Aristotle's works:: Containing the Master-piece, Directions for Midwives, and Counsel and Advice to Child-bearing Women with Various Useful Remedies — Aristotle — John Shaqi
Aristotle's works:: Containing the Master-piece, Directions for Midwives, and Counsel and Advice to Child-bearing Women with Various Useful Remedies
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Take of bole ammoniac one scruple, London treacle one drachm, old
conserve of roses half an ounce, with syrup of myrtle make an electuary:
or, if the flux hath continued long, take of mastic two drachms, olibani
troch de carbara, of each one drachm; balustium, one scruple; make a
powder;—with syrup of quinces make it into pills; take one before meals.
Take the juice of knot-grass, comfrey, and quinces, of each one ounce,
camphor, one drachm; dip silk or cotton therein, and apply it to the
place. Take of oil of mastic, myrtles, quinces, of each half an ounce;
fine bole, trock, decarda, of each one drachm; sanguis draconis a
sufficient quantity; make an unguent, and apply it before and behind.
Take the plantain, shepherd’s purse, red rose leaves, of each one
ounce:—boil all these in plantain water, and make of it two plasters;
apply one before and one behind. If the blood flow from those veins
which terminated in the neck of the matrix, then it is not the
overflowing of the terms, but the hemorrhoids of the womb; yet the same
cure will serve both, only the instrumental cure will a little differ:
for, in the uterine hemorrhoids, the ends of the veins hang over like
teats or bushes, which must be taken away by incision, and then the
veins closed up with aloes, fine bole, burnt alum, troch de terrs fiall;
myrrh, mastic, with the juice of comfrey and knot-grass, laid
plaster-ways thereto.
The air must be cold and dry. All motion of the body must be forbidden.
Let her meat be pheasant, partridge, mountain birds, coneys, calf-feet,
&c.
CHAPTER IX.
OF THE WEEPING OF THE WOMB.
The weeping of the womb is a flux of blood, unnaturally coming from
thence by drops, after the manner of tears, causing violent pains,
keeping neither period nor time. By some it is referred unto the
immoderate evacuation of the menses, yet they are distinguished in the
quantity and manner of overflowing, in that they flow copiously and
free; this is continual, by little and little, and with great pain and
difficulty.