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The complete midwife's practice enlarged ... With instructions of the Queen of France's midwife [Louise Bourgeois].
- Date:
- 1680
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The complete midwife's practice enlarged ... With instructions of the Queen of France's midwife [Louise Bourgeois]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![s S' \ Take a linnen doth cut round, about the big- nefs of the brefts,making a little hole in the mid¬ dle for the Teat to come through; then dip the clothes in the following oyntment, and lay them upon the breaft,' not taking them off again, till the end of ten or twelve dayes. Take Venice Turpentine four ounces, wafhed in one half part of Rofe-water, and one half part of Vinegar, Populeonone ounce, mix them together, and apply them as is before faid. If the milk doth not dry up for all this, make the Cataplafm as follows. - ] Jt i \ Take Bean-meal four ounces. Bole-ammoniac one ounce, jtjyce of Plantain three ounces, Vi¬ negar of Roles, two ounces, Fountain water half a pint *, let them boyl till they come to the thick- nelsof a Cataplalin, adding toward the end two ounces of Populeon, fpread this on a linnen cloth, and apply them to the breafts without walhing them, changing the Cataplafm twice a day. The juice of Chervileboyled with Bean-meal, and a little Populeon, worketh the lame effect. Becaufe the difficulty of Child-bearing proceed¬ ed from thelols of thofe waters that break forth before the Child; therefore,to ffipply that defeft, and to render the places flippery, let her ufe th*fe following remedies. • : Take Marlh-mallows with the roots one hand- full, Mugwort, Savine, of each half a handful), Hempfeed, and Fenugreek feed of each four ounces, Cummin feed one ounce and a half, boyl all thefe in water -, then take four ounces ol this decoction, and add thereto oyl of Hemp- feed s](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30339212_0002_0341.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
