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TO Clysters which are inje&ed into the Guts, * 1.1 we may well joyne those which are cast into the Womb, and are therefore called Uterine Clysters; The Instrument, or Squirt, by which the liquor is cast into the Womb, is called by the Greeks, Metrencytes, but the Medecines which are in∣jected they call Metrencyta.
A due quantity is taken of simples agreeable to every ones disease, * 1.2 tis boiled, and three or foure ounces of the deco∣ction, or instead thereof distilled water is taken, and two or three ounces of Oyle are added, and powders, to the quan∣tity of three drachms; and of those mixt together, three ounces are injected into the Womb.
For the same causes, * 1.3 for the most part, for which Clysters as they call them, are injected into the Womb, Pesses, and Pessaries, barbarously called Nascalia, are put in.
1. * 1.4 There are many waies of preparing Pessaries, the first is cotten, or wooll that is shore and well carded, and are mixt with a juice, or some liquor, either alone, or with some con∣venient powders mixt, twisted, or wreathed, about the big∣nisse and length of a finger, tis wet in it, and applied to the generative parts of women, the quantity of Medecines that are pounded for the most part is an ounce.
2. Moreover Medecines that are pounded are taken in con∣venient liquors, as with oyl, fat, wax, Galbanum, Storax, ho∣ney, and are made up and mingled into a masse, and fashio∣ned in the figure of a Pessary, to which a thred is tied, which also may be covered with fine linnen, or a thin peece of silk.
3. Sometimes green herbs, and such as are full of juice, are a little bruised, and tied about with a thred, and bound in the form of a Pessary.
4. There is a time also when Powders onely being taken in fine wooll, or cotten, being made round, are put into a thin bagg made of a fine ragg.
Nascalies, * 1.5 as they are barbarously called, are compound∣ed of the same Medecines, which are taken with cotton,