Select observations on English bodies of eminent persons in desperate diseases first written in Latin by Mr. John Hall ... ; after Englished by James Cook ... ; to which is now added, an hundred like counsels and advices, for several honourable persons, by the sam

OBSERV. XCVII.

REtention of the After-birth is very sad, and usu∣ally brings with it Death, as I have oft obser∣ved, although sometimes it hath been excluded some time after, as appears in Riverius, and others, Zacutus professeth he hath delivered many in this Agony by exhibiting ʒiss of the following Pouder in Wine with Sugar: ℞ Carab, tenuis. pul. ʒi. Castor. ʒss. Dictam. Puleg. ā ʒi. Cinam. ʒi. Borag. ℈iss. Spicae. Nard. ℈i. Myrrh. ℈iss. Rub. Tinctor. ℈i. Croc. gr. vi. f. Pul. subtilis.

Thonerus helped one with this: ℞ Troch. de Mirrh. ℈i. Succin. alb. praep. ℈iss. Borag. gr. vii. f. Pul. It was given in the Waters of Mugwort ℥iss. and of white-Lillies ℥ss. The After-birth was cast out within an hour after.

H••rstius acquaints us that this happens very often through the unskilfulness of the Midwife,

but always with great danger of the Mother; yet saith he, by the grace of God I have seen some delivered by the use of that Pouder, which Forestus commendeth, framed of the Troches of Myrrh, Seeds of Violets, Rad. Dictamn. & Rasur. Dactilo∣rum. Although he saw three or more, which af∣ter fell into the suffocation of the Womb, and swooning, and within few hours died miserably. That nearest to this of Forestus's prescription, is this: ℞ Rad. Dictamn. alb. ℈iss. Sem. Violar. Ci∣nam. Elect. ā ℈ss. Rasur. Dactylorum gr. iii. f. Pul. He exhibited in Wine, and proved effectual. May be Horstius substituted Troch. de Myrrh. instead of the Cinamon, and so made it more effectual.