Culpeper's Directory for midwives: or, A guide for women: The second part. Discovering, 1. The diseases in the privities of women. 2. The diseases of the privy part. 3. The diseases of the womb. 4. The symptomes of the womb. 5. The symptomes in the terms. 6. The symptomes that befal all virgins and women in their womb, after they are ripe of age.7. The symptomes which are in conception. 8. The government of women with child. 9. The symptomes that happen in child-bearing. 10. The government of women in child-bed, and the diseases that come after travel. 11. The diseases of the breasts. 12. The symptomes of the breasts. 13. The diet and government of infants. 14. The diseases and symptomes in children.

Chap. 11. Of the Terms voided another way.

SOmetimes they come out at the Nose, or are vomited up, or flow out by the Haemorrhoid veins. Hence Hippocrates saith, that a woman that vomits blood, is cured by having her Terms, or by a Bloody-flux. Sometimes they are pissed forth. Dodonaeus saies, That they come out at the eyes like tears sometimes. Amatus Lusitanus saith, they will come forth at the Teats of the breasts, and at the navel, at the little finger, or ring fin∣ger every month, as Mercatas observed thrice.

Are stoppage of the Terms from straitness of the vessels in the womb, or evil conformation of the womb.

It is more troublesome then dangerous, and hinders conception. It is best when they come out at the Nose: for it is a part that Nature useth to disburden her self by.

First, Bring the blood to the womb again, and abate it. Open the ankle-vein three daies before she begins to bleed. Or cup the thighs, or rub them. Or use Baths, Fomentations, Oyntments, Womb-Clysters, Pessaries, and the like, mention∣ed in Suppression of the Terms.

Notes

• 1. De morb. mul. 5. apho. 32. obser. me∣dit. c. 15. Lib. 1. de affect. mul. c. 7. The Causes.
• The Progno∣stick.
• The Cure.