patient take one scruple and a half of pilon in water before going to bed; make a fumigation for the womb of mastic, frankincense and burnt frogs, adding the hoof of a mule.  Take an ounce each of the juice of knot-grass, comfoly and quinces; a drachm of camphor; dip a piece of silk or cotton into it and apply it to the place.  Take half an ounce each of oil of mastic, myrtle, and quinces; a drachm each of fine bole and troch. decardas, and a sufficient quantity of dragon’s blood, make an ointment and apply it before and behind.  Take an ounce and a half each of plantain, shepherd’s purse and red rose leaves; an ounce of dried mint, and three ounces of bean flour; boil all these in plantain water and make two plasters:—­apply one before and one behind.  If the blood flows from those veins which are terminated at the neck of the matrix, then it is not called an undue discharge of the menses, but haemorrhoids of the womb.  The same remedy, however, will serve for both, only the instrumental cure will be a little different; for in uterine haemorrhoids, the ends of the veins hang over like teats, which must be removed by cutting, and then the veins closed with aloes, fine bole, burnt alum, myrrh, mastic, with comfoly-juice and knot grass, laid upon it like a plaster.

[Illustration:  Position of the Embryos in a plural conception]

[Illustration:  Process of Delivery.]

The air should be cold and dry, and all motion of the body should be prohibited.  Her diet should consist of pheasants, partridges, grouse, rabbits, calves’ feet, etc., and her drink should be mixed with the juice of pomegranates and quinces.

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CHAPTER IV

     Of the Weeping of the Womb.

The weeping of the womb is an unnatural flow of blood, coming from it in drops, like tears, and causing violent pains in it, and occurring at no fixed period or time.  By some it is supposed to be produced by the excessive flow of the courses, as they flow copiously and freely; this is continued, though only little at a time, and accompanied by great pain and difficulty of passing it, and on this account it is compared to the strangury.

The cause is in the power, instrument or matter; in the power, on account of its being enfeebled so that it cannot expel the blood, and which, remaining there, makes that part of the womb grow hard, and distends the vessels, and from that, pains in the womb arise.  In the instrument, from the narrowness of the passage.  Lastly, it may be the matter of the blood which is at fault, and which may be in too great quantities; or the quality may be bad, so that it is thick and gross and cannot flow out as it ought to do, but only in drops.  The signs will best be ascertained by the patient’s own account, but there will be pains in the head, stomach and back, with inflammation, difficulty of breathing and excoriation of the matrix.