The compleat midwife's practice enlarged in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man containing a perfect directory or rules for midwives and nurses : as also a guide for women in their conception, bearing and nursing of children from the experience of our English authors, viz., Sir Theodore Mayern, Dr. Chamberlain, Mr. Nich. Culpeper ... : with instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter ... / by John Pechey ... ; the whole illustrated with copper plates.

Of the Diseases of the neck of the Womb, and first of the Disease called Tentigo.

TENTIGO is a Disease in Women, when the Clitoris increases to an over great measure; the subject of this Disease is the Clytoris, or nervous piece of flesh, which the lips or wings of the privities do em∣brace, and which suffers erection in the act of Venery: The signs of it are evident, for it hangs below the o∣rifice of the Privities as big as the neck of a Goose:

The causes hereof are a great concourse of Humours, or nutriment, by reason of the laxity of it, which hap∣pens by often handling. The Cure is performed by the diminution of the blood, and drawing out of the o∣ther humours. A slender and refrigerating diet is also necessary, and such things as have a discussive faculty, as the leaves of Mastick-tree, and the leaves of Olive-tree. In the next place, by taking away the excrescence, to which purpose gentle Causticks may be first applied, as Allum, and the Aegyptiack Ointment, and that Lie whereof Sope is made, being boiled with Roman Vitri∣ol, to which at last you may add some Opium, and form the composition into Trochisques, which being af∣terwards made into a powder, is to be sprinkled upon the fleshy excrescence: At length the flesh is to be out away, either by binding hard, or by section; care be∣ing taken that you avoid an inflammation.

There is another Disease, which is called Cauda, which is a carnous substance proceeding from the mouth of the Womb, which sometimes fills up the privy parts, and sometimes thrusts it self outwards like a tail. The Cure of this is the same with the former; only if it come to Section, it may be done either with a Horse-hair, or a silken thread wound about it, being first dipt in Sublimat water; or else with a Knife.