A very good means to stay a Looseness that happeneth in Childe-bed.

First in the water you mean to use, quench a gad of Steel sundry times, then take the inward barks of the Sloe, of the Bramble, and of the young Oak, of each a like quantity, and so much as will suffice according to the liquor you intend to make; if you use three pints of water, a pretty handful of each bark will serve finely scraped; when they are well boiled, that one pint is wa∣sted, strain your liquor, and make it in∣to Almond Milk, with unblanched Almonds finely grown, then with well boiled Ivy thicken your Milk, and other Rice broth, and season it with Sugar and Cinamon finely beaten, let the party forbear drink as much as may be, and eat thereof once in two or three hours, a little at once, as her stomach will serve. If she have any gripe in her belly, I wish this to be used, which I know to be singular good for any stoppage by sudden cold in Childe∣bed. Gather a great deal of Cammo∣mile, and heat it well between two Page  144 Chargers upon a Chafing-dish of Coles, and when the moisture of the Herb is somewhat spent, strew in a handful of bruised Cummin-seed▪ and sprinkle it now and then with a little Malmsey, and so be∣ing a little dryish, put it into a thin bag, and apply it to the belly as hot as may be suffered, and as it cooleth, warm it again, till she have ease: instead of Malmsey you may use Muscadine. This hath been many times proved.