patient take one scruple and a half of pilon in water
before going to bed; make a fumigation for the womb
of mastic, frankincense and burnt frogs, adding the
hoof of a mule. Take an ounce each of the juice
of knot-grass, comfoly and quinces; a drachm of camphor;
dip a piece of silk or cotton into it and apply it
to the place. Take half an ounce each of oil of
mastic, myrtle, and quinces; a drachm each of fine
bole and troch. decardas, and a sufficient quantity
of dragon’s blood, make an ointment and apply
it before and behind. Take an ounce and a half
each of plantain, shepherd’s purse and red rose
leaves; an ounce of dried mint, and three ounces of
bean flour; boil all these in plantain water and make
two plasters:—apply one before and one behind.
If the blood flows from those veins which are terminated
at the neck of the matrix, then it is not called an
undue discharge of the menses, but haemorrhoids
of the womb. The same remedy, however, will serve
for both, only the instrumental cure will be a little
different; for in uterine haemorrhoids, the ends of
the veins hang over like teats, which must be removed
by cutting, and then the veins closed with aloes, fine
bole, burnt alum, myrrh, mastic, with comfoly-juice
and knot grass, laid upon it like a plaster.
[Illustration: Position of the Embryos in
a plural conception]
[Illustration: Process of Delivery.]
The air should be cold and dry, and all motion of
the body should be prohibited. Her diet should
consist of pheasants, partridges, grouse, rabbits,
calves’ feet, etc., and her drink should
be mixed with the juice of pomegranates and quinces.
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Of the Weeping of
the Womb.
The weeping of the womb is an unnatural flow of blood,
coming from it in drops, like tears, and causing violent
pains in it, and occurring at no fixed period or time.
By some it is supposed to be produced by the excessive
flow of the courses, as they flow copiously and freely;
this is continued, though only little at a time, and
accompanied by great pain and difficulty of passing
it, and on this account it is compared to the strangury.
The cause is in the power, instrument or matter; in
the power, on account of its being enfeebled so that
it cannot expel the blood, and which, remaining there,
makes that part of the womb grow hard, and distends
the vessels, and from that, pains in the womb arise.
In the instrument, from the narrowness of the passage.
Lastly, it may be the matter of the blood which is
at fault, and which may be in too great quantities;
or the quality may be bad, so that it is thick and
gross and cannot flow out as it ought to do, but only
in drops. The signs will best be ascertained
by the patient’s own account, but there will
be pains in the head, stomach and back, with inflammation,
difficulty of breathing and excoriation of the matrix.
