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Declaratiō of the Characters which are contaynede in the figures of the Hoockes, and Knives which are necessarye, and conveniente, to drawe forth a deade Child out of the Mothers bellye: also of the Pessaryes, Plates and of other thinges necessarye to the Ligatione of the fistles of the fundament.
[ A,] Demonstrateth the Crochet vvith a dubble hooc∣ke vvhich must not be sharp, but blunte, leaste that internallye they chaunce to vulnerate the Wombe, by vvhich meanes the vvoeman might be in greate perille, and daunger of her lyfe.
[ *,] The hole throughe the vvhich must be thruste so∣me certayne string, to tye thervnto a Naptkinne be∣cause there might tvvo at once pulle vvhen it is ne∣defull.
[ B,] The seconde hoocke vvhich is flatte and blunte.
[ C,] C, A little croockede knife vvhich is verye acute, & sharpe conveniente to inscide the Heade, and bellye of a deade Childe, internally in the Wombe, because the vvater, & aqvositye might heerbye have his is∣sue.
I have divers and sundrye times binne sente for, to di∣vers Woemē, vvhich vveare in difficulte laboure & Childebearth, notvvithstandinge I never vsede any hoockes, or other ferrealle Instrumentes therto, for vvhich occasion I also councell all Chyrurgianes, to vse none of them, then in extreame necessitye, for if soe be there happen anye other accidente there vn∣to, as excoriatione, or anye effluxione of blood, vve muste then attribute the same vnto the Instrumen∣te, vvhich the Chyrurgiane vsede thervnto: Never∣thelesse I have heere causede them to be set dovvne vnto you, to vse them in the extreameste necessitye: and heere is to be notede, that the Insculptor, or In∣gravere to adorne, & imbellishe his laboures, hath participatede some propre, and perpolite fashone to the handle, vvhich indeede is thereon invtile, and needeles, because it is better, that they be playne, & smoothe becaus they fastē themselves on nothinge. [ D,] The Pessarye in forme of an Apple vvhich is made of Corke, and is circumvestede vvith vvhyte vvaxe: this pessarye preventeth the descendinge, and sinc∣kinge out of the Matrix. The Greeckes calle it Pes∣son, and the Latinistes Pessarium. There are some also made after an Ovale figure, rovvnde, and som∣vvhat prologatinge like an Egge, and of divers ma∣gnitudes: but quotidiane experience hath taught vs, that they are not so necessarye, and commodious, as those vvhich are of this forme, because they are to slipperye, and cannot be hilde so faste in the entran∣ce, or necke of the vvombe, so that oftentimes they sincke theroute, and in like sorte also the vvombe, vvhich notvvithstandinge reqvireth to be continu∣allye therin contaynede.
The firste vvhich I have seene vse such manner of Pes∣saryes, vvas the right vvorshipfulle Mr. Rousset, on of the Kinges Chyrurgians, and of the Ladye of Ne∣mours, vvhich hath learnedlye, and excellentlye vvritten, of divers sortes of the Woomens parturiō, vvhere this forme of Pissaryes are defigurede, and the manner also of his vse.
[ E,] The hole vvhich is in the middeste, vvhich serveth to dravve therbye the pessarye out of the vvombe, vve thrustinge our finger in the hole.
[ *,] *, The linte vvherone the Pessarye is fastenede roun∣de aboute the bodye of the vvoman.
[ F,] An argentealle plate being semilunare, & somvvhat reflectinge invvardelye, tovvarde the internalle part beinge notede vvith G.
This plate, or this invention hath oftentimes binne v∣sede, of Mr. Girart Raber Chyrurgiā at Paris, vvhich vvas a verye inventive, & perquiringe man, in sear∣chinge out of Chyrurgicalle Instrumentes, and also the most experteste practitionere of his time.
[ G,] the Knott vvhich is layede above the silver barre.
[ H,] H, The argentealle, or silver barre, or pegge.
[ I,] I, I, The little ringles, vvhervvith the little barre is fa∣stenede, vvhen shee passeth therthroughe: this barre may be turnede as much and as little as vve please. [ Y,] The Privet, or Needle to religate the fistles Hippo∣crates calleth it Scorodou Physinga, vve may allsoe make theire poyncte blunte, to vse the same the fist∣le beinge vvholye apparent, and may easylye be see∣ne: but if she lye occulte, and invisible, and that vve must necessarily perforate any membrane, she must then conseqventlye be acute, and sharpe. She mu∣ste also be of silver, and verye vveake, because she may be suple to bende at our pleasure.