This _Symptom_ is called the palpitation or beating of the heart, or Arteries whereof _Maximillian_ the Emperour died, as _Crato_ reporteth, and wherewith _Charles_ the fift was oftentimes molested, as _Vesalius_ writeth. It is chiefly to bee perceyued where the Arteries are great & neare the skin: as vnder the left ribbes towards the backe, and in the necke: as you may obserue in Maides that haue the greene sicknesse, by the shaking and quiuering of their ruffes, if they sit close to their neckes: where sometimes through the dilatation of the Arterie there ariseth a [25]tumour as bigge as ones fist. This _Symptom_ is euerie where mentioned by our [26]Authours in this disease and our dayly experience confirmeth it. [25] _Aneurisms. Fernel. loco citato._ [26] _Petrus Salius pag. 429. Skinckius de cordis palpit. obs. 211, item 218, 222. Forestus lib. 17 obs. 8._ This motion of the heart and Arteries in this affect of the Mother is oftentimes diminished either in part or to sense totally. In part, where the pulse in this disease is weake, slow, obscure, intermittent, &c. and the whole bodie accordingly feeble and slow in euery action, for want of influence of vitall facultie from the heart. It is totally diminished in that _Symptom_ which is called _Syncope_ or swounding, the very image of death, where the pulse is [27]scarcely or not at all perceyued; the breath or respiration cleane gone: by reason that the heart wanting his motion, hath no neede of the helpe of the lungs to refresh it withall, all the faculties of the body fayling, it self lying like a dead corpse three or foure houres togither, and [28]sometimes two or three whole dayes without sense, motion, breath, heate, or any signe of life at all (like as wee see Snakes and other creatures to lie all the winter, as if they were dead, vnder the earth) insomuch as diuerse [29]errors haue beene committed in laying foorth such for dead, which haue afterwards beene found to haue life in them, and haue risen vp in their burials, whereupon there haue beene lawes enacted, as [30]_Mercurialis_ reporteth, that no woman which was subiect to this disease should be buried vntil she had beene three dayes dead. Or as [31]_Alexander Benedictus_ of _Bolonia_ sayth 72. houres, which commeth to the same reckoning. [32]_Petrus Bayrus_ setteth downe diuerse reasons why they should not be buried before three dayes bee ended, besides the experience of some (as hee saith) that haue beene found aliue in their graues after they had beene buried. I will refer the reader for the reasons to the author himself, and to [33]_Forrestus_ in his obseruations. [34]_Plinie_ maketh mention out of _Heraclides_, of a woman who for seuen dayes together lay for dead in a fit of the mother, and was restored againe to life: which (saieth [35]_Marcellus Donatus_) is not to be thought a fabulous tale, seeing it is not repugnant to the rules of Philosophie and Phisicke.