An exact collection of the choicest and more rare experiments and secrets in physick and chyrurgery (both cymick and Galenick) viz. of Leonard Phioravant, Knight and doctour in physick and chyrurgery, his Rational secrets and chyrurgery &c. : whereunto is annexed Paracelsus's One hundred and fourteen experiments : with certain excellent works of G.B. áa ortu Aquitano ; also Isaac Holandus, his secrets concerning his vegetal and animal work : with Quercetanus his Spagyrick antidotary for gun-shot : also certain collections out of some manuscripts of Dr. Edwards and other physitians of note ...

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.