Part 11

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.

V. ALL _astonishing_ and terrible affecting _NOISES_; such as sudden Claps of _Thunder_, _Cannons_, _Guns_ &c.

VI. ALL nauseous STINKS, on the one hand, and odoriferous SMELLS, _&c._ on the other, being _both_ disagreeable and dangerous.

THOSE, and many other _trifling Matters_, such as the SMELL of an _extinguished Light_, or _Candle_, are known (too often) to be the _Reason_ and _Cause_ of _ABORTION_: which made (that great _Naturalist_) _Pliny_[99] justly take occasion to deplore the FRAILTY of Man.

“HE bewails and is asham’d (as he expresseth it) to think how _frivolous_ the _ORIGIN_ of the _proudest of Creatures_ is; such a mere TRIFLE (as is mentioned) being frequently the _Cause_ of his _FATALITY_. And the _Philosopher_ most pertinently adds, that _He_ who now glories in so many _VANITIES_, trusting in the _Strength_ of his _Body_, vaunting in the _Riches_ of his _Possessions_, and upon every _Smile of Fortune_, believes himself to be a GOD, _&c._ little considers how many ways he might have _miscarried_ in coming into the World, or how many ways he may yet, even to-day, go out of it, and come to his _last GASP_, as _Anacreon_, the wanton _Lyrick Poet_, did, who was suddenly choak’d with the STONE _of a Grape_; or as _Fabius_ (that noble _Dictator_ of ROME) dy’d, who was immediately strangl’d by a _HAIR_ in a _Draught of Milk_.”

I say, _He_ little considers, how many _Trials_ and _Hardships_ he was expos’d to, before he had BEING: or, how many ways he might have been _stifled_ before he had BREATH, and have been _dead_ even before he was BORN.

WHICH Consideration leads me to the Thought of _another Cause_ of _ABORTION_, mentioned by the holy Prophet[100]_Hosea_, where he says: “_Because they have deeply corrupted themselves, and separated themselves unto that Shame at_ Baalpeor, (i. e. defiled themselves at the _Statues_ of PRIAPUS) _their Glory shall fly away like a Bird, from the_ Womb, _from the_ Conception, _and from the_ Birth; _dry Breasts, and a miscarrying_ Womb _shall be given them_, &c.”

AND having thus far briefly defin’d and descanted upon _ABORTION_, and the _Nature_ of its _Efficients_, I come now, in the next place, to shew by what _DIAGNOSTICK SIGNS_, every _Woman_ may infallibly know an approaching or instant _MISCARRIAGE_, either in _herself_ or _another_: As also to set forth, by what _PROGNOSTICK SIGNS_, she may know the _Danger_ she is threatned with upon that Occasion.

WHICH Undertaking, I hope, may prove _conducive_ to the Welfare of that tender SEX; it being too common for _Women_ to neglect the _proper Means_, through a supine _Ignorance_ of the _Nature_, and _Danger_ of their _CONDITION_. But This, however, is generally owing to indiscreet OLD WOMEN about them; (as I have often observ’d, and oft’ner had Occasion to hear) who either keep the _PATIENT_ in _Suspence_, wheedling and telling her idle Stories, that the CASE is not so _dangerous_, the _Pains_, _Floodings_, &c. will go off in good Time, and the like: Or afterwards (upon appearance of more severe growing SYMPTOMS) they extenuate the _Danger_, telling her to submit with _Patience_, the common MISFORTUNE cannot possibly be prevented, _&c._

TO which usual _Suggestions_, I answer; that as the _one_ is an ignorant and imprudent _Insinuation_, the _other_ is a downright _Falsity_: For in the _first CASE_, the _Woman_ is diverted by foolish _Hopes_ from applying for proper ADVICE, until perhaps it is past all REMEDY; and in the _second_, she is misled very often to her utter _RUIN_: Since whatever hath not yet _happen’d_, may peradventure be happily _prevented_; and even upon the _last Extremity_ of the most _violent Occasion_, the _Severity_ of the CASE may possibly be averted by good Management, and the _Danger_ entirely compounded for by proper Conduct.

WHEREFORE, I cannot but think, it is worth any _Woman_’s while to know the MARKS of an _approaching_ and _instant ABORTION_: Whereof the _DIAGNOSTICKS_ are as follow, _viz._

I. A sudden EXTENUATION and _Falling_ of the BREASTS[101]; sometimes only of _One_, but more commonly of _Both_: That of _One_ denoting the _Woman_ to bear TWINS, of which she is about to lose _One_; and which, if the _right_ BREAST falls, is a MALE; but if the _left_, a FEMALE.

II. A WATERY MILK flows[102] in Abundance from those _FALLEN BREASTS_, discovering the future Danger.

III. PALPITATIONS of the _Heart_, frequently accompany’d with a _Coarctation_ of the _Sides_ and _Upper Belly_, very much incommoding the PATIENT.

IV. A _GRAVITY_ or _Heaviness_ of the _Loins_, and _Thighs_; _Gnawing_ of the _Stomach_, _Pains_ of the _Head_ and _Eyes_.

V. A _TREMOR_, or _Trembling_ and _Quaking FITS_, attended with a _Frigidity_ of the exteriour _Limbs_.

VI. A _Rigor_ and Stiffness, or a _Vibration_ and Concussion of the _SKIN_ and _MUSCLES_ of the whole Body, with a concomitant _Chilness_.

VII. HORROUR, _Fevers_, _Faintings_, _Swoonings_, and sometimes _Convulsions_, _Cramps_, &c. all foreboding the coming _Malady_. These are the usual and principal Marks of an _approaching ABORTION_: Which when _Instant_, and the _Time_ at Hand, then the

VIII^{th} _DIAGNOSTICK_ plainly appears; which is a _corrupt WATER_ flowing _first_, next a _bloody WATER_, then _pure_ BLOOD, after that small _Clods_ of BLOOD, and at length, the INFANT itself (_form’d_ or _inform’d_) follows of Course.

HENCE I proceed to the usual _Prognosticks_ of _ABORTION_; which take as follow in their proper Order, _viz._

I. ALL _Women_ are more endanger’d in a MISCARRIAGE, than in a _Natural Birth_: because THAT happening at a _preternatural Time_, is of greater _Violence_ than THIS. For like as _ripe Fruit_, whose _Stalk_ is so loose in its Season from the _Tree_, that the _Fruit_ falls of its own Accord: So it is in a _Natural Birth_, for the _Vessels_ and _Ligaments_, by which the INFANT adheres to the WOMB, easily loose and break spontaneously; which in an Abortion, must needs happen by a more dangerous painful _Force_ and _Violence_.

II. THO’ _Women_ (in this _Case_) may frequently escape with their _Lives_, yet their _Natural Constitution_ is thereby too often broke at least, and debilitated, or thereupon subjected to one or other heavy _SYMPTOM_ or _DISEASE_; if not also rendred quite _BARREN_.

FOR sometimes, because of the _Pains_, _Flux_, or _Putrefaction_ of the retain’d BLOOD, _Fevers_, and other _Distempers_ generally ensue: Sometimes by the violent _Disruption_ of the _Vessels_, great _Floodings_ and Loss of BLOOD happen; upon which _Faintings_, _Swoonings_, _Convulsions_, and at length DEATH it self follows: But, in fine, _Convulsions_ happening[103] either _at the Time_, or _after ABORTION_, the _Case_ is most _dangerous_; for then the PATIENT seldom escapes.

III. THE _first MISCARRIAGE_ is most _dangerous_ to all; because the _Genital Parts_ are more streight or constricted, and less acquainted with such severe distending _Pains_: And besides the ORIFICES of the _Vessels_ being so violently dilacerated, the _Party_ often continues afterwards _Sterile_ or _Barren_ the rest of her Life[104].

IV. LEAN and _tender Women_ are much endanger’d in _ABORTION_, by Reason of their _Debility_ and _Infirmity_: As Women too fat are, on the other Hand; because of the great _Astriction_ and _Narrowness_ of the PASSAGES.

V. THE _younger_ the ABORTIVE _Production_ happens to be, the less the _Woman_ is endanger’d; because the _larger_ the INFANT is, it gives the greater _Pains_ and _Ruption_ of the _Vessels_.

VI. WHATEVER happens in the 7th or 9th _Month_, may be reckon’d a _safe BIRTH_, provided the _Child_ be ALIVE: Whereas if DEAD, it is extremely dangerous. But above _All_, the _Eighth_ MONTH is to be most _dreaded_, not only because of the _Largeness_ of the _INFANT_, but also because of the _pernicious Quality_ of _that_ MONTH; as will hereafter more amply appear in Chap. 34.

WHICH Consideration leads me farther to observe; That, from the Beginning of the _5th_, until the Middle of the _6th_ _Month_, the _INFANT_ is least liable to _Danger_[105]: So next in the _4th_, and from the Middle of the _6th_, until the Close of the 7_th Month_: Then of course it is _safer_ in the _3d_ and _2d_ _Months_, than in the _1st_ or _9th_. For the least _Cause_ may expell the EMBRYO in the _First_, and break the _Mature Ligaments_ of the _INFANT_ in the _Ninth_. But of all the whole Time, as I said before, the _8th_ _Month_ is the _most_[106] _dangerous_, both to _MOTHER_ and _INFANT_: according to which Consideration and Order of TIME, the prudent _Physician_ may, with more or less either _Fear_ on the _one hand_, or _Assurance_ on the _other_, exhibit or prescribe proper _REMEDIES_ for the _Preservation_ or _Recovery_ of his PATIENTS.

FROM whence I come in the next place to offer my serious _Sentiments_ upon the CURE of this _Malady_, and the _Prevention_ of _ABORTION_: Which difficult _Work_ depends chiefly upon the _Preservation_ of both _MOTHER_ and _INFANT_; for when the MISCARRIAGE is once over, the CURE then does not much differ from the _Case_ of a _natural BIRTH_.

HOWEVER in all _Cases_ of this nature, it is an infallible _Maxim_, that it is more easy to prevent MISCARRIAGE, than to relieve or rectify the _Miscarrying Woman_; and more proper to begin that _Prevention_ BEFORE, than AFTER _Conception_: Because the most proper _Remedies_ for obviating many _Causes_ of _ABORTION_, cannot so well be adhibited to the _Woman_ after she is PREGNANT. And besides, as _those Causes_ are very _Different_ and various (as more fully appears from what has been said); so the Manner and Method of _Prevention_ cannot be altogether exactly _Uniform_; every _Cause_ requiring its respective CURE, before a _Prevention_ can be effected.

WHEREFORE, in my humble Opinion, the _first Step_ towards this _Prevention_ is to weigh well and consider carefully the _CONSTITUTION_ of the yet _unimpregnated Woman_; in order to know and discover the _Cause_ or _Causes_ either of BODY, or WOMB, which may or can occasion any future _ABORTION_. Now in this CASE, _Women_ having once _miscarry’d_, or oftner, methinks they may easily find out the CAUSE _Themselves_, by the Help of their _Midwives_; which being done, they should endeavour to have it remov’d, and effectually _cur’d_, before they _conceive_ any more. However, if it chance to be neglected at that time, it may be more prudently undertaken afterwards, with such _Precaution_, as the _Nature_ of the _CAUSE_ and _CONSTITUTION_ of the _Woman_ require: Always remembring, but especially _before_ or _about_ the usual _Time_ of _ABORTION_, to make use of proper _Corroboratives_ for strengthening both the _INFANT_ and _WOMB_; since _Women_, _miscarrying_ from any one internal _Cause_, commonly bear their _Conceptions_ to a certain TIME, which they cannot exceed, unless that _Cause_ be judiciously removed beforehand.

I ONCE had an accidental Opportunity of being fully satisfied of the Veracity of this CASE, in a _Woman_ of good Note in the City of _Dresden_; who _miscarried fourteen Times_ in less than _eight Years_; being never able to _go_ beyond the _tenth Day_ of the _fourth Month_, and commonly losing the FOETUS about the _last_ of the _Third_.

AT my Arrival in that _Place_, I found my _Credit_, for my necessary _Supplies_, upon a certain MERCHANT; who (with great Concern) gave me this melancholick Account of his SPOUSE, desiring my good _Offices_, if possibly any Means could be of Service. Upon which, I first made it my Business to discover, _that internal Cause_, wherein _she_, and her ordinary _Midwives_, had been so often mistaken; this being done, I happily performed the CURE, tho’ (as a _Traveller_) I had not the Satisfaction of staying there to see the _Consequence_. But, however, by my last Advices from the grateful _Husband_, I find _she_ is now MOTHER of two pretty _Boys_ and a fine _Girl_.

THE _Cause_ of ABORTION then being duly and discreetly _first_ discovered, if it proceeds from any _Intemperature_ either of the BODY or the WOMB; the _same_ may be prevented chiefly by introducing the _contrary Temperament_, according to _Hippocrates_’s[107] Judgment, that _Contraries are the_ REMEDIES _of Contraries_.

IF it proceeds from too much FATNESS, her _Body_ is to be reduced; if it comes from too much LEANNESS, a convenient _Diet_ and good _Regimen_, &c. will help to restore her.