The womans doctour. Or, an exact ... explantation of all such diseases as are peculiar to that sex. With choise ... remedies ... / Faithfully translated.

  • Fonteyn, Nicolaas
Date:
1652
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Credit: The womans doctour. Or, an exact ... explantation of all such diseases as are peculiar to that sex. With choise ... remedies ... / Faithfully translated. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OA Womens Difeafes CHAP. 9: |(ut? body; if choler be predominant, prefcribe| ons: cooling and moiftning things. 1 she bic But when the Breafts doe neither draw} id, th the bloud nor retaine it, you muft be fo-}} yith: licitous to firengthen the Breafts by drawe}| tobe ing bloudunto them; to this purpofe you) dink muft rub her body, apply fomentations, and/\q yin Cataplafmes , that will moderately heat, \\fer an and expell, made of mari{h mallow roots, the || pean leaves of Violets, mallowes,melilot, fenugreek , || Breal the crum of white breead and the yolks of || Bxer Eggs. i} cafe, _ - Moreover , if the parts want nourifh-|| ¥, ment , then let her feed upon the choiceft |), 4 difhes, or at leaft appoint fuch things for set her , as are good to increafe bloud, and },..., milke, as eggs, butter , milke boiled with |,.,1, fennill, par (nips, and the like. and ¢ may 1 Fran ‘admonitions, and exercife your wits to keep her from anger, melancholy, and all | other perturbations of theminde. T¢ will not be burtfall, bucrather expe- | —- dient toallow her the ufe of good wine, but then remember to putinto it the pow- der of earth wormes. Contrary to this is the immoderate | plenty, and fuperfluicie of the milke, which | you may eafily difcerne by thac which | comes |