fervid; who rather vilify, than covet, and rather abstain from, than
delight themselves in this _Encounter_. In short, there are some of both
Sexes, who, in patiently gratifying their active _Consorts_, esteem it
rather a sort of _Hardship_ and _TASK_ for _Family-Quiet_, than any
incumbent _DUTY_ of _Nuptial Benevolence_; Which[50]St. _Paul_ seems to
allude to, by calling it the _defrauding of one the other_.
FROM hence it is, that _Children_ often degenerate from the _Nature_ and
_Qualities_ of their PARENTS; from hence also it is, that _brisk Men_
sometimes have _stupid_, and _wise Men_ frequently beget _foolish
Children_. This happens only because of the _Indifferency_, _Indolence_,
or _Coldness_, either of Mind or Constitution, in their _Conjugal
Pleasures_: The dull heavy _Faculty_ of their _Inclinations_ to the ACT,
being diffus’d and transmitted through the SEED into the _Infant_,
according to _Catullus_;
_“Naturæ sequitur semina quisque suæ._
BUT farther still, the SEED flowing from the _principal Parts_ of the
Body, comprehends in itself the _Vigour_ and _Quality_ of their
respective Members: Whence it follows, that _Diseases_, _Imperfections_,
_Blemishes_, or any other _Deformity_, inherent in any _Part_ of the
PARENTS, becomes commonly _hereditary_ to their CHILDREN.
THIS is the Case of the whole Dutchy of upper _Styria_, where all the
_Natives_ have a huge _Excrescence_ of FLESH, which grows up with the
_Body_ (however visibly increasing and decreasing with the MOON)
generally lying upon the Left side from the _Jaw-bone_, and hanging
downwards: So that the _Women_ giving SUCK of that _Breast_, commonly
cast this _carnous Excrescence_ (which they call CRAPE) over their
Shoulders. This is so _Natural_ to them, and remarkable, that in a
Journey once from _Venice_ to _Vienna_, passing thro’ the chief Town of
that Country, call’d _Judenburg_, I had the Curiosity to go off the
_Post-Waggon_, into the _Church_, with five other Gentlemen,
Fellow-Passengers, to be better satisfy’d of the Truth of it. The
_People_ were at MASS, but the sight of us soon confounded, or at least
disturb’d their _Devotion_; for in a Moment, the Eyes of the whole
_Congregation_ were staring upon us, wondering to see so many _deform’d
Men_ (as they call’d us) in that Place at one Time.
AND the same is the only Reason, that most _Children_ in _Spain_ and
_Portugal_, are born with some SYMPTOMS of the _Venereal Disease_;
which, however, is without any infectious _Malignity_, and so _Natural_
to them, that they seldom apply to the _Doctor_ for CURE, until the Case
becomes more dangerous or desperate by the _Party’s_ own Means: which
generally happens to them in a very few Years, being exceedingly
_Salacious_ from their INFANCY, because of the stimulating _Acrimony_ of
the _putrid Humours_ of the Body, which they only strive to mitigate, or
allay, by _continual_ WHORING.
FROM what’s already said, we see that the _Efficacy_ of the _Father’s_
SEED is very considerable; insomuch, that indeed many calamitous
_Misfortunes_ may derive from it, to his _Posterity_: But it is,
however, to be strictly observ’d, that what _Disorder_ soever of a
vitious Nature derives itself this way from the _Mother_, hath yet the
greater _Malignity_, and more powerful _Effect_ upon her _CHILDREN_[51];
the _Habits_ of her Body, Good or Bad, her _Virtues_ or _Vices_, taking
still a deeper _Root_, or firmer _Footing_ in the Constitution of the
FOETUS. Which _Distinction_, in short, must needs be a most plain
_Case_, considering that the _Maternal Blood_ is its chief ALIMENT, and
the very _secundary ORIGIN_ of its _Procreation_.
AND this, in fine, is the only _natural Reason_ to be given, why many
_Things_, no ways commendable in either SEX, are the less excusable in
the WOMAN.
[Illustration]
[Illustration]
SECT. III.
[Illustration]
CHAP. I.
_Of CONCEPTION._
CONCEPTION, in a word, is _Two-fold_; True and _Natural_, or False and
_Præternatural_. It is call’d _True_, in opposition to a _False
Conception_; and _Natural_, because it answers to the _Institution of
Nature_. Wherefore I shall begin with _This_, and conduct the _Woman_,
who has truly and naturally _conceiv’d_, thro’ the different _Stages_ of
Life she is to pass; describing plainly, and laying before her the many
various _Scenes_ of every respective _Stage_, which can any ways affect
her Person.
IN this nice Affair, like a faithful PILOT, in a _narrow Channel_, I
shall not only point out the _Barrs_ and _Rocks_, on which she may be
_Shipwreck’d_; but also direct and prescribe her _Course_, by which she
may _sail_ safe into her wish’d-for PORT: Where when I have duly secur’d
_Herself_ and her _Cargo_ to the Best of my Capacity, I shall thereafter
proceed in their Order, to treat of the different _Preternatural
Conceptions_; as I shall in this place now discourse only of the
_Natural_.
THIS _Natural Conception_ then, is the first principal _Action_, and
peculiar _Function_ of the WOMB, in duly commixing and fomenting the
retain’d SEEDS of _Man_ and _Woman_: Since as the SEED of _Plants_
requires the Matrix of the _Earth_, to nourish it well, and safely
defend it; so doth _That_ SEMINAL _Virtue_ of _Men_, the WOMB, in this
_Act_ of _CONCEPTION_.
BUT as to the _Time_ of _CONCEPTION_, I cannot but differ from _Those_,
who protract and put it off till the _seventh Day_ from the first
_Seminal Retention_, for I am clearly of Opinion with _Lud.
Mercatus_[52], that if the SEED be retain’d _seven Hours_, the _Woman_
hath CONCEIV’D: Neither can I find sufficient Reason to think _Nature_
one Moment _Idle_, much less _seven Days_. Therefore _CONCEPTION_ ought
to be reckoned, from the very _Day_[53] of the _First Retention_.
HOWEVER yet, it is certain that, if the _Debility_ of the SEED, or WOMB,
or _Both_, happen to hinder or impugn the Work, _Nature_ ejects the
GENITURA, or _Thing conceiv’d_, on the _seventh_ Day; which Time is the
common _Crisis_ of all _Diseases_, and _Morbifick Accidents_: Whereas if
no such _Effluxion_ happens about that Time, _CONCEPTION_[54] is
certain, and _Formation_ goes on.
THIS _True CONCEPTION_ is likewise known by many various _Signs_;
whereof I shall mention a _Few_, not out of any vain Curiosity, but meer
Necessity: Because, supposing a _Woman_ to labour under any dangerous
_acute Disease_, it is of the greatest _Importance_, to be certain,
whether she hath conceiv’d, or not; by reason that the Means of her
_future Relief_ must (of Necessity) be adapted to her _present
Condition_.
[Illustration]
CHAP. II.
_Of the Signs of CONCEPTION._
THE _Signs_ of CONCEPTION are many and various, and accordingly some
more, some less _certain_, as hereafter set forth; whereof I shall only
mention such as are most common and familiar to the _Generality_ of
WOMEN: _viz._
I. THE _Retention_ or _Suppression_ of the MENSTRUA; when not occasion’d
by some other _Indisposition_.
II. SUDDEN _Weakness_, _Feebleness_, and _Imbecility_ of the Body and
Limbs.
III. LAZINESS, _Weariness_, and _Sleepiness_, with a _Heaviness_ of the
whole Body; but especially of the _Reins_ and the _Thighs_.
IV. A sort of little SPOTS, or hard WARTS, arising in the _Face_ and
_Forehead_.
V. A small _Pain_ about the NAVEL, and _Commotions_ in the _lower_
BELLY.
VI. COLD Shivering, and trembling _Fits_; wandring _Pains_, and
_Head-Aches_.
VII. LOSS of wonted _Colour_, sunk _Eyes_, discolour’d _Eye-Balls_: A
sparkling _Dimness_, and _Glimmering_ of the EYES; the _Ball_ growing
less, and the _White_ larger.
VIII. A _Protuberancy_ or Swelling of the VEINS, and BREASTS; their
growing _Hard_, and giving _Pain_: As the NIPPLES become firm, large,
and dark-colour’d, with a _livid Circle_ around them.
THESE and many other _Signs_ often occur upon _CONCEPTION_; but except a
_Plurality_ of them meet in _one Person_, they are not absolutely to be
rely’d on: It being a _Vulgar Error_ among _Women_, to calculate
precisely from the Time of _missing_ their MONTHS; for as _These_ are
often suppress’d, without any such manifest _Cause_; so I have known
some _Plethorick_ Persons, who have had them several repeated times
after Conception.
YEA, I was once given to understand by a LADY of Distinction, in the
City of _Berlin_, that she never had _Them_, till she first _conceiv’d_
in the 19th Year of her Age; and then they came in _regular Course_,
without any _Detriment_, during the whole FOETURA, or time of
_Gestation_: After which, she had _Them_ no more, till she _conceiv’d_
again, when _They_ return’d, and continued as formerly; and thus it
constantly happen’d to her, till she had done _Child-bearing_.
THERE are _other_ more certain _Signs_ of _CONCEPTION_; touching which,
let it suffice, that the _Physician_ knows them, from the _Relation_ of
the PATIENT: And to these may be added the _Symptoms_ of the _MONTHS_.
BUT notwithstanding all the positive _Diagnosticks_, which most Men have
been, hitherto, guided by; I have met with so many _Fallibilities_ in
this Point, that I shou’d readily have come into the Opinion of[55]
_Paulus Sacchias_, and deny’d the _Certainty_ of _PREGNANCY_, even at an
_advanc’d Time_, had I not been better instructed by Those most
excellent _Physicians_ and MEN-MIDWIVES, Sig. _Garofanzzo_ of _Padua_,
and _Pfizerus_ of _Wittenberg_; who agree in certain _infallible Signs_,
which put an end to all my _Doubts_, as well as to the grand
_Controversy_, touching _CONCEPTION_.
AS to those common _Signs_, which discover the _CONCEPTION_ of a _Boy_
from a _Girl_, or _Vice Versa_; finding _them_ tend only to _Curiosity_,
and to no real _Advantage_, I cannot think it worth while to allow them
any Place _Here_.
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CHAP. III.
_Of the DIET and REGIMEN of the Pregnant Woman._
I Come now, agreeable to my Promise, in the _First Chapter_ of this
SECTION, to direct and prescribe to the _Woman conceiv’d_ her due
COURSE: Whom I would have to consider, _First_, that she is in a very
narrow and dangerous SEA; and, _Secondly_, that, as the PILOT cannot be
always upon the _Watch_; so the Safety of SHIP and CARGO depends
entirely upon the _Care_, _Conduct_, and _Steady Hand_ of the skilful
STEERSMAN.
WHEREFORE the _Woman_ being now satisfy’d of her _CONCEPTION_, she is to
observe a quite different _Oeconomy_ in her _Way of Living_, from what
she formerly practis’d: Since a _double Mischief_ may be the Result of
one _single Fault_ in this Case; the _INFANT_ always participating of
what affects the _MOTHER_. And therefore she is now not only to take
Care of _Herself_, but also of her _Embryo_, or the _Fruit_ of her WOMB;
especially in the _First Months_, when it may be justly compared to the
tender BLOSSOMS of _Trees_, which are easily _blasted_, or _shaken-off_
by the least Accident of _Wind_ or _Rain_.
THIS _Regimen_, which I am about to speak of, is _Two-fold_; the _One_
for such _Women_ as find themselves in a good _State of Health_, by way
of _Prevention_: The _Other_ for those of the _tenderer Sort_ of
Constitutions, who begin to suffer immediately under the common
_Symptoms_: Upon which Affair I shall give a few necessary _Precautions_
adapted to _Both_, with all possible Discretion and Judgment.
I. THE _Conceiv’d Woman_ then is to observe a good, wholesome, and
regular _DIET_; since _Errors_ committed that way, with respect either
to _Quantity_ or _Quality_, may be of _double Damage_; I mean, both to
the MOTHER and the INFANT. She should therefore eat rather _Often_, than
_Much_ at a _Meal_; especially at _Nights_, without fasting too long at
any Time.
II. SHE is discreetly to avoid all unwholesome, or intemperate _Air_,
and not expose herself to any EXCESS of _Heat_ or _Cold_.
III. SHE must not desire rashly to walk much abroad in _Moon-Shine_, nor
to _wash_ her Head in _Sun-Shine_.
IV. SHE ought not to frequent _Gardens_; and that for the following
_Two-fold Reason_: FIRST, lest perchance she happen to sit or tread upon
some _Herb_ of a pernicious _Quality_; as divers are, in provoking
_Abortion_: SECONDLY, lest she covet some _Fruit_ or _Herbs_, which may
be of Damage or Inconveniency if _allow’d_, and the same if _deny’d_
Her.
V. SHE is prudently to avoid all _Odoriferous_ or _Perfum_’d, as well as
_Stinking Nauseous_ SMELLS.
VI. SHE must carefully shun _sitting_ or _lying hard_, and also
_lifting_ any heavy _Weight_, or her _Arms_ above her _Head_.
VII. SHE ought purposely to forbear all _hard Labour_, and _violent
Emotions_ of Body.
VIII. SHE is prudently to avoid all Apprehensions of _Fears_ and
_Frights_, and not to be _surpriz’d_ at any thing she hears or sees.
IX. SHE is cautiously to decline _Watchings_, and sitting up late at
_Nights_; but must indulge _moderate Sleep_.
X. SHE must not _lace_ herself (as _before_) with _Whalebone-Stays_, nor
use _Busks_; which may not only spoil her _Breasts_ and _Belly_, but
also _mis-shape_ the INFANT, if _Abortion_ does not immediately follow.
XI. SHE ought discreetly to suppress all _Anger_, _Passion_, and other
_Perturbations_ of Mind, and avoid entertaining too _serious_ or
_melancholick Thoughts_; since all _such_ tend to impress a _Depravity_
of Nature upon the INFANT’S _Mind_, and _Deformity_ on its _Body_.
XII. SHE is not to be too _Busy_, or _Attentive_, fixing her _Eyes_ too
much upon any one OBJECT; especially on deformed _ugly Persons_, or any
such accidental _disagreeable Sight_.
XIII. AS to her _Appetite_, she ought to set the _Delphick Oracle_
before her (_Nil nimium cupito_) and _desire_ nothing but what _she can
have_ to her Satisfaction.
XIV. SHE must carefully avoid all strong _purging Medicines_,[56]
especially before the _fourth_, and after the _sixth Month_: And even
_Then_ also, unless a Necessity of turgid _Matter_, or unfix’d
_Humours_, oblige her to it, or require _Evacuation_. She is also
likewise to abstain from all PHLEBOTOMY[57], especially in the _latter
Months_.
XV. AS to her _Exercise_, of what kind soever, the following general
_Rule_ may suffice; _viz._ the _first Month_ she ought not to _exercise_
herself at all: The _second_, but seldom and slowly: The _third_, oftner
and briskly: The _fourth_, _fifth_, and _sixth_, moderately and boldly:
The _seventh_, _eighth_, and to the middle of the _ninth_, she should
study by degrees to reduce Herself discreetly, and abstain from all her
wonted _Exercise_, and act very circumspectly in all Regards;
especially[58] the _eighth Month_, which is the most dangerous and
troublesome of all the Time of _Pregnancy_.
XVI. LASTLY, Let her _State of Health_ be never so good, she ought to
take proper _Medicines_ to strengthen the WOMB, as well as the FŒTUS, in
order to prevent _Accidents_, which may happen to the _strongest Woman_.
BUT as to _Women_ of more _tender Constitutions_, they are not only
subject to the _common Symptoms_, but often liable also to _acute
Diseases_; such as _Fevers_, _Pleurisies_, _Squincies_, _Inflammations_,
_Epilepsies_, _Apoplexies_, _Convulsions_, _Contractions_ of the Limbs,
Joints, _&c._ In which _Cases_, I may reasonably recommend the PATIENT
to the ablest _Physician_; since none but the most Judicious ought to
undertake them in such critical Conjunctures. Because it is no ways SAFE
to use the _same Means_ and _Medicines_ with the _Pregnant Woman_ (which
those incident _Diseases_ would otherways regularly require;) without a
due _Distinction_ and a nice _Regard_ had to her other HABITS of _Body_.
THESE _tender Women_ are also sometimes seiz’d with _Chronical
Distempers_; such as _intermitting Fevers_, _lingring Coughs_, &c: But,
in those _Cases_, PRESCRIPTIONS are not so Proper or Convenient, unless
the _Distemper_ be very severe and extremely prejudicial to the FOETUS,
because they commonly wear off before the DELIVERY.
HOWEVER, be the _Constitution_, or Condition, of the _Woman_ as it will,
I mean, _Strong_ or _Weak_, _Healthy_ or _Sickly_, all prudent PARENTS,
who desire to be bless’d with comely, tractable, and hopeful _Children_,
ought not only to perform their _Nuptial Duties_ with great _Serenity of
Mind_, but also to take mutual _Care_ to prevent and suppress all
_Family-Tumults_ or _Domestick Storms_: For there never ought so much as
a _Cloud_ to appear in their _Conjugal Society_; since all such unhappy
_Accidents_ strongly affect the growing INFANT, and intail the same
_Qualities_ of DISPOSITION almost indelibly imprinted upon it.
[Illustration]
CHAP. IV.
_Of the SYMPTOMS of the first three Months._
THE _Prolifick Seed_ being duly coagulated by a gentle _Ebullition_ of
its own _vegetative Faculty_, by the Power of the _Plastick Virtue_ of
the vital _Spirits_, and by the peculiar innate _Quality_ of the MATRIX;
this inlivened Substance produceth an _Organical Body_, of a perfectly
form’d, and delineated FOETUS: Which FOETUS, according to the various
_Steps_ of its Progression in _Formation_, _Animation_, and
_Maturation_, occasions as many various and different _Effects_ upon the
BEARING WOMAN; as necessary _Consequences_ of the said three principal
ACTS of the _Infant’s_ Constitution.
NOW these consequential _Effects_ may be properly divided into _Three_
CLASSES; which are accordingly call’d SYMPTOMS of the _First_, _Second_,
or _Middle_; and of the last _Three Months_.
BUT it is to be observ’d by the Way, that all _Women_ are not alike
subjected to them; SOME being more troubled with _Those_ of the _First_;
OTHERS also with _Those_ of the _Second_; and OTHERS again with the
SYMPTOMS of the _last Three Months_. But there are _some Women_, in
fine, that continue to be troubled, in the _Middle Months_, with the
SYMPTOMS of the _First_; and in the _Latter_, with some of _Those_ of
the _Second_: All which happens according to their various _Regimens_,
_Dispositions_ and _Habits_ of Body.
HOWEVER, to proceed methodically, with all Submission, according to what
competent _Knowledge_ and _Experience_ I have of the CONCEIV’D WOMAN;
the SYMPTOMS most common to _Her_, in the _First Three Months_, may be
briefly reduced to the following principal _Eight_ in Number; namely,
(1.) _Vomiting or Nauseating_. (2.) _Fastidy_ or _Loathing_. (3.) _Pica_
or _Longing_. (4.) _Painful Cholicks_ or _Gripes_. (5.) _Diarrhea_ or
_Looseness_. (6.) _Tooth-Aches_. (7.) _Head-Aches_. And, (8.) _Swimmings
of the Head_. Of all which, I shall now separately treat in their Order.
[Illustration]
CHAP. V.
_Of VOMITING, or NAUSEATING._
VOMITING is a strong and sudden _Contraction_ of the whole _Stomach_,
occasion’d by the _Animal Spirit’s_ being preternaturally _expanded_ in
its _orbicular_ as well as _oblong Fibres_, and the too quick and
violent _Exertion_ of their _Elastick Power_: Or otherwise, it is a
_Convulsive Motion_ of the _Stomach_, whereby, when the _Fibres_, which
compose its middle or _muscular Tunick_, are all at once strongly
contracted, it endeavours to eject through the _Oesophagus_ and _Mouth_
the Contents of its _Cavity_; to which the _Gullet_ itself (being of a
piece with the _Stomach_) and the _Muscles_ of the _Belly_ contribute
not a little.
WHICH _Definition_ comprehends the _immediate Cause_ of all _Vomitings_;
and tho’ there be many external and internal _mediate Causes_, yet, I
think, in the present Case of the _pregnant Woman_, the Cause of this
SYMPTOM proceeds chiefly from the _Vapours_ of the exhaled HUMOURS, and
the worse Part of the BLOOD; infesting the _Tunicks_ of the _Orifice_ of
the VENTRICLE, and flying into the _Cavity_ of the STOMACH.
WHICH, if _slightly_ affected, occasions only a _nauseous Spitting_, or
_gentle Vomiting_; but if more _severely_, it excites a far worse
_Vomiting_, with a certain grievous _Pain_ and _Torment_ of the Person
afflicted. Now if those _Vapours_ be of a _calid Quality_, they commonly
occasion a stinking and burning kind of _Belching_; but if _frigid_,
perhaps, on the contrary, a troublesome sour, acid, _breaking of Wind_:
Both of which promote _frequent Vomiting_, that carries off the _vicious
Juices_; so that the SYMPTOM commonly ceases (of itself) in the _second_
or _third Month_. Wherefore this ill _Habit_ need not be industriously
restrain’d, unless very _Troublesome_; as in the above-mention’d _Case_,
when attended with extreme _Severity of Pain_: For _then_ it is not
without _Danger_, and therefore requires immediate _Remedy_ or CURE.
WHICH _Cure_, I humbly conceive, maybe judiciously effected by expelling
the _Cause_, and strengthening the _Ventricle_; so that it may be
capable to repel those _Vapours_, or _Humours_, ascending from the WOMB;
and may either entirely subvert or repress _Those_ previously receiv’d.
[Illustration]
CHAP. VI.
_Of FASTIDY, or LOATHING._
THE _Cause_ of this SYMPTOM proceeds from the worse Sort and more
ignoble Part of the BLOOD; which, in concert with the _Humours_,
perverts the _Temperature_ of the STOMACH, by flowing towards its
Orifice: And _This_, upon emitting _Vapours_ to the _same_, strongly
impresseth such _vicious Qualities_ upon it, as doth occasion sometimes
a LOATHING of _All Meats_, and sometimes only an _Aversion_ to some
certain _particular Dishes of Meat_.
WHICH last _Case_ happens most commonly, and especially at the Time of
_New_ and _Full-Moon_. Now this LOATHING may be _thus_ distinguished: To
wit; if it rises from _bilous_ or _cholerick Humours_, the WOMAN feels a
gnawing or biting of the _Ventricle_, and is afflicted with a frequent
_great Thirst_: If from _putrid Humours_, she is (at several Times)
_feverishly inclined_: And if from _moderate gross Humours_, the only
SIGN is a _frequent Spitting_.
THIS _Symptom_ ceases (of itself) in due Progress of Time: For as the
FOETUS (which as yet is only _sustain’d_ by the better and nobler Part
of the BLOOD) grows _bigger_, it requires the _larger Quantity_, and at
last the WHOLE of the _Menstruous_ BLOOD for its _Sustenance_; at which
Time also the accumulated _Humours_ likewise are lodg’d in their proper
Place: _Both_ which _Causes_ being thus remov’d, the _Effect_ ceases of
course by degrees. However it is prudent, to prevent this _Evil_, from
the beginning of Conception, by proper _Medicines_; but otherways
(whenever it happens) unless the FOETUS be endanger’d for want of
sufficient Aliment, Time and Patience are the fitted _Remedies_.
[Illustration]
CHAP. VII.
_Of the PICA or LONGING._
WOMEN subject to this SYMPTOM, are indeed desirous of _Meat_ and
_Drink_; yet commonly of _such_, as is not only _disagreeable_, but also
_offensive_ and _prejudicial_ to NATURE.
THE violent _Excess_ of this _vicious_ or _degenerate Appetite_ is
wonderful; as frequently appears by many _unnatural Instances_, which I
shall forbear mentioning in this Place, for fear of ill Consequences; so
that I can only recommend the _Curious_ to the[59]_Authorities_ of the
MARGIN.
THE _Cause_ of this _SYMPTOM_ proceeds from the various _Humours_ of
deprav’d _Qualities_, inherent in the _Tunicks_ of the _STOMACH_,
vitiating the _Ferment_ of the _VENTRICLE_; and so affecting the
_Orifice_, that it becomes the very _Seat_ and _Source_ of this _Evil_:
from whence arises the _Variety_ of the _Humours_, exciting a strange
and uncommon _Variety_ of APPETITE.
THE _Nature_ and _Quality_ of these _HUMOURS_, have occasion’d many
learned _Disputes_, which yet remain undecided. But tho’ _Platerus_
takes upon himself to call them _Malignant_ and _Poisonous_, yet it is
the _Opinion_ of many _learned Men_, and as excellent _Authors_, that
_They_ are not to be justly accounted for, any farther than that they
are of an _occult perverse Quality_, generated in the _STOMACH_, from
irregular _Diet_, improper _Food_, and bad _Concoction_, attended with
an _erroneous Regimen_ in other Cases.