Lastly, Let her take half a drachm of bay-berries beaten into a powder in a draught of muscadel or tent.
II. Another accident to which women in child-bed are subject is the hemorrhoids, or piles, occasioned through the great straining in bringing the child into the world. To cure this,
1. Let her be let blood in the saphæna vein.
2. Let her use polypodium in her meat and drink, bruised and boiled.
3. Take an onion, and having made a hole in the middle of it, fill it full of oil, roast it, and having bruised it all together, apply it to the fundament.
4. Take a dozen of snails, without shells if you can get them, or else so many shell snails, and pull them out, and having bruised them with a little oil, apply them warm as before.
5. If she go not well to stool, let her take an ounce of cassia fistula drawn at night going to bed; she needs no change of diet after.
III. Retention of the menses is another accident happening to women in child-bed; and which is of so dangerous a consequence, that, if not timely remedied, it proves mortal. When this happens,
1. Let the woman take such medicines as strongly provoke the terms, such as dittany, betony, pennyroyal, featherfew, centuary, juniper-berries, peony roots.
2. Let her take two or three spoonfuls of briony water each morning.