Many more such like examples might bee produced both out of authenticall writers in our profession and out of our own experiences, which yet do liue (were it not that late examples would bee offensiue to rehearse:) but these may suffice to show how easily men vnexperienced in those extraordinarie kinds of diseases, may mistake the causes of them: when through admiration of the vnwonted and grieuous accidents they behold, they are caried vnto Magicall and Metaphysicall speculations. But the learned Phisition who hath first beene trained vp in the study of Philosophy, and afterwards confirmed by the practise and experience of all manner of naturall diseases, is best able to discerne what is naturall, what not naturall, what preternaturall, and what supernaturall, the three first being properly subiect to his profession: and therefore they doe wrong vnto the faculty of Phisicke, and vnto them selues, and oftentimes vnto others, who neglecting that light which wee might yeeld them, doe runne headlong and blindefold into many errors and absurdities. For preuention whereof I haue breefly set downe what the doctrine of Phisitions is concerning this disease of the Mother, which of all other is most subiect vnto misconstruction. For that as _Forrestus_ saieth it is a harde matter to discerne in what maner the Mother may occasion such strange and manifold accidents. Cap. 2. _What this disease is, and by what means it causeth such varietie of Symptoms._ [Sidenote: _Cardamus de causis sig. 13 locis morborum cap. 114._ _Altomarus cap. 110. Guaynerius cap. de suffo: matricis._] [Sidenote: _Æesius tetr: 4 Serm. 4. cap. 68 P. Ægineta lib. 3. cap. 71. Victor Trincavel. lib: 5. sect. 3 cap. 9._] This disease is called by diuerse names amongst our Authors. _Passio Hysterica_, _Suffocatio_, _Præfocatio_, and _Strangulatus vteri_, _Caducus matricis_, _&c._ In English the Mother, or the Suffocation of the Mother, because most commonly it takes them with choaking in the throat: and it is _an affect of the Mother or wombe wherein the principal parts of the bodie by consent do suffer diuersly according to the diuersitie of the causes and diseases wherewith the matrix is offended._