The pains in the Privities of Women, come from Dis∣eases of the neck of the womb or Privities, and they are either Inflammation, or Cancer, or Condyloma, or Ul∣cer.
Inflammation being chiefly in the neck of the womb, or in the womb, causeth pains with heat, burning or tumor, as it is greater or less, pure, or impure, or Erysi∣pelas, where the heat is greater, and no tumor. The internal Cause of this Inflammation is De∣fluxion of Blood, to the menstruous veins in the substance of the womb: Or difficulty of travail may cause it, be∣cause the neck of the womb is very sensible, and the Ori∣fice narrow. And somtimes there is an Inflammation of these parts from the Orifice, which is shut in Virgins with the Hymen or Membrane, when they are much pained at the loss of their Virginity, or at other times, when the wo∣man is straight, and the man large. And it may come also from Pessaries, or corroding Medicines.
A Cancer in the hollow of the womb causeth pain, with burning, and pricking, and swelling, which somtimes turns to an Ulcer. And this is caused by a malignant Humor sent to the Neck of the Bladder. The kinds and causes of which shall be shewed in an external Cancer.
A Condyloma in the womb, causeth the pain above mentioned, and is in the Fundament: Also by reason of the same Causes to be mentioned.
An Ulcer in the Cavity of the womb, or the Privities, causeth ulcerous pains, and other accidents that are more, as the pain is greater. For if it be a simple Ex∣coriation with the skin off, there will the pain be small, by reason of the exquisite Sense of the part. If there be a great hurt or wound, the pain wil be greater, and the blood come. If a simple Ulcer, the pain will be less, but with a Flux of Matter, if it be foul, the Ulcers be eating called Nomae, or when they are dee∣per Phagadaenica, the pain is longer, because there wil be a Flux of Matter. If the Ulcer reach the Neck of the Bladder, there will be painful Pissing. If it eat through the womb and the strait Gut, there will be Matter by stool, and the Excrements that should have passed through the Fundament, come through the womb. Or if the Ulcer reach to the Neck of the Bladder, or the Abdomen, the matter will come forth there, and if it continue long, it eats away the neck of the bladder: As we have known in some Women, who have lost all the womb. And if the Ulcer be cancerous, there will be a Carcinoma, and more pain then in a Cancer not ulcerated, and the Lips wil be swollen, and turned in, and the matter wil flow, and somtimes blood, and that much at the time of the terms, in so much that some have been in danger of death there∣by.
These Ulcers come from Hurts, as Inflammations, as in hard Travail, the first Copulation, or other that is vio∣lent, by which a Vein is broken, as when they loose their Maiden-heads, some bleed from the Terms, by rubbing of the Veins or the neck of the womb, or from hurt of the o∣rifice, which causeth an Ulcer. Some think it comes from the breaking of the Membrane Hymen, and take it for a sign of Virginity, though it happen not alwayes to Virgins at the first Copulation, but to such only whose Veins are easily opened, being tender, and are nigh their Courses at the time of Marriage, and then no Ulcer fol∣lows. This may come also from outward Hurts, or use of sharp Medicines which corrode the neck of the womb, as we knew in a woman that lived long after the loss of the neck of her womb. Also Inflammations turn to Im∣posthumes, and they into Ulcers, and some are very foul, and there is a sharp flux of the womb that causeth Ulcers. Also malignant Humors in the Terms in soul Bodies, and other Diseases, as in the Pox, and running of the Reins, may cause the same. And somtimes the Seed of a man that is foul long kept in the womb, may do the like. And in Women that have a dead Child, the womb may be cor∣rupted,