I call it an _affect_ in a large signification to comprehend both _morbum_ and _Symptoma_. For sometimes it is either of them, and somtimes both. For in regard the actions of expulsion or retention in the _Mother_ are hurt. It may be called a _Symptoma in actione læsa_: in regard of the humor to be expelled which corrupteth and putrifieth to a venemous malignitie. It is likewise a _Symptom in excremento vteri mutato_. And in regard of the perfrigeration of the Mother, and so of the whole bodie. It is also a _Symptom_[11] _in qualitate tangibili mutata_, not _morbus ex intẽperie_:[12] because it is suddenly inflicted & suddenly remoued. But in regard of the rising of the Mother wherby it is somtimes drawn vpwards or sidewards aboue his natural seate, compressing the neighbour parts, & so consequently one another. It may be said to be _morbus in situ_, in respect of the compression it selfe, causing suffocatiõ and difficultie of breathing. It may be[13] _causa morbi in forma_ by causing _coarctation_ of the instruments of breathing. And sometimes these are complicated and[14] together with a venemous vapour, arising from this corrupt humor vnto diuers parts of the bodie, there will be an euill position of the matrix also: either because the ligaments, vaines and arteries beeing obstructed:[15] by those vapours are shortened of their wonted length, and so draw vp the part higher then it should be, or[16] for that the matrix being grieuously anoyed with the malignity of those vapours doth contract it selfe and rise vp by a locall motion towards the midrif. [11] _Albert. Bottonus cap. 39._ [12] _Gal. locorum affectorum 3. cap. 7._ _Petrus Salius pag. 467._ _Altomarus cap. 110._ _Horatius Angenius Epist. 6_ [13] _Gal. de causis morb. cap. 7_ [14] _Altomarus citato. Rondelesius methodo curand. morb. cap. 69. matheus de grad. in 9 Rhasis. cap. 28_ [15] _Mercatus lib 2. cap 3._ [16] _Matheus de grad. in 9. Rhasis cap. 28. Hor. Angenius sibi offensum fugiens vt et iucundum insequens._ [Sidenote: _Galen. 6. loc. affert. cap. 5. Auicen. Fen. 21 3. cap. 16. tract 4. initium est ex matrice et peruenit ad communitatẽ fortem cordis et cerebri &c. Horatius Angenius Epistola 6._] [Sidenote: _Petrus solius diuersus pag. 400_] [Sidenote: _Mercat. pa. 170_] [Sidenote: _Merca. pa. 174_]