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A Second Observation of a Woman that had been in Travail nine dayes.

BEing called to the Labour of a Woman that had been in Travail nine or ten dayes, of whom there was little hope, I went, and there found the Woman almost dead, her eyes open and fixed, her nose shrunk in, her breath smel∣ling like a charnel-house; and she took nothing down into her stomack that she did not in∣stantly vomit up again; she had drunk up above two pints of water in an hour, and by her bed there was a whole sea of those things that she had vomited up. They gave her cold water, and the yelk of an Egg sometimes, though it came up again at the same instant; she felt no paine of the Infant; but finding her Womb was open, and her waters beginning to come down, I found that she had been in Travail, only Na∣ture was oppressed, and had not had any good assistance, so that the Infant was retired back a∣gain which stifled the Mother, and provoked her vomiting; upon which I gave my advice, and though I thought my self come a little too late, yet I resolved to do what lay in the pow∣er of my Art; and therefore I resolved to give

her a good strong Clyster to awaken Nature, and to bring the Infant lower, which it did ac∣cording to our hopes; afterwards to drink a smal quantity of Rhubarb-water which stayed with her; a little after I gave her the yelk of an Egg which stayed with her also, causing her to drink nothing but Rhubarb-water; and at eve∣ry hours end I gave her the yelk of an Egg, which did also stay with her; by this time Na∣ture began to strengthen it self, and the paines of the Infant came again; and in less then two hours after the Clyster, and other nourishment given, when I saw her pretty wel, and that Na∣ture strove to expel the Infant, I gave her half a dram of Confection of Alkermes in a little Wine; and a little while after I caused her to take another Clyster, into which I put a little Hiera, and a little Benedictus, which finished the work; for She was then delivered of a ve∣ry lusty child, which lived about two dayes: I came thither about noon, and the was brought to bed before 9. at night. I wrote this thus par∣ticularly, to let you know that oft-times for want of knowing where the mischief lies, the Remedies are mis-applyed; and indeed a Wo∣man Travayling in the ninth moneth ought chiefly to be succored with Clysters.