T’Fe Read this ZJfcfu! 7‘raSlywd therein fine 
** 7he lively Strokes of Arirtotle’/ Mind : 
And they that do with Vtide rfi-a tiding Read, 
With find it is a Viaftcr-piece indeed : 
For on this Si'h'jcii the e is none tan Write9 
(At least fo mil) as that Cj/eat Stagyrite, 
fie flat nr el Cabinet has open laid, 
And her Abllruidi Secrets here d'fpLy/d : 
fdere modeli Maids and Women, being ///, 
time got a LX Lu>r to advife wish fi It ; 
V/i:ere they mayn't only their Dificmp*rs fee \ 
Bid find a Surer and Prefer Remedy 
for each Dijeafc, and every Condition \ 
A /d have no other Need of a Phy/tcian l 
for which Good End But fare it w.o dtfignd 
And mav the Pender the Advantage find. 
William Salmun ARISTOTLE’S 
compleated. 
In Two PARTS : 
The FinT Containing the 
Secrets of Generation, 
T R E AT 1 NG 
Of the Benefit ofMarriage, and the Prejudice 
of Unequal Matches, Signs of Inefficiency in Men or 
Women ; Of the Intufion of the SOUL ; OftheLike- 
ncls ofChildren to Parents 5 Of Monffrousßirths:The 
Caufeand Cure of the Green-Lick nels: A Di/courfc of 
Virginity, Direflions and Cautions for Midwives. Of 
the Organs of Generation in Women, and the Fabrick 
pfthe Womb. The Ufe and Aftionsof th. Genitals, 
whether of a Male or Female. 
With a Word of Advice to both Sexes, in the Act of 
Copulation. And the Pictures of leveralMoallrous 
Births, &c. 
The Second PART, being 
A Private Looking - GUJs for the 
1 FemaltASex. 
In all the PARTS thereof. 
Treating of the varicus Maladies of the 
Womb, and all other Dißcmpers incident to Women 
of all Agcs,with proper Remedies for the Cure of each, 
Tiie whole being more Correct, than any thing 
of this Kind hitherto Pnblithed. 
L 0 2S[ D 0 Printed by s. H. and are to 
te Sold by mold Baakfeilers. 1701. The Introduction. 
TF one of the Meanest Capacity were ask’d, 
* What was the Wonder of the World ? 
I think the mo ft proper Anfwerwoud be MAN’ 
He being the little IVaridto whom all things 
are Subordinate : agreeing in the Genus, with 
thlngsSenfftive \a!l being Animal, hut differing 
in the Species, for Man alone is endued with 
reafon. And therefore the Deity, at Marts 
Creation, (as the Jnfpired Pen man teds us) 
[aid. Let Us make Man in our Image, after 
onr own Likenefs. The words in the Hebrew 
are, Tieluri and Demuth, which are Tranf 
lated Image and Likenefs they have but 
one Meaning, and Signify one thing ; as if 
the Lord had [aid, Ltt us make Man in our 
Image, that he m.ry be (as a Creature maybe) 
like Ids \ and the fame his Likenefs maybe 
Onr Image. Some of the Fathers to Dift * 
ingttifh, as if by Image the Lord meant the 
Reajonable Powers of the Seal, Reafon, Will, 
and Memory and by Likenefs the Qua- 
lities of the Mind, Charity, Jitffice, Pa- 
tience &c But Mofes Confounded this Di- 
fflnftion, (if you compare thefe Scripturesf) The Introduction, 
Gen- i. 37. and 5. 1. Colofs. 10. Ephef. 
14.) And the Apoftle, where he faith, He 
was Created after the Image cf GOD in 
Knowl&igeY and the fame in Righteoufnefs and 
Holinefs Wherefore of the Greeks he is called, 
Anthropos a’po tou Amtrepcin, of turning his 
jtyts upwards toixards him, whofe Image and 
s#nerfcriptio» he hears. Whence the Poet, 
Sec, bow the Heav’n’s High Artiched, 
Hath Fram’d Man in this wife, 
To Stand, to Go, to Look ered, 
With Body, Face, and Eye?. 
And Cicero faith, all Creatures were made 
like Moles, to Root or; the Earth, except Man; 
in- whom was given an upright frame to Con- 
template his Adakcr, and Behold that Ad an fun 
prepar'd for him above. Now Jo the end that 
fo Noble and Glorious a Creature as Mm 
might not quite Perifh, it fcemed Good to the. 
Almighty Creator, to give unto Woman the 
field of Generation, for a Receptacle of hn- 
wane Seed , whereby that Natural and Ve- 
getable Soul, which lyes Totem tally in the Seed, 
may by the Plaftic Power be reduced into Aft•, 
that Man who tsaMortal Creature, by leaving 
his Off-fpring behind him, may become Immor- 
tal, and Survive in his Pofieriiy. 
And becaufe this Field of Generation, the 
Womb, is the place where this Excellent aud 
Noble Creature is form'd, and that in folVon- The Introduction. 
derful a manner, th.it /he Ray.-d Ffibmft, 
(having .Meditated thereon) cryes orv, at one 
in an Extafy, I am fearful and wonderfully 
made ! It tv HI he very nectffury to treat largely 
thereon in tbit Book-, which to that end is di- 
vided into Two Parts. The fir ft whereof 
Treats of the Manner and Parts of Oerter at ion 
in hath Sexes : ( For, iron i the mutal dr fire 
they have to each other, which Nature has my 
placed In them to that end, (and that Delight 
which they take in the rift of Copulation) does 
the whole Race of Mankind proceed, And a 
particular Account of rvh u things are Previous 
to that Act, and alfowhat are Confequential of 
it \ and how each Member concern din it, is 
adapted and fitted for that Work to which Na- 
ture has dafignd it : And thd in uttering of 
thefe things, fomething may he [aid, which thofe 
that are Unclean may make a had ufe of\ and 
life it up as a Motive to {fir up their BeaftiaL 
Appetites, yet fuch may know, this was never 
intended for them j nor do 1 know any Rcafbn 
that thofe foher Per fans, for whole Ufe this was 
meant, fhould want the help hereby de figna 'em, 
becanfc vain and loofe Perfons will be ready 
to ah ufe it. 
The Second Part of this Treatife is wholly 
defignd for the Female Sex * and does largtly, 
not only Treat of the Di[tempers of the Womb 
and their various Caufes, hut alfo give you pro- 
per Remedies for the Cure of them:. For fuch 
is the Ignorance of most Women, that when by The Introduction. 
any Diftemper thofe parts are Afflißed, they 
;neither know from whence it proceeds, nor how 
to apply a Remedy j and fuchis their Mode fly 
alfo, that they are unwilling to ask, that they 
may be inform’d ‘ And for the help of fuch is 
this deJign'd,for having my Being from a Wo- 
man, I thought none had more Right to the 
Grapes, than foe which planted the Vine. And 
therefore obferving, that among all Difeafes in- 
cident to the Body-, there are none more frequent 
and Perilous, than thofe which do rife from the 
ill fate of the Womb, for tho the evil Quality 
thereof, the Heart, the Liver, and the Brain, 
are Ajfeßed, from whence the Athens, fatal, 
Natural, and Animal, are Hurt, and the 
Venues, Concoßive, Sanguificative, hiftri- 
hute, Attraßive, Expulfive, Retentive, with 
the reft, are all Weakned \ fo that from the 
Womb comesConvulfions,Epilcpfies, Apoplexies, 
Falfies, Fevers, Dropfies, Malignant Vleers, 
&C. And, there is no Difeafe fb bad, but 
may grow from the evil Quality of it. How 
necejjdry t here fore the Knowledge of thefe things 
are, let every unprejudicedßcoder Judge • For, 
that many Women labour under them, through 
t he.tr Ignorance and Madefy,(as J faid before) 
wo fid Experience makes manifest. Here 
therefore, as in a Mirror, they may be ac‘ 
/}itainted with their awn Difempers, and have 
jit it able Remedies without applying themfelves 
to a Thyfician, again B which they have fo 
great Rchißance, ARISTOTLE’s 
MASTER-PIECE 
COM PL BATED. 
PART I. 
OF THE 
Secrets of Generation, 
In all the PARTS thereof. 
CHAP. 1. 
Of Marriage, at what j4ge Toting 
arid V'irgins are capable of it *, and 
why they fo much dejire it : jftfohoxv long 
Men and Women are capable of having 
Children. 
THERE are very few ( except Come 
profels’d Debauchees) but what will rea- 
dily agree, that Marriage is Honourable to 
all, being Ordained by Heaven in Paradife, 
and without which no Manor Woman can be 
in a Capacity honeftly to yield Obedience to 
Ihe firft Law of tt e Creation, Increafe and 
Multith. And finccit'sNatural in youri&Pco- 2 
Ariftotle’s MAfter •piece 
pie todcfire thcfe mutual Embraces proper to 
the Marriage Bed, it behoves Parents to look 
after their Children; and when they find them 
inclinable to Marriage, not violently to Re- 
train their Afteftions, and oppofe their Incli- 
nations, {" which inftead of allaying them, makes 
’em but the more impetuous) but rather pro. 
vide fuch fuitable Matches for them as may, 
make their Lives comfortable : Left the crof- 
fing of their inclinations ftiould precipitate 
them to commit thofe Follies that may bring 
an indeliable ftain upon their Families, 
The Inclinations of Maids to Marriage,is to 
be known by many Symptoms: For whenthey 
arrive to Puberty, ( whicli is about the Four- 
teenth or Fifteenth Year of their Age) then 
their Natural Purgations begin to flow .* And 
the Blood,which is no longer taken to augment 
tfeer bodies, abounding, ftirs up their Minds 
to Vencry- External Caufcs allb may incite 
them to it; for rhe Spirits being brisk and in- 
flam’d when they arrive atthis Age, if they eat 
fharp fait things and Spices, the body becomes 
more and more heated, whereby the defireto 
Venereal Imbraces are very great,and at fome- 
times almoft infuperablc: And the ufe of thele 
fo much defir’d Enjoyment, being deny’d to 
Virgins, is many tines follow’d by difmai Conr 
fequent?, as a green Weafel-ccloHr, fliort Brea-? 
things, Trembling of the Hearßut when 
they are Married, and their Veneral defires. 
&ti§fiedby the Enjoyments of their Husbands^ Part I. 
Completed. 
3 
thofc Diftempersvanilb, and their firfr beauty 
returns, more gay and lively than before. 
Alfo their eager gazing at Men, and affefting 
their Company, fufficiently demonftratesthat 
Nature prompts them to defirc Coition 
which their Parents often neglefting, or rcfu- 
fing to provide,by procuring them Husbands, 
they break the bounds of Modefty, and fatisfy 
themfelvcs in unlawful Imbraces. The fame 
may be obferved in Young brisk Widows, 
who cannot be fatisfied with that due Bene- 
volence which they were wont to receive from 
their Husbands. 
At Fourteen Years of Age, commonly the 
Aienfes in Virgins begins to flow, when they 
are capable of Conceiving, and fo continue 
generally to Forty-Four \ at which time for 
the moft part they ceafe bearing, unlefs they 
are veary healthful, and ftrong of body, and 
have always been addidled to Temperance 
fach indeed have born Children till Fifty five 
Years; but this rarely happens, tho* the Men- 
fes flow longer in fbme Women than in others. 
But many times fuch Efflux proceeds not from 
a Natural Caufe, but by reafon of fbme Vio. 
knee offer'd to Nature, or fomeother Morbi- 
fick' Matter, which often proves fatal to the 
Party : And therefore thofe Men that are 
defirous of IfTue, muft Marry Women within 
the Age aforefaid, or blame themfelves if they 
meet with Difappointments Tho5 if an Old 
Man,not worn out by'Difeafe^asicUnconJicen- Ariftotle’s M After -piece 
4 
cy. Marry a brisk, lively Lafs, there is hopes 
of his having Children even to Threescore and 
Ten; nay, if extraordinary Lufly, even till 
FpuiTcore. , 
Hipocrates is of Opinion, That a Youth at 
Sixteen Years, or between that and vSeventeen 
having much Vital Strength, is capable of get- 
ting Children 5 and alfo that the Force and 
Heat of PrccreatingMalter,conftantlv increa- 
fes till Forty-five, Fifty, and Sixty-five, and 
then begins to Flag, the Seed by degrees beco- 
ming Unfruitful; the Natural Spirits being 
extinguifhed, and the humours dried up. Thus 
it is in General *, but as to Particulars, as / 
have before mentioned,it often happens other- 
wife. Nay, it is reported by a credible Au- 
thor, That 'in Swede land a Man was Married 
at a hundred Years Old, to a Bride of Thirty, 
and had many Children by her; but his Coun- 
tenance was fa frdh, that fuch as knew him 
not, took him not to exceed Fifty. 
Jn Campania, where the Air is clear and 
temperate, Men of Fourfcore YearsOld,Mar- 
ry Young Virgins,and have Children by’ em ; 
Viewing, that Age in Men hinder not Pro- 
creation, unlefs they be Exhaufjed in their 
Youth ; and their Yards fiirivellU up, //any 
would know, why a Woman is fooner Barren 
than a Man, they may know that the Natu- 
ral Hear, which is the Caufe of Generation, 
is more Predominant in the latter than in/hc 
former,, For fmce a Woman is more Moift Part I. 
Completed. 
5 
than a Man, as her Monthly Purgations de* 
monftrate,as alfo the Softnefs of her Body ; it- 
is alfo apparent that he dothnot exceed her in 
her Native heat, which is the chief thing that 
Concods the humours into proper Aliment, 
which the Woman wanting, grows Fat, when 
a Man through his Native heat melts his Fat 
by degrees, and his humours are Diflblved, 
and by the benefit tlcreof* are Elaborated 
into Seed. And this may alfo be added, That 
Women generally are not fo ftrong as Men, 
nor fo Wile and Prudent, nor havefo much 
Reafon and Ingenuity in Ordering of Affairs; 
which that thereby their Faculties arc 
hindred in their Operation. 
CHAP; L 
How to get a Male or Female ChiU0 and 
of the Embrio, and perfect Birth, with 
the fitteH time for Copulation. 
t 7r tHco a Young Couple arc Married,they 
V V Naturally defire Children,and there- 
fore make ufe of thofc means that Nature has 
appointed to that end. But notwithftanding 
their endeavours, they mull know the Succefs 
of all, depends on a bleffing from on high, for 
Children are the bleffing of the Lord • and 
not only fo, but the Sex, whether Male or Fe- 6 
Ariftot apiece. 
male, is from his difpol alfo 3 tbo’ it cannot be 
deny’d, butSecundaryCaufes have an influence 
therein, Specially Two: Firft, the Genital 
humour, which is brought by the slrteria 
Treparantes, to the Teftes, in the Form of 
Blood, and there Elaborated into Seed by the 
Seminificial Faculty refident in them : To 
which may be* added, the defire to Coition, 
which Fires the Imagination with unufual 
Fancies and by the fight of a brisk, charming 
Beauty, may fuch inflame the Appetite. But 
if Nature be infeebled, there are fit Artificial 
Remedies to reftore it viz., Thofe Meats 
that moll conduce to the affording fiich Ali- 
ment as makes Seed abound, and reftores the 
Dacays of Nature,that the Faculties may freely 
Operate : For as Dung reftores Ground that 
is worn out, and fo proper Diet 
Operates to the reftoring of the Coldnefs and 
Dryneft of the Genital Parts, and reduccth 
the Weakncfs of the Nerves to their Tempe- 
rament, and removes Impediments, obftrud-- 
ing the Procreation of Children. 
Then fince Diet alters the evil ftate of the 
Body to a better, it is neceffary that fuch as 
are fubjed to Barrennefs flieuld eat fuchMeats 
as may render them Fruitful and fuch are all 
Meets of good Juice, that Nourifh well, ma- 
king the body Lively,and ftsM of Sap,of which 
Faculty are all hot, moift Meatsfor accord- 
ing to Galen, Seed is made of pure Conceded, 
and. windy fuperfliuty of Blood : whence we Fart I. 
Comyle&ted, 
7 
may conclude,there is in many things a power 
to accumulate Seed, as alfo to augment it,and 
other things of force to caufe Ereftion *, as 
Hen Ef g>, Pbeafants, Wood-cocks, Gnat-fap • 
pers, T hru/hes, Black birds. Young Pidgeons, 
Sparrows, Partridges, Capons, Almonds, Finer 
Nuts, Raifms Currants, all ftrong Wines, 
taken fparingly, efpecially thofe made of the 
Grapes of Italy *, but Ereftion is chiefly cau- 
fed by Stymm, Eringoes, Creffes, Eryjimum, 
Par/nipf, yfrtichoah, Rapes, -dfpa.- 
ragus, Canned Gallinga, Scorns brui- 
fed to Pouder, drank in Mujcadels, Scallion 
SesfShell Fifa &c. But thefe raufl: have time 
to perform their Operation, and you mud 
ufe them for a confiderable time, or you will 
reap little benefit by them The Aft of Coi- 
tion being over, let the Woman Rcpofe her 
fclf on her Right Side, with her head lying 
low, and her body declining, that by deep- 
ing in that Pofture, the Cell on the Right-fide. 
cfthe Matrix may prove the place, of Con- 
ception, for therein is the greatefl: Generative 
heat, which is the chief procuring caufe of Male 
Children,and rarely fails to anfwer the expeft- 
ation of thofe that experience it, efp%cially if 
they do but keep warmed without much mo- 
tion, leaning to the right, and drinking a little 
Spirits of Saffron, and Juice of Hyfop in a 
Glafs of MaHago or jQlligant, when they lye 
down and rife, for the (pace of a Week. Now 
the iitteft time for the Procreation of Male 8 
Arifto ti&sMafler-piece. 
Children is, when the Sun is in Leo, and the 
Moon in forgo, Scorpio, or Sag git arm. 
But for a Female Child, the Woman mu ft 
lye on the left Side,ftrongly fancying a Female 
in the time of Procreation, efpedafty if Hie 
drink theDecoftion of Female Mercury, four 
days, from the firft day of Purgation *, the 
Male Mercury having the like Operation in 
cafe of a Male Child ; for the Deception of 
thefe Simples do Purge, on the Right, and the 
other the left fide of the Womb-, and thereby 
both open the Receptacles, and make way 
for the Seminary of Generation : And the 
beft time to beget a Female is, when the 
Moon is in Wane in Lihr tor Aquarius, for 
then they will be of a gentle, affable Temper, 
very Fair, and perfeftinall their Members, 
Avicena Defcribes the time of Procreation 
thus : When the Aienfes are fpent,&theWomh 
clean fed, which is; commonly in five days, or 
feven at mofl ; if a Man lye with his Wife 
from the firft day Jhe is Purg’d to the fifth, fi: e 
will conceive a Male hut from the fifth to the 
eight a Female ", and from the Bth to the izth, 
a Male again. But after that, perhaps neither 
difnnttly, hut both in an Hermaphrodiie. 
In a word, they that wonld be happy in th 
Fruit of their Labour, muft obferve to ufe Coe 
pulation, at due diftance of time, not toooften- 
nor yet too feldom : for both thefe arc alike, 
hurtful •, and to ufc it immoderately, weakens 
a Man, waftesJiis Spirits, and fpcils the Seed Part I. 
Completed, 
9 
And thus much for the firft Particular.! (ball 
now proceed to the Second; which is, to let 
the Reader underftand how the Child is For- 
med in the Womb, what Accidents it is liable 
to there*, how Nourifti’d, and brought forth. 
There are various Opinions concerning this 
Matter ; therefore for the Satisfaction of the 
Curious,/’llfhcwwhat the Learned (ay about 
it. Man confifts of an Ovum, or Egg} which 
is Impregnated in the Oyaria, or Tefiicles of 
the Woman, by the more Subtile part of 
Man’s Seed } but the forming Faculty, and 
Vertue in the Seed, is from a Divine and hea- 
venly Gift,it being abundantly endewed with 
a Vital Spirit,which gives Shape and Form to 
the Embrio ; fo that all the parts and bulk of 
the Body, which is made up in few Months, 
and gradually formed into the comely Figure 
of a Man, do confift in that, and arc Adum- 
brated thereby } Which is incomparably es- 
prefs’d by the Royal Pfalmifl, in Pfal. 158. 
/ will praife thee, O Lord, becaufe lam won' 
derfully made: Thou knows ft all my Bones 
when I was fashioned in the fecret place, and 
when I was wonderfully formed in my Mothers 
Womb. Thy Eyes beheld me yet 
thy Book were all.my Members written, which 
day by day werefajhioned. And the Physici- 
ans have afflgn’dFour different titnes,wherein 
Man is Fram’d and perfected in the Womb. 
The firft is foon after Coition, being per- 
fected in the firft Week, if no Efflux happen. AriftotleV Ma/ler-piece, 
which fometimes falls out through the flippe- 
rinefs of the Matrix, or the head thereof, that 
fhifts over like a Rote-bud, and opens on a 
fudden by means of Cold,of over hard Labor. 
Thefecond time of Forming is affigned to 
be, when Nature Mutation in 
the Conception, lb that all the fubftar.ee Teems 
Congealed Flelh and Blood, which happens 
about 12 or 14 days after Copulation \ and 
though this oration, or Fidhy Mate a- 
■bound with hot, fiery Blood, yet it remains 
undiftinguifhable, without Form, or Figure, 
and may be termed an compared 
to Seed which is Town in the Ground, which 
through kindly hear and moifturc, grows up 
by degrees into a perfed Form, either in 
Plant or Grain 3 or as when a Potter fafluons 
a Veftel out of a rude Lump of Clay, 
The Third time affign’d.to make up this 
Fabrick, is when the Principal Parts /Lew 
themfelves To as to be difeerned •, as the Heart 
from Whence proceeds the the Brain, 
from which the Nerves, like to fmall Threds, 
run through the whole Body \ and the Liver, 
whole Office is to divide the Chyle from the 
Blood, brought to it by the Vena Porta. The 
two firft are Fountains of Life, that Nourifh 
every part of the Body 3 in Framing which, 
the Womb’s faculty is fcofied from the time of 
Conception to the 18th day of the firft Month. 
ButLaftly, about the 28 or 3orA>day, the 
Outward parts are feen finely Elaborated and Part L 
Completed, 
diflinguifhed by Joynt*, and then the Child 
begins to grow, froai which time, by reafon 
the Limbs are divided, and the whole frame is 
perfedf, it is no longer held an Embrio, that is, 
a Conception that firings forth, but a perfect 
and abfolule Child. Males for the moft part 
are perfed by the 30th day, but Females fel- 
dom till the 42 or 45 day, and the reafon is, 
That the heat of the Womb is greater in pro- 
ducing the Male than the Female: Andferthfi 
fee f cafe :i Woman going with a Male Child 
Quickens in 3 but g< ing with a Fe- 
male, rarely under 43 at which time alfo its 
Hair and Nails come forth, and the Child be- 
gins tf ftir, kick and tumble in the Womb,fo 
that the motion is plainly perceived, and then 
the Women are troubled with Naufeatingand 
Loathing cf their Meat, and oftentimes gree* 
dily long for thofe contrary to Nutriment-, as 
Coals, Rubifn, Chalk, Lime, Starch, Oat- 
meal, Raw flefli, and Which deGre 
proceeds from a former ContradHon of evil 
humours, occafioning impure Blood in their 
contained Veil'd within,and oftentimes Abor- 
tion and Mifcariages\ fome Women have been 
fo extravagant that they have Long’d for Hob- 
Nails, Leather, Man’s-Flefli,Hofie Flefli, and 
other unnatural (as mil as nnwholfom) Foods, 
for want of which they have Mifcarried,or the 
Child has continued dead in the Womb forma- 
lly days, to the eminent hazard of their Lives. 
But 1 (hall proceed to (hew by what means the 12 
AriftotleV Mafter-piece. 
Infant is fuftain’d in the Womb, and what 
Pofture it there remains in. 
There have been various Opinions about 
the way, by which in the Womb the Fettu is 
Nouriftied ; Come affirming, by Blood only, 
from the Umbelical Vein*, others by Chyle, 
received in by the Mouth ; but it is Nouriffi- 
ed diverfdy, according to the feveral degrees 
of PerfedHcn, that an Egg pafles from a Con 
ccption to a Fcetuf, ready for the Birth. 
But before we proceed,wc will explain the 
meaning of this Ovum, or Egg. You muff 
know then, that there are in the Generation 
of the Foetw, Two Principles, Adrive and 
Paffive, The Aftive, is the Man’s Seed Ela- 
borated in the Tefticks, out of the Arterial 
Blood, and Animal Spirits. The Paffive is an 
Ovum or Fggjmpregnatedby the Man’s Seed. 
For to fay, that.Woman has true Seed, is Er- 
ronious, But the manner of Conception is thus. 
The mod Spiritous part of Man’s Seed in the 
of Generation, reaching up to the Tefti- 
des of the Woman (which containdivcrs Eggs 
fometimes rnore,fometimes fewer) impi tgnares 
one of them, which being convey’d by the O- 
v:-duBs^to the bottom of the Womb, prefe: t- 
ly begins to Swell bigger and bigger, and fo 
drinks in the Moifture that is plentifully fent 
thither, after the fame manner that Seeds in 
the Ground fuck the Fertile Moifture thereof 
to make them fprout. 
When the parts ofthe Embrio begin to be Part I. 
Completed. 
*5 
a little more perfeft, and the Chorin is fo 
very thick,that the Liquor can’t foke through 
it, the Umbelical Veflels begin to be formed, 
and to extend the fide of the Annois, which 
they pafs through, and all through the Allan- 
reiaes and Chorin, and arc implanted in the 
Placenta, which gathering upon the Chorins 
Joy ns it to the Uterus* And now the Arteries 
that before Lent out the Nourilhment into the 
Cavity of the Womb, open by the Orifices in 
to the Placenta, where they depofite the faid 
Juice, which is drunk up by the Umbelical 
Vein,.and Convey’d by it, firft to the Liver 
of the Foetus, and then to the Heart, where it’s 
more Thin and Spirituous part is turned into 
Blood,while the GrofTcr part of it descending 
by the Aorta, enters the Umbilical Arteries, 
and is difeharged into its Cavity, by thofc 
Branches that run through the Amnios. 
As foon as the Mouth,Stomach,and Gullet, 
&c. Are formed fo perfectly that the Foetus 
can Swallow, it fucks in fbme of the Groffer 
Nutritious Juice that is depofited in the Am- 
nios, by the Umbilical Arteries, which is dc- 
feending into the Stomach andlntefiines, is re- 
ceived by the LaUealF eins,zsin AduftPerfons. 
The Foetus being perfected at the times be* 
fore fpccified in all its parts, it lyes equally 
ballanced in the Womb, as the Center, on its 
Head and being long, is turned Oval, lo 
that the Head a little inclines, and it lays its 
Chin on its Breft, its Heels and Ancles upon 14 
AriftotleV M*Jier~piece, 
its buttock, its Hand on his Cheeks, and its 
Thumbs to its Eyes, but its Legs and Thighs 
are carried upwards, with its Hams bending, 
fo that they touch the bottom of its belly, the 
former, and that part of the body which is 
over-againft us, as the Forehead, Note, Face, 
arc turned towards the Mothers -Sack,and the 
Head inclining downwards towards the Coyx 
or Rump-bone, that Joyns to the OsSacrum% 
which bone, together with Os Pubis, in the 
time of the birth part, is lobfened y whence it 
is, that Male Children commonly come with 
their Faces downwards, or with their Heads 
turned fomewhat Oblique., that thcirFaces may 
be teen , but the Female Children, with their 
Faces upwards, tho’ fometimes it happens that 
births follow not according toNaturesOrder, 
FutChildren comes forth with theirFeetftrad- 
ling, their Necks bowed, and their Heads ly- 
ing Oblique with their hands teretchcd out, 
which greatly endangers thetnfelves, and the 
Mother, giving the Miwifc great trouble to 
bring them into the.World} but when allthings 
proceed in Natures Order, the Child, when 
the time of Birth is accompli (bed, is defirous 
to come forth of the Womb} and by inclining 
himfelf, he rowls downward, for he cannot 
more be obfeur’d in thote blinding places, and 
the heat of the heart cannot fubftft, without ex- 
ternal refpiration } wherefore being grown 
great, is more and m >re defirous of Nutriment j 
and Lifiht,when coveting ttie*s£therialAii\bv Part I. 
Compkated. 
*5 
ftruglingto obtain i|, brcakcs the Membranes 
and Coverings,whereby he was retrained and 
fenced againft Attrition ; and for the moft 
“part, with bitter pangs pf the Mother ifiTueth 
forth into the World, commonly in the ninth 
Month ; for then the Matrix being divided, 
and the Os Pubis being loofned, the Woman 
firives to call forth ly r Burden,and the Child 
does'tlic like to gcriorth, by the help of its 
inbred Strength, and fo the birth comes to he 
rperfed-; but if the Child be Dead the more 
dangerous is the Delivery ; tho’ Nature as a 
kind Commitcrator, often hclpeth the Wo* 
man’s Wcaknefsherein ; But the Child that 
is quick and liXdy, Labours no lefs than the 
Woman. 
Now there are births at Seven or Eight 
Months, and fome Women go to the Tenth 
Month. But of theie, and the reafon of them, 
i (hail fp-ak more largely in another place. 
'The Reaf.tn why Children are like their Pa- 
rents. and what the Ad ethers 1 mar in a- 
-7 o 
tlon Contributes thereto \ and whether 
the Man or the Woman be the Ca.uf eof 
the Ad ale or female Child. 
CHAP 111. 
T AUiantUis is of Opinion, That when a 
Man’s Seed falls on the Left fide of the 
Womb, it may produce a Male Child ; but 16 
Ariftotle’j- Mujler-piece. 
bccaufe it is the proper place for a Female, 
there will be fomething in it that Refembles a 
Woman j that is, it will be fairer, whiter, 
and fmoother, not very fubjed to have Hair 
on the Body or Chin; it will have lank Hair 
on the Head, the Voice {mail and fharp, and 
the Courage feeble : And on the contrary. 
That a Female may by chance begotten if the 
Seed fall on the Right fide*, but then through 
the abundance of heat, ftie will be big Bon’d, 
full of Courage, having a Mafculine Voice,and 
her Chin and Bofome Hairy, not being (b 
Clear as others of that Sex, and fubjed to 
Quarrel with her Husband for Superiority. 
In cafe of Similitude, nothing is more pow- 
erful than the Imagination of the Mother, for 
if ihe fallens her Eyes, upon any Objed, and 
imprint it in her Mind, it oft-times fo happens 
that the Child in fome part or other of its Bo- 
dy has a Reprefcntation thereof: And if in 
the Ad of Copulation, the Woman earneftly 
look upon the Man, and fix her Mind upon 
him, the Child will referable its Father: Nay 
tho’ a Woman be in unlawful Copulation,yet 
if Ihe fix her Mind upon her Husband, the 
Child will refemble him, tho’ he never got it, 
The fame Effed of Imagination caufes Warts, 
Stains, Mold-fpots, Dallies; tho’ indeed they 
fometimes happen through Frights, or extra- 
vagant Longing : Many Woman big with 
Child, feeing a Harecrols them, will through 
the force of imagination bring forth a Child Part T. 
Completed. 
*7 
with a Hairy l ip. Some Children are born 
with flat Nofes, wry Mouthes, great blubber 
1 ips, and ill fhap’d Bodies*, and moftafcribe 
the reafon to the Imagination of the Mother, 
who hath call her Eyes and Mind uponfomc 
i'Hhap’d Creature ; Therefore it behoves 
all Women with Child to avoid fuch Sights, 
ifpoffible; or at kaft not to regard-''em. 'BhC 
tho’ the Mothers Imagination may Contribute 
much to the Features- of the -Ch:?d*v" vet in 
Manners, Wit, and ProperrfooV. of the Mihd, 
Experience tells us, Thai Childrenare com- 
monly of the fame Condition wLb their Pa* 
rents, and of the fame Tempers. But the Vi- 
gour or Debility of Per ions in the Ad: of 
Copulation, many times caufe it to be other- 
wife ; For Chddren got through Heat and 
Strength of Dcfirc, mult needs partake more 
of*thi- Nature and Inclinations-of their Pa* 
rents; than thofe that are begotten with de- 
forest more Weak, And therefore the Chil- 
dren begotten, by .Men in their Old Age, are 
generaly ids Strong and Vigorous, than t'hofe 
begotten by them in their Youth, 
/vs to that Share, which each of the Parents 
have, in Begetting the Guild, we will give 
the Opinion of the Anttchts about it. 
Tins it is Apparent ('fay they } that the 
Seed of Mm is the chief* Efficient and begin- 
ning of AdioiMMoijcny a&d Oeneration,y et 
the Woman affords.Seed a;;d effectually Lon. 
mba:.. in thafPoim,. to-the Procreation of  Ariftotk’i Maper-piece, 
the Child, is evinced by it t ong Reafons. In 
the firft place Seminary Veflels had been given 
her in vain, and Genital Tefiicles inverted, 
if the Woman wanted Seminal ExcrefTence. 
For Nature doth nothing in vain \ therefore 
we muft Grant, they were made for the ufe 
«f Seed and Procreation, and fixed in their 
proper Places both the Tefiiclesandßecspriclcs 
of Seed, whole Nature is to Operate, and af- 
. ford Venue to the Seed. And to prove this, 
there needs no fironger Argument, fi*y they, 
than That if a Woman do not ufe Copula- 
tion, to ejed her Seed, fhe oftentimes falls into 
flrangeDifeafes, as appears by young Women 
and Viigms, A Second Reafon they urge.,is. 
That alt ho’ the Society of a lawful Bed con- 
fids not altogether in thefe things, ytt it’s ap- 
parent the Female Sex is never better pleas’d, 
nor appear more blithe land ,ocund, than when 
they are often huisfied this way, which is an 
inducement to believe, they have nqore Plea- 
sure and Titilatjon therein than Men , for 
fmcc Naiure caufes much Delight to accom- 
pany F.jedicn, by the breaking foith. of the 
fwdling Spirit, and the difFnefsof the Nerves, 
ta which -cafe, the Qperationon the We man’s 
part, is double,(he having an Injoyn ent both 
by Ejection and Reception, by which ll.e is 
more Delighted m the Venerial Ad ; 
JHenceitis (fhy they)xhat thc.Child (Tore 
frequently refembles the Mother thap the Fa- 
ther, fcecaufe the Mother cdrttribitU? moll to- Part I. 
Completed. 
19 
wards it: And they think it may be farther 
inffancedfointhe endeared Affedion they bear 
them y for that, befides their contributing 
Seminal matter, they feed and nourifh the 
Child with the pureft Fountain of Blood, until 
its Birth y which Opinion Galen Confirms, by 
allowing Children to participate moft of the 
Mother, and aferibes the difference of Sex to 
the Operation of the menftrual Blood y but 
the reafon of the likenefs, he refers to the 
Power of the Seed y for as Plants receive more 
Nourifhment from fmitfulGround, ihan from 
the Induffry of the 1-iUiband-man, fo the hi' 
fant receives is motye abundance from the Mo- 
ther, than the Father: For firft, the Seed of 
both is cherifii’d in the Womb, and there 
grows to Perfection, being nourilhed with 
Blood. And for this reafon it is {fay they ) 
that Children for the moft part love their 
Mothers belt, becaufe they receive moft of 
theit Subfiance from their Mothers, for about 
nine Month', and fometin.es ten-, ihe nourifh- 
cth the Child in the Womb with her ptfeft 
Blood; then her love towards it newly born, 
and its likenefs, do cfearly fhew, chat the 
Woman affordeth Se.d, and contributes more 
toward the making of the Child than Man. 
But in all this the Amients were very E.o- 
nious y for the TefiidL (To called ) in Women 
do not afford any Seed, but are two Eggs, like, 
thofe of Fowls, and other Creatures, nei her 
have they any fuch Office as rhofe of Men,but  AriftotleV Mafler-fiece 
20 
are indeed Ovuyhw, wherein thcfe Eggs are 
nourifhed by the Sanguinary VefllTs dilperfed 
through them, and from thence, one or more 
(as they are Sccunvfated by the Mans Seed ) 
feparated, and are cohvey'd into the Womb 
by the Ovidiices. Tht truth of this is plain \ 
for if you Boyl them, their Liquor wid have 
the fame Odour, Tafte, and Cun(illency,with 
the tafte of Bit ds Egg?. If any Cbgdd, they 
have no Shells, that figuifks nothing i for the 
Eggs of the fowlsjwhile they are in ih tOvary, 
nay, after they have faLen into the t/hVrw, 
have no Shell *. And the’ when they are laid, 
thiy haveonc, yet that is no more than a de- 
fence which Nature ha> provided them agair It 
outw’aid Injuries, while they are hatched 
without the Body i whet eas ihcfe of Women 
being Hatched whhin the b‘ody,n- ed no other 
fence than the Wc n.b, by which they are fur- 
ficiently Secured. 
And this is enough I hope, for tire Clearing 
of this Point, As to the tin d thing ropold, 
•viz.- Whence grows the Kird, an,' whether 
the Man or the Wc-ciari is the Caufe of the 
Ma le, or Female Infant. 
The Primary caufe v e rru.fl afenbe to Cod, 
.(as is rroli ultly who R the Ruler 
and Difpoler of all things, yu be (uflfers many' 
things to proceed according to the Rules of 
Nature, which are carried by their inbred 
motion, according to ufual and natural Courle, 
without Variation. Tho’indeed b\ favour Part I. 
Completed. 
21 
from on high *, Sarah Conceived Ifaac ; Hm- 
fuih, Samuel, and Eliz.dheth, John the Bap- 
till : Rut thefe were extraordinary things, 
brought to pate, by a divine Power, above the 
ComTeof Nature •, nor have fuch Inftances 
been wanting in latter Days ; Therefore I 
ffaU wave’em, and proceed to fpeak of things 
Natural. The Ancient Plebeians and Phi- 
lbro'hcrs far, That fmee there are two Prin- 
■ cples, on of which the Body of Man is made, 
fur! which render the Child like the Parents, 
find to be of one or the otbjr Sex, viz. Seed 
cSm non to both Sexes, and Menftrual 
proper to the Woman only, the Similitude 
( >ray they J muff needs confifr in the Force 
and Virtue"of the Male or Female *, fo that it 
proves like the one, or the other, according 
to the Pknty afforded by eirher but that the;1. 
Difference of Seed is notreferr’d to the Seed, 
f at to the Menftrual Blood, which is proper 
to the Woman, is apparent; for, were that 
Force, altogether retained in the Seed, the 
Male Se d being, of the Hotteft Qd"lity,Malc 
Chil r n would abound, and few el the Fe- 
trale be Propagated. Wherefore the Sex is 
arributed to the Temperament of the Aftive 
Qua iries, wh'ch Gonfifts in Heat and Cold 
and to the Natofeoftbe Matter under them, 
f hat is, the Flowings of the Mcnftraal Blood. 
No v, the Seed (fay they) affords both Force 
to Procreate, and form the Child, and Mat- 
ter for its and, in the Men,  Ariflotle’s Mafter -piece. 
22 
flrual Blood there is both Matter and Force? 
for as the Seed moft helps the materia! Prin- 
cipals, fb alfodoes the Mendriial Blood the 
potential Seed ; which is (faith Galen) Blood 
well Concocted, by tht ViJfds that contain it : 
So that Blood is not only the matter of Ge- 
nerating the Child, but alio'Seed, in poilihi- 
lity that mcnffrual Blood hath both Principals. 
The Anticnt« further fay, That the Seed is 
the ftrongeff Efficient, the Matter of it being 
very little in Quantity, but tbe potential Qua- 
lity of it is very flrong : Wherefore if the 
Principal of Generation, according to which 
the Sex is made, were only ( fay they ) in the 
reenftrual Blood, then would the Children be 
all, or moftly Females;as if the Efficient Force 
was in the Seed they would be all Mates •- but 
fince both have Operation in menflrual Blood, 
matter cjredominatesin Quantity ; and in the 
Seed, Force arnd’Vertac. And therefore Ga- 
len thinks the Child receives its Sex rather 
from the Mother, than from the Father, for 
though his Seed Contributes a little to the 
material Principle, yet it is more weakly. But 
for Likenefs.it is referred rat her to the Father 
than Mother : Yet the Woman’s Seed re- 
ceiving (Length from the menflrual Blood, 
for the (paced Nine Months, ever powers the 
Alan’s as to that particular 5 for the Menftrual 
Blood flowing into the Veffels,rather cherilhes 
the one than the other ; from which it’s plain, 
the Woman affords both Matter to make, and Part I. 
Compleateda 
23 
Force and Venue to pafeft the Conception, 
tho* the Females Seed be fit Nutriment Lr the 
Male’s by reafpn of the Thinnefs of it, being 
more adapted to make up Conception .there- 
by for as of fft Wax, and moilt Clay, the 
Artificer can frame what he intends, io (fry 
they) tbeJVlan.’s Seed, mixing vyitjj tJie Wo- 
man’s, ancTatfp with the Menfirnal ,Blood, 
heips, to make the Form, and ptffe’d' part of 
Man. v 
But with all imaginable .Deference to the 
Wifdom of the Antients, give me leave to fay. 
That theirlgnurance in-dieAnato my 
Body, lias led ’em in the Paths of Error, and 
run them into great miflakes .• For their Hy~ 
pothefis~o( the Formation of the Emhrio, from 
a Commixture of Seeds, and the Nourishment 
of it from the Menftruous Blood, being whol- 
ly Falfe, their Opinion in this Cafe, muft of 
neceffity be fo alia 
I feali therefore Conclude tiiis-Chapter, and 
only fay, Thataltho’ a ftrong Imagination of 
the Mother, may often determine the Sex,yet 
the main Agent in this Cafe, is the Plaftic, 
or Formative Principal, which is the Efficient 
in giving Form to the Child, that gives it 
this or that Sev, according ,to thok Laws' 
and Rules that are given to it by the wife 
Creator of all things, who both Maketh and 
Falhioneth it, and therein Determines the 
Sex, according to the Gov.uki of his own 
Will, 24 
Ariftotle’s Majler-piece. 
CHAP IV. 
A Difcourfeof Man’s SouI,That it it not 
Propagated by the Parents, but it In- 
fufed by it's Creator.; and tan neither 
Die nor Corrupt; and at ivhat time it 
is Infufed. Of its Immortality, and 
Certainty of the RefurrecHcn, 
MAn’s S- ail is of fo Divine a Nature, and 
Escelienfy, that Man himfelf cannot 
in any wife comprehend it, it being the infuftd 
Breath of the Almighty, of an Immortal Na- 
ture •, and net to be comprehended, hut by 
him that gave k. For Mofes by Holy It.fpi- 
ratfcn, relatmg the Orignal of Man tell us *, 
“That God breathed tnto hu ISfoftrtls, tkeßrtath 
»f Life, a>.>d he became a living Soul. Now as 
for aH other Creatures, at h:s Word they 
were made and had Life \ but the Creature 
God bath appointed to let over his Works, 
was the peculiar Workmanlnip of the Almigh- 
ty, Forming him out of the Duft of the Earth, 
and condefcending to breathe into his Noflrils 
the breath of Life, which items to denote 
more Care, and (if we fo term if ) Labour ufed 
about Man, than about all other Gi eatures, 
he only partaking and participating with the 
Divine Nature, bearing the Image of God* Part I. 
Comp/eated. 
25 
in Innocence and Purity, whiift he flood firm’ 
and when by his Fall that Lively linage u/as 
Defaced, yet fuch was the Love of his Creator 
towards him, that he found out a way to Re- 
Acre him ythc only Begotten Son of the Eter- 
nal Father, coming into the World to de- 
firoy the Wotks of the Devil, and to raife 
up Man from tint low Condition, to which 
his Sin and Fall had reduc’d him, to a State 
above that of the Angels 
If therefore Man would underhand the Ex- 
cellency of bis Soul, let him turn his Eyes in- 
ward,..and look into himfelf, and fcarch dili- 
gently his own Mind, and there he fhall find 
fo many admirable Gifts,and excellent Orna- 
ments, that it muff needs ftrike him with 
Wonder and Amazement j as Reaion,Under■ 
ftandi ig, Freedom of Will, Memory, and di- 
vers other Faculties, that plainly fliew the 
Sou1 to be defended from an Heavenly Ori- 
ginal, ?nd that therefore it is of an infinite 
Duration, and not fubjedt to Annihilate. Vet: 
for its many Offices and Operation whilft in 
the Body, it goes under feveral Denominati- 
ons. For, when it Enlivens, the Body, it is 
called the-Soul*, when it giw;sit Knowledge,, 
the judgment or the Mind * when it recalls 
thingspaft, the Memory ywhilft itdifeourfeth 
and diCcernctb, Reafon •, whilfi it Contem- 
plates, the Spirit, whilft it is in theSenfitive 
parts, the Senfes. And thefearclhe principal-- 
Qjffice?) whereby the Soul declares its Power,; 26 
Ariftotle’s Mafter-piece. 
and performs its Adions. For, being placed 
in the higheft part of the body, it diftidetb its 
force into every Member •, not propagated 
from the Parents,nor mixed withgrofs matter, 
but theinfufed breath of the Almighty, imme- 
diately proceeding from him \ not palling 
from one to another, as was the Opinion of 
fythagw&s, who held a Tranfmigration of the 
Soul : Bur, that the Soul is given to every 
infant by Infufion, is the molt generally re- 
ceived,and Orthodox Opinion: and the Learn* 
ed do like-wife agree, that this isdone,whenthe 
Infant is perfeded in the Womb, which hap- 
pens about the 4sth day after Conception,es- 
pecially for Males,-that are generally born at 
She end of nine months-: but in Females (who 
are not Tofoon formed and perfected, thro'the 
defed of heat) not till the yoth day: 
And altho’ this day, in all cafes, cannot be 
perfedh fet down, yet Hippocrates has given 
hfe Cpm ion, when the Child hath itsprefent 
form, when it begins to move, and when born, 
af in due lea Ton : For in his bodk of the nature 
of Infants, he affirmetb, That if it be a Male, 
and, hebe perfected on the 30th day,and move 
at the doth, We will be born at the fevemh 
month y but’if he be perfedly formed ori the 
,3'sth day, he will move on the 70th, and be 
bbr-n in the Bth Month. Again, if he be per- 
fedly formed on the 45th day, he will move 
on the' 9Pth, and be born in the ninth month, 
. from'theft* palling of days and months. Fart I. 
Cowplealed, 
27 
it plainly appears, that the day of forming 
being doubled, makes up the day of moving .* 
and that day three times reckoned, makes up 
the day of birth. 
As for Example, were 35 perfed, the form, 
if you double it makes 70, the day of motion 
and three times 70 amounts to 2to days, 
which allowing 30 days to a month, makes 
feven months, and fo you nouft confidcr the 
reft. But as to a Female the cafe is different 
for it is longer perfeding in the Womb, the 
Mother ever going longer with a Boy than a 
Girl, fb that the accompt differs : for-a Fe- 
male formed in 30 days,- moves not tilt the 
•70fti, day, and is Born inthe 7th month- when 
llie is formed in the 40th day, flic moves not 
till the 80th day,and is born in the Bth month t 
but if (he be peffedly formed on the ftth day, 
(lie moves on the 90th, and is born in the 9th 
months But fhe that is formed on the 50th 
day, moves on the tooth day, and then will 
fhe be born in the 10th Month. And Iliavc 
more largely treated hereof, that the R,i&d«?r ' 
may know the reafonable Soul is not propaga- 
ted by the Parents, but is infufed-by the Al- 
mighty, when ths Child hath its perfed Form, 
and is exadly diftiDguifhed in its Lineaments. 
Now, as the life of every other Creature,as 
Mofes (liews, is in the Blood, fo the life of 
Man confiftethin the Soul; which, although 
fubjed to Paffion, by reafon of the grofs com- 
po (tire of the Body, in which it has a* tempo- ■ 28 
Ariftotle’s Mafter-piece. 
rary Ccnfint raenr, yet it is In-mortal, and can- 
not in it felf Corrupt or fuffer Charge, it be- 
ing a Spark of the Divine mind, and rende;s 
him Immortal*, And that every Man has a 
peculiar Soul, plainly appears by the vaft dif- 
ference between the Wit, Judgment, Cp'nion, 
Manners* Affedions, &c. in Men And this 
David Observes faying i God hath fajhiontd 
the Hearts and AUnds of all and has gi * 
yen to every one its own Being, and a Soul of its 
own Nature. Hence Solomon rejoy ced, that 
God had given him a happy Soul, and a Body 
.agreeable,to it. It hasbeen difputcd amongft 
the Learned, especially Philofoplicrs, in what 
part of the Body the Soul refides .* And fomc 
are ofOpinion, it’s reftdenceis inthe middle of 
the Heart, and from thence communicates its 
felf to every-part; ; which Solomon, in the 4th 
of his Proverbs feems to aflTcrt? when he fays, 
Keep thy Heart with all Diligence, hecaufe 
Life proceedeth therefrom : But many curious 
Phvficiarrs, fearehing the works of Nature in 
Man’s Anatomy, &c. do affirm, That its 
cheaf Seat is in the Brain, from whence pro- 
ceeds the Senfes, Faculties and Adions .* 
diffufing the Operation of the Soul through 
all parts of the Body, whereby it is enlivened 
with Heat and Force*,but it doth communicate 
particular Force to the Heart by the Arteries, 
Carotid «or lleepy Arteries, that part upon 
Sfie Throat y the which, if they happen to be 
broke on cut, caufe Barrennefs, and if flop- Part L 
Complected. 
29 
ped, an Apoplexy .* for there muff neceffarily 
be ways, through which the spirits Anitral 
and Vital, may have Intcrcourfe, and convey 
Native heat from the Sou/. For the’ the 
Soul has its chief Seat in one place, it Operates 
in every pai t, cxercifmg every Member, which 
are the Soul’s Inftruments, by which (lie fhews 
her power : But if it happen that any of the 
Organical Parts are cut of Tune, the Work 
is Confuted *, as appears in Idiots and Mad- 
men. Tho’ in fbme of them, the Soul by a 
Vigorous erefting its Powers, recovers its 
innate Strength, and they become Right, after 
a long Difpondency of Mind ; But in others 
it is not recover’d again in this Life. For as 
Fire under Allies, or the Sun obfeur’d from 
our fight by thick Clouds, afford not their 
full Luflre, fo the Soul over whelm’d in modi 
©r morbific matter, is darkned, and Reafbn 
thereby over douded ; and tho* reafon /bines 
lefs in Children,than in fuch as are arrived to 
Maturity, yet no Man muff imagine that the 
Soul in an Infant, growing up with the Child; 
for then it would again decay } but it fuits it 
felf to Nature’s weaknefs, and the imbecility 
of the Body, wherein it is placed, that it may 
better Operate* And as the Body is more and 
more capable of receiving its Influence, fo the 
Seui does more and more exert its Faculties; 
having Force: and Endowments at the time it 
enters the Form of the Child in the Womb \ 
by its Subflance can receive nothing lefs ; 30 
AriftotleV Mafier-piece, 
And thus much to prove that the Soulcomes 
not from-the Parents, but is info fed by God. 
I fball r.txt prove its Immortality, and thereby 
demonftrate the certainty of its Refurreftion. 
That the Soul of Man is a divine Ray, in- 
filled by the Sovereign Creator, Ihave already 
prov’d, and now come to fhew, That what 
ever immediately proceeds from him, and 
participates of his Nature muflbe as immor- 
tal as its Original*, fora1 ho’all other Crea- 
tures are endewed with Life and Motion, yet 
want they a reafonabfe Soul Land from thence 
’tis Concluded, That- heir Life is in their 
Bl6od,and thatbeing Corruptible,they Penfli, 
and are no more. But. Man being indewed 
with a reafonable Soul, and damped with the 
Divine Image, is of a dnfe ent Nature; and 
tho’ his Bodv he Corruptible., yet his Soul, 
being of an Immortal Nature, cannot Perifh, 
but muft,atthedifTolution of its Body, return 
to God that gayeit, either to receive reward 
or Punifiiment: Now, that the Body can fin 
of it felt, it is itnpoffihle, becaufe wanting the 
Soul (which is the Principal of Life) it cannot 
aft nor proceed to any thing, either Good or 
Evil for could it do (o, it might Pip.; even 
in the Grave ; but ’tis plain, that after DeatfN 
there is a cedaticn, For as Death leaves us, 
fo Judgment finds us. 
Now, reafon having evidently 
ted the Souls Immortality, the Holy Scrip- 
tures-do abundantly give Teftimony to the part I. 
Completed. 
?1 
Truth of the Rcfurreftion *, As the Reader 
r*ay fee by p:ruling the 14th and 1 gih Chap- 
ters oijob in iheOld and the sth 
of bt John** Gofpel in the New. I ill 11 
therefore leave the diftuffing of t is 
matter to Divines (vvh >&; proper Province it 
is) and return again tp-treat of the Works 
of Nature. 
| 
.1... 11, ,1 m I 
C H AP. vr' 
Of Monfters, am Mdnftrotts Births> and 
the Reafon thereofy according to the 
Opinions of the: Jfntiems; alfo whe- 
ther Mongers afrf endowed with Rea- 
fotuble Soals, andfahether Devils can 
Engender fts briefly her eDfcuffed* ' 
BY the Antienfcs, Men ikrs a re. afcri bed to’ 
depraved Conceptions, ancfsre defined 
to be Excurfions of Nature, which are vitious 
one cFthefe four s, either in Figure, Situ- 
ation, Magnitude, or Number. 
In Figure, when a Man bears the Chara- 
cter of a Beaft, as did theMonfter in 
which was born about the time of Lutiers 
'Preaching* ,J ' ‘ '  AriftotieV Mafler-viece, 
In Magnitude, Vvhen one part doth not 
live with another ; as when one part is too 
big, or too little for the other parts of the 
Body ; and this is fo common among us, that 
I need not produce a Tellimony for it. 
HlhSituation,.asif the Ears were on the Face, 
and the Eves on' the-Breafl or Legs: of this Part I. 
Com pleated. 
33 
kind was the Mender Bern at Ravena in 
in the Year 1512. S 4 
AriftotieV Matter-piece. 
In Number, w hen a Man hath two Heads, 
or four Hands: Of this kind was the Monfter 
corn at Barbara in the Year 1540. 
I proceed to the canfc of their Generation 
which is either Divine or Natural. The Di; 
vine caufe proceeds fro n tin permiffive Will 
of God, buffering Parents to bring fenb fuch Part I. 
Completed. 
Abominations, for their filthy and corrupt Af- 
fedions, which are Jet loofe onto wickednefs, 
.like Brute Beads, that have no-Underftanding. 
Whrrefore it was Enaded among# the An- 
tient Romans, That thofeAvhich were any 
ways Deformed, (lionld not be admitted into 
Religious Ho.Tcs. - And Sr. H:erom, in his 
time,' was Grieved to fet the Deformed and 
Lame, offer’d up to God in Religious houfes. 
And Kekcrmatiy by way of Inference, Exelu- 
deth all that are Mis-lliapen/rom the Praby- 
teriaLFuntHon in the Church And that 
which is of more force than all, God himfelf 
Commanded Mofes not to receive fayh to offer 
Sacrifice, among# his People ; and He ren- 
ders the Reafbn, Lev. 21. 18. Left he Pollute 
my Sanftuaries. Bccaufe the outward Defor- 
mity of the Body, is often a Sign of tbe Pollu- 
tion of the Heart, asm Curfc laid upon the 
Child for the Parents Innccency. Vet there 
are many bornDepravcd, whichioqght not to 
he a.'bribed unto the Infirmity of the Parents. 
Let ns therefore fearch out the Natural Caufe 
of th ir Generation j which, according to the 
A orients* fwfao bavedived into the Secrets of 
Nature) is either in the Matter, or in the 
Agent} in the Seed, or in the Womb. 
The Matter may be in Fault two ways; 
by Defed, or by Excefs. By Defed, when 
as the Child hath but one Arm. As in the 
following Figure. 3« 
AriftotfeV hlajler-ftece. 
7?y Excels, when it bath Three Hands, or 
Two Heads. Sonne Me nflers alfo arc begot- 
ten by Womens unnatural lying with iteaih 5 
as in the Year 1693, there was a Mcnfter 
begotten by a Woman’s Generating with a Parfc I. 
Q cmf tested, 
Dog: which Monfter from the Navel upwards, 
had the perfect Refemblar.ee of its Mother, 
but from the Navel downwards, it Refembled 
a Dog : As you may here fee. AriftotleV Mtjler-piece 
The Agent or Womb, maybe in fault three 
ways. Fir ft, In the Formative Faculty,whiCh 
may be too ftrong, or too weak, by which is 
procured * depraved Pigure. Secondly, In 
the Inftrumentor place of Conception, the 
evil Conformation or evil Difpofition whereof, 
will caufe a Monftrons Birch. Thirdly, In 
the Imaginative Power at the time ofGoncep- 
tion, which is-of fuch a Force, that it damps 
the Charader of the time thus imagined, upon 
the Child j So that the Children of an Aduf 
trels may- be like unto her own Husband, tho' 
begotten by another Man \ which is cauled 
through the force of the Imagination which 
the Woman hath of her own Husband in the 
Ad of Coition. And 1 have heard cf a Wo- 
man, who at the time of Conception, behold* 
ing the Pidure cf a Black^»GoriConceived and 
brought forth an t/Ethiopian. 1 will not 
trouble you with any more humane Teftimo- 
nic£,but I will Conclude with a ftronger War- 
rant. We read in Gen. 30. 31. How Jacob hav- 
ing agreed with Lab An, to have all the fpotted 
Sheep for keening his Fleck, to augment his 
Wages,took Hafle- rodsjund pilled whiteftrakes 
in them, and laid than before the Sh.ep when 
they came to Drink,an 1 they Couplug 
there together, whilft they beheld the Rod;, 
Conceiv’d and brought forth Spotted)o.’Wg9 
The Imagination alio works on the Child 
after Conception •» For vVhicli we have a pryg- 
nant Example of a worthy Ccnrte.vonan iu Part I. 
Complected, 
39 
The Eff.gie • f '• Maid aii fi. r-. ami an lnfan 
that v/asßorn Blacky by the Imaginacipj] of their 
V.irvius;  AriftotleV Mafler-fiece. 
40 
Suffolk, who being with Child, and pafling by 
her Butcher, Killing of Meat, a drop of bLod 
fprungon her Face -, whcrcupen flielaid, That 
her-Child wbuld have force Blercilh on the 
Fate •, And ar the Birth ic was found Mailed 
wilh a Red Spot. 
iAnd certain it is, That often Aionflrous 
Births happen by means of undue Copulation \ 
For, fame Alen attd Women there are, That 
haxie been long Ahfent from each other, and 
having an Eager defire to enjoy one another, 
consider not (as they ought to do) what their 
Cirsumfiances are \ and if it happen that 
they come together at the time when the Woman’s 
Mcnftrues are flowing, will, notwithfiand- 
tngy proceed to the Aft of Copulation, which is 
both 'Unclean and Unnatural and the iffue of 
fuch Copulation does oftentimes prove Ah on- 
firous, as a juft Punifhment for their Eying 
together, when Nature bids they ihould for- 
bear : And therefore, though the Aden (hould 
he never fo Eager for it, yet Women knowing 
their own Condi/uns. Ootdo c.t fuch timet e- 
fife their Company. And though fuch C. < pj- 
Jaaons do not always produce Monflrous 
Births, yet the Children then gotten are gene 
rally Heavy, Dull and Slugging and Defective 
in their UnderfUndings,wanting the Vivacity 
and Livelinds, which Children gotten in pro 
per Seafons are blefied withal. 
it remains that / now make force Enquiry, 
whether thofe that arc Born Munfters have Part I. 
Compleated. 
reafonaTle Souls; and are capable of a Refur- 
reftion: And here both Divines and Phyfiti- 
ans are generally of Opinion, That thofewho 
according to the Order of Generation, dedu- 
ced from our firft Parents, and proceeded by 
Natural means from either Sex, tho’ their out- 
ward Shape may be deformed and-Monftrous, 
have notwithftanding a reafonable Soul, and 
consequently their Bodies are capable of a Re- 
furreftion, as other Mens and Womens are ; 
But thofe Monfters that are not begotten by 
Men,but are the product of a Woman’s Unna- 
tural Luft,inGopulatingwith other Creatures; 
fhall Pertfhas the brute Beads,by whom they 
were begotten, not having a reasonable Soul, 
or any breath of the Almighty infufed into it. 
And fuch can never be capable of a Re- 
furrediion : And the fame is aifb true of Im- 
perfed’ and Abortive Births. 
Some are of Opinion, That Monfters may 
beinpendred by Ibme Infernal Spirit. Of this 
mind \yas Bgidm Facm, fpeaking of a defor- 
med Monfter born ziCracovla. And Hero- 
, nitim .Carda/m writeth of a Maid which was 
got with' Child by a Devil, (be thinking it had 
been a fur Young-man. The like alfo is Re- 
corded, by Vincentiw, of the Prophet Merlin, 
that he was begotten by an Evil Spirk. 
x But what a Repugnancy would in be both to 
Religion and Nature, if the Devils cou'd begrt 
Men, when we are taught to believe, Thar 
nut any was ever begotten without humane 42 
Ariftotle’s NUfier-piece 
Seed, except the Son of God. The Devil 
then being a Spirit,having no corporeal Sub- 
fiance, has therefore no Seed of Generation : 
To (ay, that he can ufe the Aft of Generation 
effectually, is to affirm, that he can make 
fomething of nothing j and Gorrfequently, to 
affirm the Devil to be God, for Creation be- 
longs to God only. 
Again, if the Devil could affiume to hirr.felf 
a dead Body, and enliven the Faculties of it, 
and make it able to Generate, as fame affirm; 
he can, yet this Body muft bear the Image of 
the Devil; and it borders upon Blafphemy, 
to think that GOD lliould fo far give leave 
to the Devil, as (out of GOD’s Image ) to 
raife tip his own Diabolick Off-fpring. In 
the School of Nature, we are Taught the 
contrary, viz. That like brgtts like \ there- 
fore, of a Devil, cannot Man be Born. Yet 
it is not Denied, but that Devils, Transform- 
ing thenvfelves into humane Shapes, tray 
Aiuife both Men and Women, and with 
wicked People, ufe Carnal Copulation : But 
that any fadi Unnatural Conjunction can 
bring forth a humane Creature, is contrary 
both to Nature and Religion. Part I. 
Comp leafed, 
CHAP. IV. 
A Difcourfe of the happy State of Ma- 
trimony y as7tis appointed by GO D ; 
and the true Felicity that Redounds 
thereby to either Sex ; and to what 
End it was Ordained. 
Without doubt, the Uniting of Hearts in 
Holy Wedlock, is of all Conditions 
the Happieft, for then a Man has a fecond 
felf, to whom be can Unravel his Thoughts, as- 
well as a Tweet Companion in his Labour ; he 
has one in whofe Bread, as in a fafe Cabinet, 
he may Repofe his inmoft Secrets, efpecialiy 
where Reciprocal Love, and Inviolate Ruth is 
entered-, for there no cares, fears, jealoufies, 
tniftruft, or hatred, can ever interpofe 5 for* 
what Man ever hated his own Flefh ? And in 
'deed, a Wife is no lefs, if rightly Confider’d j 
for, as < ur Grand father Adam well Obferv’d, 
Shfc is.-or ought to he efteemed of every honed; 
Man, Bone of my Bone, and Flefh of his Flefh, 
ike. Nor was it the lead care of the Almighty, 
to Ordain fo near a Union, and that for two 
Caufes, the id for increaTe of Poderity. the 
2d to bridle and bound Man’s wandering De- 
dresand Affeftions nay, that they might be 
yet Happier, when God had Joyned ’em toge- 
ther, he Blefied them, as’iis in the 2d of Gen.  Ariftotle’s Mafter-piece 
Columeay contemplating on this happy State, 
tells us outrof thtO economy of Xcnofkcny That 
the Marriage Bed is not only the moft plea- 
sant but profitable courfe of Life, that maybe 
enter’d on, for the Preservation and increafe 
ofPofterity : Wherefore, Once Marriage is 
the moil; fafe, Cure, and delightful Station of 
Mankind, who is exceeding Prone, by the 
Diftates of Nature, to Propagate his Like, 
he does in no ways provide amifs for his own 
Tranquility, who enters into it, efpedally 
when he comes to Maturity of Years; for 
there are many abuies inMarfiage,contrary to 
what is ordained ; the which, in the enfuirg 
Chapter,! (ball expofe to to proceed-, 
Seeing our bleffed Saviour and his holyApo- 
illeSjdetefkd unlawful Luffs,and pronounced 
thole to be Excluded,the Kingdom of Heaven, 
that Polluted theu.lelves with Adultery and 
Whoring,f.canncitconceive what faceßcrTons 
.cam have to colour their Impieties, who hating 
Matrimony, make ft their Study how they 
mav live Licention/ly. 5 but in fo doing, they 
rather feck to them Lives Torment, Anxiety, 
arid Difq«ictude,t&jn certain PJeafure, fcelides 
the hazard of their immortal Souls} for cer- 
tain it is,tharmercinary Love,or,(.as the wife* 
Man calls them) Harlots Smiles cannot Let: ue 
and fincere,and therefore not pleafant,but ra. 
.Ib era Net laid to betray fuch as trufl in .them, 
into ajj Mifchief, at Solomon obferves, by the 
Young Man .Void ofUnderftanding,who turn- Part I. 
C ample at ed, 
ed afidet© the Harlot’s Houfe, j4s a bird to the 
Snare of a Fowler4, or as an Ox to the Slaugh- 
ter, till a Dart be (Irutk through the' Liver.. 
Nor in this cafe can they have Children, thofe 
indenting pledges of Conjugal Affedion ; or if 
they have, they will rather redound to their 
lhatoe than comfort,-bearing the odious brand 
ofßaflards : Harlots likewise are \\kzSwalloxvs 
flying in the Simmer feafon of Profperity, hut 
the black dor my weather otAdverJity coming, 
they take Wing and fly into other Regions \ 
that is, feek themfelves other Lovers y but a 
vcrtuous chaile Wife, fixing her intire Love 
upon her Husband, and fubmirting to him as 
her bead and King, by whole Diredion Hie 
ought to fteer in all lawful Gourfes,will,like a 
faithful Comp anion,patiently with him in 
all^wr/itiej,run with chearfurnels 
ficulties, and dangers, i ho’never fo hazardous 
to preferve or aiiift him in Poverty, Sicknefs, 
or whatever other misfortune may befai him, 
ading according to her duty in all things. But 
a proud imperious Hariot,wdldono morethan 
fire lift, even in the Sun /Line of Profperity : 
And is like a Horfe Leach, ever Craving, and 
never finished, ililf Leming difpleafcd, if all 
her extravagant Ciavings be not Anfwered 
not regarding the mine and nailery Hie brings 
upon him by that mean?, tho* fhe feems to dote 
upon himgmng to confirm her hypocrifie, with 
Crocadile s Tears, Vows and Sw comings, when 
her Cully is todepartfor a while,or Items bur Ariftotle’/ Mafler-piece 
46 
to deny her immoderate Defires; yet this 
lads not longer than (he can gratify her Ap- 
petite, and prey upon his Fortunes, Remark* 
able is the Story that Ccnradm Geffner tells us: 
Of a Toung Man Travelling from Athens to 
Thebes, who met by the way a beautiful Lady, 
as to his appear ante fhe fee mod, adorned with 
aU perfections of Beauty, glittering with Gold 
and precious Stones \ this fecmlng fair One fa- 
inted him, and invited him to her lioufe not 
far effy pretending to be exceedingly in amour d 
of him, and declared fhe had a long time waited 
for an Opportunity to find him alone, that fo 
Jhe might reveal her Pajfion to him. The- 
Young Spark went with her, and when he. 
came to her Houle, he found it to appear- 
ance ;uilt very Stately, and very well Ftir- 
nillied, which fo far wrought upon his cove- 
tous Inclination, that he Refolvcd to put off 
his intended Journey, and yield to her Ind- 
ucements *, But whilft fhe was Leading him 
to fee the plea fan t places ad;oyning to the 
Houle, came by a holy Pilgrim , who feeing 
in while danger the Youih was, Refolved to 
fethimin his right Scnfes, and Ihew him what 
he imagined Real, was quite otherwife i fo 
that, by powerful Prayer, the Mill was taken 
from before the Youth’s Eyes, who then be- 
held his Lady, Ugly, Deformed, and Mon- 
ftrous, and that whatever had appeared Glo- 
rious and Beautiful, was only 1 rafh. Then 
he. made her Confcfs what fhe, was, and her Part I. 
Comp leafed. 
47 
upon the Young Man, which Hie did, 
frying. She was a Lamise or Fairy, and that 
Jhs had thru Inch anted hint, on purpofe to get 
h/m into her Power, that jits might Devour him. 
This Pa/fage (whether True or not) maybe 
■ fittly Alluded to Harlots, who draw thole 
that follow their Mifgniding Lights, into the 
places of Danger, till they have cauled them 
to vShip wrack their Fortunes, and then leave 
them to vStrugle with thole Storms of Adver- 
sity, that they have Rais'd. Now, on the 
Contrary, a Loving, Challe, and Even tem- 
pered Wife, Seeks what flie may, to prevent 
Such Danger, and in every Condition ftrives 
to make him eafie. And in a Word, as there 
is no Content in the Imbraccs of a Harlot, fo 
there is no Joy greater, than in the Recipro- 
cal Affediion, and indenting Embraces of a 
Loving, Obedient and CbaiJe Wife*, nor is 
that the principal end, for which Matrimony 
was Ordain’d, but further, that Man might 
follow the great Law of hisCHr*f«>», by the 
increafe of his Kind, and Replenifh the Earth \ 
for this was an Injunction laid upon him in 
Faradice, before his Fait. To Conclude, A 
Virtuous Wife is a Crown and Ornament to 
her Husband, and her Price, is above Rubles ; 
but the ways of an Harlot are Deceitful.  
AriftotleV Matter-piece 
CHAP VII. 
Of Errors in Marriage; What they arey 
and the Prejudice of them: 
BY Errors in Marriage, f mean the Un- 
fitnefs of the PejTons Marrying, to en- 
ter into this State and that both with Re- 
fpeff to Age, and the Conflitution of their 
Bodies \ and therefore thofe that defign to 
enter into that Condition, ought to obferve 
their Ability, and not run tbemfdvcs upon 
Inconveniences, for thofe who Marry too 
Young, may be laid to Marry Unfcafonably 5 
not confidering their Inability, nor exami- 
ning the force of Nature. For fome before 
they are Ripe, for the Confumation of fo 
Weighty a Matter,, who, either Raihly of 
their own Accords, or, by the Initigation of 
Procurers and Marriage Brokers, or elfe 
Forc’d thereto by their Parents, who covet 
a large Dowry, take upon Yoi this Yoke to 
their Prejudice } by which means, fome before 
the expiration of a Year, have been fo En- 
feebled, that ail their Vital Moil' ure was 
Exhaufted, which hath not been Reftoj/d a* 
gain, without great Trouble, and the afe of 
Medicines. Where fore my Advice is, that it 
is no ways Convenient to. Puffer Children, or 
fuch as are not of Age, to Marry, or get Part I. 
Completed. 
49 
Children; But he that propofes to Marry, 
mud. obterve to Chufe a Wife of an honed 
Stock, and defcend from Temperate Parents •, 
being Ghafte, Well bred, of Good Manners. 
For, if a Woman hath good Conditions, fl;e 
hath Portion enough. That of jllfamena, 
in Plant us, is much to the purpofe ; where he 
brings inaYoung Woman faying to this effe#. 
1 take not that to.he my Dowry, which 
'The vulgar fort do Wealth and honour call 
Bait all my w/%es terminate iv this 
T’ obey my Husband, and be Chaftewith alii 
To have Go fs Fear \ and bounty in my Mind, 
7 o do thofe Good, who're Vertaonjly inclin’d. 
And I think (lie was in the right on’tfor 
fucli a Wife is more precious than Rubies. 
Tis certainly the Duty of Parents, to be 
Careful in bringing up. their Children in the 
ways of Vertue; and to have regard to their 
Honour and Reputation,and efpecially ofVir- 
gins, when grown to be Marriageable. For, 
•as has been before noted, if through the too 
much feverity of Parents, they may be crofled 
in their Love, many of them throw themfelves 
into the undbafte Arms of the next alluring 
Tempter that comes in their way •, being thro’ 
the foftnefs and flexibility oftheirNatures,and 
the Among Defires they have after what Na- 
ture powerfully incites them to,eafily induced 
to believe Mens feigned vows of promis’d Mar- Ariftotle’s Majter-piece 
riage to Cover their Shame j and then too 
Late their Parents Repent of that Severity 
which has brought an indeliable Stain upon 
their Families. 
An other Error in Marriage, is the Ine- 
quality of Years in the Parties Married fuch 
as for a Young Man, who, to Advance his 
Fortune, Marries a Woman Old enough to be 
his Grandmother, between whom,for t he moll: 
part, Strifes, Jealoufies, and Difcontents, are 
all the BlelTings which Crown the Genial Bed, 
it being impoltible for fuch to have any Chil- 
dren. The like may be laid, though with a 
little more Excufe, when an Old doting Fel- 
low Marries a Young Virgin in the prime of 
her Youth and Vigour, who,whiift he.vainly 
Rrives to pleafe her, is thereby Wedded to 
bis Grave. For as in Green Youth *tis unfit 
and Unfesfonable to think of Marriage, lb to 
Marry in Old Age, is altogether the lame : 
For they that enter upon it too loon, are Toon 
Exhaufted, and fail into Confumptions, and 
Divers other Difeafes 5 and thofe that Procra- 
ftnmte, and Marry Unfeemly, fall into the like 
irjcpnvcniencies on the other fide, having only 
this-Honour* of an Old Man they become 
Young Cuckolds; efpeciall.y if their Wives 
fejive not been Trained up in the Paths of Vir- 
tue, and lye too much open to the Importunity 
and Temptation of Lewd and Debauched Men. 
And thus-rnuch for the Errors of Rafb, incon- 
liierate*. and, UnfearonablsManiages,, Part I. 
Completed, 
CHAP. VII. 
The Opinion of the Learned concerning 
Children Conceived and Born within 
Seven Months, with Arguments upon 
the Subject, to prevent Sufpitions of 
Inconvenienty, and the bitter Contejis 
that, map Artfe between Man and 
Wife,on that Account,. To which is ad- 
ded Rules for knowing the Difpofition 
of Marts Body, by the Genital Parts. 
IV'yf Any bitter- Quarrels happen betwen 
IV JL - men and their Wive?, upon the man’s 
fvufpition that his Wife comes too (bon , and 
by Consequence that he could not be the Fa- 
ther, whereas it was want only of Under ftand ■ 
ing the fecrets of Nature; th»t brought the 
man into that Error; and which had he known,, 
might have Cur’d him of his Jealoufie ami 
vSidpition, To remove which,llhall endeavour 
to prove, that ’tis pcfiibie, and has been fre- 
quently known, that Children have been.Born 
at 7 Months. The Cafes of this Nature that 
have happened, have made work for the Law- 
yers: And they .have left it to the Rhyficians to 
judge, by Viewing the Child, whether it be a 
Child of 7,,8,9 or 10 Months. Paul the Coun- . 
fellor has lias Paffage in the igthßciok cfPiead- 
ingsh? now a receiv’d nHthAhziaverjtlt -: 52 
Ariftotle’s M after-piece 
Child may be Born in the Seventh Month, by 
the Authority of the Learned Hipocrates And 
therefore we muft believe, That a Child born 
at the end of the feventh month, in Lawful 
Matrimony,may be Lawfully begotten. Galen 
(in cap. 6. Lib. 3 J is of Opinion, That there is 
no certain time fet for bearing of Children 3 
and that from Pliny s Authority, who makes 
mention of a Woman ■ that went 13 Months 
with Child. But as to what concerns the 
feventh month, a Learned Author faith 5 ”T 
’know feveral married People in that 
had Twins burn in the feventh month, who 
M Lived in Old Age, having lufty Bodies, and 
” lively minds. Wherefore their Opinions 
is abfar’d, whoaffertj That a Child at feven 
months cannot be per fed and long Liv’d ; 
and that he cannot in all parts be perfed till 
the pth month. And thereupon this Author 
proceeds, to tell a Pafl&ge from his own know- 
Of late (faith he) there happened 
a great Difkrbance among us, which ended 
not without Blood died 5 and was Occafioned 
by a Virgin, whole Chaftity had been Vio- 
lated, descending cf a Noble Family, oflln* 
fpotted Lame. Now feveral Charged the. 
Fad upon a Judge, who was Prefident of a 
City in Flanders, wholUfly deny’d it, faying, 
he was ready to take bis Oath, that I e never 
3iad Carnal Copulation with her 3 and that 
>rt would not Father that which was.'none of 
hii*. And further Argued, That it verily Part I. 
Completed. 
believed that it was a Child born in feven 
months, himfelf being many miles diftant 
fecm-the Mother of it,when it was Conceived. 
Whereupon the Judges decreed, That the 
Child (bold be viewed by ablePhyfidans, and 
experienc’d Women, and that they flioUld 
make their Report ; who having made dili- 
gent enquiry, all of them with one mind, con- 
cluded the Child, ( without refpe&ing who 
was the Father) was born within the fpaceof 
7 Months j and that it was carried in the Mo- 
thers Womb but 27 Weeks and Odd Days; 
but if Die would have gone full 9 Months, the 
Chil’ds Parts and Limbs would have been 
more Firm and Strong, and the Structure of 
the Body more Compact, for the Skin was 
very loofe, and the BrefTbone that defends 
the Heart, and the Griftle that lyes over the 
Stomach, were higher than Natural thpy 
fbould be, not Plain, but Crooked, and (harp 
Ridged, or Pointed, like thofe of Young 
Chickens, Hatch’d in the beginning of Spring 
And being a Female Infant, it wanted its 
Nails upon the Joynts of her Fingers j 
on which, from the Mufculous, or Cartila- 
ginous matter of the Skin, Nails that are: 
very Smoothe, do come, and by degrees 
hrrden .* She had inftead of Nails a thin 
Skin, or Film. As for her Toes there was no 
(ign of Nails about them, wanting that hear 
which was expanded to the Fingers, from the 
aearnds of the. Heart, Ml this being Con.- Arifto t\£sMafier~ptece 
fidered, and above all, one Gentlewoman of 
Quality that aflifted, affirming that /be had 
been the Mother of rp Children, and that 
Divers of them had been Born and Liv’d at 
Seven Month*, they without favour to any 
Party, made their Report that the infant was 
a Child of 7 Months,tho’Born within the 7th 
Month, for in fucli cafes the Revolution of the 
Moon ought to be Obferved, which perfects it 
fdf in 4 rare Weeks, or fomewhat iefs than 
28 Days, in which fpace of her Revolution,the 
Blood being Agitated by force of the Moon, 
the Courfes of the Wbman Flow from them, 
which being Spent, and the Matrix being 
Cleanfed from Menftrual Blood, which hap- 
pens on the sth day, then if a man on the 7th 
day Lye with his Wife, the Copulation is 
inoft Natural,1 and then is the Conception 
beft, and a Child then begotten, may he Born 
in the 7th month,; and prove very Healthful: 
So.that upon this Report, the fuppofed Fa- 
ther was pronounced Innocent, upon Proof 
that he was 100 miles diftance all that month 
in which the Child was begot And as for the 
mother, ftie ftrongly denied that Die knew 
the Father, being forced in the Dark, and fo 
thro’fear and furprize, was left in Ignorance. 
As for Coition, it -ought not to be hid, im- 
kfs the Parties be in health, led it turn to the 
Difadvantage of- -the Children fo Begotten, 
Creating in them, thro" the abundant of ill 
Humours, s Divers Languilbing Difeafes • Part I. 
Completed. 
55 
wherefore health is no way better to be 
djfcerned than by the Genitals of the man, 
for which reafon Midwives and other Skilful 
'VVombn, were formerly want to fee the Tef- 
ticks of Children, thereby to Gonjedure at 
their Temperature and ftateofßody, and 
Young-men may know thereby the figns or 
Symptoms of Death : For if the. Cafes of 
the Tefticlcs be loofe and Feeble, and the 
Cods fall down, it-denotes that the Vital 
Spirits, which are the props of Life, are fallen: 
But if the (caret part be Wrinkled and raifcd 
up, it is a fign ak is well: But that the Event 
maV exadly anfwer the Prediction, it is ne* 
ceflary to confider what part of the Body the 
difeale poftcficth : For if it chance to be„the 
upper part that’is afflided, as the Head or 
Stomach, then will it not fo well appear by 
the Members, which are unconcerned with 
fuch Grievances, but the lower part of the 
Body exadly Sympathizing with them, their 
Liveiinefson the contrary, makes it appaif 
for Nature's force, and the Spirits that have 
their intercourfe, firft manifeft diemfclves 
therein, which occafion Mid wives to feel the 
Genitals of Children, to know in what part 
the Grief is Refident.,r and whether Life or 
Death, be portended thereby, the Symptom 
being firongly Communicated by the VeiTds 
that, have their Inccrcourfe with the principal 
feat pf:Lifes 56 
Axi&otX&sMaJler-piece 
GHAP IX. 
Of the Green Sicknefs in Virgins, with 
its Caufes, Signs, and Care, Together 
with the chief Oct aft on ofßarrennefsof 
Women and the Means to remove the 
Caufe, and render 'em Fruitful, 
TH E Green Sicknefs is fo common a DL 
(lemper in Virgins, efpecialiy thofe of 
a Phlegm a tick Complexion, that ’tis eafily 
difcerned,(hewing it felfby Difcolouring the. 
Face, making it look Green, Pale, and of a 
dufty Colour, which proceeds from raw and 
indigefted Humours \ nor doth it only appear 
to the Eye, but fenfibly afflids the Perfon 
with difficulty of Breathing,Painsinthe Head, 
Palpitation of the Heart, with unufual beat- 
ings, and fmall throbbings of the Arteries in 
the Temples, Neck and Back \ which often 
calls them into Fevers, when the humour is 
over Vitious .* Alfo loathing of Meat, and the 
diftention of the Hipocondraick part, by rea- 
fon of the inordinate Effindion of menflrous 
Blood to the greater VefTelsand from the 
abundance of humours the whole Body is 
often troubled with Swelling, or, at lead, The 
Thighs, Legs and Andes,all above the Heels* 
And alfo, there is a great wearing of the 
Body, without any Reafon for it. Part I. 
Completed. 
57 
The GdeniedPhyficians Affirm, That this 
Diflemper proceeds from the Obftrudion of 
thofe Veffds that are about the Womb, oeca- 
lion’d by the abundance ofgrols, vifeious, and 
erode humors, arifing from feveral inward 
Caafes, *, but there are alfo outward Caufes, 
which have a ffiare in the Produdion of it, as 
taking cold on the Feet, drinking of Water, 
intemperance fn Dyet, and eating of things 
contrary to Nature, viz. Raw or burnt Fiefh, 
Ajhes, Coles, Old Shoes, Chalk, Wax, Nut- 
Shels, Mortar, Lime, Oat-meal, Tobacco- 
Pipes, &c. Which occafton both Suppreffion 
of the Menfes, and Obftrudions through the 
whole Body. Therefore, the firft thing ne- 
ceflary to Eradicate the Caufe,is Matrimonial 
Gonjundion, and fuch Copulation as may 
prove Satisfadory to her that is Afflided *, for 
then the Menfes will begin to flow, according 
to their Natural and due Courfe i and the hu- 
mours being difperfed, will foon Wafte them- 
felves, and then no more matter being admi- 
niflred to increafe ’em, they will vaniffi, and 
a good Temperament of Body will return: 
But in cafe this beft Remedy cannot be had 
foon enough, then Bleed her in the Ancle, 
and if ffie be about Sixteen, you may likewife 
do it in the Arm , but let her bleed but fpa- 
ringly, efpecially if the blood be good. If the 
difeafe be of any continuance, then is it to be 
Eradicated by Purging, preparation of the hu- 
mour being firflconfider’cLwhich-mav be done AriftotleV Mafter-piece 
by the Virgins_dr inking Dccoftion of Guaia- 
cum, with Dittany of Greet, but the hell 
purge in; this Cafe ought to be made of Aloes, 
Agric,Sen Rhubarb: and for ftrengthen- 
ing the Bowels, and opening Ohflru&ions, 
Chalibat Medicines are chiefly to be tiled. The 
Dyet muff be Moderate, and Ihaip things be 
by all me ans avoided. And for feekingof the 
Humour, take prepared Sree I, Bezar Stone, 
the Root of Scorzlonera, Oyl of Chryftal fn 
fmall Wine, and let the Dyet be Moderare,but 
in no wife let Vinegar be ufed therewith, nor 
upon any other Occafion: And in foebferving 
the humours will beDi'atcd and diflipated, by 
which means the Complexion will Return, 
and the Body be Lively and full of Vigour, 
And now, fince Barrends daily cccaflons 
Difconreut, and that difeontent creates DitTe- 
rence between Man and Wile, or bv immo- 
derate Grief, frequently cads the Woman 
into one or other Violent Difternper ; i OialL 
in the next place Treat thereof. 
Of Barrennefs. 
In time pad, before the Women came to the 
Marriage bed, they were firfl fearch’o by the 
Midwife ; and thole only which Ihe allowed 
cfas Fruitful, were admitted. I hope there- 
fore, it will not be thought a need Ids labour 
to iliew how they may prove th.-mfelves, and 
turn the Stony Ground into a Fruitful Soil. 
Barreonds is a deprivation of life and pow - Part I. 
Comp leafed. 
er, which ought to be in the Seed, to Procre- 
ate and for which end, both Man. 
and Woman were made; 
Caufes of Barrennefs.. 
It is caufel by over much heat or cold that 
driving up the Seed, and making it Corrupt, 
this exdnguiflies the Life of thcSeed,making it 
Watrilli and unfit for Generation. It may be 
caufed alfo by not Flowing, or over-flowing 
of the Courfes, by Swellings, Ulcers, and In- 
flamations of the Womb v by an Excrefenccof 
Flelli growing about the mouth of the Matrix, 
by the mouth of the Womb being turned unto 
the Back, or Sidet by the grofnefs and fatnefs 
of the Body, whereby the mouth of the Matrix 
isC lofed up,by being preft with thzOnientnmy 
or Caul.and the matter of the Seed is convert* 
cd into Fatnefs, Or if /he be of a Lean and 
Exhaufl Body, to the World Ihe proves Bar- 
ren, bccaufe, tho’ fhc doth Conceive, yet the 
fruit of the Womb will wither before it comes 
to perfedion,forwantofNourifliment. Ait 'uu 
andsj one caufe of Barrennefs to 
cornpel’d Copulation, as when Parents inforce 
their Daughters to have Husbands contrary to 
their Liking, therein Marry their Bodies, but 
not their Hearts,and'where there is a want of 
Love, there for the mod part, is no Concep- 
tion ; as appears in Women which are 
Deflowred againft their Wills. Another 
main caule of Barrennefs, is Attributed 
to the want of Convenient Munderating  AriftbtleV Ma[ter~piece 
Quality, which the Woman ought to have 
with the Man, as if !.c be hot, file mud be 
celd •• if he be dry, flie mull; be moift •* But if 
they be both dry, or both moift of Conftim* 
lion, they cannot Propagate, and yet (imply 
confider’d ofthemfelves,they are not Barren ; 
for he and flue,which was before as the Barren 
Fig tree, being joyned with an apt Conftitu» 
tion, becomes as the fruitful Vine. And that 
Man and Woman being every way of a like 
Confutation, cannot Procreate, I will bring 
Nature it felf for a Teftimony, who hath 
made Man of a hotter Conllitutiou than 
Woman, that the Quality of the one may 
moderate the Quality of the other. 
Signs of Barrennefs. 
It Barrennefs does proceed from over much 
heat, (he is of a dry body/abject to anger,(he 
hath black hair, quick Pulfe •, her Purgations 
flow bat little, and that with Pain die loves 
to play in the Courts of Venus. Bat if it 
comes by Cold, then are the (igns contrary to 
thofe even now Recited, if thro’ an evil Quali- 
ty in the Womb, makeaSuffurnigatioiiof red 
Starax, AByrrh, Cajfia-rrood, Cinnar 
let her receive the fume of it into the 
Womb, covering her very dole, and if the 
Odour fo received pafleth thro5 the Bodv, up 
into the mouth and noftrils \ cf her felf (lie is 
fruitful. But if;fhe feels not the fume in her 
mouth and nofe, it argues Barrennefs one of 
thefe ways,that the Spirit ofthe Seed is either Part I. 
Completed. 
61 
thro’cold extinguilht, or thro’heat diffipated. 
It any Woman befafpefted to be Unfruitful, 
call natural Brimflone, fuch as is digg’dout ©f 
the Mine, into her Urine,and if Worms breed 
therein, of her felf (be is not Barren. 
Prognoflicks. 
Barrennefs maketh Women look Young, 
becaufe they are free-from thole pains and 
furrows, which other Women are accuftomed 
to bring forth withal. Yet they have not that 
full perfection of Health which fruitfulwomen 
do injoy, becaufe they are not rightly purged 
of the menftruous Blood,and fuperfiuousSeed,. 
the principal of which two, are the principal 
caufe of mol\ Uterine DHeales. 
Firfl the Caute mufi be Removed, and then 
the Womb Strengthened, and the Spirits of 
the Seed enlivened! 
If the Womb be over hot, Tale Syrup of 
Succory with Rhubarb, Syrup of Violets, Endive, 
Rofcs, Cajfla, Fur (lain: Take of P.udive, water- 
IMUes, Barrage'flowers, of each a handful 
Rhubarb, Myrolabans, of each 3 Draws, with 
Water make a DecoStion, ddW tof/a?firaining 
of the Syrup,laxative of Violets,one ounce, Syrup 
of Cafjia, half an ounce, Mann a 3 drams,malt 
a pot ion. Take of the Syrup of Mugwort 1 cunce. 
Syrup of Maiden-hair 2 ounces, water of Suc- 
cory, Barrage, Fennel, 3 Ounces 3 Pulv, hlecT 
Tri of and one dram, make a Julep. Tah Pm. 
Solut, Elect. Rof Mefua of each three Drams., 
Cure.  Mafier-pece 
Rhubarb oneScruple,and makes Bolus, Apply 
to the Reins and Privities, fomentations of the 
Juice of Lett i ce) Viollets, Rofes, Mallows, 
Vineleaves, and Night-JhaUc, Anoint the fe- 
rret parts with the Cooling unguent dfGalen. 
If the power of the Seed be extinguifht by 
Cold, Take every Morning two fpoonfuls o( 
Cinamn water, with one Scruple of Mithri- 
date. Take Syrup of Calamwt, Mugwort, 
Bettony, of each one Ounce y water of Penny- 
royal, Feverfew, Hyfop, Sage, of each Two 
Ounces y make a Julep. TakeOylof Annifced 
one Temple and a half, Di act mini, Diacalin- 
the, Diamofci, Diagalanga, of each one dram y 
Sugar 4 Ounces, with water of Cinamon make 
Lozenges*, take of them a dram and a half, 
Twice a day, z hours before Meals, Fallen 
Cupping-glades to the Hips and Belly- Take 
of Stir ax, Calamfnt, one Ounce, Maftick, 
Cloves, Cinamon, Nutmeg., Lin, Aloes, Fran- 
kincenfe, of each half an Ounce y Aiusk io 
Grains, Amhergreefe half a Scrupie,with Rofe- 
water make a Confection : Divide it into four 
equal pc ns. Of one part make a Pomtm O do- 
rat um to fmell on, if die be not HyftericA. 
Of the fecond make a mafs of Pills, and let 
her take three every Night. Of the third 
make a Peflary, dip it in Oyl of Spikenard, 
and put it up. Of the fourth, make a Suffu- 
migation for the Womb. 
if the Faculties of the Womb be weakned, 
and the Life of the Seed fuffocated by over- pair I. 
Completed. 
much humidity, flowing to thole parts: Take 
of Betony, Marjoram, Mugvrort, Penny- 
royal, Balm, of each one handful: Roots of 
Afrum, Fenel, Elecampane, of each 2 Drams*, 
Annifeed, Cummin, of each one Dram ; with 
Sugar and Water a fufficient Quantity of 
which make a Syrup, and take three Ounces 
every other Morning. 
Purge with thefe things following .• Take of 
Digridpn, 2 Grains *, Specierum de Caftorei, 
one Scruple; Pill Foetid 2 Scruples,with fyrup 
of Mug wort make 6 Pills. Tak tfpeci Digem* 
ma, Diamofci, Diambra, of each one Dram , 
Cinamon, one dram and a half: Cloves, Mace, 
Nutmeg of each half a Dram \ Sugar 6 Oun- 
ces with Water ofFeverfew make Lozenges 
to betaken every Morning. Take of theDeco- 
dion of Sarfa-p.tr til a, and Firga Awe a, not 
forgetting Sage, which Agrippa, wondring at 
the Operation of, hath honsur’d with the name 
of Sacra Herb*,* holy Herb. And is recorded 
by Dodonans in his Hiftory of Plants, lib. 2. 
cap. 77. That after fo many Egyptans were 
Dead, the furviving Women, that they might 
Multiply the fairer, were Commanded to 
drink the Juice of Sage. Anoint the Genitals 
with Oyl of Annifeed and Spikenard. Take 
Mace, Nutmeg, Cinamon, Styrax, Amber, of 
each 1 dram *, Cleves,Laudania, of each half a 
dram, '!nrpetine a fufficient quantity, make 
Trochisksio (mother the Womb. Take Roots 
of Falert an zwi each 1 pound,of 64 
AriftotleV Mafter-piece 
Calangak Two Ounces, Origan, Lavender, 
Aiarjoraw, Betony, Mugvoort, Bay leaves, 
Calamlnt, 0/ each Three handfuls with water 
make an Inceffion, in which let her fir, after 
Ihe hath her Courfes, 
Ifßarrennefs proceed from Drynefs, Con- 
firming the matter of the Seed ; take every 
day Almond milk, and Goats milk extracted 
with Honey. Eat often of the Root Satyr on 
Cpndited, and of,the Elcduary of Diafaty- 
rim. Take % Weathers Heads, Boyl them 
until all the Flefh comes from the bones, then 
take of M.eliot, Violets, Camomile, Mercury, 
Orchis with their Roots, of each an handful, 
Fenugreek, Linfeed, Valerian Roots, of each 
one Pound ; Let all thefe be Decofted in 
theaforefaid Broth, and let the Woman fit 
in the Decoftion up to her Navel. Alfo take of 
Deers fuet half an Ounce, Cows marrow, 
StracrS’Uquada, of each two Drams, Oyl of 
fweet Almonds two Ounces, with Silk-cotton 
make a Peffary. Make injections of Frefh- 
Butter, and Ovl of (weet Almonds. 
If Barrennels be caufed by any proper 
affed of the Womb, the Cute is fet down 
in the Second Part. 
Sometimes the Woman proves Barren when 
there’s no impediment on either fide, except 
only in the manner of the Aft: As when in the 
Erniilion of the Seed,the Man is quick,and the 
Woman too flow, whereby there is nor an 
Emiflion of both Seeds at the fame infbnt.as Part I. 
Completed, 
the Rules of Conception require, (according 
to the Opinions of the Ancients) Wherefore 
to take away this Incoovenience, Muller pre- 
par art aedifponi whet molli complexity Ufcivis 
verbis ofcida lafeiviora mifcenAa. If this doth 
not fuffice before the Ad of Coition, foment 
the private Parts with the Decodion of Betc- 
ny, Sage, Hyfop, and Calamint and anoint 
the Mouth and Neck of the Womb with Musk 
and Civet. 
The Caufe of Barrennefs being removed, 
let the Womb be corroborated as follows. 
Take of Bay-berries, Maftick, Nutmeg, 
Frankincenfe, Cyprefs, Nuts, Laudani, Galba- 
ni, of each one Dram Sfyracis liquid two 
Scruples*, Cloves half a Scruple*, Ambcrgreefe 
two Grains * Musk 6 Grains ; then with Oyl 
of Spikenard make a PefTary. 
Take Red Roles,Lapidis Hsematitis White- 
Frankincenfe, of each half an Ounce; Sangui* 
Draconis, fine Bole, Maftick, of each two 
Drams 5 Nutmeg, Cloves, of each one Dtam 5 
Spikenard halfaScruple: With Oyl of Worm- 
wood make a Piaifter for the lower part of 
the Belly* Let her eat often of Eringo-roots 
condited j and make an Injed&on only of the 
Juice of the Roots of Satvrion. 
Theapteft time for Conception, isinftantly 
after the Mtnfts are ceas’d, becaufe then the 
Womb is thirlty and dry, apt both to draw the 
Seed, and to retain it, by the roughads of the 
inward Superficies. And. betides, in fome, the A riftotieV M after-piece 
mourn vt the Womb is turned unto the back or 
fide, and is not placed right, until the lad day 
of the CouiTes. 
Excefs in ali things is to be avoided : Lay 
adde all Paffions of the Mind : Shun Study 
and Care, as things that are Enemies to Con- 
ception-, for if a Woman Conceives under fi ch 
CircumftanccSjhow wife fbcvcr the Parents are, 
the Children at the bed will be but foolifh, be- 
caufe the animal Faculties of the Parents, 
the Underdanding and the Red (from whence 
the Child derives its Reafun) are, as it were, 
confufed, through the multiplicity of Cares 
and Cogitations, Examples here ofwehavein 
learned Men, who, after great Study and Care 
inftantly accompanying with their Wives, of- 
ten beget very foolilh Children. A hot and 
moid Air is mod convenient, as appears by the 
Women in Egypt, which ufualiy bring forth 
three or four Children at one time. 
Virginity, what it is, in what it confifts, and 
how violated 7 cgether with the Opinion of* 
the Learned about the Mutation of Sexes in 
the Wombr during the Operation of Nature, 
in framing the Body. 
apeiba n-y ignopsnt People, that boaft 
of theii SkiH m ■ knowledge>of-Virgi- 
nity, and havtc hard 
CHAP, X. Fart t. 
Cenfures through their ignorant Determinati- 
ons : And therefore 1 thought it highly neceflTa- 
jry to clear this- point, that the towering Ima- 
ginations of. conceited Ignorance may1 be 
brought down, tlvat the Fair Sex (whole Vir- 
tues are To illdlrioufly bright, that they both 
excite our Wonder, and command our fmrta* 
tion) may be freed from the Calumnies and 
Detractions of Ignorance and Envy 7, that 'fe 
their Honours may continue as Unfpotted, as 
they have kept their Perfons Uficchtaminated, 
and free from Defilement. 
Virginity, in a ftrift fenfe, does fignifie the 
Prime, the Chief, the Belt of any thing, which 
makes Men To delirous of marrying Virgins \ 
imagining Come great Pleafbre to be enjoyed 
in their Embraces, than in thbfe of Widows, 
or fuch as have before been lain withal: Iho’ 
not many Years ago a very great Perfon was of 
another mind, and thought (to ufe his own €3(7 
preffion)T/W the getting of a MiHden head Was 
fitch a piece of Drudgery, as w.?/ frore proper for 
# Porter than a Prince \ but this was only his 
Opinion, for moft Men, I a 'a fare, have other 
Sentiments. But, to our purpofe. 
1 he curious Enquiries into Nature’s 
have obfcrved,thar in young Maids,in the Sinks 
Fudoris, or in that place that is called the Neck 
of the Womb, is that Pendulous Production 
vulgarly called the Hymen, but more rightly 
the Clanftrum Dirginale,and in the French But- 
ton d* Rofei or Rofc-Bud4 becaufe it refem- 
CohfpiHTe'd. AriftotleV Mutter-piece 
bll the Bud of a iiok expanded, or a Clove- 
gilty flower, from whence is derived the word 
jyeflqrfp to.Deflower j and hence taking away 
of Virginity Is called Deflowering a Virgin ; 
irioft being of Opinion, that the Virginity is 
altogether loft, when this Duplication isfradu-1( 
red and diftjpated by Violence ; and when it 
is found perfed and intire, no Penetration has'* 
teen made. And it is the Opinion of feme 
learned Phyficians, that there is not either 
Hymen or Skin expanded, containing Blood 
in it, which divers imagine in thefirft Copula- 
tion flows from the fraduatedEspanfe. 
.Now this CUnfirnm Virginale^or Flower, is 
Cdmpofed of four Carbuncles,or little Buds like 
Myrtle berries, which in.Virgins are full and 
plump, but in Women flag and and 
thefe are placed in the four Angles of the Situ 
Tudoru, joyned together by little Membranes 
and Ligatures like Fibres, each of them fituate 
inthelnteftaclesor fpaces between eactiCarbun- 
de, with which, in a manner, they are propor- 
fidnably diftended, which Membranes being 
once defacerated, denote.De virgination \ and 
iriany inquifitive,and yet ignorant PcrfonSjfind 
ingtheir Wives defedive herein the firft Night* 
of their Marriage, have thereupon fufpeded 
their Chaftity, concluding another had been 
there before them. Now to undeceive fuch,l do 
'affirm, That inch Fra d ure may happen divers 
accidental wa\ s, as well as by Copulation with 
viz,, by violent Straining, Coughing, or Part I 
' Complete d. 
Sneezing, ifoppingot Urine, an 1 violent moti- 
on of the Vclfels, inforcibly fendingdowrt the 
Humours, which prdling for paffage, break 
the ligatures or Membrane, fo that the innrc- 
nefs, or fnAure of that which is commonly 
taken for the Virginity or Maidenhead, is no 
ablolure fign of Dilhonefiy 3 tho’ certain it is, 
that ’ns moref equently broke in Ccpulaiion 
than by any other means. 
1 have heart, that at an Aftize held in Rut- 
land, a young Man was try’d for a Rape, in 
forcing a Virgin \ when,after divers quellions 
asked, and the Mail fwearing pofitively to the 
matter, naming the time, place, and manner of 
the Adion, it was, uponirature Deliberation, 
refolved, that (he Ihould be fearched by a skil- 
ful Chyrurgeon and two Midwives, who were 
to make their Report upon their Oaths,which 
after due Examination, they accoidingly did, 
affirming. That the Membranes were intire, 
and net diJacemcd *, and that it was their G* 
pinion for that Realon, that her Body hadnot 
been penetrated •, which lo far wrought with 
the Jury, that the Prifoner wras acquitted 3 and 
the Maid afterward confeffitd, fhefworeagainft 
him out of Revenge, he having pioirifed to 
marry her, and afterwards declined it. And 
thus much lhali lufficcto be-fpoken concerning 
Virginity. 
I lhali now proceed to fay fomething of 
Nature’s Operation, in the Mutation of Sexes 
in the Womb. 70 
AriilotleN Mtj}er~picce 
This Point is of much necefiity, b > realbn of 
the different Opinions of Men relating to it. 
Therefore, before any thing pofitivccanbe af- 
ferted, it will heal ogether convenient to recite 
u’hat has he. n delivered, as well in the negative 
as the affirmative. And firfr, Severn* Plmeus.y 
who argues for the negative, writes thus : The 
Genital Partsof both S:xes,a;e fo unlike other, 
in Subllance," Compcfiuon, Situation, Figure, 
Aftion and life, that nothing is more unlike } 
and, by hnv much a!i other parts of the Body 
(the Breads excepted, which in Women foe 11- 
more, becauTe Nature ordain’d them for tack- 
ling the. In&ntJ have an ex aft refeoiblance, fo 
much the more do the Genital parts of one 
Sex, compared with the other, differ and if 
vtheir Figure be tlms different, much more is 
their life. The Venereal Appetite alfo pro- 
ceeds from different caules I for in xVlen it pro- 
ceeds from a defireof Emiflion/and in Women 
from a defire of Reception ; in Women alfb, 
the chiefeft of thofc parts arc concave, and apt 
to deceive, but in Men they are more porous, 
Thefe things confidered, 1 cannot but won- 
der (added he) how any one can imagine, that 
the Genital Member of Fecnale Births, Ihould 
be changed into tliofe that belong to Males, 
finceby thofe parts only the difhnftion of Sexes 
is made *, nor can 1 well repute the reafon of 
this vulgar Error to any thing, but the mi (take 
of unexpert Midwives, who have been deceived 
by the evil Conformation of the parts which Part I. 
Completed, 
iu fome Male Burhs may have happened to 
have had fome fmall Protrufion., not to have 
been dilcerned, as appeared by the Exam pie-of 
a Child Cilriftened at Paris, by the Name of 
Joan, as a Girl, which afterwards proved a 
Boy 5 and on the contrary, the over far Ex- 
tenfion of the Clytoris in Female Births, may 
have pccafioned the like Miftakes. Thus far 
Vhny proceeds in the Negative \ and yet not- 
withftanding what he has faid, there are di- 
vers learned Phyficians that have averted the 
AiEnnative, of which number Galen is one : 
A Man (faith he) is different from a Woman 
in nothing elfe, but having, his Genital Mem* 
hers without his Body, whereas a, Woman has 
them within : And this is certain, That if Na- 
ture having formed a Man, would convert 
him into a Woman, Hie hath no other Task 
to perform but to turn his Genital Member 
inward ; and lb to turn a Woman into*. a 
Man by the contrary Operation. But this 
is to be underftood of the Child, when it 
is in the Womb, and not perfectly form- 
ed } for, divers times Nature hath made a 
Female Child, and it hath fo remained in 
the Womb of the Mother for a Month 
or two, and afterwards, plenty of Heat 
encreafing in the Genital Members, they 
have ifibed forth, and the Child has be- 
come a Male, yet retaining fome certain 
Geflures, unbefitting the Mafculine Sex, as 
Female Actions, a Ihrill Voice, and a more AriftotleV Maffer-ptec 
Effeminate Temper in ordinary. ContrUri* 
wife, Nature having often made a Male, and 
cold Humours flowing to it, the Genitals have 
been inverted, yet flill retaining a Mafculine 
Air, both in Voice and Geflure. 
Now, tho’ both thefe Opinions are fupport* 
cd by feveral Reafons, yet I efleem the latte? 
more agreeable to Truth: For there is not that 
vaft difference between the Genitals of the two 
Sexes, as Pliny would have us believe there is, 
for the Woman has in a manner the famjp 
Member with the Man, tho’ they appear 
outwardly, but arc inverted for the Conveni- 
ency of Generation, the chief difference being, 
that one is folid, and the other porous - and 
that the principal Reafon of changing Sexes is, 
and muft be attributed to Heat or Cold, fud- 
denly or fhwly contrafted, which operates ac- 
cording to its greater or leiTer force. 
CHAP. XI. 
Dir ett sons and Cautions for Midwives '7 
and Fir ft) How a Midwife ought to he 
qualified. 
A Midwife, that would acquit her felf 
well in her Employment, ought by 
no means to enter upon it ra/hly, or unadvi- 
fedly, but with all imaginable Caution, con' Part I. 
C bmpleated. 
filering that (he is accountable for all the 
Mifchief that befalls through her wilful Igno- 
rance or Negleft; therefore let none take 
upon them this Office, barely upon pretence 
of their maturity of Tears, and Child-bear- 
ing ; for in fuch, for the moll part, there arc 
divers things wanting that ought to be ob- 
ferverf, which is the oceafion lb many Women 
and Children are loft : Now as for a Midwife 
in relation to her Perfon, thefe things ought 
Op be obferved, viz. She rnuft neither be too 
Did nor too Young, neither extraordinary 
Far, .nor weakened by Leannefs, but in a good 
habit of Bo ;y, nor fubjed: to Difeafts, Fears, 
nor hidden Fright, her Body well fhapedsand 
neat in her Attire, her Hands fmooth and 
frnall,her Nails ever pared fhort not ruffering 
any Rings to be upon her Fingers, during the 
time (lie is doing her Office, nor any thing 
upon her Wrifts that may obftruft 5 and to 
thefe*ought to be added Activity, and a con- 
venient Strength, with much caution and dili- 
gence ; not fubjetft to Drowfmefs, nor apt to 
he Irnnafienf. 
As for her Manners, (lie ought to be Cour- 
teous, Affable, Sober, Chafte, and not fubje& 
to Pafiion 5 Bountiful, and Coir psffionate to 
the Poor, and not Covetous when The attends 
upon the Rich. 
Tier Temper Cheanul and Pieatent, that 
Ihe may the better comfort her Patients in 
their dolorous Labours \ nor muft ffe at any 74 
' Ariftotle’s Ma/ttr-mce 
time make over much hade, thcf her bufmds 
fhould require her in another place,-left Hie do 
thereby irs anger the Mother or the Child. 
Of Spirit Hie ought to be wary, prudent, 
and cunning : Rut, above all, the Fear of God 
ought to have flic Afcendantin her Soul, which 
will give her both Knowledge and Diicpetion, 
as the Wife Man tells us. 
CHAP XII. 
Farther Direciic&s to teaching 
them what they ought to do, and jrhat 
• to avoid. 
Qlnce the Office of a Midwife has fb great an 
Influence upon the well or ill doing of Wo- 
men and Children, in the fir It pice let her 
be diligent to acquire whatever knowledge may 
be advantageous*© her Practice* never thinking 
her (elf fo perfedybut that IKe-may add to her 
Knowledge by Study aud Expeiience, yet 
never let her make any Experiment* at her 
Patients coil, nor apply any Remedies in that 
cafe, unlefs fhc hast either try’d them, or knows 
that thty’i! doni*harm, pra&ifmg neither upon 
Poor not Rich, but (peaking freely what fhe 
knows •, and by no means preferibing fuch Me- 
dicines as will caufe Abortion, though defired, 
which is a high degree of wickedncls, and may 
be termed Murder, If (lie be fent for by them Part 1. 
Completed. 
Ihe Knows not, let her be very cautious c er ihe 
goes, left by laying an Infectious Woman, (he 
endangers the (polling of others, as fometimes 
happens. Neither muft (he make her Houft 
a Receptacle for Women to dif- 
charge their Burdens in, left her Houfe get an 
if! name, and (lie thereby lofe her Practice. 
In laying of Women, if the Birth happen to 
be large and difficult, (lie muft not feem to be 
concern’d, but muft chear up the Woman, and 
-do what Ihe can to make the Labour eafy, for 
which (he may find Directions in the Second 
Part of this Book. 
She muft never think of any thing butdoing 
ivtFlj carding all things to be in a readinefs, 
that are proper for the Work, and theftreng- 
thenirlg of the Woman, and receiving of the 
Child. And, above all, let her take cave to 
the Woman from being unruly when her 
Throws are coining upon her, left file thereby 
endanger her own Life ai d the Child's.- 
She cruft alfo take care (he be not toohafty 
in her bufinefs, but wait God’s kifure for the 
Birth : And by no means let her (offer her (elf 
to be diforder’d by fear, though things fhould 
not go well, left it fiiould make her uncapabk 
Of giving that affiftance which the labouring 
Woman (bands in need of-, for, when we are 
moft at a lo(s, then there is moft need of Pru- 
dence to fet things aright. 
And now, beeaufe (lie cam never be a skilful 
Midwife, that knows nothing but what is to Ariftotle 7s Mafter-Ptece 
be feen outwardly, I fhall not think it amifs, 
but on the contrary highly neceiTary, with 
modefty todefcribe the Generative Parts of 
Women, as they have been Anatomized by 
the Learned, and Ihew the ufe of f«ch Veftels 
as are contributed to Generation. 
C H A P. XIII. 
Of the Genitals of W, omen, External and In- 
ternalj to the Etjfls oj the W'omb. 
IF it were not for Publick Benefit, efpeciiJJy 
of the Praditioners and Profeffors of the 
Art ofMidwifery, 1 (hould forbear to treat of 
thefe Secrets of Nature, bccaufe they may be 
turned by Tome lafcivious and lewd Per Tons in* 
to Ridicule, but they being abfolutely neceifa- 
ry to be known, in order to Fuhiick Good, 
I will not omit them, bee rue fome may make 
a wrong ufe of them. 
Thole Parts which offer themfelves to view at 
the bottom of the Belly are the 
or the Great Chink, with its Labia, or Lips, 
the Mans and the Hair. Thefe are 
called by the general Name of Pudenda, from 
Shamefac’dnefs, becaufc when they are bared, 
they bring Puaor or Shame upon a Woman. 
The Fijfura Magna reaches from the lower 
part of the Os Pubis, to within an Inch of Parc I. 
Compleated- 
the Amu: Bat it is kls and defer in Maids, 
than in thofe that have borne Children and 
has two Lips, which towards the Pubis grow 
thicker and more full, and meeting upon the 
middle of the Os Pubis, makes that rifing Hill 
that is called Moms Veneris, or the Hill of 
Venus. 
'The next things that offer, are the Nympha 
and Clytoris, the former of which it of a mem- 
hr any and filmy Subfiance, Spongy, Soft, and 
partly fiefhy, of a red Colour, in the [hape of 
W'ngs, two in number, the from their rife they 
are joyned in an Acute Single, producing there 
a flef°y Sub (lance, which deaths the Clytoris, 
and fame times' t hey fpread.ff far.- that Inc if on 
is required to make way for the Man's Infir ti- 
me nt of Generation. 
The Clytoris is a Subfiance in the upper part 
of the Divifion, where the two Wings concur, 
and is the Seat of Veneral Pleafure, being 
like a Yard m Situation, Subfiar.ee, Compofiti- 
on and Erechon, growing fometimes out oj 
the Body two Inches, but that never happens, 
nnlefs through extream Lust, or extraordinary 
Accident. 7 his Clytoris confifis of two fpon~ 
gy and skinny Bodies; containing a difinci Ori- 
ginal from the Os Pubis, the head of it being 
covered with a tender Skin, having a hole or 
Pajfage like the Penis, or Yard oj Man, tha 
not quite through, in which, and the bignefs, 
it only differs from it. 
The next things in courle are the flelhy Knobs AriitotlP? Mt(ter»j>iece_ 
and'the great Neck of the Womb : And thefe 
Knobs are behind the Wings/beitig folir in 
nnmber, and refemble Myrtle berries, being 
placed Quadrangular, one a*amft the other, 
and in this place is inferred to the Orifice of 
the Bladder, which opens it fie Iftmo thWPifThres- 
to evacuate the Urine, for fecuring of which 
from Cold, or the like Inconveniency, one of 
thefe Knobs are placed before it, and (hut's up 
the Pa (Page. 
The Lips of the Womb that nextappear, be- 
ing feparated, difclofe the Neck the eofand in 
them two tilings arc to be dbfefved, which is,. 
The Neck it (elf, and the Hymen, 'but more' 
properly the Clkkflhtm lrvrghides of which 1 
have before difeourfed. By the Neck of the 
Womb is to be under/tood the Channel that is 
between the aforefaid' Knobs, and the inner 
Bone of the Womb, Vhich receives the Vents 
like a Sheath • and that'it may the better be 
dilated from' the Pleafure of Procreation, the 
fubftance of it finewy, and a little fpongy, 
and in this Concavity are divers Folds, or Or- 
bicular Pleats, made by Tunicles, wrinkled 
like an expanded Rofe, in Virgins they plain- 
ly appear, but in Women that have often ufed 
Copulation, they are extinguiflied \ fb that the 
inner fide of the Womb’s Neck appears frnooth, 
and in old Women it becomes more hard and- 
grifly ; But tho5 this Channel be atfometimes 
writhed and crooked, (inking down, yet in the 
time of Copulation, Labour, or the Monthly Part I. 
Conrfl'Ated- 
79 
Purgations., it is erefted and extended, which 
?ver extenfijn occafioneth the pains in Child- 
birth. 
The Hymen or CJemflrum Virgin ale, is that 
which doles the Neck of the Womb •,being (as 
I have before cited in the Chapter relating to 
Virginity) broken in the firft Copulation, it* 
life being ready to fray the untimely, Courfts 
in Virgin;, than to au? other end ; and com- 
monly when it is bgjke in Copulation, or by 
any other Accident, a imi'l quantity of Blood 
flows from it, attending with fame little pain. 
From whence feme obferve, that between the 
Duplicity of the two Fabicl.es, whichomititute 
the Neck of the Womb, there are many Veins 
and Arteries running along, and arifmg from 
the Vefiels on both files the Thigh?, and f 
palling into the Neck of the Womb, being very 
large, and the realbn thereof is, Cr that r/e 
Neck of the Bladder requires to be filled with 
abundance of Spirits, thereby to be dilated, 
for Us better taking hold of the Vtnie, there 
being great heat required in fuch Motions, 
whicn becoming more Intenfe by the Aft of 
frication,.confumes a confidenable quantity of 
raoifture, la thrfupplying of which, large Vef- 
fels arebUogcther necefiary. 
Another caafe of the longue Is of thefe Vef- 
fclsis, by realbn the Menfes mike their way 
through them, which often occafions Wo nen 
with Child to continue their Purgations} for 
tho’ the Wonab be (liut up, yet the paflage ip AriitotleV JMafter-ptece 
the neck cf the Womb, through which thefe 
Vefifels pafs, are open : In this cafe there is 
farther to be obferved, that as foon as you 
penetrate the Pedendum, there appears two 
little Pits or Holes, wherein is contained an 
Humour,which by being expunged in time of 
Copulation, greatly delights the Woman. 
CHAP, XIV. 
A Description of the Womh's Fahrick, the pre- 
paring faffels, and Tefiicles in Women, a*, 
alfo of the different and Ejaculatory We(fe Is. 
TN the lower-part of the Hypogaftrion, 
A where the Hips are wideft and broadeft 
(they being greater and broader thereabout 
than thofc of Men) for which reafdnV they 
have likewife broader Buttocks than Men) 
is the Womb joyned to its Neck ; and is 
placed between the Bladder and ftraitGut, 
which keeps it from fwaying or rowling, 
yet gives it Liberty to ftrcich and dilate 
it felt, and again to contraft, as Nature 
in that cafe difpofes it ; Its Figure is in a 
manner round, and not unlike a Gourd, 
leffening a little, and growing more accute 
toward one end, being knit together by its 
|»roper Ligaments, its Neck likewife is joyn- 
ed by its own fubftance, and certain Mem- Part I. 
Compknted, 
branes that fallen it to Os Sacrdnty and [he 
Share-Bdne. As to its Ia?;g nets, that a uch 
differs in Women epicialiy the; difference 
is great between fucb as have borne Chil- 
dren, and thoie that have borne none : In 
fubftance it is To thick, mat it exceeds a 
Thumb's breadth, which after Cone* pdon is 
fo far from decreafing, that it augments to 
a greater proportion, and the more to fireng- 
then it, it is interwoven with Fibres over- 
thwart, which are both (Irak and winding, 
and its proper VefTels are Veins, Arteries and 
Nerves: and amongft thefe there are two lit- 
tle Veins, which pals from the Spermatick 
VeiTels to the bottom of the Womb, and 
two larger from the Hypogaftricks, Which 
touch both the bottom and the Neck •, the 
mouth of thefe Veins piercing as far as the in* 
ward Concavity. 
"The Womb hath alfo two Arteries on both 
JideSy the Spermatick Feffels and the Hypo- 
gafiricky which ft HI accompany the AeinSy and 
bejtdeSy there are divers divers little Nerves, 
that are knit and■ imwined in the form of a 
Net, which are alfo extended throaghoatyeven 
from the bottom to the Pudenda themfelves, 
being chiefly placed for Senfe and Pie afar ey 
moving in Sympathy between the Head and 
Womb. • • 
Now it is to be farther noted, that by reafon 
of the two Ligaments that hang on either fide 
the Womb, from the Share bone, pierce* AriflotJeV iVhfter-piece 
ing through the f;erj,tmaumi and jayncd to 
the Bone it (elf, the Womb is moveable upon 
fundry occafions, often falling Ipw* pr-rifing 
high. As for the Neck of the Womb, it is 
of an exquilite feeling, fo that if it be at any 
time out of order, by being troubled with a 
Schirrofity, oter Fatuefs, Moifture, or Relax- 
ation, the Womb is fabjeded thereby to Bar- 
rennefs: In thole that are with Child, there 
frequently flays a moift gluttonous Matter in 
the entrance to facilitate the Birth ; for, at 
the lime of Delivery, the Mouth of the Womb 
is opened to fucli a widenels, as is conformable 
to the bignefvof the Child, faltering an equal 
Dilation from the bottom to the top. 
As for the Preparatory or vSpermatick Vef 
fels in Women, they confifl of two Veins 
and two Arteries, not differing from thole in 
a Man, but only of their largenefs and man- 
ner of Infertation } for the number of Veins 
and Arteries, are both the (ame as in Menv 
the right Vein ilfuing from the Trunk of the 
hollow Vein defeending, and the left, from 
the Emulgent Vein and on the fide of 
them arc two Arteries, Which grows from 
the dorta. 
As to the length and breadth of thefe 
Velfels, they are narrow, and fliortcm- in 
Women than ii? Men ; only obferve* they 
are more wreathed and contorted than in 
Men, as llirinking together, by reafon -of 
their fhortnefs, that they may by their, ioofe^ 
r Pa it I. 
Compleatei, 
nefs be better ftretched our, when occa- 
lion requires it. And thefe Vettels in Women 
are carried with an iniired courfc through 
the letter Guts to the 1 ettide*, but arc in the 
mid way divided into two Branches, the 
greater going to the Stones, conftituiing in 
various or winding.Body, and wonderfully 
inoculating * the letter Branch ending in the 
Womb, in the fide of which it difperfeth it 
fed, arid especially at the higher part of the 
bottom of the Womb, for its Noiuittimeot, 
and that part of the Comics may purge 
through the VetteU j and feeing the Telticles 
in Women are feared near the Womb, for 
that caufe thefe Veiiels fall not from the Pe- 
ritonmm, neither make they much Railage, as 
in Men, nor extending themfelves to the Chare- 
bone. 
The Stones in Women, commonly called 
the Teffic!e«, perform not the fame Adion 
as in Men *, they are alio different in their 
location,bigneis,temperament, jubilance, form, 
and covering. As for the place of their 
feat, it is in the hollownefs of the Abdo* 
men, neither are they pendulous, but reft 
upon the Mufcles of the Lyons, fo that they 
may, by contrading the greater heat, be 
more Fruitful, their Office being to contain 
the Ova or Egg, which being impregnated 
by the Man’s oeed, ingenders Man *, yet 
they differ from thofe'of Men in Figure, 
by reafon of their lefnefs or fiatnds at 84 
ArilfotlMafter-ptece 
each end, nut being fo round or oval. The 
external Superficies being likecvife more un- 
equal, appearing like the Competition of a 
great many Knots and Kernels mixed together; 
there is difference alfo in their fublfaiice, they 
being much more loft and pliable- loofe, and 
not fo well compared. 
Their bignefs and temperament being like- 
wife different, for they are much colder and 
leSer than thofe in Men pa's for their cover- 
ing orinclofure, it differs extrearvdy •, for, as 
Mens are wrapped in divers funicles, by rea- 
Ton they are externally Pendulous, and (übjeft 
to divers I. juries, unlefs fo fenced by Nature \ 
fo Women’s Stones being Internal, and lefs 
fubjed to Cafualty, arc covered with one Tu- 
nicle or Membrane, which though it clofely 
cleave to them, yet are they like wife half co- 
vered with the Pertton&Hm. 
The Ejaculatory Veffcls are two obfeure 
Paffages, one on .either fide, nothing differing 
from the Spermatick Veins in Subhar.ce ; rife 
they do, on one part from the bottom of 
the Womb, not reaching from their other 
Extremity, cither to the Stones, or to any 
ether part, but ibut up, and impalpable, ad- 
hering to the Womb, as the Colon dues to 
the blind Gur, and winding half way about } 
though the Tefficles arc remote to them, 
and touch them not, yet they are tyed to 
them by certain Membranes, refembling the 
Wings of a Butt, through which certain Van i. 
Lonfple 'At ed 
Veins and Arteries parting from the end of 
the Terticles, may be termed he?e to have 
their Railages proceeding from the corners 
of the Womb to the Terticles, and are ac- 
counted the proper Ligaments, by which the 
Terticles and Womb are united, and rtrong- 
]y knit together *, and thefe Ligaments in 
Women arethe Cremafters in Men •, of which 
\ fhall fpeak more largely, when 1 come to 
defcribe the Mafculine Parts conducing to Ge- 
neration. 
CHAP. XV. 
A JDifconrfe of the Vfe and Aft ion of the fe- 
deral Tarts in appropriated to Ge- 
See. 
THE Externals, commonly called the Vu- 
denday are dcfigncd to cover the great 
Orifice, and that to receive the Penis, or 
Yard, in the Ad of Coition, and give paffage 
to the Birth and Urine. The ufeofthe Wings 
and Knobs, like Myrtle berries, are for the fe- 
curity of the internal parts, (hutting the Ori* 
fice and Neck of the Bladder, and by their 
Swelling up, caufe Tituhtion and Delight 
in thole Parts, and alfo to obftrud the unvo- 
luntary palfage of the Urine. 
The Adion of the Clytoris in Women, AMltotlCr Majter-piece 
is like that of the Penis in Men, viz.. Erecti- 
on : And ies cater etici is like the Glam of 
the Penis, and h«s the fa ne Name. And as 
the Ghms in Man is the Seat of the greateft 
in Conception, fo is this in Women, 
whence ’tis-calkd Amorh dulceda, & ey£firnm 
Fetittij. 
The Adion and life of the Neck of the 
Womb, is equal with that of the Penis, viz.. 
Eredion, oCcafidned divers ways. For firft 
in Copulation, it is creded and made flrait 
for the paffage of the Penis to the Womb. 
Secondly, whilft the Paflage is repleated 
with Spirit and Vital Blood, it becomes more 
ftrait for embracing the Penis : And as for 
the Convcniency of Eredion it is two fold. 
Firft, becaule if the Neck of the Womb was 
not ereded, the Yard could have no conve- 
nient padage to the Womb. Second ly, it bin* 
ders any hurt or damage that might enfue, 
through the violent Coacuflion of the Yard, 
during the time ©f Copulation. 
As for the Veflels that paf> through the 
Keck of the Womb, their Office is to re- 
pleni/li it with Blood and Spirit, that if ill, as 
the Moiflure confumcs by the heat contradcd 
in Copulation, it may by thole Veflels be re- 
newed. But their chief bufmefs is, to convey 
Nutriment to the Womb. 
The Womb has many Properties attributed 
to it, as Firft, Retention of the fecundated Egg, 
and this is properly called Conception. Part 1. 
Completed 
Secondly, Tochcrilh and nourilli it, till Na- 
ture has framed the Child, and brought it to 
Ferleftion. And then it ftrongly operates in 
fending forth the Birth, when the timeof its re- 
maining there is expired, dilating it felf in a 
wonderful manner ; And fa aptly removed 
from the Senfes, that nothing of In,u'ry can pro- 
ceed from thence, retaining in it felf a power 
arid frrength to operate and call: forth the 
Birth, unlefs by accident it he render’d defici- 
ent j and then, tofrrengthen and enable if. 
Remedies muft be applied by SkilfußHands j 
pircftions for the applying of which, frail be 
given in the Second Fart. 
The ufe of the preparing VelTelsJs |hi< : 
The Arteries convey the Blood to the 
cks, part whereof is fpent in the Notirifrmsnt 
of them, and the Prodmfrion of thole Utils Blad- 
ders (in all things refembling Eggs) through 
which the VPraparantiaran, and are obli- 
terated in them. And as for the Veins, their 
Office is to bring back what Blood remains 
from the ufes aforefaid. 
The Vefiels of this kind are much (hotter in 
Women than in Men, by realbn of their near- 
nefsto the Stones, which defed is yet made 
good bvthc many intricate windings to which 
thofe Vefiels are fuhjeds, for in the middle way 
they divide themfelves into two Branches tho’ 
different in magnitude, for one being greater 
than the*other, pafleth to the Stones 
'The Stones in' Women are very, uleful* for A flit Ot te's Mafier-piece 
where they are defediive, Generation»work is 
at an end y for although thofe little Bladders 
which are on their outward Superficies,. Con- 
tain nothing of Seed, as the F6l!owers,of Ga- 
len and Hipocrates did crronioufly imagine, 
yet they contain feveral-Eggs, (generally to 
the number of twenty in each TefticleJ one 
of which being impregnated by the molt fpi- 
rituous part of the Man’s -Seed, in the Adi of 
Coition, defcends through the Ovi-dudls into 
the wdmb, and from thence, in procefs of 
time, becomes a living Child. 
Their* Figure is pot altogether round, but 
fiat, and deprelfed On the fiues ;in their lower 
part Oval, but in their upper, where the Blood 
Veffels enter them, more plain \ and have 
only one Membrane about them, that the heat 
may have the eafier actefs. 
, i ■ 
CHAR XVI. 
Of the Organs of Generation in Aian. 
HAving given you a Defcription of the Or* 
gans of Generation in Woman, with the 
Anatomy of the Fabric of the Womb, I (hall 
now (to cotrpleat the firft part of this Treatife) 
give you a'fo the' Anatomy of the Organs of 
Generation in Man, and how they are fitted 
to the ufe tor which Nature defign’d them. Part 11. 
Cj ow? pts (it • 
The Inflrament of Generation in Man(coin- 
monty called theTard, and in the Latin Penis, 
4 pedendo, becaufe it hangs without the Belly) 
is in an Organicai Part, which conlifts of Skin, 
Tendons, Veins, Arteries, Sinews, and great 
Ligaments •, and is long and round, and on the 
upper fide flat ti defeated under theOfa Pubis, 
and ofdaind by Nature partly for Evacuation 
of Urine, and parti y for conveying the Seed in- 
to the Matrix, For which end, it is full of 
Tmall Pores, thro’ which the Seed paflfes into 
it from the Pejlcula Semlnalif, and alfo the 
Neck of the Vefica Vrinaria, which pours out 
the Urine when they make Water. Befidesthc 
common parts as the Cuticle, the Skin, and 
the Membrana Carnofa, it hath thefe proper 
or internal parts, vH- the two Nervous Bodies. 
the Septum the Vrethra,the Gians. Four Muf 
cles, and the^jfils. The Nervous Bodies (fo 
called) are furrounded with a thick white ner- 
vous Membrane, but their inmofl fubftance is 
fpongy, confiding chiefly of Veins, Arteries, 
and nervous Fibres, interwoven together like a 
Net: And when the Nerves are filled with 
Animal Spirits, and the Arteries with hot and 
fpiritous Blood, then the Penis is diflended, 
and becomes EreA »bat when the influx of the 
Spirits ceafcs, then the Blood and remaining 
Spirits are abforded by the Veins, and fo the 
Penis becomes Umber and flaggy. Below thefe 
Nervous Bodies is the Vrethra, and whenever 
the Nervous Bodies fwcll, it fwslls alfo- }he Mulcles at Hie J ents are lour v-ttv o ihoruti 
arifing from.the Coxendix, and ferving its Ere* 
dion, and for that reafonare called Ereftores, 
two larger, proceeding from the Spintteroithe 
Anns, and fen?e to dilate the Vrethra for Eja- 
culation of the Seed, and are all calkd.Dilatan' 
tes, or Widenefs. At the end of the Penis is the 
Clans, covered with a very thin Membrane, by 
means of which, andnts Nervous Subfiance, it 
becomes moft exquifitely fenfible, and is the 
principal Seat of Pleafure in Copulation. The 
outn.oft Covering of the Clans is .called Pra- 
putmm, a praputando, from being cut off, it be- 
ing that which the Jews cut off in Circumcifion, 
and it is tied In the lower part of it to the Clans, 
by the Froemtrn or Bridle. The Penis is alfo 
Hocked with Veins, Arteries and Nerves. 
The Te/Hcidi, or Stones (fo called, becauie 
teflifying one to be a Man) elaborate the Blood 
brought to them by the Spermatick Arteries in- 
to Seed : They have Coats of two Torts, pro- 
per and common ; the common are two, and 
inveft both the Tejies. T.heoutermoft of the 
common Coats confiftsof the O'ntlcttla, or true 
Skin, and is called the Scrotum, hanging out of 
the Abdomen like a Purfe. The innermoft is 
the Membrana Carnofa. The proper Coats 
are alfo two, the outer called EUotroides, or 
Vtginales, the inner Albuginea, into the outer 
are inferred the Cremafter *, to the upper part 
of the 'Tefles are fixed the Epididymedes, or 
Pad at a, from whence arife tikfA Different 
Ariitptle’i Mafter -piece Part I. 
CompkateJ. 
91 
tia, or Ejaculatoria *, which, when they come 
near the neck of the bladder depofite the Seed 
into the Veficiil# Seminalcs. Thefe Peficuh* 
Semiv *ks are two,'each like a bunch of Grapes, 
and emit the Seed into the Vrethrai in the aft 
of Copulation. 
Near them are the Troftata, about the big- 
nefs of a Wall-nut, and joyns to the neck of 
the bladder; Authors cannot agree about the 
ufe of them; but moil are of Opinion,that they 
afford an oily, flippery, and fat humour, to be* 
fmear the Vrethra, whereby to defend the 
fame from the Acrimony of the Seed and Urine, 
But the Veffels which convey the blood to the 
Teftes, out of which the Seed is made, are the 
Arteria Spermatica, and are alfo two. The 
veins which carry out the remaining blood arc 
two, and have the name of Vena Spermatica. 
CHAP. XVI. 
A Word of Advice to both Sexes j being 
feveral Dirtftions refpefting the Aft «/ 
* Copulation, 
SINCE Nature has implanted in every 
Creature a natural Defire of Copulation, 
for the increafe and propagation of its kind ; 
and more efpeeially in Man, the Lord of the 
Creation, and Mate- piece of Nature, that 92 
Ariftotle’i Matter-piece 
to noble a iJiece ot tuc Divine WorKmanjhip 
might not perilh *, fomething ought to be faid 
concerning that, it being the Foundation ol all 
that we have hitherto been treating of *, fince 
without Copulation there can be no Genera- 
tion. Seeing therefore there depends fo much 
upon it, I thought it neceffary (before 1 con- 
cluded this firft Part) to give fuch Direftion?-< 
to both Sexes for the performing of that Aft, 
as may make it efficatious to the end for which 
Nature defign’d it. But it (hall be done with 
that caution, as not to offend the chafteft Ear, 
nor put the fair Sex to the trouble of a Bluff, 
in reading it. 
Firft therefore, when a married Couple,from 
a defire of having Children, are about to 
make ufe of thofe means that Nature has or- 
dain’d to that purpofe, it would be very pro- 
per tocheriff the Body with Generous Refto- 
ratives, that fo it may be brisk anti vigorous : 
And if their Imaginations were charm’d with 
fweet and melodious Airs, and all Cares and 
Thoughts of Bufinefs drown’d in a glafs of ra- 
cy Wine, that their Spirits may be rais’d to 
the higheft pitch of Ardour and Joy, it would 
not be amifs: For any thing of Sadncfs, Trod* 
ble and Sorrow, are Enemies to the delights of 
Venus*, and if at fuch times of Coition, there 
fliould be Conception, it would have a malevo- 
lent effeft upon the Children. But tho’ Ge- 
nerous Reftoratives may be us’d for the invigo- 
rating Nature yet all Excess is carefully to be Part 11. 
Compledted. 
avoided ; for ic will allay the brisknels of the 
Spirits, and render ’em dullwnd languid, and 
alio hinders digeftion, and fo muft needs be an 
Enemy to Copulation : For it is Food mode- 
rately taken that is well digefted, and what is 
well digefted creates good Blood, and gooti 
Blood creates good Spiritstand enables a Man 
with vigour and adivity ft perform thediftates 
of Nature. It is alfb highly ncceflary that in 
their mutual Embraces they meet each other 
with an equal Ardour : For if their Spirits flag 
on either paft, they will fall fhort of what Na- 
ture requires j and the Woman cither mils of 
Conception, or elfe the Children prove weak 
in their Bodies, or defective in their Under- 
ftandings. And therefore Ido advife ’em, be- 
fore they begin their Conjugal Embraces, to 
invigorate their mutual Defires, and make their 
Flames burn with a fiercer Ardour, by thole 
endearing ways that Love can better teach 
than I can write. 
And when they have done what Nature can 
require, the Man muft have a care he does not 
part tor> foon from the Embraces of his Wife, 
left feme Hidden interpofingCold jfhould flrike 
into the Womb, and occalion a Mifcarriage, 
and thereby deprtve them of the Fruit of 
their kabour. 
And when after Tome fmall convenient time 
the Man has withdrawn himklf, let the Woman 
gently betake her felf to Reft, with all imagi* 
nable ferenity and compofurs of. Mind, free 94 
Ariftotle’j Ma(}er~piece 
from all anxious and dilbmbing Thoughts, or 
any other kind cf Perturbation whatsoever : 
And tet her, as much as fhe can, forbear turn- 
ing her fell from that fideon which Ihe fir ft 
repofes: And by all means hthen avoid Cough* 
ing and Sneezing, which, by irs violent Con* 
culiion of the Body,is a great Enemy To Con- 
c ption, if it happen toon after the Ad of 
Coition. 
And thus I have finifhed the firft Part of 
this Trcatife: which, I hope, will bet® the 
honeft and fober Reader's Satisfaction. 
Tet thy Intention in thy Reading he, 
T'improve aright the fife of Mo defty : 
u4nd re die nit not Nature's Secrets, whicha 
Jf rightly us'd, wilt make thee truly Rich; 
Then Reader, in thy Reading to the end. 
Ton'llfindContentyfor which this Book u Rerid* 
The End ofthe firft Part. ARISTOTLE's 
MASTER-PIECE 
COMPIEATED. 
PART II 
SEI N G 
A Private Looking-Glafs 
FOR THE 
FEMALE SEX. 
X ft EAT! N O, 
Qf the federal Maladies incident to the 
W O M 7?, with proper Remedies 
for the Cure of Each. 
CHAP. I. 
Of the Womb in General* 
AL T H O’ in the Firft Part 1 have fpoken 
fomething of the Fabrick of the Womb, 
yet being in this Second Part to Treat mere 
Particularly thereof, and of the various Dift- 
empers and Maladies it is fubjeft to, 1 fhall Ariftotle’r Mafter-piece 
not think it Tautology, to give you, by way 
of Introduction, a general Description both of 
its Scituation and Parts but rather think this 
Second Part would be imperfed without it. To 
that it can by no means be Omitted 
fmee in it I am to Ipeak of the Quality of the 
JHknftruoui, Blood. 
Firft, Touching the Womb; Of the Gre- 
cian it is called ME T R )i, the Mother} or 
D E L P HOV 5, faith Prefcum, becaufe it 
makes us all Brothers. 
11 is placed in the Hypogaflrium, or lower 
part of the Body, in the Cavity called Pelvis, 
having the ftreight Gut on onet fide to keep it 
from the hardnefs of the Backbone; and the 
Bladder on the other fide, to defend it from 
Blows. The form or figure of it is like a Viril 
Member, only this excepted, the Manhood is 
outward and the Womanhood within. 
It is divided into the Necx and the Body, 
The Neck confifts of a hard flefhy Subftancej 
much like a Cartilage at the end whereof 
there is a Membrane tranfverfly placed, called 
Hymen, or Eugion. Near alfo unto the Neck, 
there is a prominent Pinacle, which is called 
of Mont anus, the Door of the Womb, becaufe 
it preferveth the Matrix from Cold and 
Dud. Of the Grecians it is called KLETO- 
RIS \ of the Latins, Praputium Muliebre, 
becaulc the Jervljh Women did abufethis part 
to their own mutual Luft, as St. Paul fpeaks, 
Romans, i, 26. Part 11. 
Completed, 
The Body of the Womb is that wherein thc 
Child is conceivedand this is not altogether 
round, but dilates its felf into two Angles, thc 
outward part ofit is Nervous, and full of Si- 
news, which are the caufe of its motion *, but 
inwardly it is flefhy. 
It is fabuloufly Reported, That in the cavity 
of the Womb there are even divided Cells, or 
Receptacles for humane Seed. But thofc that 
have feen Anatomies, do know there are but 
two \ and likewife, that thofe two are not di- 
vided by a Partition, but only by a Line, or 
Suture running through the midll of if. In the 
right fide of the Cavity, by reafon of thc heat 
of the Liver, Males arc conceived. In the left 
fide, by the coldnels of the Spleen, Females are 
begotten. And thisdomoft of our Moderns 
hold for an infallible Truth •, yet Hippocrates 
holds it but in the General : For in whom 
(faith he] the Spermatick Vefiel of thc right 
fide comes from the Reins, and the Spermatical 
Vefiel of the left fide from the hollow Vein in 
them Males are conceived in the left fide, and 
Females in therigbt. Well therefore, may I 
conclude with the faying of Empidocksr Such 
fometimes is the power of the Seed, that a 
Male may be conceived in the left fide as 
well as in the right. In the bottom of the Ca- 
vity there are little holes called thtCotyledovej 
Which are the end of certain Veins and Ar- 
teries, ferving in breeding Women to convey 
faftenanee to thc Child, which is received by Ariftotle’s Ma/ter-ptece 
the Umbilical Vein ; and others to carry the 
Courts into the Matrix. 
Now, touching the Menftruals, they are 
Defined to be a Monthly Flus-of Excremen* 
titious and Unprofitable Blood. 
In which we are to Note, That the matter 
flowing forth is Excrernentitious •, which is to 
be underftood of the Supsrplus or Redundan- 
cy of it: For it is an Excrement in quantity,, 
in quality being pure and corrupt, like 
the Blood in the Veins. 
And that the menftruous blood is pure, and 
Amply of it felfr all one in quality with that 
in the Veins, is proved two ways: Fir ft, from 
the final caufc of the blood, which is the pro- 
pagation and confcrvation of Mankind *, that. 
Man might be conceived ; and being begotten, 
he might be comforted and preferved, both in 
the Womb and cut of the Womb., And all, 
will grant it for a Truth, that the Child, 
while k is in the Matrix, is nourUhed with 
the blood \ and it is as true, That being out 
of, the Womb it is ftill nourifhed in the 
fame \ for the Milk is nothing but the men-, 
ifruous blood made white in the brefts } and 
lam fura, Woman’s Milk is not thought to be 
venemous, but of a 
ble to the tender nature of the Infant. Se- 
condly, it is proved.to be. pure from the. Ge- 
neration of U* it being, the Superfluity, of the 
kft .AUacnt of the Fkfhly Partf* Part II 
Completed. 
99 
It may be Objeded, if the blood be not of 
a hurtful Quality, How can it caufe fuch vc*' 
nemous Effeds \ as if the fame fall upon Tree* 
and Herbs, it maketh the one barren, and mor- 
tifies the other : Averoes writes, That if a 
Adan accompany with any menftruous Woman 
if file conceive, (lie fhall bring forth a Leper, 
I anfwer, this Malignity is contracted in the 
Womb, for the Woman wanting native heat 
to digeff this Superfluity, fends it to the Ma- 
trix, where feating it felf until the Mouth of 
the Womb be dilated, it comes corrupt and. 
venemous, which may eafily be, confidering. 
the heat and moiftnefsofthe place. This blood 
therefore, being out of his Veffels, offends in 
quality : In this Senfe let us underftand Blit 
?;y, Fermliens, Florm, and the rdf of that,. 
Torrent. But if Frigidity be the caufe why 
.Women cannot digeft all their daft NoDrift* 
ment, and confequently that they have th&fe 
Purgations \ it remains to give a reafon why 
they are of fb cold a Conftitution more than 
Men j which is this : 
The natural end of Men and Women’s Being 
is to propagate, and this Injundion was impo- 
sed upon them by GO D at their firft Crea- 
tion* and again after the Deluge. Now Ira 
the A& of Conception, there muff be an A- 
gent and a Patient; for if they be both cve.y* 
way of one Gonftitution, they cannot pa- 
gate ; Man therefore.is Hot and P ;, Wo 
man. Cold aid Moift j h§ is ffis IOO 
Ariftotle’s M&fter-piece 
the Patient, or weaker Ycffcl, that ffie ffiould 
be fubjed to the Office of the Man. It is ne- 
ceffary the Woman ffiould be of a cold Con- 
ftitution, becaufe in her is required a redun- 
dancy of matter for the Infant depending on 
her : For otherwife, if there were not a Super- 
plus of Nourifhment for the Child more than 
is convenient for the Mother, then would the 
Infant detrad, and weaken the principal parts 
of the Mother •, and like unto the Fiptr, the 
Generation of the Infant would be the Deftru- 
dion of the Parent. 
Thefe Monthly Purgations continue from 
the 15th Year to the 46th or yoth. Yet of- 
ten there happens a fuprdlion, which is ei- 
ther Natural or Mcrbiftsal; They are natu- 
rally fuppreft in breeding Women, and fuch 
2s give fuck. The Morbtfical fupprdTion falls 
now into our A4;thod to bs fpoken of. 
CHAP. 11. 
Of the Heter/fton of the Matfth 
*lp H E Sappreffion of the Terms is an inter- 
ception of that accuftoraary Evacuation of 
Blood, which every Month fhould come from 
the Matrix, proceeding from the Inftrument 
or matter vitiated. The part affected is the 
Womb, and that of it fetf, or by Confent; _ Part 11. 
Completed- 
' Catfe. The Caufeof this Suppreflion is 
Clther External or Internal. The External 
Caufe may be heat or drynefs of the Air, im- 
moderate watching,great labour, vehement mo* 
tion, &c. whereby the matter is fo confuircd, 
and the body fo exhaufled, that there is not a 
Superplus remaining to be expelled ; as is Re* 
corded of the Zmaz.ones, who being aftive, 
and always in motion, had their Fluxions very 
little, or not at all. Or it may be caufed by 
Cold *, which is mod frequent, making the 
Blood Vifcous and Grofs, condenfing and bind- 
ing up the Paflagcs that it cannot How forth. 
The Internal Caufe is either Infb umental 
or Material; in the Womb or in the Blood. 
In the Womb it may be divers ways \ by 
Apofthumes, Tumours, Ulcers, by the narrow- 
nefs of the Veins and Padages, or by the Omen' 
nm or Kell, in fat Bodies, prefling the Neck 
of the Matrix, but then they muft have Her* 
nia Zirba’ii \ for in Mankind the Kell rcacheth 
not fo low. By over-much Cold or Heat, 
the one vitiating the Adion, and the other 
confuming the Matter, By an evil Compofl- 
tion of the Uterine Parts, by the Neck of the 
Womb being turned afide, and fometimes,tho' 
rarely, by a membrane, or excrclfence of fielh 
growing about the mouth or neck of the Womb, 
blood may be in fault two ways, in Quad* 
tity or in Quality; In Quantity, when it is fo 
that there is not a Superplus left 
as in viragoes and viril Women, who through 102 
AnttotleV Majitr-ptece 
their heat and ftrength of Nature, digeft and 
confume all their lall Nourifliment j as Hip- 
per ate s writes of who being exiled 
by her Husband Pythea, her Terms were fup- 
preft, her Voice changed, and had a beard with:' 
the Countenance of a Man. But thefe I judge 
rather to be Anthropophagy Women-eaters, 
than Women-breeders, becaufe they confume 
one of the Principles of Generation, which 
gives a Being to the Worldj viz., the Men- 
Jtiruousblood. The blood likcwife may be 
confumed,and eonfequently the Terms ftayed, 
by bleeding of the Nofe, by a Flux of the E- 
merhoides, by a Dyfemeria, commonly called 
the bloody Flux \ by many other Evacuations- 
and continual and chronical Difeafes. Second- 
ly, the matter may be vinous in quality •, as 
foppofe it be Sanguineous, Phlegmatical, Byle- 
ous, or Melanchollious every one of thefe, if 
they offend in Grofnefs, will caofe an Obflru- 
ction in the Veins. 
Signti Signs manifefting the Difcafe, are 
pains in the Head, Neck, Back and Loins 
rinefs of the whole but efpecially of the- 
Hips and Legs, by reafon of a Confinity which' 
the Matrix hath with thefe parts trembling 
of the Heart. Particular Signs arc thefe, if the 
Suppreflion proceeds cf Cold, (he is Heavy, 
Sluggifli, of a pale Colour, and has a flow Fulfil 
Venus combates are neglefted, the Urin crude, 
watfrifh, and much in quantity ; the Excre- 
of tfce Gels ufaally are retained. If of Part 11. 
heat, the Signs are contrary to thofc but now 
recited. If the retention be natural, and come 
of Conception* this may be known by drink* 
ing of Hydromel, that is, Water and Honey, 
after Supper going to Bed, and by the cfFeft 
which it worketh ; for, after the taking of.it, 
if fhe feels a beating pain upon the Navel and 
lower parts of the Belly, it is a fign Hie hath 
Conceived, and that the Suppreffion is Natu- 
ral : if not, then is it vicious, aad ought Me* 
dicinally to be taken away. 
Progneftich. With the evil quality of the 
Womb fhe whole Body Hands charged ; but 
efpecially the Heart, the Liver, and the Brain,, 
arid betwixt the Womb and thefe three 
cipal Parts, there is a lingular Content. Firft, 
the Womb communicates to the Heart by the 
mediation of thole Arteries which come from 
uforta : Hence the Terms being fuppreft, will 
enfue Paintings,, Swoonings, intermiffion of 
Pulfe, reflation of Breath: it com* 
municates to the Liver, by the Veins derived 
from the hollow Vein: Hence will follow Ob- 
ftruftions, Cachexies, Jaundice,Dropfles, hard* 
nefs of Spleen. Thirdly, It communicates; 
to the Brain, by the Nerves and Membranes 
of the back. Hence will arife Epileplies, Apo- 
plexies, Ffelo2i.es, ir.elancholly Paflion, pain 
in the after parts of the Head, Fearfainefs, In- 
ability of fpeaking, Well therefore, may T 
conclude with .Hippocrates if the Months be 
fuppreflr, many dangerousDifeafcs will follow. 
Compleated- 104 
AnttotieV Ma/ter-ptece 
Cure. In the Cure of this, and of all the 
other following Affedh, 1 will obferve this 
order. The Cure (ball be taken from Chirur 
gical, Phermaccutical, and Dieuretical means. 
This Suppreflion is a Plethorick Affeft, and 
rouft be taken away by Evacuation : And 
therefore firfl we will begin with Phlebotomy, 
In the midft of the mcnftrual period, open the 
Liver vein; and for the reverfion of the Hu- 
mour, two days before the wanted Evacuation, 
open the Saphena on both feet. If the repletion 
be not great, apply Cupping-glafies to the legs 
and thighs. And altho’ there be no hope to 
remove the Suppreflion (as in (bine the Cotyle- 
clones are fo clofed up, that nothing but Copu- 
lation will open them) yet it will be conveni- 
ent, as much as may be, to eafe Nature of 
her Burden, by opening the Emerhoid Veins 
with a Leach. After Phlebotomy, let the Hu- 
mours be prepared and mack Fluxilc with Sy- 
rup of Stachas, Calamint, Betany, Hyfop, Mug- 
voort, Hare-hound, Fumetary, Maiden hair: 
Bathe with Camomile, Penny royal, Savin, 
Pay-leaves, Jnniper-berries, Rue, Marjoram, 
Feverfew. Take of the leaves of Nep, Maid- 
en-hair, Succory, Betony, of each one bandfuls 
make a Decodinn : Take thereof three Oun- 
ces 5 Syrup of Maiden hair, Mugwort, Sue• 
cory, mix of each half an Ounce. After (he 
comes out of the Bath, let her drink it off. 
Purge with Fil. de Jgaric. Elephang, Cock 
Ecetia. Galen in this Cafe comments PiluU Part IT. 
C ample ate d. 
105 
de Hicra cum Colocintlda \ for as they be 
proper to purge the humour offending, fo 
alio they do open the paffages of the Womb, 
and {Lengthen the faculty by their Aromati- 
cal quality. 
If the Stomach he let her 
take a Vomit j yet fuch a one as may work 
both ways, left working only it 
Jhould too much turn back the humour. Take 
Trochisks of Agarick, 2 Drams; infufe them 
in three Ounces of Oxirnel, in which diffolve 
of the Ele chiary Diafarurn, one fcruple and half 
Benedic. Laxat. half an Ounce. Take this 
after the manner of a purge. 
u4fter the humour hath been purged, pro- 
ceed to more proper and forceahle Remedies. 
Take Trochisks of Myrrh, one dram and 
half \ Parfley-feed, Caff or, Rhinds o/Ca/La, 
of each one Scruple ; and of the ExtraSh 
of one Scruple and half 5 Masks xo 
Crains 5 With the juice of Smallcdge, make 
twelve Pills., take two every or after 
Supper going to Bed. Take of Cinnamon, 
half an Ounce, Roots o/Smirnium, Valerian, 
Ariftolcchia, of each two Drams. Roots of 
Afrtun, one Dram *, Caflor, Saffron, of each 
2 Scruples 5 Spec.diambrae,2 Drams ; Trochisks 
of Myrrh, 4 Scruples ; Tartari, Vitrolati, 
2 Scruples j make all into a ponder, with Mug- 
wort, Water and Sugar, a fufficient quantity. 
Aiake Lozenges, take one Dram of them e- 
very Morning : Or mingle one Dram of the AriltotleV A'jafter-ptece 
ponder, with one Drain of Sugar, and take 
it in White wine. Take of prepared Steel, 
Specicrum Hierse, of each two drams; Jtoras, 
Species cf Myrrh, of each one Scruple ; with 
the juice 6f Savine make it up into 58 Lozen- 
ges, and take three every? other Day before 
Dinner. TakecfCaftor one Scruple, wild 
Carrot-feed half a dram, with Syrup of Mug- 
wort, and make four Pills, take them in the- 
morning faffing, and fo for 3 Days together, 
before the wanted time of the Purgations. 
Take of Agarickj Ariffolochia, juice of More- 
hound, of each 5 drams; Rhubarb, Spike« 
riard, Annifeed, Gatbanum, Afiafeetida, SinaP 
ledge roots. Gentian, of the three Peppers, Lac- 
cxf of each fix drams; with Honey make an 
Ekduary : Take of it three drains for a 
Dofe, In Phlegmatical bodies nothing better 
can be given than the Decodion of the 
Wood Guaiacum, with a little Didam, taken 
in the morning faffing, and fo for twelve days 
together, without provoking of fweat. 
Adminifter to the lower parts, by ScfFu’. 
migations, Pedants, Uhdions, Injedions, In- 
feflions. Make Suffumigations of Cinair.on, 
Mutmeg, Cloves, Bay-berries, Mugwort, Gal- 
banum, Malanthium, Amber, &c. Make 
Pefiaries of Figgs, and the leaves of Mercu- 
ry bruifed and roll'd up-with Lint. If you 
defire a ftronger, make one of Myrrh, Bde-: 
lium, Opopanax, Ammoniacum, Galbanum, 
Sagapenum, Methridatc, Agarick, Coloquin* Part IF. 
Completed. 
107 
tida, &c. Make In'cdions of the Decodkm 
of Origane, Mugwort, Mercury, fkttony and 
I igs, injed it into the Womb by an In fir u- 
Rient fit for that purpofe. Take Oyl of Al- 
monds, I lilies. Capers, Camomile, of cr.eh 
half an Ounce; Laudani, Oyl of Myrrh, of 
each two Drams •, with Wax make an Un- 
guent, with which kt the Places be anointed. 
Make InfdQon of Fenugreek, Camomile, Me- 
lilatc, Dill, Marjoram, Penny royal, Fever- 
few, Juniper berries and Calamint. .Sot if 
the Suppreffion comes by a Dcfed of Matter, 
then ought not the Courfes to be provoked, 
until the Spirits be animated, and the Z?lood 
again increafed. Or if by proper Affeds of 
the Womb, as Dropfies, Inflammations, &c. 
Then muft a particular Cure be ufed, the 
which I will not infill upon here, but Qjeak 
of them as they lye in order. 
If the Retention comes from Repletion or 
Fulnefs; kt the Air be hot and dry ; ufe mo- 
derate Exercifc before Meals; Let your Sleep 
be fhortcr than ordinary ; and your Meat and 
Drink attenuating. Seeth with your Meat 
Garden favory, Time, Origane, and Cyche 
Peafon. If of Emptincfs, or Defedof Mattery 
let the Air be moifl and moderately hot. 
Shun Exercife and Watchings, Jet your Meat 
be nouriflnng, and of a light Digdlicn*, as 
rare Eggs, Lamb, Chickens, Almond-milk, 
and the like. ArillotleT Mafler-pitce 
CHAP. 111. 
Of the overflowing of the Courfes. 
'TP H E Learned fay, comparing of Con- 
trades. Truth is made manifeft, Ha* 
ving therefore fpoken of the fuppreflion of the 
Terms, order requires now, that 1 Ihould infill 
upon the overflowing of them, an Affed nolefs 
dangerous than the former : And this immo- 
derate Flux of the Months is defined to be a 
Sanguineous Excrement proceeding from the 
Womb, exceeding both in quantity and time. 
Firfl, It is raid to be Sanguineous, the matter 
of the Flux being only Bloody •, wherein it dif- 
fers from that which is commonly called the 
falfe Courfes, or Whites; of which I will fpeall 
hereafter. Secondly, It is faid to proceed from 
the Womb ; for there are two ways by which 
the Blood flows forth : The one is by the in- 
ternal Veins in the Body of the Womb ; and 
this is properly called the Monthly Flux: The 
other is by thofe Veins which are termina- 
ted in the of the Matrix ; and this is 
called of Stitts, the Hcmorrhoidcs of the 
Womb. Laftly, It is faid to exceed both in 
quantity and rime. In quantity, faith Hip- 
ocrates, when they flow above i 8 Ounces. 
In time, when they flow above three Days, 
But we take this for a certain Charader of 
their inordinate flowing, when the parities Tart U. 
C'.ompleai ed 
109 
cf the Body thereby are weakened. In Bo- 
dies abounding with grofs Humours, this im- 
moderate Flux fomctimcs unburdens Nature 
of her Load, and ought not to be flayed with- 
out the counfel of a Phyfician. 
Cure.'] The caufe of this Affed is Internal 
or External: The Internal caute is threefold, 
in the matter, inflrumcnt, or faculty. The 
matter, which is the Blood, may be vicious two 
ways. Firfl in quantity, it being fo great that 
the Veins are not able to contain it. Second- 
ly in quality, it being adufl, fliarp, watrilh or 
unconcoded. The Inflrument, vix.. The 
Veins, are faulty by the dilation of the Ori- 
fice ; which may be caufed two ways. Firfl, 
by the heat of the Conflitution, Climate, or 
Seafon, heating the Blood, whereby the pafla- 
ges are dilated, and the faculty weakned, that 
it cannot retain the Blood. Secondly, by 
Falls, Blows, violent Motion, breaking of the 
Vein, &c. 
The External Caufe, may be calidity of the 
Air, Lifting, carrying of heavy Burdens, 
unnatural Child-births, Falls, &c. 
Signs.] In this inordinate Flux the appetite 
is decayed, the Goncodion depraved, and all 
the Adions weakened, the Feet are (welled, 
the Colour of the Face is changed, and a 
fcneral Feeblenefs poffefTeth the whole Body, 
f the Flux comes by the breaking of a Vein, 
£he Body is fomething Cold, the Blood flows 
Jforth on heaps, and that fuddenly, with great AnitotieV M a (ter-piece 
Pain. If ic con es through heat, the Orifice 
of the Veins, being dilated, then is there little 
or no Pain, yet the Blood Bows fatter than 
-it doth in an Erofion* and not fo fall as it 
doth in a Rupture. IF, by Erofion, or Sharp- 
nett ofßlood, flie feds a great Heat fcalding 
the Railage, it differs from the other two, in 
that it Bows not To fuddenly, nor fo copioußy 
as they do. If, by Weaknefs of the Womb, 
fire abhorreth the life of Laflly, if it 
proceeds from an evil Quality in the Blood, 
drop (ome of it on a Cloth ; and when it is 
dry, you may judge of the Quality by the 
Colour. If it be Cholerick, it will be Yel- 
low ; if Melancholly, illack *, if Flegmatical, 
watrilh and whitifh. 
Prognoftkks.] If with the Flux be joyned 
a Convulfion, it is dangerous, becaufc it in- 
timates the more noble Parts are vitiated \ and 
aConvulfion* caufed by Emptinefs, is deadly. 
If it continues long,it will be cuied with great 
Difficulty j for it was one of the Miracles 
which our Saviour Chrift wrought, to cure 
this Difeafc, when it had continued 12 Years. 
To conclude, if the Flux, be inordinate, many 
Difeafcs will enfue; and without Remedy, the 
Rlood, together with the Native heat, being 
confumcd, either Cachedical, Hydropka}, or 
Paralitical Difcafes will follow. 
Care. ] The Cure coiffiftetb in three Par- 
ticulars. Firft, In repelling, and carrying 
sway of the £iood. Secondly, In correding rare 11. 
Completed 
111 
and taking awav the Fluxibility of the Mat- 
ter. Thirdly, In corroborating the Veins and 
-Faculties. For the fidl j to caufea Regrefiion 
ol the Blood, open a Vein in the Ann, and 
draw out fo much Blood as the Strength cf the 
Patient will permit i and that not together, 
but at feveral times for hereby the Spirits 
are the lefs weakned, and the Refradion fo 
mnch the greater. 
Apply Cupping glafles to the Breads, and 
alfo to the Liver, that the Reverfion may be 
in the Fountain- 
To corred the Fluxibility of the Matter 
Cathartical means, moderated with Aftrido- 
ries, muft be uled. 
If it be caufcd by Erofion, or Sharpnefs of 
Blood j confider whether the Erofion be by 
fait Flegm, or aduft Choler. If by fait Flegm, 
prepare with Syrup of Violets, Wormwood, 
Roles, Citron peels, Succory, &c. Then take 
this Purgation following. Take Mirabolans, 
Chebul, half an Ounce, Trcchisks of Aga- 
rick one Dram; with Plantain-water, make a 
Dccodion : add thereunto Sir. Rolat. Lax. 
three Ounces, and make a Potion. 
If by aduft Choler, prepare the Body with 
Syrop of Rofes, Myrtles, Sorrel,Purflain,com- 
mixt with Water of Plantain, Knotgrafs, and 
Endive : Then purge with this Potion: Take 
Rhinds of Myrobolans. Rhubarb, of each 
one Dram Cinnamon fifteen Grains : infufc 
them one Night in Endive-water: Add to 112 
Anltotle'j- iMajler-piece 
the draining pulp of Tamarind, Cajfuu of 
each half an Ounce:, Syrup of Rofesan Oun- 
ce v make a Potion. 
If the Blood be watrifh, or unconcoft, as 
it is ihHydropical Bodies, and flows forth by 
realbn of the Tenuity and Thinned, to draw 
off the Water will be profitable. Purge with 
Agar id, CoUquintida : Sweat- 
ing is proper in thiscaufe , for by it the mat- 
ter offending is taken away, and the Motion 
of the Blood is carried to the outwart Parts. 
To procure Sweat ufe Cardniu-voater with 
ATthridate, or the Deception of Guaiacnm, 
and Sarfa-parilla ’y the Gum of Gmlacnm alfo 
doth greatly provoke Sweat, Pills of Surf a- 
par ilia taken every Night going to Bed, are 
worthily commended. If the Blood flows 
forth the opening or breaking of a yein. 
without any evil Quality in its felf, then 
ought only Coroboratives to be applied} 
which is the laft Thing to be done, in this in- 
ordinate Flux. 
Take oißole-Armoniac Scruple ; Lon- 
don-Treade, one Dram ; old Conferve of Ro- 
fes, half an Ounce j with Syrup of Myrtles, 
make an EleftuarT Or if the Flux hath conti- 
nued long,take of Maftich,i DramsOlibani% 
Troch.de Carahe,ot each one Dram} BalaufiT 
0,. Hn one Scruple } make a Pouder with Sy- 
nm ofQuinces make it into Pills*, take one 
always bef°re Meals. Take Lapidis Hxjm* 
1:.:. of each 2 Scruples i Specterm Tri~ Part 11. 
Completed. 
afantalia, one Ounce Troch de Carabe, de 
fcoria ferri, Coral, Ifrankinfcence, of each one. 
Scruple; fine Bole one Scruple ; beat thefe to 
fine Powder ; and with Sugar and Plantain 
water a fufficient quantity, make Lozenges. 
Afles Dung is well approved of, whether taken 
inwardly with fyrup of Qginces, or applied 
outwardly with Steeled water. 
Galen, by conveying the juice of it through 
a Metrenchita into the Womb four days to- 
gether, Cured this immoderate Flux, which no 
ways elfe could be retrained. Going to Bed 
iet her take one fcruple and a half of Philonij 
Rommiin aWafcr, make a Snffu oigation for 
the Matrix, of Maffick, Frankl, r.cenfe, burnt 
Frogs,not forgetting the hoof of a Mule. Take 
of the juice of Knot grafs, Corn Frey, Quinces, 
of each one Ounce \ Camphire one Dram \ 
dip filk Cotton therein, and apply it to the 
places. Take of Ovl ut Maffick, Myrtles, 
Quinces, of each half an Ounce ; fine Bole, 
Troch de Calabe, Sanguinis Draconis, of each 
one Dram’, Wax and Vinegar a fufficient 
quantity, make an Unguent, apply it both be- 
* fore and behind. Take of Plantain, Shepherds- 
Purfe, red Rofe leaves, of each one Handful; 
of Goats and Afles Dung dryed, of each one 
Ounce and a half \ Acatia, fiypociftus, of 
each one Ounce and a half < dryed Mint one 
Ounce; Bean meal three Ounces .* Boyl all 
thefe in Plantain-water, and make of it two 
PlaiHers j apply one before and the other bc- 114 
AriftotleV Mafier-piece 
hind. If the blood flow from thole Veins 
which are terminated in the Neck of the Ma- 
trix, then it is not called the over flowing of 
the Terms, but the Emerhoids of the Womb; 
Yet the fame Cure will ferve them both, only 
the inftruraentsl Cure Will a little differ \ for. 
in the Uterine Emerhoids, the ends of the 
Veins bang over, like/little Tears or Puflies, 
which muff be taken away by Incifion, and 
then the Veins doled/up with Aloes, fine Bole, 
burnt Alloir*, TrcchJde Terra flguil, Myrrh, 
Maflick, with the juice ofComfrey.and knot- 
grafs, laid Plaiflev wife thereto. 
The Air muff be cold and dry ; all motion 
of the body is fo; bidden. Let her Meat be 
Phealant,Partridge, Mountain-birds, Coneys, 
Calf’s feet, &c. and let her Beer be mix’d 
with the Juice of Pomegranates and Quinces, 
CHAP IV. 
Of the Weeping of the Womb. 
TH F weeping of the Womb is a flax of 
Blood unnatural, coining from thence 
by drops, alter the manner of Tear's, caufing 
violent Pains in the fame, keeping neither Pe- 
riod nor Time. By feme it’s referr’d unto the 
immoderate evacuation of the Courfes, yet 
they are diflinguilhed in the quantity and Part IF. 
Comp/eated, 
manner of over ffowina in t-ha#* a 
Copioully and Freelv ■in .hi h'y flow 
thp’ by little and to,e’ ’** 
Pain and Difficult" 
unto the Stranguary.5 e lt ,s Mened 
•MaTterCatthe &oI& .or 
Pfow hard anH a , h ■ 1 omb 
whence proceeds !h, C '‘if Veflels, front 
£%fuav- 
.he 17^„dY„\eoo~ 
and Tllck”;r.nev" W“<y. fcWhlgSU 
ougKuod\ttby^pTfloWforthasit 
of the pS”" M appeW by the Ration 
Hereupon will infue Pains in the Head 
Stomach, and Back, with Inflamatioas Suf- 
focations, and Excoriations of the Matrix 
h the rtrfcngth qf the Patient will permit 
? . "pc l/tV€,n in thc Arm, rub the unner 
V 1 ts* J0? let her Arms be Corded thaffhe 
xL0t the ™y be carried backward 
Then apply fuch things as maV Laxatr /nd 
rnollily of the Womb andaf- 
Z- m J rZ' Unr“d- 
Jfj f¥a!toWsr Mercury, and Aniple*. If the 
biood be vifcous and Grofs> add thereto mZ Ariftotle’* Matter-piece 
wort, Calatnint, Didam and Bettony : And 
let her take of Venice-Treacle, the quantity 
of a Nutmeg, with fyrup of Aiugvoort every 
Morning. Anoint the places with Oyl of Lil- 
lies, Roles, Linleed, fweet Almonds and Call’s 
Marrow, Make injedionsof the Decodions 
of Mallowi^Mercury^Linfeed^GroundfelyAfug- 
wort, Fenugreek, with Oyl of fweet Almonds, 
Sometimes it is cauled by wind 5 and then 
Phlebotomy is to be omitted ; and in the Head 
thereof take fyrup of Feverfew one Ounce ; 
Honey of Roles, Syrup of vStaechus of each 
half an Ounce ; water of Calamint, Mugvvcrt, 
Bettony, Hyf p, of each one Ounce ; make a 
Julep. If the pain continues, take this Purga- 
tion. Take Specierum Hier* one dram ; Dia- 
eatholicon halfan ounce, fyrup of Rotes laxa- 
tive one ounce; with the decodion ofMugwort, 
and the four Cordial Flowers, make a Potion. 
If it be come thro’ wcaknefsof the Faculty,let 
that be Corroborated. If thro’ grofnefs and 
fharpnefe of the Blood, let the quality of it be 
altered, as I have Ihevvn in the foregoing Chap-' 
ter. Laftly, 11 the excrements of the Guts be 
retained, provoke them by a Glyfter of the 
Decodion of Cammonnle, Bettony, Feverfew, 
Mallcxcs, Linfeed, Juniper berries, Cummin- 
feedy Anni-feed, Adelilote, adding thereto of 
DiacatholUon half an ounce; Hiera Picra 2 
Drams ; Honeyy Oyl} of each one Ounce \ 
Salnitery a dram and a half. The Patient mu ft 
abftain from (alt, flwrp and windy Meats, Part 11. 
Compleated. 
117 
CHAP V. 
Of the Falfe Coiirfes, or Whites. 
FROM the Womb proceeds not only the 
menftruous Blood , but accidentally 
many other Excrements, which by the An- 
cients are comprehended under the Title of 
Rhons Gmaikaios, which is a dillillation of 
variety of Corrupt humours, through tha 
Womb, flowing from the whole Body, or part 
of the fame, keeping neither courfe nor colour, 
but varying in both. 
Caufe.'] The caufe is eitherpromifeuoufly in 
the whole body by a Cachochymia, or weak- 
nefs of the fame *, or in fome of the parts \ as 
in the Liver, which by the inability of the 
languifficative Faculty, caufeth a generation of 
corrupt Blood •, and then the matter is red- 
difh } fometimes the Gall being fluggilh in its 
Office, not drawing away thole Cholerick 
fopernuities ingendred in the Liver j and the 
matter is Vellowilb. Sometimes in the Spleen, 
not defecating and cleanfing the blood of the 
dregs and excrementitious parts j and then 
the matter flowing forth is brackilh. It may 
alfo come from Catarrhs in the Head i or 
from any other putriied or corrupted Mem- 
ber. But if the matter of the Flux be white, 
the caufe is cither in the Stomach or Reins. 
In the Stomach by a Phlegmatical and crude AriftotleV Ma(ter~piecs 
matter there Contracted, and viciated thro’ 
Grief, Melancholly, and other Diflempers : 
For|otherwife, if the matter were only Pituita, 
Crude Flegm, and no ways Corrupt, being 
taken into the Liver, it might be Converted 
into Blood j for Flegm in the Ventricle is call- 
ed Nourishment half Digefled : But being 
Corrupt, tho’ lent unto the Liver, yet it can- 
not be turned info Nutriment*, for thefecond 
Conception cannot Correct that which the 
firfl hath Corrupted, and therefore the Liver 
fends it to the Womb, which can neither Di- 
gcflnor Repel it, and (b it is voided out with 
the fame Colour it had in the Ventricle. The 
caufealfomay be in the Reins being over heat, 
whereby the Spermatical matter by reafon of 
its Thinnefs, flows forth. The external caule 
may be moiflnefs of the Air, eating of corrupt 
Meats, Anger, Grief, Slothfulnefs, immode- 
rate Sleeping, Coftiveneft in Body. 
The figns arc Exturnation of the Body } 
(hotnefs and (linking of Breath, Loathi;?g of 
Meat, pain in the Head, fwelling of the Eyes 
and Feet, melancholly Humidity flows from 
the Womb of divers Colours, as Red, Black, 
Green, Yellow, White. It differs from the 
flowing and over flowing of the Courfes, in 
that it keeps no certain Periods,and is of many 
Colours, all which do generate from Blood. 
T) §pojiich. If the Flux be Flegmatical it 
will continue long and be difficult to Cure, 
yet if Vomiting, <:or JDiarrh* happeneth, di- Part 11. 
C ample at ed 
119 
Verting the Humour, it cures the Difeafe. If 
ic be Chokrick, it is not fo Permanent, yet 
more Perillous, for it will caufe Clifts in the 
neck ofrheWomb, and fometimes make an 
excoriation of the Matrix. If Melanchollick, 
it is mod: dangerous and Contumacious *, yet 
the flux of the Emerhoids adminifters Cure. 
If the matter flowing forth be Reddifh, 
open a Van on-the Arm *, [if not, apply Liga- 
tures to the Arms and the Shoulders. Galen 
glories of himfelf, how he cured the Wife of 
Boetns, labouring of this Difeafe, by robbing 
the upper parts with crude Honey, 
If it he caufed by a Diflillation from the 
Brain, rake Svrnp of Bcttony, Stocchas, and 
Marjoram. Purge with Pill Ccch, /inequihus 
de Agarico: make Na fall a of the juice of 
Sage, Hyfop, Rettony, Nigella, with one drop 
of Gy I of Cloves, and a litle filk Cotton. 
Take EleH, Dianth.Aromat .Rofat. Diamhrcty 
Daids’ of each one Dram; Nut- 
meg half a Dram; with Sugar and Betrony- 
water, make Lozenges to be taken every Mor- 
ning and Evening. Take Aurise, Alaxandrinac, 
half a Dram, at night going to Bed. Jf thefe 
things help not, ufe the Su (Fumigation* and 
Plaiflcr, as they are prefenbed. 
If it proceeds from Cru kies in the Sto- 
mach, or from a cold diflempcred Liver, take 
every morning of the Detection of Lignum 
SanElnm. Purge with Pill de lgar 'tcoydt Her- 
medatl* d£ Hut a Diacolinipidt Fctcidy Agri- 120 
Ariftotle’/ Mafier-piece 
gative. Take of Eled. Aromat. Rof. two 
drams; Citron peels dryed, Nutmeg, long* 
pepper, of each one Scruple; Diagalanga one 
dram ; Santali Albi, Ligni Aloes, of each half 
a Scruple:, Sugar fix Ounces, with Mirt- 
wa:er, and make Lozenges of it ; take of 
them before Meals. If with Frigidity of the 
Liver, there be joyned a repletion of the Sto- 
mach, purging by Vomit is commendable : 
For which, take three drams of the Eleduary 
Diafaru Galen allows ofdiuretical means $ 
as of Apium, Petrofiiinutn, &c. 
If the matter of the flux be Cholerick, pre* 
pare the humour with fyrup of Rofes, Violets, 
Endive, Succory. Purge with Myrabolus, 
Manna, Rhubarb, Caffia, Take of Rhubarb 
two drams \ Annifeed one dram ; Cinnamon 
a (ample and a half, infufc them in fix ounces 
of Prune broth. Add to the draining of 
Manna one Ounce ; and take it in the Mor- 
ning according to Art. Take 
atronlanton, Diatragacant Prig. Diarrhod. 
Abbatis Diacydonit, of each one Dram *, 
Sugar four Ounces, with Plantain w’ater make 
Lozenges. If the Clyfter of the Gall be 
fluggifh, and do not ftir up the faculty of the 
Guts, give hot Glyfters, of the Decodion of 
the four mollifying Herbs, with honey of 
Rofes and Aloes. 
If the flux be Melancholus, prepare with 
fyrup of Maiden-hair, Epithimum, Poly pody, 
Burrage, Buglofs, Fumetary, Hart’s Tongue, Part 11. 
Completed. 
121 
and Syrupus Byfantinus, which muftbe made 
without Vinegar } other wife it will rather a* 
nimate the difeafe than Nature 5 for Melaa- 
cholly by the nfe of Vinegar is increafed 5 and 
both by Hypocrates, Sylvius and Avenz.o*r% 
it is diflailowed of, as an enemy to the Womb, 
and therefore not to be ufed inwardly in Ute- 
rine Difeafes. Purgers of Melancholly arc Pi- 
lulae furaariae, Pilulae, Indse, Pil. de Lapidela> 
zuli, Diafena and Gonfcdio Hamech. Take of 
ftamped Prunes 2 Ounces s Senna one dram, 
Opthimium, Polopody, Fumctary, of each a 
Dram and a half *, fewer Dates one Ounce ; 
with Endive water make a Decodion, take of 
it four Ounces) add unto it Confedionis, ha- 
mech three drams; Manna three drams. O* 
take Pil. Indarium, Pil. Fcetidarum, Agaricl 
Trochifcati, ofeach one Scruple ; Pills ofßhu- 
barb one Scruple ) Lapidis Lazuli fix Grains 
with fvrup of Epithimum make Pills, and take 
them once every Week. Take Eled Latifi* 
cantis, Galeni 3 drams 5 Diam&garitti Ca* 
lini one dram, Diamofci Dulcis, Gonfcrvcs of 
Burrage, Violets, Buglofs, ofeach half a drams 
Citron peels condited one dram *, Sugar (even 
Ounces s with Rofe water make Lozenges. 
Laftly, Let the Womb be Cleaned frona 
the Corrupt matter, and then Corroborated : 
For the putrifying thereof, make Injediom of 
the Decodion of Bettory, Feverfew, Mug- 
Wort, Spikenard, Biftort, Me-cury, Sage £ 
adding thereto Sugar) Oyl of fweet Almonds! 122 
Ariftotle’s M after-piece 
of each two Ounces. Pcffaries alio may be 
made of Mlk Cotton, Madificd in the Juice 
of the afore named Herbs. To Corroborate 
Che Womb, you muff thus prepare Trochisks, 
Take of Mugwort, Feverfew, Myrrh, Amber, 
Mace, Nutmeg, Styrax, ligni, Aloes, Red- 
Roles, of each one Ounce \ with the Mucil- 
age of Tragacanth make Trochisks \ caftfbme 
of them into Coals, and fmother the Womb 
therewith. And make Fomentations for the 
Womb of Red-wine, in which hath been De- 
coded Maffick, fine Bole, Baulaflia, and red 
Rotes : Anoint the Matrix with OU of 
Quinces and Myrtles \ and apply thereto 
Emplaftrum pro Matrix j and let her take 
of Diamcfcum Duke, and Eledu. Arotr.ati- 
cum every Morning. 
A drying Dyet is commended to be beft, 
becaofe in this Affect, the body molt com- 
monly abounds with Flegmatical and Crude 
Humours. For this caufe Hipocrates coun- 
fels the Patient to go to Red Supper-lefs. Let 
her Meat be Partridge, Pheafant,And Mom- 
tam-Birds, rather Roaffed than Boyl’d. 
Immoderate vSleep is forbidden \ moderate 
exercifc is Commended. Part 11. 
Completed. 
CHAP VI. 
Of the Suffocation of the Mother. 
THIS Effed ( which Amply 
is none, but the caufc of an Affed) is 
called in Englffi, the Suffocation of the M<Jf 
ther, not becaufe the Womb is ftrasuiled, but 
for that it caufeth the Woman to be Qioaked. 
It is a ret rad ion of the Womb towards the 
Midriff and Stomach, which prefleth andcru- 
flieth up the fame, that the Inilrumcntal caufc 
ofßefpiration, the Midriff \s Suffocated, and 
conferring with tht Brain, caufeth the Animal 
Faculty, the efficient caufe of Refpiration 
alf j, to be intercepted whereby the body 
being Refrigerated, and the Adions deprave, 
Ilie falls to the Ground, as one being Dead. 
In thefe Hyfterical Pa (lions forne continue 
longer, feme Ihorter. Rabby Mofes writes of 
fome, which Jay in the Paroxifin of the Fit for 
two days. Ruffins makes mention of one, who 
continued in the fame paflion three Days and 
three Nights; and at the three days end flic 
Revived. That we may learn by other mens 
harms to beware, I will give you an example 
more. P ayahs writeth of a Woman in Spaint 
which fuddenly fell into a Uterine Suffocation, 
and appear’d to Man’s Jndgment Dead r 
Her Friends wondering at tins her fudden 124 
Ariftotle’s ]\4ajler-piece 
Change, for their better fatisfadion, lent to 
the Chyrurgcon to have her Defed j who be- 
ginning to make an Incifion, the Woman be- 
gan to move, and with great Glamour retur- 
ned to her (elf again, to the Horrourand Ad- 
miration of all the Spectators. 
To the end therefore, you may diftinguifh 
the Lining from the De d, the Ancients pre- 
fcribe three Experience nt<-. The firft, is to lay 
a light Feather to the Mouth, and by its mo- 
tion you may judge whether the Patient be 
Living or Dead. The fecond, is to place a 
Glafs of Water on the Breall, and if you per- 
ceive it to move, it betokeneth Life. The 
third is to hold a pure Lookin-glafs to the 
Mouth and Nofe \ and if the Glafs appear 
thick, with a little Dew upon it, it betokeneth 
Life. And thefe three Experiments are good, 
yet with this Caution, that you ought not to 
depend on them too much; for, though the 
Feather and the Water do not move, and the 
Glafs continue pure and clear, yet it is not a 
neceffary Cmlequence that flie is deftiture of 
Life; For the motion of the Longs, by which 
the Kefpiration is made, may be taken away, 
that flie cannot Breathe, yet the internal 
Tranfpiration of the heat may remain, which 
is not manifefled by the motion of the 
or I ungs, but 1\ es Cccult in the Heart 
and inward Arteries : Examples hereof we 
have in the fly and Swallow, which in the 
Cold ©t Winter, to the Ocular Afped, Part 11. 
Compteated- 
125 
fecm Dead, Inanimate, and Breathe not at 
all : yet they Live by that Tranfpirarion of 
that heat, which is referved in the Heart 
and inward Arteries *, therefore when the 
Summer approacheth, the internal heat be- 
ing Revocated to the outward parts, they 
are then again Revived out of their Sleepy 
Extafie. 
Thofe Women therefore that feem to dye 
fuddenly, and upon no evident caufe, let them 
not be committed unto the Earth, until the end 
of three days, left the Living be buried for the 
Dead. 
Cure.} The part affefted is the Womb 
of which there is two fold motion, Natural 
and Symptoraatical. The Natural motion, is 
when the Womb attrafteth the human Seeed, 
or excludeth the Infant, or Secundine, The 
Symptomatical motion, of which we are t© 
(peak, is a Convulfive drawing upward of the 
Womb, 
The caufe ufaally is in the Retention of the 
Seed, or in the fupprefUon of the Months, 
caufmg a Repletion of corrupt humours in 
the Womb, from whence proceeds a Flatulent 
Refrigeration, caufmg a Cdnvulfion of the 
Ligament' of the Womb. And as it may 
come from Humidity or Repletion., being a 
Convulfion, it may be caufed by Emp inefs 
or Drynefs. And Laftly, by Abortion, or 
difficult Child-birth, 126 
AriftotleV Majhr-ptece 
Signs ) At the approaching of die suffoca- 
tion there is a palenefs of the Face, weaknefs 
of the l egs, fhortnefs of Breath, Frigidity of 
the whole body, with a working up into the 
Throat, and then (he falls down, as one void 
both of vSerffe and Motion. Ihe mouth of 
the Worrb is t loftd up, and being touched 
with the Finger, feels hard. The Paroxifin of 
the Fir once paft, flie openeth her Eyes, and 
ferling her Sto ach opprefs’d, I lie offcis to 
Vomit. And left that any Ihould be deceived 
in taking one diftale for another, I will ftiew 
how it may ingcifli’d from thole DiFafes, 
which hive the neareft affinity with it felf. 
It < iffers f on the Apoplexy, by reafon it 
comes without flirieki goit *, alib in the Hy- 
fterical Pa'ffion, the feufe of feeling is not alto* 
gether f» deftroyed and loft, as it is in the 
Apoplecftical difcafe. Ani it differs from the 
Fpil:pfie, in that the Eyes are not wreftel, 
neither doth any fpu ny F oth come from the 
Mouth and that 'GonvuJftve m tiou, which 
fometimes is joyned to Suffocati ms, is not fo 
univerfal, as it is in the Epilepfie* only-this, 
or that Member is Convuls’d, and that with- 
out any vehement Agitation. In the Smcope, 
both Refpiration and Pul ft is taken away y 
the Countenance waxeth pale, and flie Swoons 
awayfuddenly ; but in the Hyfterical Paftion, 
commonly there is both a Rcrpiration and a 
Pulfe, tho’ it cannot welt be perceived, her 
Face looks Red, and flie bath a fore warning Part IT. 
Complected* 
127 
of her Fir. Yet it is not dcnyed but that a 
Syncope may be joyned with this Suffocation. 
Laftly, It is diftinguiflied from the Lethargy 
by the Pal fe, which in the one is great, and 
in the other little- 
Prognoftich.) If the difeafe hath ifs being 
from the corruption of the Seed, it foretells 
more danger, than if it proceeded from the 
fuppreflion of the Courfes i be-caufe the Seed 
is Conceded, and of a purer Qualitv than the 
menftrous Blood \ and the more pure being 
Corrupted, becomes the more foui and fib.hy 
as appears in Eggs, the pureft Nourifhment, 
which Vitiated, yield the noyfomeft Saviour. 
If it be accompany’d with a Syncope, it Thews 
Nature is but weak, and that the Spirits are 
almoft Exhauft- But if Sneezing follows, it 
Ihcvvs that the heat which was almoft Exlind, 
doth now begin to return, and that Nature 
will fubdue the Difeafe.- 
Cure ) In the Cure of AfiPed, Two 
things muft be Obferved Firft, That during 
the time of the Paroxif n, Nature he provoked 
to expel thofe malignant Vapours which bin J s 
up theSenfcs, that (lie may be recalled out of 
that fleepy Extafie. Secondly, that in the 
intermiffion of the Fit, proper Medicines be 
applyed to take away thecaufe. 
To ffir up Nature, fallen Capping glafTes 
to the Hips and Navel, apply Ligatures unto 
the Thighs', rub the extream parts with Salt, 
Vinegar and Muftard. Cade loud clamours 128 
AriftotleV Mtfler-piece 
and Fhundrings in her Ears, Apply to the 
Nofe Aflafoetida, Caflor, and Sagapenum 
Steeped in Vinegar. Provoke her to Sneeze 
by blowing up into her Nofe the Powder of 
Carter, White-pepper, Pelitory of Spain, and 
white Hellebore. Hold under her Nofe Par- 
tridge Feathers, Hair, and old Shoes burnt, 
and all other ftinking things ; for evil Odours 
are an enemy to Nature: Hence the Animal 
Spirits do lo concert and ftrive againft them, 
that the Natural heat is thereby rertored. 
The brain is fo opprefs’d fometimes, that we 
are Compell’d to burn the outward Skin of 
the Head, with hot Ovl, or with a hot Iron, 
Sharp Clyfters and fuppofitories arc available. 
Take of Sage, Calamint, Hore-hound, Fever- 
few, Mariorum, Bettony, Hyfop, of each one 
handful \ Anntfeed half an Ounce *, Coloquin- 
tida, white Hellebore, Sal Gen. of each two 
drains \ boyl thefe in two Pound of Water to 
the half : Add to the ftraining Oyl of Carter 
two Ounces \ Hiera Picra two drams \ and 
make a Clyfter of it. Or take of Honey boy- 
led, two Ounces; Euphorbij half a Scruple ; 
Coloquintida four Grains •, white Hellebore 
two Grains $ Salt one dram , make a Suppo- 
sitory. fiypocraies writeth of a Hyfterical 
Woman which could not be freed from the 
Paroxilm, bur by pouring cold water on her .* 
Yet this Cure is particular, and ought to be 
adminiftred in the midrt of Summer, when the 
Sin is in the Tmick of Cwcer. , Part IT. 
CowpkateJ. 
129 
If it be caufed by the retention and corrup’ 
tion of the Seed, at the Inllant of the Paros- 
ihn, let the Midwife take Oylof Lillies, Mar- 
joram, an£ Bays, diftblving in the fame two 
Grainsof C ivet, and as much Mask j let her 
dip her Finger therein} and put it up into the 
Neck oftheWomb,tickling and rubingthefame. 
The fit being over, proceed to the coring of 
the Caufe. If it arife from the fuppreftlon of 
the Menfes, look the Cure in Page toy. If 
from the retention of the Seed, a good Hus- 
band will admjnilter Cure ; But thofe which 
cannot honeftly purchafc that Cure, muftuie 
fuch things as will dry up and diminilb the 
Seed, as Diaciminum, DiacaUminthes, &c. 
Amongft Botanicks, the Seed of Cafius 
is well dleemed of, whether taken inwardly 
applied outwardly, or received as a SufTumi- 
gation : It was held in great honour amongft 
the Athenians, for by it they did remain as 
pure Veftels,and preferved their ChaftUy only 
by ftrowing it on the Bed whereon they lay ; 
and hence it had the name of Agnus Caftus 
given to it, as denoting its effeds. Make an 
iffue on the infide oT c*ch Leg, a handful 
breadth below the Knee. Make Tr«chisks of 
Agarick, 2 Scruples j wild Carrot-feed,Ligni 
Aloes, of each half a wafh’d Turpen- 
tine 3 drams, with conferve of Anthos make a 
Bolus. Caftor is of excellent ufein this cafe, 
1 dram of it taken in White wine; or you may 
make Pills of it with Mithridatc, and take ’em A riftotleV Matter-piece 
going to Bed, Take of white Bryony Root 
dryed and cut afrer the manner of Carrots, 
one Ounce \ pur it into a draught of Wine* 
placing it bv the Fire, and when it is warm 
drink it. Take Myrrh, Caflor, AfTafoetida, 
of each one Scruple y Saffron and Rue fe d, 
of each four Grains; make 8 Pills and take 
every Night two at your entrance into Bed. 
(jaler by his O' n exr mple commends unto 
us Agarick pulveriz’d, of which he frequently 
gave one Scruple iivWhite-wine. Lay to the 
Navel at bed time, a head ofGarlick hruifed, 
faftening it with a Swathing-band. Make a 
Girdle of G alb an umfor the W.afte, and alfo 
a plainer for the Hellv ; placing in one part 
of it both Civet and Musk, which mud: be laid 
upon the Navel. Take Pulveris, T ro- 
chisks of of each 2 drams ; Mithri- 
date a diffident quantity, and Co make a Pel- 
lacy, and it will purge the Matrix of Wind 
and Flegt.m Foment the Natural part with 
Sallet Oyl, in which hath been boy led Rue, 
Feverfew and Camomile. Take of Rofe leaves 
one handful, Cloves two Scruples, quilt them 
up in a little Cloth, andboyl them in -Malmfa 
the eighth part of an hour, and apply ’em to 
the mouth of the Womb as hot as may be en- 
dur'd, but let not the fmell come to her Nofe. 
A drying diet muft be Obferved, the mode- 
rate ufe of Venus is commended. Let her 
Bread be Annifeed Bisket, her Flelli-nueat 
rather Koafted than Bovlcd. Part 11. 
Complected. 
CHAP VII. 
Of the Defending, or Falling of the 
Mother. 
TH E Falling down of the Womb is a re- 
laxation or the Ligatures, whereby the 
Matrix is carried backward, and in fome hangs 
out in the bignefsofan Epg : Of this there be 
two kinds, diftinguiflvd by a defending and 
Precipitation. The defcending of the Womb 
is, when it finks down to the entrance of the 
Privities, and appears to the Eye either not 
at all, or very little. The Precipitation is 
when the Womb like a Purfe is turned infide 
outward, and hangs betwixt the Thighs, in 
the bignefs of a Cupping Glafs. 
Cauje.) The Caufe is Externa] or Internal; 
The external caufe is difficult Child-birth, 
violent pulling away ofthe Secundine, rafhnefs 
and inexperience in drawing away oftheChild, 
violent Coughing, Sneezing, Falls, Blows, 
carrying heavy Burdens. The internal caufe 
in genet al, is over-much humidity flowing unto 
thofe parts, hindring the Operations of the 
Womb, whereby the Ligaments, by which the 
Womb is fupp6rted, are Relaxed. The caufe 
in particular is referr’d to be in the Retention 
of the Seed, or in the Suppreffiorj of their 
Monthly Coutfes. 132 
AriftotleV Mafier-ptece 
Signs.') The Arte-gut and the Bladder of- 
tentimes are fo Cruflicd, that the Paflage of 
both the Excrements are hindred. If the Urine 
doth flow forth, it is white and thick *, and the 
Midriff is molefted, the Loyns are grieved, 
the Privities pained, the Womb finks down to 
the entrance of the private parts, or elfe comes 
clean out. 
PrognofHcks.) This Grief polfeflinganold 
Woman is cured with great difficulty,becaufe 
it weakens the faculties of the Womb, and 
therefore tho’ it be reduced into it’s proper 
place, yet upon every little illnefs or indifpo- 
fitiois, it isfubjed to return -, and fo it is with 
the younger fort, if the difeafe be inveterate. 
If it be caus’d by Putrefadion in the Nerves, 
it is incurable. 
Cure?) The Womb naturally being placed 
between the ftrait Gur and the Bladder, and 
now fallen down, ought not ro be put up a- 
gain, until the faculty both of the Guts and 
Bladder be Birred up. 
Nature being unloacien of her burthen, let 
the Woman be placed on her Back, in inch fort 
that her Legs tray be higher than her head, let 
her Feet be drawn up to her hinder parts,with 
her knees fpread abroad : Then molify the 
fvvelling ivirh Ovl of Lillies and fwect Al- 
monds, or with the Decodion of Mallows, 
Beets, Fenugreek and Linfeed. When the In- 
carnation isdiffipated, let the Midwife anoint 
her hand with Oyl of Maftick, and reduce the Part 11. 
Completed 
Womb into its place. The Matrix being put 
up, the fituation of the Patient muft be chang- 
ed \ let her Legs be out at length, and laid to- 
gether \ fet Cupping glafles to thebreafts and 
navel : boyl Mugwort, Feverfew, red Roles, 
and Comfrey, in red Wine, and foment the 
places therewith. Make a Suffumigation for 
the Matrix of Caftor, Affafoetida, Frankin- 
cenfe and Maftick *, take Sandarache Olibani, 
Ciprefs Nuts, of each 3 drams; Maftick, Sti- 
rax,Frankincenfe,of each an Donee *, fine Bole, 
one dram *, with oyl of Myrtles and Wax 
make two Plaiftcrs, apply one before and the 
other behind. Take of redßofes, Pomegra- 
nate Pills, Acorn-cups, Myrtle berries, of each 
two ounces *, Medlar leaves, Sage, Rue, Ori- 
gan, Comfrey, Wormwood, of each a handful 
and an half*, boyl all thefein Water, and make 
an Infeflion. Move (weet Odours to the Nofe, 
and at her coming out of the Bath, give her of 
Syrup of Feverfew one Ounce, with one dram 
or Mithridate. Take Laudani, Maftick, of 
each 3 drams ; Galbani half an ounce; Styra- 
cis two drams ; make therewith a Plaifter for 
the Navel- Then make Peflarics of Aftafoe- 
tida. Saffron, Cornfery, Maftick , adding 
thereto a little Caftor. 
The Pradice of Parem in tills cafe, was to 
make them only of Cork, in figure like a little 
Egg, covering them over with Wax and Ma- 
ffick diflfolved together , fattening to it a 
Thred, and fo put it Dp into the Womb. Ariftotle’j- Mafier-piece 
The prefent danger being now taken away* 
and the Matrix leated in its natural abode, 
the remote caufe mull be removed. If the 
body be Plethorick, open a Vein \ prepare 
with Svrupof Bcctony, Calamint, Hyfop, and 
Feverfew. Purge with Pd. de Hieracnm, A* 
garic. Pil. de Colocyn. If the Stomach be op- 
prefs’d by Crudities, unburdrn it by Vomi- 
ting vSudorifical DecoAions of ‘Lignum 
Sanßum*nd Snjfi.fras taken 20 Days together, 
drys up the fuperfiaous Moifture, and confe- 
quently fupprefleth the caufe of the difeafe. 
Let the air be hot and dry, and your diet 
hot and Attenuating a Abftain from Dancing, 
Leaping, Sneezing, and from all motion both 
of body and mind : eat fparingly, drink not 
much, Heep moderately. 
CHAP VIII 
Of the Infamation of the Womb, 
TH E Phlegmon, or Incarnation ®f the 
Matrix, is a Tamour poffeiiing the 
whole Womb, accompanied wifh unnatural 
heat, by obilrudions and gathering together 
of corrupt Blood. 
Caufe.) The caufe of this AfFcd is. fuppref- 
fion of the Months, repletion of the whole 
Body, immoderate ufe of often hand- Part 11. 
Completed, 
ling of the Genitals, difficult Child-birth, 
vehement agitation of the Body, Falls, Blows 
to which alfo may be added, the ufe of fharp 
Peflaries, whereby, not feldom the Womb is 
inflamed. Cupping Glalfcs alfo faflned to the 
Pubes and PfypogjJfreH/n, draw the humours 
to the Womb. 
Signs.) The Tigris are Aguifli humours, pain 
in the head and Stomach, Vomiting, coldnefs 
of the Knees, Convulfions of the Neck, Doting 
Trembling of the Heartoften there is a 
flraitnefs of Breath, by reafon of the heat 
which is Communicated to the Midriff, the 
breafts fympathizing with the womb, are pai- 
ned and Twelfth Further, if the fore part of 
the Matrix be inflamed, the Privities are 
Grieved, the Urine is fuppreft, or flows forth 
with difficulty. If the after-part, the Loyns 
and Back Taffer, the Excrements arc retained, 
if the right fide, the right hip fuffers, the 
right Leg is heavy, flow to motion, in fo 
much, that fometimes (he Teems to Halt. And 
fo if the left-fide of the Womb be inflamed, 
the left hip is pain’d ,ami the left Leg is weaker 
than the right. If the neck of the Womb 
be affeded, the Midwife putting up her Fin- 
ger, (hall feel the mouth ofit Retraded, and 
doled up with a hardnefs about it. 
Progwflicks.) All inflamations'bfthe Womb 
are dangerous, if nor and especially 
if the total fubftance of the Matrix be In- 
flamed. Yet they arc kfs Perillous, if in AriflotleV Mafier-piece 
the Neck of the Womb. A Flux of the belly 
foretels Heakh, if it be Natural, for Nature 
works beft by the ufe of her own Inftru- 
ments. 
Cure.) In the Cure, Firft, let the humours 
flowing to the Womb be rcpell’d*, for effecting 
of which, after the belly hath been loofned by 
cooling Clvfters. Phlebotomy will be 
open therefore a vein in the Arm, and (if fhe 
be not with Child) the day after ftrike the 
Saphena on both Feet; fallen Ligatures and 
Cupping-glafles to the Arms; and rub the 
upper Parts. 
Purge lightly with Caffia, Rhuburb, Sena, 
Myrobolans. Take of Sena two drams y Anni- 
fecd one Scruple, Myrobolans half an ounce V 
a fufficient qnantity \ makeade* 
codion; diflblveit in Syrup of Succory, with 
Rhubarb two ounces \ Pulp of Caflia half an 
ounce, oyl of Annifeed two drops, and make 
a Potion. At the beginning of the Difeafe 
anoint the Privities and Reins with oyl of Ro 
fcs and Quinces. Make Plaifters of Plantain, 
Linfeed, Barley-meal, Meliilot, Fenugreek, 
whites of Eggs \ and if the Pain be vehement 
add a little Opium. Foment the Genitals with 
the Decodion of Poppy-heads, Purfiain, Knot- 
grafs and wafer Lillies. Make Injedions of 
Goat* milk, Rofe water, clarified Whey, with 
Honey of Rofes. In the declining of the Dif- 
eafe ufe Infeffions of Sage, Linfeed, Mugwort, 
Penny-royal, Hore-,hound, Fenugreek. Anoint Part 11. 
Completed, 
the lower parts of the Belly, with Oyl of 
Cammomile and Violets. 
Take Lilly Roots, and Mallow Roots, of 
each 4 Ounces; Mercury one handful; Mag- 
n>ort. Feverfew, Camomile flower /, Melt lot e, of 
each half a handful i bruifethe Herbs, and the 
Hoots, and boyi them in a fufficient quantity 
of Milk ; then add frelh Butter, Oyl of Ca- 
momile, Lillies, of each two Ounces ; Be an- 
neal, a fufficient quantity ; make z Plaifters, 
•tpply one before and the other behind. 
If the Tumour cannot be removed, but 
tends to Suppuration,take of Fenugreek, Mol* 
W Roots.,decodedFigs, Linfeed,Barley-tneal, 
£>oves Dung, Turpentine, of each 3 Drams , 
(bet half a Dram, Opium, half a Scruple, 
With Wax make a Plaifter, 
Take of Bay*leaves. Sage, Hyfop, Camo- 
wile, Magwayt, and with Water make an 
inftflion. 
Take Worm wood. Bet tony, of each half a 
handful ; iVhite-vcine, Milk, of each half a 
Pound,-boy 1 them till the one part be confumed, 
then take of this Decodion 4 Ounces, Honey 
of Rofe* two Ounces, and make an In'edion, 
Yet beware the Humours be not brought down 
Unto the Womb. 
Take rcafted Figs, Mercury bruifed, of 
each three Drams ; Turpentine, Ducks greefc, 
of each one Dram ; Opium two Grains, with 
Wax make a PefiTary . 
The Air muft be Cold : All motion of the AriftotJe’i Majler-piece 
Body, efpecially if the lower parts is forbid- 
den is commended,for by deep the 
humours are carried inward, whereby the 
infiamation is increafcd ; eat Sparingly. Let 
your Drink be Bnrley-vpater,ox clarified whey, 
and your Meat be Chickens; and Chicken- 
Broth’, boy led with Endive, Stfccory, Sorrel, 
Buglofs and Mallows. 
Of the Schirrofity or Hardnefs of the 
Womb. 
CHAP IX. 
OF a Phlegmon neglcftcd, or not perfectly 
Cured, is generated a Schtrrm of the 
Matrix, which is a bird unnatural fwelling 
infallible, hindering the Operations of the 
Womb, and difpofing of the whole body to 
fiothfulnefs. 
Caiife\) One caufe of this difeafe may be 
aferibed to want of Judgment, in the Phyfid- 
an \ as many Empericks, adAuiiftring to an 
Infiamation of the Womb, do over much re- 
frigerate and afiringe the humour, that it caa 
neither pal's forward nor backward; hence the 
matter being condens’d,degenerates as it were 
into a lapidious or hard fubfiance. Other catt- 
les may be fuppreffion of the Menftrues Re- 
tention of the Lochia, commonly called the 
Alter purgings, eating of corrnpt Meats, as in Part 11. 
Completed. 
the difordinate Longing called Ptca, unto 
which breeding Women are often fiibjed. It 
may proceed alfo from Obftrudions and Ul- 
cers in the Matrix \ or from evil AfFeds in the 
Liver and Spleen. 
Signs.) If the bottom of the Womb be af- 
feded, me feels as it were, a heavy burden 
reprefenting a Mole : yet differing in that the 
Breafts are attenuated, and the whole Body 
waxeth lefs. If the neck of the Womb be 
hardned,no outward humour will appear; the 
Mouth of it is retraded, and, being touch’d 
with the Finger, feels hard; nor can /lie have 
the company of a Man, without great Pain 
and Prickings. 
Prognofiicks.') A Schirrus confirmed, is in- 
curcable, and will turn into a Cancer, or a 
Dr op fie ; and ending in a Cancer proves dead- 
ly, becaufe the native heat in thofe parts be- 
ing almod forothered, can hardly again be 
reltored. 
Cure.) Where there is a Repletion Phle. 
botomy is advifeable ; wherefore open the 
Media.no. on both Arms, andathen the Sa- 
phena on both Feet, more especially if the 
Menfes be fupprefs’d. 
Prepare the humour with Syrup of Barrage, 
Succory, Epithimium , and Clarified Whey, 
Then take of thefe Pills following, according 
to the ftrength of the Patient.') 
Take Hiera Piero fix Drams, Black-helle- 
bore, Polibody, of each 2 Drams and an half; 140 
Ariftotle’-f Mafter-piece 
Agarkk, Lapidis, Lazuli Abulti, Sails Indi, 
Coloqnintida, of each one Dram and a half, 
mix them, and make Pills. The body being 
purged, proceed to molifie the hardnefs as 
followeth ; Anoint the Privities, and the neck 
of the Womb, with Unguentum Dalthea, and 
Agrippa. Or take Opoponax, Bdelium, Am- 
moniacum, Myrrh, oLeach 2 drams, Saffron 
half a dram. Diffolve the Gums in Oylof 
Lillies and fweet Almonds •, with Wax and 
Turpentine make an Unguent, apply below the 
Navel Diachylon Fernelij; make Infeffions of 
Figs, Mugwort,Mallows, Penny-royal, Althea, 
Fennel Roots, Melilote, Fenugreek, Linfeed 
boyled in Water. Make Injections of Cala- 
mine, Linfeed, Melilote, Fenugreek, and the 4 
mollifying Herbs, with Oyl ofDill, Camomile 
and Lillies, Diifolving in the fame 5 drams of 
the Gum Bdelium. Gaft the ftone Pyrities on 
the Coals, and let her receive the fume of it 
into her Womb. Foment the Secret Parts 
with the Decodion of the Leaves, and Roots 
of Danewort. Take of the Gum Galhanum, 
Opopanax,ot each one Dram Juice of Vane- 
worty Mucilage, of Fenugreek, of each half an 
Ounce-, Calves marrow one Ounce ; Wax a 
fufficient quantity make a Peffary. Or make 
a Peffary only of Lead, dipping it in the a- 
forefaid things, and fo put it up. 
The Air muft be temperate ; Orofs, Vif- 
cous, and Salt Meats are forbidden, as Pork, 
Bulls Beef Fijh. Old'Cheefe, &c. Part 11. 
Completed. 
C H A P X. 
Of the Dr of fie of the Womb, 
THE Uterine Dropfie is anunnaturalSwel- 
ling, elivated by the gathering together 
of Wind or Flegm in the Cavity, Membranes, 
or fubftance of the Womb, by reafon of the 
debility of the native Heat , and Aliment 
received, and (b it turns into an Excre- 
ment. 
The cau(es are over much cold and moift- 
nefs of the Milk and Liver, immoderate eat- 
ing, eating of crude Meats; all which caufing 
a Repletion, dofuffocate the natural Heat : 
It may be caufed like wife by the over flowing 
of the Courfes, or by any other immoderate 
Evacuation. To thefe may be added Abor- 
tions, Ulcers, Phlegmons, and Schirrofities of 
the Womb. 
Signs.,) The Signs of this Affcft are thefe 
The lower parts of the Belly, with the Geni- 
tals, are puffed up and pained, the Feet fwell j 
the natural colour of the Face decays, the Ap- 
petite is depraved, and the heavinefs of the 
whole Body concurs : If Hie turns her felf in 
the Fed from one fide to the other, anoifelike 
flowing of Water is heard. Water fometimes 
comes from the Matrix. If the Swelling be Ariftotle’-v Mafter-piece 
caufed by wind, the Belly being bit by the 
hand, (bunds like a Drum the Guts rumble, 
and the wind breaks through the Neck of the 
Womb with a murmuring noife. The Affed 
may be diftinguiflfd from a true Conception 
many ways, as will appear by the C haptcr of 
Conception. It is diftinguillfd from thegene- 
ral Dropfie, in that the lower par ts of the 
belly are moft fwell’d. in this the fan- 
guificative Faculty appears not fo hurtful, nor 
the Urine fo pale, nor the countenance fo foon 
Changed, neither are the (iiperior parts fo ex- 
tenuated, as in the general Dropfie. 
Prognofiicks,) This Affed foretells the 
faid ruin of the natural Fundions, by that 
lingular confcnt the Womb hath with the 
Liver ; and therefore, that a Cachexia3 or a 
general Dropfie will follow. 
Cure. ) In the Cure of this Difeafe, imitate 
the Practice of Hyper axes \ Firft,mitigate the 
pain with fomentations of Melilote, Mercury, 
Mallows, Linfeed, Camomile, Althea. Then 
let the Woman be prepared with Syrup of 
Stoecas, Hyfop, Calamint, Mugwort, of both 
forts with the diftilfd Waters, orDecodions 
of Dodder, Marjoram, Sage, Origan, Spe- 
rage, Penny royal, Bettony. Purge with Sesay 
Agarick, Rhuburb, Elaterium. 
Take Specicrum Hierx, Rhuburb,Trcchisks 
of Agarick, of each one Scruple \ with the 
Juice ©f Iros make Pills. Part IT. 
Completed, 
Or take Pill de Rloubarbaro half an Ounce* 
fill dt Mez.ero one Scruple, with Mugwort* 
water make Pills, In Difeafes which have 
their being from Moiftnefs, purge with Pills \ 
a.nd in thofe AfFefts which are caufcd by emp* 
tinefs or dryncfs, purge with Potions. Fatten 
a Cupping-glafs to the Belly, with a great 
flame, and alfo to the Navel, efpccially if 
• the fuelling be flatulent. Make an Iflue on 
the infide of each Leg, a handful breath be- 
low the Knee. Take Specierum Diarabra, 
Diamofd Dulcis, Diacalamenti, Diacinna* 
hioni, Diacimitii, Troch. dc Myrrha, of each 
two Drams •, Sugar one pound, with Bettony- 
water make Lozenges: Take of them 2 hours 
before Meals. Apply to the bottom of the 
Belly, as hot as may be indured, a little Bag 
of Camomile, Cummin, and Melllote, boyied 
in Oyl of Rue : Anoint the Belly and Secret 
Parts with Unguentum, Agrippa, and Ungu- 
entam AREGON, mingling therewith Oyl of 
Jrebs. Cover the lower parts of the Belly, 
with the Plaitter of Bay berries, or with a 
Cataplafn made of Cummin , Camomile, 
Brionny Roots , adding thereto Cows and 
Goats Dung. Our Moderns afcribe a great 
vertue to Tobacco roarer, diftilled, and poured 
into the Womb by a Metrenchyta. Take of 
Baum, Southern-wood, Origan, Wormwood 
Galamint, Bay - leaves, Marjoram, of each 
©ne handful \ Juniper-berries Four Drams * 
with water make, a Decodion ; Of this may 144 
Ariftotle’-f Majier-piece 
be made Fomentations, Injections and Infeffi* 
ons. Make Peffaries of Stirax, Aloes, with the 
Roots of Didam, Aftrolochia, and Gentian. 
Inftead of this you may ufe the PeHary-pre- 
ferred, Page 130. Let her take of Eldua- 
rium, Aromaticum, Diafatyron, and Eringo 
Roots condited every morning. 
The Air muff be hot and dry : moderate 
Exercife is allowed : much Sleep is forbiden : 
She may eat the Flelli of the Fat ridges. Larks, 
Chickens, Mountain birds. Hares, Conles,&c, 
Let her drink be thin VVine, 
CHAP IX. 
Cj the Mole, or Falfe Conception. 
TH I S Difeafc is called of the Greeks 
MV L , and the caufe of this 
Denomination, is taken from the load or heavy 
weight of it, it being a Mole, or great lump 
of hard FJdh burdening the Womb. 
It is defined to be an inarticulate piece of 
Flelh without Form, begotten in the Matrix, 
as it wire a true Conception : In which De- 
finition we are to note two things. Firfi, 
In that a Mole is faid to be inarticulate, 
and without Form, it differs from Mongers, 
which are both Formata and slrtiadata. 
Secondly, it is faid to be, as it were, a true Part 11. 
sample at ed. 
Conception, which puts a difference between 
a true Conception and a Mole*, which dif- 
ference holds good three ways. Firff, in the 
Genus, in that a Mole cannot be faid to be 
Animal. Secondly, in the Species, becaufc 
it hath no humane Figure, and bears not the 
Charader of a Man. Thirdly, In tht lndi~ 
for it hath no affinity with the Parent, 
either in the whole Body, or any particle of 
the fame. 
Caufe. ) About the caufe of this Affed, 
among# learned Authors, I find variety of 
Judgments. Some are of opinion, that if the 
Womans Seed goes into the Womb, and not 
the Alan’s, therefore is the Mole produced : 
others there be that affirm, it is ingendred of 
the menftruous Blood : But if thde two 
were granted, then Maids, by having their 
.Courfes, or through Ncdurnal Pollutions, 
might be lib ed unto the fame, which never 
any yet were. The true caufe of this fkfhy 
Mole, p ocecds both from the Man and from 
the Wonar. from corrupt and barren Seed in 
the Man, and irem the n enfiruous blood in 
the Woman, both mixed tegether in the Ca- 
vity of the Vvcm.b : where re finding her 
felf weak, (yet defiring to maintain the Per- 
petuity of her Species) labours to bring forth 
a vitious Conception rather than none. And 
fo irfteao of a living Creature, generates a 
lump # ilefh. 146 
Ariftotle’s M&Jltr•piece 
Signs.) The Signs of a Mole are thefe * 
The Months are fupprefs’d,the Appetite is de- 
praved, the Breads fwcH, and the Belly is 
puffed up, and waxeth hard. Thus for the 
Signs of a breeding Woman, and of that 
bearcth a Mole, are all one ; I will now fhew 
you how they differ. 
The firfl: Sign of difference, is taken from 
the motion of a Mole ; it may be felt to 
move in the Womb before the third Month* 
which the Infant cannot : Yet that motion 
cannot be underfiood of any intelligent power 
in the Mole, but of the Faculty of the Womb, 
and of the Feminal Spirits, diffufed through 
the fubftance of the Mole ; for it lives mot a 
life Animal, but Vegitative, in the manner of 
a Plant. Secondly, in a Mole, the belly is 
fuddenly puff’d up *, but in a true Conception 
the belly is fir/l Retraced, and then raifeth 
again by degrees. Thirdly, The belly being 
prefs’d with the hand, the Mole gives way* 
and the hand being taken away, it returns to 
*he place again : Hut a Child in the Womb, 
though prefs’d with the hand, mores not pre- 
Icntly * and being removed, returns flowly, or 
not at all. Lalily, the Children continue in 
the Womb not above eleven Months * but a 
Mole continues fometimes four or five Years, 
more or kfs, according as it is faftned in the 
Matrix. 1 have known when a Mole hath 
fallen away in four or five Months: 
it remaineth until the eleventh Month* Fart 11. 
Completed. 
the Legs wax feeble, and the whole body con- 
fumes, only the (welling of the belly ftill in- 
creafeth, which makes Come think they areHy- 
dropical, tho’ there be (itrle rcafon for it j for 
in tiie Dropfie Legs fwell and grow big, but 
in a Mole they confumc, and wither. 
frognofiich.) If at the delivery of a Mole, 
the flux of Blood be great, it (hews the more 
danger, becaufe the parts of Nutrition having 
been vitiated by the flowing back of the 
fuperfluous humours, whereby the natural 
heat is confumed, and then patting with fo 
much blood, the Woman thereby is fo weak- 
ned in all her Faculties, that (he can hardfy 
fubfill. 
Cure. ) We are taught in the School of 
Hypocrmes, that Phlebotomy eaufeth Abor- 
tion, by taking away that Nourifhment* 
which lliould fuftain the Life of the Child. 
Wherefore, that this vicious Conception may 
be deprived of that vigitative Sap by which 
it lives, open the Liver vein, and the Saphena- 
on both Feet. Fatten Cupping glades to the 
Loins and Tides of the Belly *, which done, 
let the Uterine parts be firft molified,and then 
the expulfive Faculty provoked to expel the 
burden. 
To laxate the Ligatures of the Mole \ 
take MaHows with the Roots, three handfuls » 
Camomile, Melilote, Pelitory ©f the Wall,, 
Violet leaves i Mercury , Roots of Fennel, 
Parjkyx of each (two handfyls, Linefeed, Fenm* Arifrotk’s Mafler-piece 
ireek, of each one pound, boyl them in Wa- 
ter, and let her fet therein up to the Navel. 
At the going out of the Bath, anoint the Pri- 
vities and the Reins with the Unguent follow- 
ing; Take Cyl of Camomile, Lillies, and 
fweet Almonds, of each 1 dunce •, Frefh-but- 
ter, Labdania, Ammoniaci, of each half an 
ounce, with the Oyl of Linfeed make an 
Unguent. Or inftead of this, may be ufed 
"Unguentum ylgrippa, or Dialthea. Take of 
Mercury, Roots of Althea, of each half a 
handful; tol. Branch#, Vrfina, half a hand- 
ful Linfeed, Barly-meal, of each 6 Ounces \ 
boyl all thefe with Water and Honey, and 
make a Plaillcr. Make PefTari- sof the Gutn- 
Galbanuro , Bdelium , Ammoniacum, Figs, 
Hogs-Suct and Honey. 
After the Ligaments of the Mole are loof 
ned, let the expulflve Faculty be fiirred up 
to expel the Mole \ for effe&ing of which, 
all Medicaments may be ufed as are proper to 
bring down the Courfes. Take Jroch de 
Myrrh a one Ounce, Carter, Ariflolochia, 
Gentiam, Diftam, of each half an Ounce, 
make a P uder, take one Dram in four ounces 
of Mug wort water. Take of Hipcricon, Ca* 
lamint, Penny royal, Bettony, Hyfop, Sage, 
Horehound, Valerian, Madder, Savine, with 
Water make a Deception, take 3 ounces ©f 
it, with one ounce and a half of Syrup of 
Feverfew. Take of Mugwott, Myrrh, Gen- 
tian, Pil. Coch. of each four Scruples, Rue, Part 11. 
Compleated. 
Pennyroyal, Saggapenam, Opopanax, of each 
half a Drain ‘0 Aflafoetida, Cinnamon, Juniper- 
herriis, Borage, of each one Dram, wiih the 
Juice of Savine make Pills to be taken every 
Morning. Make lufdiions of Hyfop, Bay- 
leaves, A fir urn. Calami nt) Bay -berries, Camo- 
mile, Mugwort, Savine. Take of S ’gaienum. 
Marjoram) Gentian, Savine, Cloves, Nutmeg, 
Bay berries, of each 2 Scruples;, Galbamtm one 
Dram, flier*. Pier*, Hellebore, of 
each one Scruple*, with Turpentine make a 
Pefikry. But if thefe things prove not avai- 
lable, then mull the /Tfr/e- be draWn away 
with an Inftrument put up into the Womb, 
called a Pet Griphius, which may be done 
with no great danger, if it be performed by 
a skilful Surgeon. 
After the delivery of the Mole ( by reafon 
that the Woman hath parted with much blood 
already ) let the Flux of blood be ttayed as 
foon as may be. 
Fatten Cupping-glajfes to the Shoulders, 
and Ligatures to the Arms : If this help not, 
open the Liver-vein on the right Arm, 
The Air fhall be moderately hot and dry : 
and her Diet fuch as doth mollify and atte- 
nuate : fhe may drink White wine. 150 
AriftotleV Mafler-piece 
CHAP XII. 
Of the Signs of Conception* 
IGnorance make Women become Murderers 
to tfec Fruittheir own Bodies. Many 
having Conceived, and thereupon finding their 
bodies to be out of Order, and not knowing 
rightly the Caufe, do either run to the Shop 
of their own Conceit, and take what they 
think fit; or elfe, (as the Cuftorn is) they fend 
to the Phyfician for Cure*, and he perceiving 
not the cauft of their Grief, ( feeing that no 
certain Judgment can be given by the Urine) 
preferibes what he thinks bed:; perhaps fome 
lirong Diuretical or CatharticalP«tioD,where' 
by the Conception is deftroyed. Wherefore 
Hypocrates faith, There is a Neceffity that 
Women fhouldbe inftrufted in the knowledge 
of Conception, that the Parent, as well as the 
Child, might be faved from Danger. I will 
therefore give you fome lnftruftions,by which 
every one may know whether (he be with 
Child or not. The Signs of Conception (hall 
be taken from the Woman, from the Urine* 
from the Infant, and from Experiment. 
Signs collected from the woman arc thefe : 
The firft day after Conception Ihe feels alight 
Quivering, or Ghilnefs, running through the 
whole body ; a tickling in the Womb, and 
a little Pain in the lower parts of the Belly : Fart 11. 
Completed. 
Ten or twelve days after, the Head is 
with Giddinefs, the Eyes with a Dimnefsol 
Sight: Then follows red Pimples in the Face, 
with a blue Circle about the Eyes ; the Breafls 
fwcll and grow bard,with feme pain and prick- 
ing in them ; The b:lly fuddenly finketh, and 
rileth again by degrees, with a hardnefsabout 
the Navel. The Nipples of the Breafts way. 
Red \ the Heart beats inordinately; the Na- 
tural Appetite is dejeded,yet Hie hath a long- 
ing defire after ftrange Meats. The neck of 
the womb is Retraced, that it can hardly be 
felt with the Finger, being put up \ and this is 
an infallable fign. She is fuddenly Merry, 
and as foon Melancholly *, her monthly Com-, 
fes are flayed without any evident Oaufe, the 
Excrements of the Guts are unaccuftomedly 
retained, by the Womb prefling the great 
Gut; and her defire to Vtnm is abated. 
The furefl fign' is taken from the Infant, 
which begins to move in the Womb the tfeifd 
or fourth Month ; and that not in theirfenner 
of a Mole, from one fide to another, ruffling 
like a Stone*, but mildly, as may be perceived, 
by applying the hand hot on the Belly. 
Signs taken from the Urine. The befi: 
writers do affirm, that the Urine of a woman 
with Child, is white, and bath little Motes, 
like thofe in the Sun-beams, afeending and de- 
scending in it, and a Cloud fwimraing aloft, of 
an Opal Colour •, the Sediment being divided 
by (baking of the Urine, appears like carded 152 
AriftotleV Majler~p*ece 
Wool. In the middle of the time the Urine 
turneth Yellow, next Red, and laftly Black, 
with a red Cloud. Signs taken from Experi- 
ment -• At night going to Bed, let her Drink 
Water and Honey ; afterwards if Hie feds a 
beating pain in her Belly,and about her Navel, 
Die hath Conceived *, or let her take the Juice 
of Carduw, and if fhe vomiteth it up, it is a 
fign o{'Conception , caft a clean Needle into 
W Oman’s Urine,put it into a Bafun, let it ft and 
all night, and in the morning if it he coloured 
with red Spot?, fhe hath Conceived, but if 
black or nifty, fhe hath not. 
Signs taken from the Stx. to fhew whether 
it bi Male or Female- Being mth*Chilu of a 
Male, the right Breaft fwehs firft, the right 
Eye is more lively than the left, her Face well 
coloured, btcaule ftich as the blood is, fuch is 
tbt colour i and the male is Conceived of 
purer blood, and of mote perfed Seed than the 
Female Red motes in the Urine, fettling down 
to the Sediments, foretells that a male is Con- 
ceive,c , but if they be White, a Female, Put 
the Womans Unne, which is with child, into 
a Vials bottle, kt it ftand dole ftop’d 3 days, 
then ftrain it through a fine clotll, aad you 
Jfhah find little living Creatures, if they be 
red it is a male, if white a Female. To con- 
clude, the iroft certain fign to give credit 
unto* is the motion of the Infait; for the 
male moves in the third month, and the Fe- 
male in the fourth. Part 11. 
Complete i. 
CHAP XIII. 
Of Untimely Birth, 
\A] Hen the Fruit of the Womb conies forth 
before the Seventh Month (that is, 
before it tonnes to Maturity) it is faid, to be 
Abortive : And in effect the Child proves 
Abortive (I mean, not to Live) if it be bcrn in 
the eighth Month. And why Children born 
in the leventh or ninth month may Live, and 
not in the eighth month, may feem fi range, 
yet it is true : The caufe hereof by Tome, is 
afcribed unto the Planet, under Which the 
Child is born ; for every month, from the 
Conception to the Birth, is governed by his 
proper Planet : And in the eighth M mth 
Saturn does Predominate, which is cold and 
dry, and coldnefs being an enemy to Life, 
dedroys the nature of the Child. Hypocrates 
gives a better Reafon : The Infant being 
every way perfeft and coirpleat in the feventh 
month, ddires more Air and Nutriment than 
it had before, which becaufe he cannot obtain, 
he labours for a Paffage if 
his Spirits be weak and faint, and have not 
ftrength fnfficicnt to break the Membranes 
and come forth, it is decreed by Nature, that 
he fhould continue in the Womb until the 9th 
month, that, in that time his wearied Spirits 
might be again ftrengthned and 1 efrellied y Ariftotle’i' Mafier-piece 
but if he returns to drive again in the eighth 
Month, and be born, he cannot live, becaufe 
the day of his birth is either pad or to come '. 
For in the eighth Month (faith Avicen) he is 
weak and infirm \ and therefore then being 
cad into cold Air, his Spirits cannot but fink. 
Cauje.') Untimely birth may be caufed by 
Cold, for as it maketh the Fruit of the Tree 
to wither, and fall down, before it be Ripe, 
fo doth it nip the Fruit of the Womb, before 
it comes to full Perfection, and make it to be 
Abortive. Sometimes by humidity, weakening 
the Faculty, that the Fniitcannot be redrain’d 
until the due time \ by Drynefsor Emptinefs, 
defrauding the Child of its Nouri/hmentby 
.one of the three Alvine Fluxes \ by Phleboto- 
my, and other by Inflamarions 
of the womb , and by other lharp Difeafes, 
fometimes it is caufed by Joy, Laughter, Anger, 
and efpecially by fear, for in all, but in that es- 
pecially, the heal forfakes the Womb, and 
runs to-the Heart, to help there, and fo the 
Cold drikes into the Matrix, whereby the 
Ligaments are relax’d, and lb Abortion follows. 
Wherefore Plato in his time commanded that 
the women Ihould fhun all Temptations of 
great Joy and Pleafure, and likewife avoid 
all Occafions of Fear and Grief Abortion 
allb may be caufed by the Corruption of the 
Air, by filthy Odours, and efpecially by the 
fmcll of the Snuff of a Candle, alfo by Falls, 
Blows,vioient Exercife2Leaping, Dancing,ev-c. Part 11. 
Completed,, 
15 5 
Signs.') Signs of future Abortion, are Exte- 
nuation of the breads, with a Flux of wateriih 
Milk ; pain in the Womb, heaviness in the 
Head, unaccpftomed wearincfs in the Hips and 
Thighs, flowing of the Courfcs. Signs fore- 
telling the Fruit to.be dead in the Womb, are 
hollovvncfs of the Eyes, grief in the Head,An- 
guifli, Horrours, palenefs of the Face and Lips, 
gnawing of the Stomach, no motion of the In- 
fant, coldnefs and loofnefs of the tncmh of the 
Womb ; the thicknefs of the belly. which was 
above, is fallen down ; watrilh and bloody 
Excrements comes from the Matrix. 
CHAP XIV. 
DireUons for Breeding Women. 
*Tp fTE prevention of untimely Birth, confiftg 
in the taking away of the aforementioned 
Caufes, which muft be effedteti both before 
and after the Conception. 
Before Concept ion, If the body he over hot, 
Cold, Dry or Moift, corredit with the Con- 
traries •, Cacochimical, Purge it ; if Plcthori- 
cal, open the Liver Vein ; if too Grofs, Exte- 
nuate it 5 if too Lean Corroborate and Nou- 
rifh it : all Difeafes of the Womb muft be 
removed, as I have ihewedv 
After Conception, Let the Air be Temperate,  Ariltotle’x Mafler-ptece 
Sleep not over much \ avoid Watching, b'xer 
cife of Body, Paffions of the Mind, loud Cla* 
mours and filthy Smells : Sweet Odours alfo 
are to be rejedled of thofe that are Hyfterical. 
Abilain from all things which provoke either 
the Urine or Courfes \ alio from Salt, flaarp 
and windy Meats; a moderate Diet fiiall be 
obferved. 
If the Excrements of the Guts be retained, 
Lenifie the Belly with Glyfters made of the 
Decoftion of Mallows, Violets, with Sugar and 
common Oyl; Or make broth with Borrage, 
Buglofs, Beets, Mallows, taking in the fame a 
little Manna. On the contrary ; if Ihe be 
troubled wiih Loofnefs oftheßclly, let it not 
be flayed without the Judgment of aPhyfi- 
cian ; for all Uterine Fluxes have a Malign 
Quality in them which muft be evacuated 
before the Flux be flaved. 
The Cough is another Accident which ac- 
companied! breeding Women, and puts them 
into great danger of Mifcarrying,hy a continual 
Diftjliarion fading from the Brain *, to pnvenc 
which, /have away the fiair on the Corona!, 
and Sagittal Commifinre, and apply thereon 
this Piaifter : Take Rofinas halt ati Ounce; 
Laudani one dram *, Cittron-peels, Ligni A- 
loes, Olibani, of each one Scruple ; Stirachis 
Laquidseand Sjccse, aSufficient quantity .* dif- 
Solve the Gums'w Vinegar, and make a Plainer. 
At night going to Bed, let her take the Fume 
of thefe Trochisks call upon the Coals. Take Fart 11 
Lompltat ed 
of Frankincenfe, Stir ax, Powder o {Red Rofes, 
of each one dram and a half; Sandarcha three 
drams; Mafiick, Benjamin, Amber, of each 
one dram •, with Turpentine make Trochisks. 
Apply a Cautery to the of the Neck, 
and every night let her take of thefe Pills 
following. Take Hypociftidis, FerrseSigiliatse, 
fise Bole, of each half an ounce j Bifiort, 
Alcatia, Stinacis Calamity, of each 2 drams; 
Cloves one dram : With Syrup of M\rtles 
make Pills. 
In breeding Women there is a corrupted 
matter Generated, which flowing to the Ven- 
tricle, de'edeth the Appetite, and caufeth Vo- 
miting : And the Stomach weak, not 
able to digeft this Matter, fometimes fends it 
unto the Guts, whereby is caufcd a Flux of 
the Belly, which greatly ftirreth up the Fa- 
culty of the Womb. For the efehewing there- 
fore all thefe Dangers, the Stomach fliall be 
corroborated as followeth. 
Take Ligni, Alois, and Nutmeg, of each i 
dram j Mace, Clove, Majfick, Laudanum,of 
each two Scruples s Oyl of Spike one ounce. 
Musk two Grains, Oyl of Maffick, Quinces, 
Worm-wood'» of each half an ounce make an 
Unguent for the ftomach, to be applied be- 
fore Meats. Inftead hereof may be ufed 
Cerotum Stomachale Galeni. Take of Con- 
(erve of Barragev Buglofs, Anthos, of each half 
an ounce ; Confeft, de Hyacintho. Lemon- 
Bills condlted. Specter urn Diamarsu Balv. de AriftotleV MMer-pece 
Gemmis, of each 2 Drams; Nutmeg, Diambra* 
of each 2 Scruples 5 Ptony Roots, Diacoyalli-> 
of each one Dram ; with Syrup of Rofes make 
an Eleduary, of which he fkall take twice 
sr day, two hours before Meals. Another 
accident which perplexeth women with Child, 
is fwelhng of the Legs, which happens the 
firft three Months, by fuperfiuous humours 
falling down from the Stomach and Liver ; 
for the Cure whereof, take of Oyl of Rofes 
2 Drams, Salt, Vinegar of each a Dram ; lliakc 
them altogether until the Salt be di/Tolved, 
and anoint the Legs hot therewith, chafing it 
with the hand. But purging is more proper, 
if it may be done without danger, as it may 
be in the 4th, sth, or 6th Month of Pregna-. 
tion ; for a Child in the Womb is compared 
to an Apple on the Tree. The firft three 
Months it is weak and Tender, fubjed, with 
the Apple, to fall away : but afterward the 
Membranes being ftrengthened, the Fruit 
remains firmly faftned hi the Womb, not 
apt to Mifchanas ; and fo it continues until 
the feventh Month \ then growing near the 
time of Maturity, the Ligaments are again 
relax’d, (dike unto the Apple that is almoft 
ripe) and grow loofer every day, until the 
time of Delivery. IF therefore her body 
hath need of Purging, fhe may purge with- 
out danger inthe 4th. sth, or 6th Month j 
but not before, noi after, urrlefs in fotne /harp 
Difeafes, in which the Mother and Child art 11. 
Completed 
Doth are like toperifli. Apply Plaifters and 
Unguents to the Reins, to ftrengthen the 
Fruit of the Womb. Take of 
Galangale, Bifiorn, Stormx, of 
each one Dram *, Fine Bole, Nutmeg, Ma- 
ftick, BalauH, Sang. Draconis, Myrttle-ber- 
ries one Dram and a half Wax and Tnrpen- 
ine a fufficient quantity. Make a Plaifter ; 
apply it to the Reins in the Winter time 
and remove it every 14 days, left the Reins 
be over-hot therewith, dn the interim anoint 
the Privities and Reins with Vuguemum 
Comitiffa. But if it be Summer-time, arid the 
Reins hot, this Plaifter following is more 
proper : Take of Red Rofes one Pound* 
Maftick, Red-Sanders,of each 2 Drams, Bole- 
Armoni, Red -Coral, Biftort,of each one dram : 
,Pomegranate Pills, prepared Coriander, of 
each 2 Drams and a half Barberries two 
Scruples, Oyl of Maftick and Quinces, of 
each one Ounce \ Juice of Plantain, 2 drams; 
with Pitch make a Plaifter, anoint the Reins 
alio with Unguentum S'andalium. Qnce every 
week wafti the Reins with two parts of 
Rofe water, and one part of White • wine, 
mingled together, and warmed at the Fire y 
this will aftuage the heat of the Reins, and 
difparfe the Oyl of the Plaifter out of the 
Pores of the Skin, and caufe the Oyntment 
or Plaifter, th€ fooner to penetrate and 
ftrengthen the Womb. Some arc of opinion. 
That as long as the Load-ftonc is laid to AriftotleV Matter-piece 
the Navel, it keepeththe Woman from Abor- 
tion. The like is alfo recorded of the Stone 
Aetites, being hanged about the Neck. t"he 
fame Vertoe hath the ftone Samius. 
CHAP XV: 
Directions to he ohferved by Women, at the 
time of their falling in Labour, in order to 
their [afe Delivery : With Directions for 
Midvoives. 
ANd thus having given necefiary Dired- 
ions to Child bearing Women, howto 
govern theulfdves during the time of their 
Pregnancy, I fliall now add, what's necefiary 
for them to obferve, in order to their Delivery. 
The time of Birth drawing near, let the 
Woman fend for a skilful Midwife, and that 
rather too foon than too late ; againft which 
time let her prepare a Pallat bed or Couch, 
and place it near the Fire, that the Midwife 
and her Ailiftance may pais round, and help on 
every fide, as occafion requires; havingchangc 
of Linnen ready, and a final I Cricket, or little 
Log, to reft her feet apainft, (he having more 
force when they are bowed, than when they 
are otherwife. 
Having thus provided, when the Woman 
feds her Pains come, if the Weather be not very 
cold,let her walk leifurly about thcßoomrefting Part 11. 
Comfleated, 
161 
her (elf by turns upon the Bed, and fo expeCt 
the coming down of her Water, which is a 
humour Contracted within one of the outward 
Membranes, and flows thence when it is broke 
by the ftrugling of the Child, there being no 
direCt time affixed for the efflux, though ge- 
nerally it flows not above two hours before 
the Birth. Motion likewife will caufe the 
Womb to open and dilate it fclf, when lying 
long in Bed will be uneafy •, yet if flic be very 
Weak, (he may take fome gentle Cordial to 
Refrefli her fel£ if her Pain will permit. 
If her Travail be tedious, (he may revive 
her Spirits with taking broth of Chickens, 
or Mutton, or (lie may take a poach’d Egg % 
but mu ft take heed of taking any thingtoexcefs. 
As for the Poftures women are Deliver’d in, 
they are many. Come lying in their Beds,fome 
fitting in a Chair, fupported and held by ci- 
thers, or refting upon the fide of the Bed, 
Chair , fome again upon their Knees, being 
fupporred under their Arms : But the moft 
fife and Commodious way is in the Bed 3 and 
then the Midwife is to follow thefe following 
Rules ; Let her lay the Woman upon her 
Back* her head a little railed by the help of 
a Pillow, having the like help to fupport her 
Reins and Buttocks, and that her Rump lye 
high , for if flie lyes low fiie cannot be well 
Deliver’d : Then let her keep her Knees and 
Thighs as far diflant as flie can, her Legs bow- 
ed together 1 her Buttocks, the Soles of her 162 
AriftotJeV Mafter-piece 
Feet and Heels being fix’d upon a little Log 
of Timber, placed for that purpofe, that fhc 
may the better ftrain : And in cate her back 
be very weak, a fwathing-band may be caft 
under it, the band being four double, and a- 
bout 12 Inches broad, and this muft be held 
by two Perfons, who with fteddy hands, and 
equal motion, muft raife her up at the time her 
Pains happen •, but if they be not exad in their 
Motion, ’tis better let alone *, and at the fame 
time let two Women hold her Shoulders, that 
Ihe may then ftrain out the birth with more 
Advantage ; and then to facilitate it, let a 
Woman ftroke or prefs the upper part of her 
belly gently, and by degrees. Nor muft the 
Woman her felf be fainthearted, but of a 
good Courage, forcing her felf, by ftraining 
and flopping her Breath. 
In cafe of Delivery, the Midwife muft wart 
with Patience, till the Child’s-head, or other 
Members, but ft the Membrane *, for if thro* 
ignorance, or hafte to be gone to other Wo- 
men, as feme have done, the Midwife tare the 
Membrane with her Nails, Hie indangers both 
the woman and the Child •, for if it l\ ing dry, 
and wanting that flipperinel's that Ihould make 
it eafie, it coa es forth with greater Pain. 
V\ hen the head appears the Midwife muft 
gently hold it between her 2 hands,and draw 
the Child at fuch times as the womans pangs 
are upon her,and at no other, Hipping by de- 
grees her four Fingers, under its Arm pits,not Part 11. 
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163 
*r I *i' A -t-' ' ,V • f.f . . ♦> '• . v. .. , . 
ufing a Rough hand in drawing it forth,'left 
by that means the tender Infant receive any 
deformity of Body. 
As foon as the Child is taken forth, which 
is for the mod part with its Face downwards* 
let it be laid upon its Back, that it may more 
freely receive external Refpiration \ then cat 
the Navel-ftring about three Inches from the 
Body, tying that end which adheres to the 
Belly, with a filken ftring, as near as you can, 
then cover the head and Stomach of the Child 
well, differing nothing to come upon the Face. 
The Child being thus drawn forth, and in 
health, lay it fide, and let the Mid wile regard 
the Patient, in drawing forth the Secundine: 
And this Hie may do by wagging and (Hiring 
them up and down, and afterwards with a 
gentle hand drawing them forth * anci if the 
Wdrfe be diffict It, let the woman hold Salt in 
her Lands, (hut thecnClofe, and breathe hard 
into ; hem, and thereby (he (hall know whether 
the A'jchbrtoes be broken or nor. It may be 
alio known by caufingher to drain or Vomit, 
by putting one Finger down her Throat, or 
by draining or moving her lower parts, but 
let it all be done out of hand. If this fail, let 
her take a draught of'.aw Elder water the. 
yolk of a new lade Egg, or fmell to a piece of 
s fjj.ftetida, efpecially if Ike be troubled with 
the- Wind Chclick. If (he happen to take cold, 
it is a great Obdrudion to the coming down 
ol the becundines,and in fuch cafes the Mid wife Ariftotle’x MaJier~piece\ \ 
164 
ought to chafe the Woman’s telly gently, to 
break not only the wind, but oblige the Sc- 
«undines to come down, but thefe proving 
ineffectual, the Midwife muft dilate with her 
hand, the Exterior Orifice of the Womb,and 
gently draw itforth. 
Having nowdifeourfed of Common Births, 
or fuch as for the moft part are eafy, I lhall 
now give Directions in cafes of Extremity. 
CHAP XVI. 
In Cafe of Extremity, what ought to he 
Qbferved, efpecialiy to Women, who, in 
their Travail, are accompanied with an 
Efflux of Blood, Convulfony or fits of the 
Wind, 
IF the Woman’s Labour be hard and Diffi* 
cult, greater Regard muft be had then 
than at other times. And firft of a!!, the Si- 
tuation of the Womb, and Pofturc of Lying, 
muft be crofs the Bed, being held by ftrong 
Perfons, to prevent her flipping down, or mo- 
ving her feff in the Operation of the Chyrur- 
geen : Her Thighs muft be put afunder as 
far diftant as may be, and fo held ; whilft 
her l egs bends backwards towards her Hips, 
her head muft lean upon a Bolder, and the 
Reins of her Back be fupperted after the fame 
manner i her Rump and Buttocks being lifted Part 11. 
Completed. 
up, obferving to cover her Stomach, Belly, 
» and Thigh?, with warmUnnen, to keep them 
from the Cold, 
• The woman being in this Pollute, let the 
Operator put up his hand,if be finds the neck.. 
of the Womb dilated,and remove the Contra• 
lied Blood, that obftruds the Palfagc of the 
.Birth; and having by degrees gently made 
way, let him tenderly move the Infant, his 
hand being firft anointed with fweet Butter, 
or,a harmlefs Pomatum , and if the waters 
are not co ne down, then without Difficulty 
may they be let forth •, when if the Infant 
fhould attempt to break out head foremoft, 
or crofs, he may gently turn it to find the 
Feet; which having done, let him draw forth 
one,, and fallen it to a Ribbon, then put it up 
agdn, and by degrees find the other, bringing 
them as dole and even as may be, and between 
whiles letting the Woman breathe, urging 
her to ftrain in helping Nature, to pci fed tl*e 
Birth, that Ihe may draw it forth; and the 
better (o do it, that his hold may be the Cu- 
ter, he muft wrap a Linnen Cloth about th«, 
Child’s Thighs, oblerving to bring it into 
the World with its Face downward. 
In Cafe of a Flax of Blood, if the Neck of 
the Womb be open, it muft be confidered, 
whether the Infant, or Seciind'mts come firft, 
which the latter fometimes happening to do, 
flops the Mouth of the Womb, and hinders 
theirtb, to indangering both theWoman?md AriftotteV Mafier-fikie 
the Child •, bat in this cafe the Secundines 
tiiuft be removed by a fwift turn, and indeed 
they have by their fo coming down, deceived 
many, who feeing their ' lobbies, fuppofed 
the Womb was not dilated, and by this 
means the woman and Child, or at lead the 
latter, has been Toft; The Secundines remo- 
ved, the Child mull: be fought for, and drawn 
forth, as hath been Directed ; And if in Tech 
a cafe the woman or C hild die, the Midwife 
or Chyrurgeon is blamelefs, becaute they 
did their true endeavours. 
If it appears upon enquiry, that the Sectm- 
dines comes firft,let the Woman be delivered 
with all convenient Expedition, Btcaifte,!a 
great flux of blood will follow ; for then the 
Veins are opened, and upon this account two 
things are to be confider'd 
Firft, The mannerof the Secundines advan- 
cing, whether it be much or little *, if the for- 
mer, and the head of the Child appear firft, 
it muft be- guided and directed fowbids the 
neck of the Womb,as in cafes of natural 
but if there appear any difficulty in ibe De- 
livery, the beft way is to feareh for the Feet,, 
and thereby draw it forth % but if the latter, 
the Secundines may be pat back with a gentle 
hand, and the Child firft taken forth. 
But if the Secundines be far advanced, fo 
that it cirnot be put back, and the Child fol- 
low it dole, then are the Secundines to be Part 11. 
Completed, 
167 
taken forth with much care, as fwift as may 
be, and laid eaHe without cutting the En trial 
that is fanned to them, for thereby you may 
be guided to the Infant, which, whether alive 
or dead, muft be drawn forth by the Feet with 
all Celerity, tho’ it is not able to beaded, 
unlefs in cafe of great neceffity, for in other 
cafes the Seeundines ought to oome laih 
And in drawing forth a dead Child, let 
thefc Directions be carefully heeded by the 
Chyrurgeon, viz.. If the Child be found dead 
with its heail foremoft, the delivery will be 
the more difficult for it is an apparent Sign 
the woman’s Arength begins to fail her, and 
that the Child being dead, and wanting its 
natural force, can be no ways afiiAing to its 
Delivery *, wherefore the moft certain and 
fafe way is, for the Chyrurgeon to put up his 
left hand. Aiding it as hallow in the Plain as 
he can, into the neck of the Womb, and into 
the lower part thereof, towards the Feet, 
and that between the head of the Infant, and 
Che neck of the Matrix when having a 
Hook in the right hand, couch it clofe, 
and Ait it up above the left hand, between 
the head of the Chili, and the flat of his 
hand, fixing it in the bone of the Temple, 
towards ihe Eye or want of convenient 
coming at thefe, in the occipital Bone 
obferving liili to keep the left hand in its 
place, and with it gently moving and Airring 
the head \ and fo with the right hand and AriftotleV Mafier~piece 
Hook, draw the Child forward, admoniflnng 
the woman to put forth her utmoft Strength, 
ftill drawing when the woman’s Pangs are 
upon her. The head being drawn forth, he 
muft with all (peed Hip his hand up under the 
Arm-holes of the Child, and take it quite 
forth, giving thefe things to the woman, viz* 
A Toaft of tine Wheat-bread, in a Quarter 
of a Pint of Hipocras Wine. 
Now the former Application and endeavour 
failing, when the woman is in her Bed, let her 
receive the enfuing Potion hot, anil reft tiM 
Oie feel the Operation ; which is this \ 
Take blue Figs, to the number of (even, cut 
them in pieces ; adding to them Fenugreek, 
Mother-wort, and Seeds of Rue, of each five- 
Drams \ water of Pennyroyal, and Mother- 
wort, of each fix Ounces, boyl them till one 
half be confumed, and having ftrained them- 
again, add Trcchisksoi Aiyrrh one Dram,and 
of Saffron 3 Grains ; fweetning the Liquor 
with Loaffugar, and fpicing it with Cinahton- 
Having refted upon this, let her Labour 
again as much as may be, and if fhe be not yet 
fticcefsful, make a Suffumation cf Caff op, Opo- 
panax, Sulphur, and Ajfafoetida, ot each half 
a Dram, beating them into Pouder, and wet- 
ting them with the Juice of Rue, until thev 
become ftiff, then burn them upon Coals, lo 
that the Smoke, or Fume, may only come to 
the.Matrix, and no farther* Fart 11. 
Com floated. 
If thefe Effcft not your Defire, then this 
flaiftcr is very fit to be applied, viz.. 
Take of GaWanum an Ounce and a halfr. 
Colocynthis without Grains, two Drams, the 
Juice of Motherwort and Rue, of each half 
an Ounce, and two Ounces of Virgin Bees- 
"Wax, hruife and melt them together, fpreading 
them as a Sear-Cloth, to reach from the Na- 
Vel to the Os Pubis, fpreading iikewife to the 
Planks, at the fame time make a convenient 
Peffary of Wool, clofing it in a Bag of Silk, 
and dipping it in a Cone oft ion of round Birth’ 
Savin, CtlocynthU with Grains, Stav*~ 
hher, Black He ?chore, of each a Dram, and 
°f Rue, a little Sprig or two.* 
But thefe things not ha ving the defired fiio 
and the Woman’s danger increafing, let 
lhc Chyrurgeon ufe his inftmments to dilate' 
widen the Womb, to which end tbewo- 
mull be fet in a Chair, fo that /he may 
*Urn her Crupper as much from its baflt as is- 
Convenient, drawing likewife her Legs up a&-‘ 
slofe as (he can, /preading her Thighs as wide' 
as may be \ or if flic be very weak it may be- 
more convenient,, that /he be hid upon the 
Bed, with her head downwards,- her But- 
tocks railed, and both her Legs drawn op 
as much as can be ; at which time the Chy- 
rurgeon, wich his Speculum Matrices, or hiss 
Apertory, may dilate the Womb, and draw 
out the. Child and Secundines if': 
ppflible.; which being done, the Womb Ariftotle’s Mafter-pkce 
muft be well waftied and anointed, and the 
Woman laid in her Bed, and comforted with 
Spices and Cordials : This courfe muft be 
taken in the Delivery of all dead Children .* 
Likewife with Moles, Secundines, and falfc 
Births, that will not of themfelves come forth 
in due Seafbn. Or if the Inftrmrentaforefaid 
will not fufficiently widen the Womb, then, 
other Inftruments, as the Drake’s Bill, and 
long Pincers, ought to be ufed. 
If itfo happen that any Inflamation, SweT 
ling* or cong alcd Blood, be contracted in 
the Matrix, under the Film of thofe Tumours, 
either bef re or after the Birth, where the 
matter appears Thinner, then let the Mid- 
wife, with, a Penknife ortnciftion Inflrumenr, 
Launch it, and prefs out the Corruption,; 
Healing it with a Peflary dipped in Oyl of 
Red. Roles. 
If at any time, through Cold or Ibme Vi- 
olencJf the Child happen to be fwelied in any 
part, or have conn acted a watry- Tumour, 
if ft remain alive, fuch rruans muft be ufed 
as are ieaft injuriousto the Child or Mother \ 
hut if it be dead, that-Tumour muft be let 
out by incinon, to f ediate the Birth. 
If.(as it often happens) that the Child 
come with its feet forernoft, and the hands 
dilating themielves from ihe l.,;ps, in, ftch 
cafe the .Midwife muft be p oyided i t Vvd- 
Lry Ovntments to broke rnd anoint the 
liDnt with,, to help its coming forth, left it Part 11. 
Completed. 
171 
return again into the Womb, holding, at the 
fame time, both the Arms of the Infant, clofc 
to the Hips, that fo it may iflfue forth after its 
manner \ but if it prove too big, the Womb 
muft be well anointed. The woman may alfo 
take freezing Powder, to make her Strain } 
thofe that attend, may gently ftroke her Belly 
to make the birth defcend, and keep the Child 
from retiring back. 
Sometimes it falls out that the Child, 
ingwith his Feet foremoft, has its Arms ex- 
tend ed above its Head *, but the Midwife muft 
not receive it fo, but put it back into the 
Womb, unlefs the PalTage be extraordinary 
wideband then (he muft anoint both the Child 
and the Womb ynor is it Cafe to draw it forth 
Before it is pat into due form, which muft be 
done after this manner : The worn an muft: 
be laid upon her Back, with her head Depref- 
cd, and her Buttocks Raifed, and then the 
Midwife, with a gentle hand, muft Comprefs 
the belly of the Woman, towards the Midnf, 
by that means to put back the Infant, obfer- 
ving to turn the Face of the Child towards the 
back of the Mother, railing up his Thighs and 
Buttocks towards her Navel, thatfo the birth 
may be more Natural. 
If a Child happen to come forth with one 
Foot, the Arm being extended along the Side* 
and the other Foot turned backward* then 
muft the woman be inftantly brought to hep 
Bed, and laid in the fofture above Deftrib- Anltotles M after •piece 
Ed, at wb& time the Midwife maft very care- 
fully pat b?ck the foot fo appearing, and the 
woman rocking her felf from one fide to the 
other, till Hie finds the Child is turned *, but 
muft not alter her pofture, nor turn upon her 
Face ; after which (he may expeft her Pains, 
and muft have great Aftiftance, and Cordials- 
to Revive and fupport her Spirits. 
At other times it happens that the Child 
lyes crofs in the Womb* and falls upon its 
fide i in this Cafe, the woman muft not be 
urged in her- Labour, neither can any expeft 
the. birth in that manner : Therefore the 
Midwife, when fhe finds it fo, (he muft ufe 
great diligence to reduce it to its right form, 
or. at lea ft to fuc-h a form in the Womb, as 
may make the Delivery pcftibie and moft ea- 
fy, by moving the Buttocks, and guiding the 
head tothePafiage ; and if (he be fucccfsfui 
herein, let her again try by rocking her felf 
to and fro, and wait with Patience till it aL 
ters its manner of lying- 
Scmetimes the Child hftens the birth, by* 
expanding its Legs and Arms *, in which, as 
in the former, the woman « nft rock her felf, 
but not with Violence, till flic find thofeparts 
fall into their proper Stations j or it may be 
done by a gentle corr predion oftbc Womb : 
But if either of them prevail, the Midwife 
with her hand muft clofe the Legs of the 
Ipfant, and if (he can come at them, do the.- 
Uke to theArmSj- and (b draw it forth; but; Part 11. 
Completed. 
if it can be reduced of it felf to the pofture of 
a Natural birth it is better. 
If the Infant come forward with both Knees 
foremoft, and the Hands hanging down upon 
the Thighs, then muft the Midwife put both 
Knees upward, till the Feet appear taking 
hold of which with her let hand, let her keep 
her right hand on the fide of the Child, and 
in that pofture indeavour to bring it forth 5. 
but if (he-cannot, then al(b muft the woman 
rock her felf, till the Child is in a more con- 
venient pofture for Delivery. 
Sometimes it happens that the Child prefles 
forward with one Arm ftrctch’d on its Thighs,, 
and the other railed over its head, and the 
Feet ftrctchld out at length, in the Womb y 
in fuch Cafe the Midwife muft not attempt 
to receive the Child in that pofture, but muft 
lay the woman on the Bed, in the manner be- 
fore Recited, making a (bftand gentle Com* 
predion upon her belly, to Oblige the infant 
to which if not, then muft the Midwife 
thruft it back by the Shoulders,and bring the 
Armthgt was ftretched above the head to its- 
right Station^for there is moft danger in theft 
Extremities, and therefore the Midwife muft 
mind to anoint her hands firft,and 'thc Womb 
of the woman witn Tweet-butter, or feme con* 
venienc BewatHm-, tbrufting her hand as near 
as (he canto the Arm of the Infant, and bring., 
it to the fide but if it cannot be fo done, , 
let the. Woman be laid 00 hspjtsd*, to reft/ AriftotleV Mafter-piece 
for a while, in which time, perhaps the Child 
may be reduced to a better PoAure, which 
the Midwife finding, fbe muff draw the 
Arms dole to the Hips, and fo receive it. 
If an Infant comes with its Buttocks fore- 
moft, and almoft double, then the Midwife 
anointing her Hand, mud thruft it up, and 
gently heaving up the Buttocks and the Back, 
drive to turn the head to the Paffage, but not 
too haftily, left the Infant retiring, Ibould 
/hape it Worfe y and therefore if ir cannot be 
turned \yith the hand, the woman muff Rock 
her felfpn her Bed, taking fuch Comfortable 
things a£ may fnpport her Spirits, till (lie per- 
ceive the Child to turn. 
If a Child’ireek be bowed,andit comes for- 
ward with its Shoulders, as fometimes hap- 
pens, and with its hands and feet ftretch’d up- 
wards : Then the Midwife muff gently move 
the Shoulders, that fhe maydired: the head to 
the Paflagc • arid the better to effed: it, the 
womahmuft Rock her Rdf as afore Direded. 
Thefe, aVid other the like Methods, are to be 
oblerved in aUTingle Births; And the fame may 
be observed in cafe a woman have Twins, or 3 
Children at a birth,asfometimes happens: For 
as the Tingle Birth has but one Natural way, 
and many unnatural Forms, even lb it may be 
in double or treble Births: wherefore in fuch 
cafes the Midwife muff take care to receive 
that firff, which is neareff the Pafiage, but not 
kiting the other go, leff by retiring it fhoulct Part 11. 
Completed. 
change the Form ; and when one is ton?, fhe 
n uft be fpeedy in bringing forth the other j 
and this birth, if it be in the Natural way, is 
more eafy; becaufe the Children are commonly 
lefsthan thofe of a Angle birth, and fo require 
a leflfir Paflage y but if this birth comes unna- 
turally, it is- more dangerous than the other. 
In the birth of Twins, let the Midwife be 
very careful that the Secundines be naturally 
brought forth, left the Womb being delivered 
of its burthen, fall % and fo the Secundine con- 
tinues there* longer than is Gonfiftent with 
the Roman’s fafety. 
Butjf one of the Twins happentocome with 
the beMithe other with the feet fotemoft,tben 
|et the Midwife deliver the natural Birth firft, 
and then if flie cannot turn the other, draw it 
out in the pofture it prefies forward •, butifthat 
with its feet downward before the other, the 
may deliver that firft, turning the other afide. 
But in this*, fe the Midwifemuft carefully 
fee that it be not a monftrous Birth inftead of 
Twins yas a body with two heads;or twobo* 
dies joyned togeihcr,which fhe may loon know, 
if both the heads come foremoft, by puttingup 
her hand between thcm,as high as (he can;and 
then if fhe find they are I wins j fhe nr uft gen- 
tly put one of them afide,to make way for the 
other y taking that which is moft advanced, 
having regard to the other, that it don’t 
change its Jcituation;. 
And for the fafeiy of the firft Child, as foon-  Adfiotk’s Majler~ptecf 
as it comes forth out of the Womb, the Mid- 
wife muftTyc the Navel-String, as hath been 
before directed \ and alfo bind with a large 
and long Fillet, that of the Navel that 
is fattened to the Secundincs, the more rea- 
ch ly to find them. 
The feeond Infant being born, let the Mid- 
wife carefully examine whether there be not 
Two Secundinesy for it fomctimes falls out, 
that by the Ibottnefc of the Ligament, it re- 
tires back to. the prejudice of the woman k; 
Wherefore left the-Womb fiiould clofe, it is 
mott expedient to batten them forth with all 
convenient fpeed. 
If two Infants arc joyned together by the 
body, as fometimes it Monftroufly ftlls out, 
then altho* the heads fhould come foremott, 
yet it is -convenient, if poffible, to turn them 
and draw them forth by the Feet, obferving 
when they come to the Hips, to draw them 
forth as Toon as may be. And here great* 
care ought to be ufed in anointing and widen- 
ing the PafTage. But thefe forts of births 
rarely happening, Hhall need to fay the lefs 
of *, and therefore lhall next fhew how- 
Women fhou’d be1 order’d after Delivery,; Part 11. 
Completed 
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CHAP XVII. 
Hovo Child-Bearing Women ought to be 
Ordered after their Delivery. 
"IF a Woman has had very hard Labour, 
i nit is convenient to wrc p her in the 
Skin of a Sheep, taken off before it’s cold, 
patting theflefliy fide to her Reins and belly: 
Or for want of this, the Skin of a Hare or 
Coney, being Bead off as Toon as Kill’d, may 
be applied to the faid parts, and in fodoing, 
the Dilation made in the birth will be clofed 
up, and the melancholy blood expell’d from 
thole parts; And thefemay becontinued the 
fpace of an hour or two \ after which let the 
woman be Iwathed with a fine Linnen Cloth* 
about a quarter of a V ard in length, Chafing 
her belly before it is Swathed, with Oyl of 
St. John s-wcrt, after that raife up the Ma- 
trix with a Linnen Cloth many tunes folded, 
then with a little Pillow or Quilt, cover her 
Flanks *, then place the Swathe fomewhat a- 
bove the Haunches, winding it pritty ftiff, ap- 
plying at the fame time a warm Cloth to her 
Nipples, and not prefently applying Remedies 
to keep back the Milk by i ealbn the body at 
fuch a time is out of Frame 7 for thcfe is nei- 
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heat, and Remedies to drive hack the Ad ilk, hi 
%of a dfjjolving Nature, it is improper t 
apply them to the Breast, during fuch Difot 
der, left hy fo doing, evil humours be comraflec 
in the Brea ft, wherefore 12 hours ought to h 
at the lea ft allowed for the Circulation am. 
Settlement of the Blood \ and what was caf: 
upon the Lungs, hy the vehement Agitation 
during the Labour, to retire to its proper Re- 
tept4:les. 
Some time alter Delivery, you may make t 
Rejlriflive of the Tolk of tiro Eggs, and t 
quarter of a Pint of White-wine, OylofSt. 
JohnV Wort* Oyl of Rofes, Plantain, and Rofi 
water, of each one Ounce \ mix them together, 
fold a Lumen Cloth and dip therein ; warm it 
before a gentle Fire,and apply it to the BreaSh \ 
and the Pains of thofe parts will he greatly 
cafed. 
She mnfl by no means Sleep prefently after 
Delivery *, but about four hours after fhe may 
take Broth, Caudle, or what ether Liquid mat- 
ter is Nourifhing, and then if Jhe be cLfpofed to 
Sleep, it may be fafely permitted. And this is 
a* much ( as in cafe of a Natural Birth') as 
ought immediately to be done. 
. But in cafe of Extremity, or an Vnnatural 
Birth, thefe Rules ought to be obferved. In the 
fir ft place, let the Woman keep a Temperate 
Diet, by no means over-charging her ft If, af- 
ter fuch an exceffive Evacuation \ not being 
ruled or giving Credit to unskilful Nurfes,who 
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fdmdhtjh them to feed heartily, the better to 
repdh the lofs of Blood ; for that Blood is not 
for the moFi, part jn&ty but [neb as has been 
detained in the Fife Is dr better 
avoided for the health of the Woman, than 
kept-, itnlefs there happens an extraordinary 
hhix of Blood : For if her Noun foment be too 
**uch7 it may male her liable to a Fever, and 
iy’-crfofe the JAdh to which Curd- 
tinfo often turns to Apoflhumes. 
Wherefore it is requilite, for the firft five 
days efptcially, that fire take moderately 
Bona dr Broth, Poach’d of Chickens, 
or Calvesfeet, or French Barley broth j each 
day foe what increafmg the Quantity j and 
ifflre intend to be aNur{etoherGhild,lbe may 
taka fome thing more than Ordinary to in- 
create tie Milk by degrees *, which muft be 
no Continuance, but draw off either by the 
Child' or othlrwite. In this cate likewife, 
ebfet veto let her have Coriander or Fennel- 
Seed, boyled in her Barfcy;fcroth; but by any 
means, lor the time fpecified, let her abfiain 
teem Meat .* If no Fever trouble her, ffe 
may drink now and then a fmall quantity of 
pure White-wine, or Claret, as alfo Syrup of 
Maiden hair, or any other Syrup that is ofari 
Aftringent Quality, taking it in a little water 
well led : And after the fear of a Fever, 
or Contradion of humours in the Brett, is 
over, fhe may be Nouri/hcd more plentifully 
with the Broth of Pullets, Capons, Pidgeons, i8o 
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Mutton, Veal, &c. Which mull not be till 
after eight days, from the time of her Delive* 
rv, at which time the Womb, unlefs (bme c- 
cident hinder, has purged it felf •, it will be 
then like wife expedient to give her cold Meats-, 
but let it be fparing, that fo the may the bet- 
ter gather Strength ; and let her, during the 
time, reft quietly and free from Dift 
not Sleeping in the day-time if ftie can avoid 
it. If there happen any Obftrudion in the 
Evacuation of her Excrement, the following 
Glifter may be adminiftred. 
Fake of both the Mallows and Ptlitery of 
the Wall, a handful : Camomile and Melli- 
lote Flowers, of each a handful : Annifeeds 
and Fennel-feds 7of .each two Ounces : Beyl 
’em in the Decoction of a Sheeps head, and 
take of this three Quarters, Dlfflving in them 
common Honey., coarfe Sugar, and new frejh 
flutter two Ounces: Strain it well, adminifter 
it Glifterwife : But if it does not Operate 
to your mind, . then you. may take an Ounce 
of Cat helicon. 
How to fxptl the Cholick from Women 
in Child-Birth. 
CHAP XVIII. 
*T*HESE Pains frequently Afflict the 
A Woman, no lets than the Pangs of her 
Labour, and ate by the Ignorant, taken many Part 11. 
Completed. 
times the one for the other, and fometimes 
they bothhappen at .the fame Infant? which 
is occafioncd by Raw, Crude, and Watery 
Matter in the Stomach, Contracted thro* ill 
Digeftion *; and while fuch pain continues,the 
woman’s Travail is Retarded.* Therefore, to. 
'xpel the fits of the Cholick, take two Ounc 
Mes of Oyl of fwcet Almonds, and an Ounce 
of Cinamon-water, with three or four drops 
of Spirit of Ginger, and let the woman Drink 
it off ; and if this does not abate the Pains, 
make a Glyfier of Camomile, Baam lcaves, 
Oyl of QUww and new Milky boyling the. 
former in the latter v and having Strained it 
very well, adminilier it as it’s ufual in fuch 
Cafes; and then Fomentations proper for 
difpeliingof Wind, will not be amifs. 
If the pain prove the Griping of the Guts, 
and long after Delivery, then take of the 
Root of Great Comfry a Dram, Nutmeg, and 
T each-kernels, of each two Scruples *, Ycftow 
Amber one Dram ; Ambergreefe one Scruple 
hruife them together, and give them the 
Woman as (oonas (be is laid down, in two 
or three Spoonfuls of White-wine, but if it 
fo happen that (he be Feveriih, then let it 
be as much warm Broth. The Conclufion. 
AND thus, Courteous Reader, we arc 
come to the Conclufion of our Work,:-| 
having fullyOnraVtll’dt\\tSecitldfNature, I 
iri the Generation of Man \ which 
it may he RediculM by the pYophane Wits of 1 
the Age) has been the Work and Study of 
very great and wife, both Philofphers and 
Phyficians in all Ages \ as appears by the In- 
defatigable Labours of great Ariflotfe, ( out 
of whole Learned Works we have ext rafted 
this Book ) a Man of that profound Learn 
ivg, and Science, that Alexander the Great 
was not afham’d to own, That he ow'd more 
to him for hi* pdneat ion, -thin to his Father 
Philip for his Kingdom : But a Greater 
than Ariftotle (or Alexander either ) has 
made the Setrets of Nature in the wonderful 
framing of Man in the Womb, the Snbjeft 
of his Divine Meditation *, even the Roval 
Prophet David, Plalm 159. Then haFt 
pojfeffed my Reins ; Thou hall Govern'd me in 
my Atfothers Womb, &c. 
And now Header, you hatte feen herein, 
that there is not a Malady attends either 
the Child in the Womb, or the Mother, du- 
ring her Pregnancy, but Nature and Art has 
provided a Remedy, which that they may 
prove S'uccefsful, is the Defign and End of the 
Compiler. 
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