De morbis fœmineis, the womans counsellour: or, The feminine physitian.: Modestly treating of such occult accidents, and secret diseases, as are incident to that sex, which their too much modesty, too often to their sorrow, causes them to conceal from others, for a remedy whereof, they are here taught to be their own helpers; especially in these particulars: of barrenness and abortion: of natural, and unnatural births: of the suppression of the termes, the immoderate flux thereof, and other infirmities. Dicereque puduit, scribere jussit. With a brief appendix, touching the kindes, causes, and cures of dropsies, and tympanies of all sorts. / Translated out of Massarius de morbis mulier. By R.T. philomathēs.
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- De morbis fœmineis, the womans counsellour: or, The feminine physitian.: Modestly treating of such occult accidents, and secret diseases, as are incident to that sex, which their too much modesty, too often to their sorrow, causes them to conceal from others, for a remedy whereof, they are here taught to be their own helpers; especially in these particulars: of barrenness and abortion: of natural, and unnatural births: of the suppression of the termes, the immoderate flux thereof, and other infirmities. Dicereque puduit, scribere jussit. With a brief appendix, touching the kindes, causes, and cures of dropsies, and tympanies of all sorts. / Translated out of Massarius de morbis mulier. By R.T. philomathēs.
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- Massaria, Alessandro, 1510-1598.
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- London :: Printed for John Streater, and are to be sold by the booksellers in London,
- 1657.
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"De morbis fœmineis, the womans counsellour: or, The feminine physitian.: Modestly treating of such occult accidents, and secret diseases, as are incident to that sex, which their too much modesty, too often to their sorrow, causes them to conceal from others, for a remedy whereof, they are here taught to be their own helpers; especially in these particulars: of barrenness and abortion: of natural, and unnatural births: of the suppression of the termes, the immoderate flux thereof, and other infirmities. Dicereque puduit, scribere jussit. With a brief appendix, touching the kindes, causes, and cures of dropsies, and tympanies of all sorts. / Translated out of Massarius de morbis mulier. By R.T. philomathēs." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A88902.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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fire, that the fume may ascend, and the Woman is to be so comodiously pla∣ced, that she may receive the fume up into the Matrix, through a vessel or funnel fit for that purpose, which is to be made broad at that end next the fire, that it may receive all the smoke, and with a narrow neck like a funnel, to inject the fume into the Matrix.
But these Fumigations as Hippocra∣tes teacheth, use to cause the Headach. Therefore, the Woman ought to be well covered & fortified with clothes, that the vapours may be kept from ascending to the Head.
In the fourth place, amongst the ex∣ternal Medicines, unguents and plai∣sters are to be used, and applyed to the Abdomina or secret places.
Letting of blood is also to be used in the Foot, or else where, as need re∣quires us.
Notes
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These you may have at the A∣potheca∣ries.
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Hipp. 5. Apho. 28.