Every woman her own midwife, or, A Compleat cabinet opened for child-bearing women furnished with directions to prevent miscarriages during the time of breeding, and other casualties which usually attend women in child-bed : to which is annexed cures for all sorts of diseases incident to the bodies of men, women and children.

Some few additionall Observations, concerning the passages in ths for∣mer Treatise.

CHAP. XXVIII. What is to be administred unto the Child, after it is born, for the first thing it taketh.

ARnoldus de villa nova, a most learned Phisitian, writeth, that if you give unto a Child half a scruple of Corrall finely powdered, with womans milk, first, before it taketh any o∣ther thing, after it is born, that it shall ne∣ver be troubled with the falling Sicknesse.

Also,

I know persons of good quality in this our Country of England (I presume, instructed by some able Phisitians) who give unto all their own children (and advise all other wo∣men, where they are desired to be assistant at the birth) to exhibite unto the children new born, the first thing they take, a little Salt well mingled in a spoonfull of Saxifrage, or Hysop water, to prevent the trouble of frets, and other diseases in children following their birth.

Conceiving also, as they suppose, they have some ground for their action, from the fourth verse of the sixteenth Chapter of Ezekiel, where the Lord, reckoning up the Midwives du∣ties about children, at that time of their nativity, thus speaketh.

And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born, thy navill was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee, thou wast not salted at all, nor swadled at all.

CHAP. XXIX. For Infants troubled with wind and flegm.

MAny Midwives advise the Nurses, to give them a little pure Sugar-candie finely bruised in Saxifrage water, or Scabious water in a spoon, well mingled together.

CHAP. XXX. A most excellent Medicine to cause children to teeth easily.

TAke of pure Capons greace, very well clarified, the quan∣tity of a Nutmeg, and twice as much of pure Honey, min∣gle and incorporate them well together, and three or four times in a day annoint the Childs gummes when they are teething, and they will break flesh easily, and prevent tor∣ments, and Agues, and other greifs, which usually accompany their coming forth.

CHAP. XXXI. For Agues in Children.

TAke a spoonfull of good oyle of Populeon, and put thereunto two spoonfuls of good oyle of Roses, mingle and incorporate them well together, and then warm it before the fire, annoint the Childs bowing places, his armes, legs soles of his feet, and also his forehead, and temples twice a day, chafing the ointment well in.

CHAP. XXXII. For Worms in Children.

TAke of Mirrh, and Aloes, very finely powdered, of each a penny-worth, and with a few drops of Chymi∣call

oyle of Wormwood, or Savine, with a little Turpen∣tine, make these up into a plaister, and lay it to the Childes Navill.

CHAP. XXXIII. For Heart-Wormes.

HEberstreit, Skonkius, Hollerius, and other Phisitians af∣firme, they have seen them in persons dissected: One in a Prince, another in a Citizen of Florence; and our London Phisitians of late yeares have seen two in London (as appeares in Doctor Mayes book of Mr Pennant of Saint Giles in the Feilds) who dyed having a Worm like a Serpent in his heart.

The Cure.

Skonkius out of Stocherus affirmeth by certain experiment, that the juyce of Raddish, Garlick, and Mustard, killeth these Wormes, which breeding in the chest of the heart, cause swoun∣dings, Epilepsies, and many times death.

CHAP. XXXIV. To cause a young Child to goe to stoole.

CHafe the Childs navill with May Butter before the fire, then take some black Wooll, that groweth between a Sheeps legs, and dip it in the May Butter, and then dry it, and lay it unto the navill, and it will procure a stoole: This is also good for one in yeares, who can take no inward Medicine.

Another certain Experiment.

Take a good big green Mallow strig, and strip off the outward skin, and annoint the strig well with fresh But∣ter, and put it up into the Childes Fundament, and let it stay a while there, and in very short space it will procure a stoole.

Courteous Reader, I pray accept kindly of these few Additions.

THis Treatise might have been inlar∣ged farther out, by addition of other Experiments, but my Freind; being of the same opinion concerning Medicines, that Seneca the Philosopher was of Bookes: Non refert quanta, sed quam bona medicamina; hath confined them to their own limits, onely with a few necessary Observations inser∣ted.

M. A.

FINIS.