>p.</HI> 384.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chap. 39. Of a Nur&s;e. <HI>p.</HI> 387.</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
</BACK>
</TEXT>
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