The other kinde of communitie is that which they call _Communitas absoluta_, wherein the part consenting receiueth nothing from the other, but yet is partaker of his griefe: either for _similitude_ of substance or function, which causeth mutuall compassion: as all neruous partes haue with the braine: whereby if any Nerue or neruous part bee hurt or pricked, the braine suffreth a convulsion, or _for neighbourhood_ and vicinitie, whereby one part may offend another, by compression or incumbencie: as in the prolapse of the Mother, the bladder or fundament is oftentimes offended in their naturall excretion. And in this disease which we haue in hand by the locall motion of it vpwardes, the midriffe is straightned of his scope, whereby the lunges doe faile in their dutie, or by _reason of connexion or continuitie_ which it hath with other parts, by Vaines, Nerues, Arteries, Membranes, Ligaments, &c. whereby the offence is easily imparted vnto other partes. Or lastly by priuation of some _facultie or matter_, whereof the part hath neede. As in the obstruction of the _Spina Dorsi_ there followeth a resolution or palsie of the legges or armes, by reason that the animall facultie that should giue sence or motion to the part is intercepted and hindered in his passage. Likewise in a resolution of the Muscles of the brest, as in a wound of that part, or in swounding the voice is taken away, because the matter of it which is breath, is either not sufficiently made, or is carried another way, or not competently impelled to the organs of voyce. All these manner of wayes hath the Matrix by consent to impart her offence vnto other parts. For there wãteth no corruption of humor, vapour, nor euill qualitie, where this part is ill affected, to infect other partes withall, there wantes no oportunitie of conueyance or passage vnto any part, by reason of the large Vaynes, Arteries, and Nerves, which are deriued vnto it, with which it hath great affinitie and similitude of substance, besides the connexion it hath with the heart, liuer, braine, and backe. It is linked also in neighborhoode with diuerse partes of great vse, as the bladder, guttes, midriffe, &c. which are likely to bee warmed when this part doth burne. _According to the varietie of causes and diseases wherewith the wombe is offended_, these _Symptoms_ doe differ in nature, or in degree. [23]A plentifull matter produceth a vehement _Symptom_: a corrupt matter according to the degree of corruption, and the qualitie of the humor corrupted, causeth like accidents. The diseases also of the Mother being cõplicated with the former corrupt humors do yeeld varietie of _Symptoms_: as the rising of the Mother, which alwayes causeth shortnes of breath: [24]Empostumes of the Mother according to the place where they are bred, and the quality of them, doe also bring a difference in _Symptoms_. And thus much for explanation of the definition. [23] _Mercatus pag. 165._