of instant _Abortion_, if not timely and judiciously prevented. The
_second Case_ is of the following bad _Consequence_, that this WATER,
which has hitherto defended the INFANT from the _Rigidity_ of the
circumjacent _Parts_, being at last (how leisurely soever) exhausted and
spent; the CHILD is soon sensible of its _Loss_, and finding its wonted
SEAT become uneasy, it thereupon being restless or discontented,
endeavours to move and seek for a _Better_: By which means (if
_Abortion_ does not presently ensue) it falls into a _preternatural
Situation_, which (of course) occasions a _preternatural BIRTH_. But
abstracting from _This_, the bare _Deficiency_ of the WATERS, for
moistening the _Passages_ in time of _LABOUR_, is enough to effect the
same Unhappiness.
HOWEVER, the _Cure_ of this _SYMPTOM_ depends chiefly upon a good
_Regimen_ of _DIET_, and _external_, as well as _internal
Corroboratives_.
IN short, having thus discuss’d the several _SYMPTOMS_ of the Nine
_Months_, and such as are most common and familiar to the _Woman_ during
her FOETURA, or the whole Time of her _CHILD-BEARING_; I shall proceed
now in the next Place with all due _Method_ and peculiar _Regard_ for
her GOOD.
[Illustration]
CHAP. XXVIII.
_Of Acute DISEASES incident to the CHILD-BEARING WOMAN._
IT sometimes, and more than too often, happens, that besides the common
_SYMPTOMS_ of the _Months_, the _conceiv’d Woman_ is also suddenly taken
with some _acute DISEASE_ or other; upon which I shall offer my sincere
_Opinion_, and according to the best of my Judgment, give a brief
_Account_ of _Those_ several _Maladies_, with their _Definition_ and
_Cause_, _Nature_ and _Quality_, _Danger_ and CURE.
FIRST then, the great _Galen_ defines _acute DISEASES_ to be such, whose
_Motion is swift_, attended with sudden and immediate _Danger_.
THE learned _Brassavole_ calls such _DISEASES Acute_, as come
_suddenly_, continue a _short Time_, and have very severe or violent
_SYMPTOMS_.
THE ingenious _Blancard_ calls those _DISEASES Acute_, which are _over
in a little Time_, but not without _imminent Danger_. Now _Those_ are
deem’d either _very Acute_, or _most Acute_; the _latter_ is meant when
the _Distemper_ is over the 4th _Day_; but the _former_ is that which
continues till the 7th _Day_: For the more _acute_ the _DISEASE_ is, the
sooner follows its _Determination_, either for Life or Death. Again, a
Disease is call’d _simply acute_, when it lasts 14 or 21 _Days_; or
lastly, it is term’d _Acute ex decidentiâ_, which lasts 42 Days at
least.
AND according to the diligent Dr. _Sydenham_[82], the _Despumation_ of
_Acute DISEASES_ happens in 336 _Hours_; which he also justly applies to
_intermitting FEVERS_, reckoning 5 Hours and a half for a _Paroxysm_:
Because what we call DAYS in _Acute Fevers_, are so many PERIODS in
_intermitting Fevers_: The only difference of _Those_ consisting in that
the _one_ perfects its _Fermentation_ at _once_, which the _other_
accomplishes at reiterated _Times_, and divers _Turns_, by the same Duct
of _Nature_. He farther still, observes that _Autumnal Quartan Fevers_
continue six Months; in which Time, if the Number of the recurrent
_Paroxysms_ be summed up, they will exactly amount to the aforesaid 336
Hours, or 14 Days, which is the _Term_ or _End_ of the regular and
_continual Fevers_ of that Season.
AND the wise HIPPOCRATES observes[83] that as an exquisite _continual
Fever_ ceases within the 7th Day, so an exquisite _Tertian_ has seven
_periodical Circuits_; because every _Access_ in the latter, makes up a
_Day_ in the former Case. Hence it is manifest that all _Epidemick
Diseases_ have their due and regular _Times_[84] of encreasing,
continuing, and decreasing; and that These _Laws_ of _Nature_ are so
constant and permanent, that however _Fevers_ differ in other
Circumstances, they are equal as to the Duration of _Time_; counting
according to the _Periods_ or Fits of the _intermitting_, and the
continued Number of _Days_ of the never _intermitting Fever_.
GALEN[85] further explains _Acute DISEASES_, and calls them _Two-fold_:
The _one_ attended with a continual FEVER; such as are _burning Fevers_,
_Frenzies_, _Lethargies_, _Pleurisies_, _Squincies_, _Inflammations_,
&c. The _other_ without any Fever, such as _Epilepsies_, _Apoplexies_,
_Convulsions_, _Palsies_, _Contraction of LIMBS_, _JOINTS_, &c. Now
the[86] _Accesses_ and _Crises_ of all _These_ proceed from the
_Influence_ of the MOON; which in over-ruling terrestrial Things,
surpasses all the other PLANETS and STARS, not so much because of her
_Power_, as by her _Approximation_ or _Vicinity_.
THE _Cause_ of both the _one_ and the _other_ seems to be the _same_;
tho’ it _affecteth differently_, according to the various _Regimen_ and
_Disposition_ of the Woman: And it most probably proceeds either from
the _vitious Humours_, which have abounded in the Body before
_Conception_; or from such _Humours_ as have been congested afterwards
by the _suppressed_ MENSES, or _Months_: Which being irritated by
improper or depraved _Food_, by bad or negligent _Regimen_, either
before or after _Conception_; those _Humours_ (like _Yest_ in _Ale_)
ferment the BLOOD, to such a Degree, that (all on a sudden) the PATIENT
is violently taken with one or other of those _Acute_ DISEASES, which
are determined by a certain _Lunary_ CRISIS; that is to say, by a
certain _Motion_ of NATURE, accelerated by the _Power_ of the MOON, to a
gradual _Expulsion_ of the _peccant Matter_ thro’ the PORES of the Body.
But this CRISIS, in short, happens always with most Ease and Safety upon
the _New_ or _Full-Moon_, because the ambient _Air_ does not at that
time so much affect the _Superficies_ of the Body, nor so violently
repress the _Motion_ of the FLUIDS.
HOWEVER, this melancholy _Accident_ can never happen worse than to the
_Conceiv’d Woman_; and the _farther_ she is gone in her Time, the more
_Danger_ still. And that because of the _Scarcity_ or _Want_ of _pure_
BLOOD, which ought to be imbibed by the _Infant_, either in part or in
whole, according to its Age and Strength: Or, because of the _Plenty_ of
_vitious_ BLOOD, which tends to no other end, than to _imbecilitate_ the
Woman, and render her _incapable_ of suffering the _Insults_ of such
_acute_ DISEASES. For _Nature_ may (perhaps) be able to bear up against
_one simple Effect_, but when it is joined and aggravated by _another_,
the PATIENT is too often obliged to _succumb_, and yield herself up to
be _overpower’d_ in the Struggle of Life.
BUT, after all yet, _acute_ DISEASES are not always _mortal_ to the
_Conceived Woman_; for, as Experience teaches, SOME have the good
Fortune to _escape_, tho’ indeed the Odds[87] are very great on the
other Side. But of such sharp MALADIES, _those_ without any _Fever_ are
reckoned most _dangerous_; because they are not only _Acute_, but also
_most Acute_: And by _those_ the MOTHER is more immediately endangered
than the INFANT; whereas by _those_ which come with a _Fever_, the
tender INFANT is first and chiefly endangered, because of the MOTHER’s
internal _Calidity_ and _Depravation_, which easily affects, and soon
suffocates or stifles it in a short time.
HOWEVER, it is very observable, that a _Woman_[88], bearing a FEMALE, is
more readily seized, and more easily freed or cured of _acute_ DISEASES,
than _she_ who bears a MALE: And that because FEMALES are naturally more
obnoxious to _Distempers_, proceeding from the _Retention_ of the
MENSTRUA, and consequently more _favourably affected_, because of the
_natural Affinity_ and _Familiarity_ of the Case.
AND this is the Reason that FEMALES, after the _first Months_, do bear
and sustain more _Pains_ than the MALES; as daily Experience confirms,
in that a _Female Miscarriage_[89] seldom happens after the _first
Months_: whereas the _Male Abortion_ is most of all to be feared, after
the TIME of _Motion_ or _Animation_, because the ACETABULA, or
_Cavities_, being then more _siccid_, are the more easily broken by its
_stronger Motion_.
IN Cases of _Acute_ DISEASES, the worst is, that the necessary _Helps_,
which such incident _Distempers_ otherways absolutely require, are not
always safe and convenient for the _Child-bearing Woman_: which
Condition, (with respect to the CURE) renders the CASE one of the
_nicest Points_ in the ART of _Physick_. Wherefore I would, with
Submission, advise, that _none_ but the ablest and well-qualified
_Physician_ should undertake either the _Care_ or the CURE of such a
PATIENT. To whom I am not to prescribe _Rules_, and therefore I shall
only refer him to his own more _Acute Judgment_, and the _Curious
Solutions_ of (that most learned PHYSICIAN) _Daniel Senertus_[90], upon
the _six following Questions_, thus stated by himself, _viz._
I. HOW _far slender Diet is convenient for the Child-bearing Woman_,
_labouring under an acute Disease?_
II. HOW _far it is convenient to open a Vein or bleed this Woman upon
such an Occasion?_
III. HOW _far it may be proper to purge her on the same Occasion?_
IV. WHETHER _Venæ-Sections or Purges are most dangerous in such a Case?_
V. WHETHER _it is practicable_ (_in such a dangerous Case_) _to excite
Abortion_, _for the Woman’s Health and Recovery?_
VI. HOW _far Clysters_, _Diureticks_, _and Diaphoreticks are convenient
on such Occasions?_
HAVING, thus, now, in fine, briefly hinted upon the _sundry_ HEADS of
this _Chapter_, I shall, in the next Place, offer a few Words upon THAT,
which (I think) is the most common Consequence of the foregoing EFFECTS,
_viz._
[Illustration]
CHAP. XXIX.
_Of the DEBILITY and WEAKNESS of the_ Fœtus.
BESIDES all the enumerated SYMPTOMS, _Acute_ and _Chronical Distempers_,
to which the _Child-bearing Woman_ is subject; it also happens over and
above (too frequently) that the INFANT becomes _Weak_ and _Sick_ in the
WOMB.
THE _Cause_ of which unhappy _Accident_ I take to be _fourfold_: As it
proceeds, either from a _Debility_ and _Insufficiency_ of the _Parental_
SEED, or from a _Scarcity_ or _Want_ of requisite _Sustenance_, or from
a certain _Depravation_ of that _Sustenance_, or from some immediate
_Procatarctick Cause_ of the MOTHER; which may all be thus rationally
distinguished, and severally accounted for; _viz._
THE _Cause_ certainly lies in the SEED, if the _Woman_ has continued
always _healthy_, eating, drinking, and living regularly.
IT may be imputed to the _Scarcity_ of ALIMENT, if she has often
laboured under _Diseases_, or been exposed to _Hunger_, _Want_,
_Penury_, or any such like manifest retrenching CAUSE.
IT may be adjudged to a _Depravity_ of ALIMENT, when the _Woman_ (by a
vitiated Constitution of Body) is subject to some certain _Distempers_;
and, besides, in short, any _Procatarctick Cause_ is discoverable from
the _Relation_ of the PATIENT.
BUT whatever the _Cause_ may be, the _Diagnostick Signs_ of this unhappy
_Affection_, are commonly _One_ or _more_ of the following SIX; _viz._
1. THE turgid swell’d BREASTS of the _Pregnant Woman_, all on a
sudden[91], fall and extenuate into a _Flabbiness_.
2.[92]THEY diffuse copiously a thin _Waterish Milk_, not half digested
to its due Perfection.
3. THE _Menstrua_ return at an uncommon _Rate_, and in an irregular
_Manner_.
4. THE _Woman_ personally is either very frequently _Sick_, or long
expos’d to a lasting _Sickness_. Or,
5. SHE is either subject to a very frequent, or long continu’d
_Looseness_, and constant _Diarrhæa_.
6. THE _Infant_ which used (as it ought) to _move briskly_, is now but
very _seldom_, and more _faintly_ perceiv’d in _Motion_.
ON the other hand, the _Prognosticks_ of this CASE, are briefly _Two_:
For either _Abortion_ follows, or (which is worse) the _Infant_ dies; if
not timely prevented, by removing the _Efficient Cause_ of it, upon
_comforting_ and _strengthening_ both the WOMAN and the CHILD.
IN a Word, the _Latter_ of these tragical _Events_ I shall refer to
SECT. V. _Chap._ last. But the _Former_ leads me more immediately to
consider it in the proper Method of my Discourse.
[Illustration]
CHAP. XXX.
_Of ABORTION._
WOMEN _miscarry_ so frequently, that if any curious Persons will
diligently observe and examine that _Matter_, they will find the Number
of MISCARRIAGES to exceed _That_ of _timely_ BIRTHS: Wherefore I have
reason to think, that this _Head_ deserves to be handled more at large,
and to be more particularly insisted upon, in the following manner.
THE _Modern Practisers_ in _MIDWIFERY_, distinguish MISCARRIAGES, by
_four_ different _Appellations_; according to the _four_ different
_Times_ of the _Constitution_ of the _CONCEPTION_. viz.
A MISCARRIAGE happening in the Time of _Spumification_, is call’d an
_Effluxion of the GENITURA_: That which happeneth in the _Vegetation_,
or Time of _Ramification_, or (as some will have it) before the 40th
_Day_, is call’d a _Deperdition_ of the EMBRYO: _That_ which falls out
in the _sensitive_ Progression, or Time of _Carnification_, or (as
others will have it) before the _90th Day_ from _CONCEPTION_, they call
an _Abortion_ of the FOETUS. But what so happens afterwards preceding
the _7th Month_, is properly call’d an entire _Abortion_ of the INFANT.
HOWEVER, _Others_ will have a _fifth Distinction_ made; namely, what so
happens in the 7th, 8th, and preceding the 20th Day of the 9th _Month_,
to be call’d an untimely _BIRTH_; because tho’ born with _Life_, they
alledge it to be very seldom, or never really _Vital_, or likely to
_Live_: Upon which I shall, in good Time, introduce my own _Sentiment_
in the subsequent Chapters of this _Section_.
NOTWITHSTANDING, this _Definition_ signifies but little to the Purpose;
let the _MISCARRIAGE_ happen when it will, and under whatsoever _Name_
or _Denomination_, It is nothing else in general, than an untimely
_Exclusion_ of an imperfect and immature BIRTH; which unhappy _Accident_
may proceed from a vast Variety of _Causes_, stimulating NATURE to such
a violent _Expulsion_.
IN treating therefore of this _Accidental BIRTH_, I shall make use of
none of those _Distinctions_; but rather (to prevent Mistakes) shall
call all its several SPECIES, of whatsoever _Time_, by the general (and
most common) Name of _ABORTION_.
AND of this _ABORTION_, happen when it will, the _proximous Cause_ is
always the _Expulsive Faculty_ of the WOMB; which being _hurt_, or
violently _disorder’d_ in any respect, irritates and debilitates the
_Retentive Power_: And then again, on the other hand, this _Retentive
Faculty_ (tho’ not the _proximous Cause_) is sometimes _first hurt_ or
_injur’d_, and by that means incapacitated to _retain_ the _INFANT_;
which (in that Case) offends and provokes the _Expulsive Power_[93],
which is the proper _proximous Cause_ of all _ABORTIONS_.
BUT most commonly the _Expulsive_ receives the _First Hurt_; from whence
the _Retentive_ is oblig’d to _Sympathize_, and yield to its over-ruling
_Motions_. And, according to _Galen_[94], the _Expulsive Faculty_ may be
injur’d and irritated by _Three_ different _Causes_; viz. 1. By the
_Bulk_ of the INFANT, when the WOMB cannot distend itself far enough to
contain it: 2. By its _Weight_, when heavier than the WOMB and
_Ligaments_ can bear: And, 3. By the _Humours_ (when the _Membranes_
break) flowing into the WOMB; occasioning a _Mordacious Itching_ there,
or _putrefying_ the INFANT in its Place.
TO which _three Efficients_, some Modern Authors have thought it
sufficient to add the _similar_, _organical_, and _common Diseases_ of
the WOMB; together with some _Procatarctick Causes_.
HOWEVER, because I have generally observ’d _Those_, to be very
promiscuously and confusedly treated of, I shall (according to my best
Ability) endeavour to reduce the many different _Causes_ of _ABORTION_
to such plain _Heads_, and set them in such a clear _Light_, that they
shall prove evident and manifest to the meanest _Capacity_: That _Women_
(whose peculiar _Good_ I have only at Heart in the Performance of this
Work) may readily conceive them, and thereby be enabled (in most
_Cases_) to prevent their greatest _Misfortunes_. And that whether the
_Cause_ happens proximously and immediately from a _stimulated
Expulsive_, or mediately from a _læs’d_ and _injur’d Retentive Faculty_.
WHEREFORE I shall now reduce those _Causes_ to the following _Four
general Heads_; namely, 1. To the _Constitution_ of the MOTHER: 2. The
_Constitution_ of the INFANT: 3. The _Symptoms_ of the MONTHS: And, 4.
To the various _Procatarctick Causes_ of this Tragical Case.
FIRST the _Causes of ABORTION_, proceeding from the _Constitution_ of
the MOTHER, are _Three-fold_, and respect either her _whole Body_, her
WOMB only, or its _neighbouring Parts_. THOSE respecting her _whole
Body_, are,
I. THE _four Intemperatures_ of the Body; as the CALID, which, by its
_Hot Quality_, exhausts the _Humours_ (that are naturally necessary) to
the Prejudice and Loss of the INFANT.
II. THE FRIGID; which, by its _Cold Quality_, vitiates and attenuates
the INFANT’S _Aliment_, to a starving Condition.
III. THE SICCID; which, by its _adust dry Quality_, scorches and
consumes the _Ligaments_, that they break, like so many _Strings_ that
snap before the _Sun_: Upon which the INFANT (being deprived of those
_Mediums_, through which NATURE has appointed its _Sustenance_) corrupts
and decays, like a _PLANT_ in _Arid Sandy Ground_.
IV. THE HUMID _Intemperature_; which, by its _moist Quality_,
debilitates the _Retentive Faculty_, hinders the _Ligaments_ to
consolidate and close firmly, and opens the shut _Orifice_ of the WOMB.
But besides all This also, by filling the _ACETABULA_ with _superfluous
Humours_, it may suffocate and stifle the _INFANT_.
V. A _nimious_ and too great an _Obesity_ or _Fatness_, and too great a
_Gracility_ or _Leanness_ of the _Woman_’s Body: For the _One_ converts
the _CHILD_’s _Nourishment_ to itself; and the _Other_ starves the
_INFANT_ for want of its _natural Requisites_.
VI. A _PLETHORY_, or too great a _Repletion_ of BLOOD in her Body; which
frequently choaks and suffocates the _INFANT_.
VII. ALL _Corporeal Causes_, exagitating the _Spirits_ and _Humours_;
which have the same _Effect_ and _Force_ to irritate the _Expulsive
Faculty_.
VIII. ALL _Diseases_ incident to the Body, whether they be _Acute_,
_Remiss_, or _Diuturnal_; which may easily effect _ABORTION_. But
SECONDLY, The _Causes_ on the part of the WOMB, are not to be lightly or
slightly considered; because if it be not both naturally well
_constituted_, and carefully well _dispos’d_, it can neither foment,
cherish, nor retain the INFANT. For the least _Flaw_ of its _morbifick
Causes_, stimulates to a great Degree the _expulsive Faculty_: which
_Causes_ are, in my Opinion, as follow; viz.
I. THE WOMB’s _Præternatural SIZE_, either in _Magnitude_, or
_Exiguity_: The _one_ giving room for the _Infant_’s too much tumbling
or too frequent Motion; and the _other_ restraining the _CHILD_ too
much, even to the _suppressing_ and _stifling_ of it.
II. ITS _præternatural_ _CONSTRICTION_ or _Coarctation_; which may
resist its necessary due _Extension_, for containing the growing INFANT.
III. ITS _præternatural_ _DENSITY_; which may not only hinder the
requisite _Distention_, but also prevent the SECUNDINE[95] from being
firmly connected to the _Vessels_.
IV. ITS _LAXITY_ of the _Orifice_, or _Lavity_ of the interiour
_Surface_; proceeding from _pituitous_[96] or _viscous Humours_, which
slacken the _Ligaments_, and give way to the FOETUS.
V. THE WOMB’S too _frigid_ and _siccid Intemperature_; which Qualities
are the greatest Enemies to _Nature_ and all the _Actions_ of _Female
LIFE_.
VI. ITS _frigid_ and _humid Intemperature_; which (abounding with
_Mucosities_ or _slimy Humours_) so relaxes the _Ligaments_, that they
cannot hold or detain the _INFANT_.
VII. ALL obdurated and confirmed _Tumours_ and _Ulcers_, all
_Erysipelas_ and _Inflammations_ of the WOMB: Which often prove the
_Causes_ of the same _Effect_.
VIII. A _præternatural Situation_, or an _oblique Position_ may become
the _8th_ and _last Cause_ of _ABORTION_, which I shall mention on part
of the WOMB.
FROM hence I come, _Thirdly_, in a due Method, to _Those Causes_
respecting the _neighbouring Parts_; which I humbly conceive to be as
follow.
I. ALL _Diseases_, _Pains_, and what _Causes_ soever of those _Parts_,
may tend much to deject or affect the _Spirits_, and stir up the
_Humours_ with unusual Alteration.
II. ALL _Causes_ and bad _Affections_ compressing the _lower Belly_, and
exagitating or straining its MUSCLES.
III. A _præternatural Site_ and inapt _CONFORMATION_[97] of the
_Umbilical Vessels_, for their due Operation.
BUT then again, _Secondly_, It also often happens that, tho’ the
_pregnant Woman_ labours under no _Disease_ or _Misfortune_, either in
BODY, WOMB, or _neighbouring_ PARTS, yet notwithstanding the _Expulsive
Faculty_ is irritated to EJECTION by several _Causes_ of the
_Constitution_ of the _INFANT_ itself, as follow; _viz._
I. ITS _præternatural_ BULK, or vitious _Conformation_, oppressing and
straining the WOMB, either in _Whole_ or in _Part_.
II. ITS _Debility_ and _Weakness_, or contracted, infirm, feeble
_Constitution_, as mentioned in the preceding _Chapter_.
III. THE _Death_ of the _INFANT_, emitting nauseous _Vapours_ and
putrefy’d _Matter_, stimulates the WOMB sooner or later to _Expulsion_:
And (in this _tragical Case_) the _sooner_ the _Better_; as will
hereafter appear.
AND moreover, _Thirdly_, the _SYMPTOMS_ of the _Months_, frequently
prove _Causes_ of _ABORTION_; of which _SYMPTOMS_, having already
treated particularly, I shall in this place repeat little or nothing,
only refer the READER to their respective _Chapters_ in the preceding
_Part_ of this SECTION: And yet under this present _Head_, may be also
comprehended all _Acute Diseases_, which (too often) prove of the same
bad _Consequence_; as is evident from Chap. 28.
FOURTHLY, There is a great _Variety_ of _Procatarctick Causes_, distinct
from all _those_ above-mentioned, which most frequently occasion
_ABORTION_: And _Those_ are _Two-fold_, _INTERNAL_ and _EXTERNAL_. Of
which the _Internal_ are as follow, in my Judgment.
I. THE _Passions_ of the Mind (mentioned in SECT. I. _Chap._ 5.) because
such immoderate _Affections_ too much excite the _Humours_, and incense
the _Spirits_.
II. VICTUALS; if taken _too much_ at a time, suffocate the _INFANT_; if
_too little_, it is _starved_, and the _MOTHER_ brought to a very low
Condition of Life; and if _improper_, or of ill _Concoction_, the
_CHILD_ is thereby either much _weaken’d_, or (which is worse) it dies
of course.
III. DRINKING immoderately, extinguisheth the _natural Calidity_ of the
WOMB and the _INFANT_; as certainly _strong_ or _hot Liquors_ impress a
vitious _Intemperature_ upon _Both_.
IV. WATCHINGS a-Nights, too much exhaust and dissipate the _Spirits_; as
too much SLEEP, on the other hand, dulls, lessens, and obtunds the
_natural Heat_.
V. ALL inward disorderly _Causes_ dissolving the _Uterine_ ACETABULA,
_Ligaments_, or _Vessels_, by which the _INFANT_ attracts its
_Nourishment_.
VI. ALL _Venenated_, _Cathartick_, and _Diaphoretick MEDICINES_,
_Acrimonious Clysters_, _Venæ-Sections_, _Baths_, &c: Which partly by
exagitating the _Spirits_ and _Humours_, and partly by diminishing the
_Aliment_, occasion frequent _ABORTIONS_. Again
THE _external Procatarctick Causes_ are These, which ensue in their due
Order.
I. ALL inclement _Constitutions_ or bad _Influences_ of the WEATHER,
WINDS,[98]and AIR; such as _Cold_, which pinches; or as _Heat_, which
intercepts the _Breath_, and stifles the _INFANT_, &c.
II. SMELLING or _Touching_, _Sitting_, or _Treading_ upon some Sorts of
pernicious HERBS.
III. ALL violent MOTIONS, immoderate _Exercises_, &c. such as _Running_,
_Leaping_, _Dancing_, _Riding_, or _Coaching_, _Lifting_, or _Carrying a
heavy Weight_, also _long Fasting_, _strait Lacing_, a _Fall_, a _Blow_
on the _Back_ or the _Belly_, &c. as I hinted before occasionally.
IV. ALL _frightful_ OBJECTS, and _sudden Surprizes_ by hasty NEWS, FIRE,
or such like terrifying Accidents.