CHAP. XXXV. What cure must be used to the Mola.
ALL things that provoke the flowers and secundines, and exclude the Infant, being dead, are to be prescribed, given inwardly, put up, and applyed outwardly, as Trochisces of myrrha, hermodactyls, and such like, first having fomentations that are relaxing and mol∣lifying alwayes applyed to the places.* 1.1 You must use these medicines, and phlebotomy, diet and baths then and so long as it shall seem necessary to the Physician that is present. But if it happens that the Mola is separated or loosed from the womb, and nature cannot expel it when it ••s so loosed, let the Chirurgian place the woman in that situation that we said she was put in, when the child was to be drawn from her. Then opening her genital parts, let him take hold on it by put∣ting an instrument into it, which by reason of the likeness thereof is called a Gryphons Talon; for it cannot be taken hold on otherwise,* 1.2 by reason of the roundness thereof; for it hath no place whereon it be may be taken hold of: therefore when one taketh hold on it with his hand, it cannot be holden fast by reason of the slipperiness thereof, but will run and slip back into the hollowness of the womb, like unto a bowl or ball; but it may be more easily taken hold on with the Gryphons Talon, if the belly be pressed on both sides that it may remain still while the Gry∣phons Talon takes hold on it; for when it hath taken good hold on it, it may be easily drawn out. When the Mola is drawn out, the same cure must be used to the woman, as is used to a woman after that she is delivered of child.