HOWEVER, yet more particularly, in respect of the PAINS, from what _Cause_ soever they may proceed, _CLYSTERS_ of _Milk_ with the _Yolks of Eggs_ are proper; as are also emollient _Fomentations_ mix’d with attenuating and _Uterine Medicines_; a _Fumigation_ of _BRANDY_; a _Decoction_ of the _Recrements_ of the _Regulus_ of _Antimony_; such things being of a _sulphurous Nature_: And moreover, in fine, all _AFTER-PAINS_ are eased by _Aromatick_ and _Carminative Remedies_; such as Seeds of _Anise_, _Carway_, _Cummin_, _Fennel_, _Penny-Royal_, _Roman-Camomil_, &c. infus’d or boil’d in _Wine_ or _Water_, adding thereto a very little _Mace_ and _Saffron_. [Illustration] CHAP. III. _Of the Suppression of the LOCHIA, or Child-Bed-Purgations._ THE _LOCHIA_ are nothing else, but the ignobler part of the _Blood_ and congested _Humours_, which after the _BIRTH Nature_ evacuates and discharges out of the _Uterine Vessels_, in consequence of the _Divulsion_ and _Separation_ of the PLACENTA from the WOMB. Which _LOCHIA_ however differ always according to the Constitution and Disposition of the _Woman_, and that not only in _Quantity_, but also in _Quality_: For if the _PATIENT_ be otherways Healthy, and Well-disposed, _these_ are at first of a _florid rosy Colour_, degenerating day by day into a _Pale-dye_; Whereas if otherways, they are sometimes _Aqueous_, and sometimes _Bilous_, _Melancholick_, &c. And, according also to the usual _Habit_ of Body, and _Way of Living_, _some_ Women _flood_ more plentifully, _others_ more sparingly; _some_ a longer, and _others_ a shorter Time: as for Instance—— A _Woman_ given to _Ease_, and _high Living_, being delivered of a MALE, may _cleanse_ from twenty to thirty Days; and if of a FEMALE, from thirty to forty-two Days at most, however still declining in _Quantity_ from Day to Day: Whereas _another_ given to _Exercise_, may _flood_ only from eight to fifteen Days; and _that_ also perhaps more _sparingly_, or by _Intervals_ of one or two Days. But it oftentimes happens, that this _Evacuation_ is either suppressed in Whole, or in Part; of which _Suppression_ or _Preternatural Retention_, I am now about to speak.—— FIRST then, the _Cause_ of this EVIL, proceeds either from an _Obstruction_ of the _Uterine Vessels_, occasion’d by _thick BLOOD_ stopping the _Passages_: Or, SECONDLY, from a _Constriction_ or _Compression_ of the same _Vessels_, occasioned by an _oblique Situation_ of the WOMB, or by cold _Air_, cold _Drink_, or the like, which readily constrict their _Orifices_, as well as contract the WOMB itself: Or, THIRDLY and lastly, the _Cause_ may proceed from the _BLOOD_’s being retracted and converted to some _other Part_ of the Body; which is most commonly occasion’d by some _Passion_ or _Perturbation_ of Mind, that may not only turn the _Shock_ of the _BLOOD_ to the BREASTS, but also retard the _Motion_, and thicken the MASS of the same _BLOOD_.