Every Woman Her Own Midwife: Or a Compleat Cabinet Opened For child-bearing Women

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Every woman her own midwife : Or a compleat cabinet opened for child-bearing women. Furnished with directions to prevent miscarriages: during the time of breeding, and other casualties which usually attend women in child-bed. Publisht for the publick good. To which is annexed cures for all sorts of diseases incident to the bodies of men, women and children.

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London: Simon Neale, 1675.

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Fay Dunn and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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English

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R: Medicine

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Obstetrics -- Early works to 1800

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Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 79648

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September 24, 2026

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Public domain in the USA.

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1. 1.EVERY WOMAN Her own MIDWIFE : Or a COMPLEAT CABINET Opened for CHILD-BEARING WOMEN .
2. 2.A SHORT COMMENTARIE, Concerning the Care ought to be had of Women which are with child, such as are ready to bring forth, such as are brought to bed, and also of Infants. — Chap. I. What things are to be taken heed of in the two first Moneths. — Chap. II. Order for the third Moneth. — Chap. III. From the fourth Moneth. — Chap. IIII. From the fifth, sixth, and seventh Moneth, — Chap. V. The eighth Moneth — Chap. VI. In the ninth Moneth. — A Liniment. — The Fomentation. — The Bath. — Suffumigations of the genitals, to facilitate delivery. — What Meat is most usefull. — What manner of Chamber, the woman with child should lye in. — Chap. VII. What is to be done at the birth. — How, and wherewith, the child-bed womans bed ought to be furnished. — Chap. VIII. To whom the seat may agree and be fit. — Chap. IX. What the Midwife shall doe in the very moment of the birth. — Chap. X. When the Infant is come into the world. — Chap. XI If the Secondines break not readily. — What is to be done after the child is born, if yet the Secondine, or after-birth, be retained. — Another approved Remedy for drawing them forth. — Another Receit. — Chap. XII. To draw forth a dead Child. — Chap. XIII. How the bellies of child-bearing women, being costive or bound may be loosned. — Chap. XIV What things are to be applied to the naturall or secret parts. — The Fomentation. — Another. — An Ointment. — A Girdle for the belly. — Chap. XV. The order from the seventh day after the woman is brought to bed. — On the eighth day. — On the ninth day. — A Liniment to scatter and disperse the Milk. — When, and what Bath they must use. — Another. — Chap. XVI. Against the gripings of the belly in child-bearing women. — Outward Remedies. — Inward helps in their meats. — A Drink. — Chap. XVII. The government of the Nurse. — The care of the Infant. — Chap. XVIII. A Bath of sweet water, very profitable for children, as by whose meanes they may grow up and increase. — Chap. XIX. The Diseases of Infants. — Diseases and Symptomes, proceeding from the birth, in women with child. — Chap. XX. Against the Rupture of the Cods and perinæum , and the part between the rising of the Yeard and the Fundament, which proceedeth from difficulty of bringing forth . — Chap. XXI. For windinesse or Collick of the belly. — Chap. XXII. For the Itch. — Chap. XXIII. For the Flux of bloud. — Chap. XXIV. For the falling down of the Matrix from the birth. — Chap. XXV. For the Piles after the birth. — Chap. XXVI. Against pain of the Breasts, contracted by too much Milk. — Chap. XXVII. For the Imposthume of the Breasts.
3. 3.Some few additionall Observations, concerning the passages in the former Treatise. — Chap. XXVIII. What is to be administred unto the Child, after it is born, for the first thing it taketh. — Also , — Chap. XXIX. For Infants troubled with wind and flegm. — Chap. XXX. A most excellent Medicine to cause children to teeth easily. — Chap. XXXI. For Agues in Children. — Chap. XXXII. For Worms in Children. — Chap. XXXIII. For Heart-Wormes. — The Cure. — Chap. XXXIV. To cause a young Child to goe to stoole. — Another certain Experiment. — Courteous Reader, I pray accept kindly of these few Additions.
4. 4.Choise and select Medicines, collected by a Phisitian for his own private use, and Alphabetically digested by him, and from him communicated for publick use. — A — For the Ach in the bones. — For all Aches and lame Members. — An Ointment for all Aches which come from cold causes, shrunken Sinewes, straines in man or beast, it is incomparable, and will keep fourty yeares, but it must be made onely in May . — To counterfeit beyond-Sea- Azure . — To know good Azure and pure. — For an Ague. — For a Tertian, or double Tertian Ague. — B — For a short Breath. — An Electuary for the shortnesse of Breath. — For a Bruise or Squat. — A Restorative for the Backe. — For Aches in the Backe. — For Bleeding at the Nose. — For Burning, or Scalding. — C — For a Cough of the Lungs. — For purging of Colds, Coughs, and comforting the Lungs. — A Julep for a Cough. — Another. — For Canker in the mouth. — For a Consumption, and Cough of the Lungs. — For Collick, and paines in the backe. — For the Cramp. — For a Canker. — Another. — For a Canker in the lips. — A Water for a Consumption. — For the Cough. — For a Cough, or shortness of Breath. — For a Consumption. — D — For the Dropsie. — Another. — E — For pains in the Eyes. — For sore Eyes by salt Rheum. — To clear the Eye-sight. — F — For the Flux. — For the Flux. — For the bloudy Flux. — For the bloody Flux. — For the bloody Flux. — For the bloudy Flux. — An Ointment for the Flux. — A powder for the Flux. — A Glister. — For Morphew , or Scurf of face or Skin. — To blanch the Face. — To smooth the Skin. — Morphew and Freckles. — G. — For the Gout, or Ache in the joynts, knobs, or knots in the flesh. Probat. — For Gout or Bone-ach. — For the Gout, or Joynt-ach. — For the Gout. — For Gout or Bone-ach. — H — Hermes Tree. — I — A Plaister to help any Stitch, or Imposthume wheresoever. — For an Imposthume of the Stomack. — A good Oyle to bring in joynts which have been out seven years, to give strength to veins and sinnews, and to keep them brought in, in their places. — For the Black Jaundies. — For the black Jaundies , — To make Hartshorn Jelly. — For the yellow Jaundies. — For the yellow Jaundies. — L — For a lame Leg. — For the same. — For chopt Lips. — A Drink for the Cough of the Lungs, and Consumption. — To make a Laxative Whey. — A good Laxative for a Child. — To cause Loosenesse. — For a costive by burnt Choller. — For Rheume procuring a Cough of the Lungs — A Drink for the Cough of the Lungs. — M — A cooling Almond Milk. — N — A Water to restore Nature. — To restore Nature consumed. — P — For the French Pox. — Another. — Another. — A Posset good in all cold Agues, or Pestilentiall Diseases. — The Plague Water. — An Antidote against the Pestilence, by Dr. B. — For the shaking Palsie. — Another. — To restore lost Speech. — To restore speech to an Apoplectick. — A Restorative Electuary. — A Restorative good in all diseases. — For the Rickets. — Doctor Vanhecks Rosa Vitæ . — S — A Sear-cloth for divers causes. — For the Stone. — For Stone, Strangurie, and Collick. — For the Stone in the Bladder. — To break and drive out the Stone. — To cause Urine and break the Stone. — For the Stone. — For the Stone in Reins and Bladder. — A Posset for the Stone. — For the Spleen. — Another. — For Swelling of Armes, Legs, and Feet. — For Sinewes, and Nerves, cut asunder. — For Bruises, or streined Sinewes. — For shrinking of Sinewes. — For Sinewes shrunk, and to supple impotent Limbs. — To cure an old Sore. — For the Scurvy. — To cool the Skin, and heal a Sore. — To help paines in the Stomack. — An Ointment for the Stomack. — T — For the pricking of a Thorn. — To draw a Thorn or Splinter out of the flesh. — For the Tooth-ach. — To keep Teeth White, and kill the Worms — W — To take away a Wen.
5. 5.The Printer to the Reader.
6. 6.The Author to the Reader.
7. 7.A defensative against the Plague. The first Treatise — Chap. I. What the Plague is. — Chap. II. Cause of the Plague. — Chap. III. Warnings of the Plague to come. — Chap. IIII. Sheweth how to prevent the Plague. — A good perfume in summer season. — Another good perfume in winter. — Chap. V. — An excellent good preservative which I have alwaies used with good successe. — Another excellent good preservative. — Another very good. — Chap. VI. — An excellent quilt or Bag. — Another Bag. — A Pomander good in the Summer time. — Another good one for the winter time. — A good Nodule for the Summer season. — Another Nodule for the Winter season. — A Nosegay for the same purpose. — Chap. VII. — A Suppository. — A good Glister. — Raisins laxative how to make them. — A good Oyntment to keep one Sollible. — Good pills to keep one soluble, and they do also resist the Pestilence. — Chap. VIII. — Pills good to purge. — A good purging potion. — A purging powder for such as cannot take Pills. — Floures stopt, how to provok them. — Issues commended against the Plague. — Chap. IX. What Diet we ought to keep. — For your Pottage you may take in the Summer. — Chap. X. Sheweth what Exercise and Order is to be kept. — Chap. XI. Teacheth what orders Magistrates, and Rulers of Cities and Townes, should cause to be observed, — Chap. XII. Doth shew what you must do when you go to visit the sick. — Chap. XIII. Sheweth the signes of infection. — Good signes. — Evill signes.
8. 8.The Second Treatise, shewing the meanes how to cure the Plague. — Chap. I. — Another good Powder. — A good Opiat to expell venome, and provoke sweat. — Chap. II. Sheweth what is to be done after taking of the Cordiall. — A good defensative Unguent. — Epithemation. — Another. — A Quilt for the Heart. — A cordiall Julep. — Another Julep. — A Julep to quench thirst. — A Julep to quench thirst and resist Venenosity. — A good Purgation in a strong body. — Another in a plethorick and full body. — A good purgation for a weak body. — Another gentle purgation. — A good Cordiall to be taken after Purging. — Another good Cordiall to be given where great heat is. — A good Cordiall potion. — Chap. III. Sheweth what symptoms often chance, and how to help them. — For lightnesse of the head through want of sleep. — Oyntment to provoke sleep. — For raveing and raging. — A good Sacculus for raving and raging. — Aphtham, to help it. — A good Gargarism for the mouth. — Vomiting extreamly, how to help it. — A good bag for the stomack. — Yoxe, or yexing, to stay it. — Flix, how to stop it. — Epithemation for the heart. — Chap. IIII. Sheweth the generall cure of a botch when he appeares outwardly. — A good Maturative. — Another. — Another, where no inflammation is. — A Digestive, — A digestive Cataplasme. — Chap. V. Sheweth how to bring the botch out, that lieth deep within the body or flesh. — A good Maturative Cataplasme. — Another — Another which is sooner made. — A Vesicatory. — When the botch will not come to Maturation, but continueth alwayes hard. — An Epithemation. — A Digestive. — Chap. VI. Sheweth what is to be done when the botch strikes in again. — Chap. VII. Sheweth how to draw a botch from one place to another, and so to discusse him without breaking. — Epithemation. — Chap. VIII. Sheweth how to know a Carbunkle or blain, as also the cure of the same. — The cure of the Carbunkle. — A Maturative Cataplasm. — Mundificative annodine. — Another Mundificative. — When the Carbuncle doth come with great pain and inflammation, how to help it. — The Bag. — The Cataplasm.
9. 9.A Short Treatise of the Small Pox, shewing the Means how for to govern and cure those which are infected therewith. — Chap. I. Sheweth what the Small Pox and Measels are, and whereof it proceedeth. — What the Measels or Males are. — The cause of the Pox and Measels. — Chap. II. Sheweth to know the signs when one is infected, as also the good and ill signs in the disease. — How to know of what humours this disease cometh. — Chap. III. Sheweth the meanes to cure the Pox or Measels. — A Glister. — Eyes, how to preserve them. — Chap IIII. Teacheth what is to be done when the Pox or Measels are slow in coming forth. — Another good drink to expell the Pox or Measels. — Epithemation for the heart. — Thirst, how to quench it. — Chap. V. Sheweth what is to be done when the Pox are all come out in the skinne. — When the Pox, after they come out, do not grow to maturation, how you shall help it. — Ulceration, to help it. — A very good unguent for the same purpose. — For extream heat and burning in the soales of the feet, and palms of the hands. — For to help the sorenesse and ulceration of the mouth. — For inflammation and paine in the tonsils and throate. — Another. — How to open the eye-lids that are fastened together with the Pox. — A good Collery for a Web or Ungula in the eye. — Chap VI. Teacheth how to help divers accidents which chance after the Pox are cured and gone. For rednesse of the face and hands after the Pox are gone, how to help it. — A good ointment for the same purpose. — For holes remaining when the small Pox are gone. — Running of the eares, how to help it. — For stopping of the nostrills, to help it. — For hoarsenesse remaining when the Pox are gone. — For filthy and moist scabs after the Pox are gone.
10. 10.Some other few additionall observations concerning the passages in this latter Treatise. — A Preservative against the infection of the air, and the Plague, often approved by Pope Adrian , and many others of great rank and credit. — I have also set down a red Cordiall water, very good against infection, which I had also from that noble friend. — Severall opinions against wearing of Arsenick Amulets, as Preservatives against the Plague. — Causes of the Plague. — Signes of the Plague. — The infection of the Plague entereth into a man after this sort. — The Cure of the Plague. — For the Plague. — Another. — Another. — Another for botches, boyls, and tokens. — Experiments tried by my selfe. — For the Plague. — Another excellent approved Remedy. — Another excellent sweating powder for the Plague.
11. 11.The Cure of Diseases in Remote Regions. — The Calenture , — To know the Calenture. — To cure the Calenture. — The Taberdilla , — To know the Taberdilla . — The Cure of the Taberdilla . — The Espinlas — To know the Espinlas. — To cure the Espinlas. — Camera de Sangre. — The Cure of the Bloudie Flux. — The Erisipela , — To know the Erisipela. — To Cure the Erisipela. — The Tinoso or Scurvie. — To know the Scurvie. — Preservatives against the Scurvy. — To cure the Scurvy. — Other Observations concerning the Scurvy taken out of other Books. — Observations out of Sennertus , concerning the Scurvy. — Cures for severall Diseases. — A Water to make a man see within 40. dayes, though he have been blind seven years before, if he be under fiftie years of age. — For the Web in the Eye. — For Wind in the Side, that maketh the Head swim. — Contra Surditatem. — Contra lupum, venit sæpe super oculum aut pedem. — Pro Cancro & Lupo. — For Bleared Eyes. — Cornes. — Apostema. — Pro stomacho frigido. — Pro dolere stomachi. — For winde or gnawing in the Belly. — For the Small Pox. — For a stroke in the eye. — Bloudshed in the eye. — Pro Oculo & Aure. — For a Venomed sore. — To make a swelling break. — For the Squinsie. — For Biting of a mad Dog. — To breake a Botch. — For gnawings. — To increase Milk. — If milk be thick. — For Botches, Wounds, and Sores, a salve. — Venenum. — Pro Auribus. — Caput-purgium. — For the bloudy Flix. — Vermes Stomachi. — For a Felon. — For the Reines of the back. — For the Stitch. — For the Stitch in the side. — To heal Wounds. — For swelling of Joynts. — To knit Sinews or Veins that are kickt or broke. — For Cornes. — For Warts. — For a Wound that bleedeth inwardly. — If men have any blood within them of any hurt. — Aqua pro scabie, tumore, & prurita. — An vulneratus vivat, vel non. — To destroy an Imposthume, in what place soever it be. — For Warts. — Oleum Nucum. — Unguentum Dialæhææ optimum pro podagra. — For the Collick and Stone. — Aqua propter ulcera & malum mortuum. — Aqua pro alceribus. — Capitis dolor. — For Bones broken in a mans Head. — Capitis dolor. — Corvi albi. — Ebrii. — Acetum. — Fistula. — Pro virga virili combusta cum muliere. — Contra exitum ani. — Contra fluxum. — Plaister of Paris. — An virgo corrupta. — Ut dens cadat. — Pro combusto cum muliere. — A Drink that healeth all Wounds without any Plaister or Ointment, or without any taint most perfectly. — Unguentum genistæ. — Unguentum Augustinum is good for all sore legs that be red and hot . — Unguentum viride is good pro erectione virgæ , and for the mormale; no ointment worketh stronger than this . — Unguentum nigrum , for wounds, heating and burning . — Unguentum Rubrum. — Contra vomitum. — Fluxus sanguinis narium. — Contra Sciaticam. — Freckens of the face. — To know if a man be a Leper or no. — For ache in the loins. — For a scald Head. — Ad ornatum faciei. — If the Liver rot. — For stopping of the Pipes. — Aliud. — Aliud. — The Plague Water. — A Cordiall Water good for the Plague, Pox, Measels, all kind of Convulsions, Fevers, and all pain of the Stomack. — For a Child that hath the Ague. — For a burning Fever. — For the Jaundies black or yellow. — To bring down the Flowers. — To stay the Flowers. — For the Mother. — For the Stone. — For a cold, cough, Ptissick, or any defect of the Lungs. — For a Stitch. — For a Consumption. — For the Green sickness. — A speciall Water for all Sores. — For the trembling of the Heart. — For a Flux of the Womb. — A purging drink for superfluous humours, for Aches in the joynts, sinewes, and or Agues. — A pretious Eye-water for any disease of the Eyes, often proved. — The Tutia is thus prepared. — You must mix the Aloes with the water after this manner. — To bring the Camphire to powder. — The use. — If there be any thing grow upon the eye. — For any Ague. — For an Ague. — Another. — To make Pills to cleanse the backe. — A Bath. — For the Cough of the Lungs, and defluxions. — To cause a woman to have her Flowers. — For the Cough of the Lungs. — For Cramp or Numnesse. — For a Cough, Winde, and a cold Stomack. — For a Cough and Consumption. — For a Cold Dropsie. — For the Dropsie. — For an Ague. — To comfort and strengthen the Joynts and Sinewes. — For obstructions of Liver and Spleen. — For the Palsie in the head. — Oyle of Saint Johns Wort for ache and pain. — For the knitting together and strenthening of bones. — For the Courses. — A sudden way to make up this excellent Cordiall. — Pills to purge flegm and Wind. — For the Gout. — For the Gout, My Lord Denni’s Medicine. — Another, very good for the Gout. — To stay the Courses when they come down too violently. — For the Whites. — To keep the body soluble, and to purifie the bloud. — For the green Sicknesse, or yellow Jaundies. — An Electuary for the green Sicknesse. — An excellent Powder for the green Sicknesse. — Another Medicine. — A singular purging Potion against the green Sicknesse, and all opilations of the Liver, and causeth young Maids to look fresh, and fair, and cherry-cheek’d, and will bring down their Courses, the stopping whereof causeth this greif, and it is good against all manner of itch, scabs, breaking out, and manginesse of the body, purifying the blood from all corruption. — For the green Sicknesse, or Jaundies. — For the green Sicknesse, and Jaundies. — The Steel for the Electuary is thus prepared. — The Electuary of Steel is made up thus. — For the green Sicknesse, or green Jaundies.
12. 12.The Table for the Child-Bearers Cabinet. — The Table of the Cures for severall Diseases. — A Table for the Treatise concerning the Plague and Small Pox. — The Table of the Treatise concerning the Cure of the Small Pox. — The Table of the additionall Observations. — The Table of the cure of Diseases in remote Regions. — Transcribers’ Note — Apothecaries' abbreviations — Changes — Child-bearers Cabinet — Cures for severall Diseases — The Treatise concerning the Plague and Small Pox — The Treatise concerning the Cure of the Small Pox — The additionall Observations — The cure of Diseases in remote Regions — A Table for Child-bearers Cabinet — A Table for the Treatise concerning the Plague and Small Pox. etc.

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