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CHAP. XXV.
VTERI INFLATIO: * 1.1 It is puffed up through cold, or corrupt humours in it: Abortion, sore travel in child-birth, the neck being shut, or a clod of blood stopping it.
The bottome of the body is swelled with hardnesse, * 1.2 and a pain that pricketh even to the Diaphragma, and stomach, to the loynes, share, and navel,: If wind be gotten into the hollow∣nesse of the womb, there is heard a rumbling noise: If into the thin, and slender passages, the pain is vehement and hard to cure.
Fasting is good: if a plethorick body, * 1.3 open a vein: an excellent clyster for this purpose you may have in uteri strangulatio: Bathe her body with oyle of Rew, Dill, and Origan: you may powre them into her womb, for they resolve windinesse: In her broath boyle the seeds of Apium, fennel, caraway, cummin, and anise: Also with cammomel, calamint, motherwort, penniroyal, and sothernwood, may be made poultises. If there be clods of blood, let the midwife put her finger (being first anoynted) into her privities, and bring it forth by little and little, that the windinesse may passe. Lastly, with her meat give her this powder.
℞. Cinnamomi, nucis moscata, cardamomi an. * 1.4 ʒ.ij. zingiberis ʒ.iij. piperis longi ʒ.ss. croci gr. v. ex his pulvis fiat.