The third kinde of this disease is, where the naturall facultie doth principally suffer. This facultie is of great necessitie for the maintenaunce of mankinde and according to the diuerse vses thereof is distinguished. For seeing that nature bringes vs not forth into the world perfect men, in that ripenesse and integritie, of all humaine actions which afterwards we attaine vnto, when wee come to full growth, it was meete to be prouided of such a facultie in our bodies as might encrease our stature, & strengthen the instruments of the whole body, for the better perfection of the actions thereof. And this is called _facultas auctrix_. Seeing also that wee are made of a fluxible moulde which wasteth and spendeth it selfe many wayes, whereby it standeth in neede of continuall refection and replie: Therefore it was meete to be furnished with such a facultie as might repaire the decay and expence of our substance, by yeelding continually apt matter for the nourishment of the bodie. And that is called _facultas altrix_. And thirdly seeing, notwithstanding our bodies are continually nourished with the best food, yet they must once die as well as other inferiour creatures doe: therefore God hath indued vs as well as other creatures with the facultie of generation: whereby wee may bee able to make our kind to continue as long as the world shall endure. [Sidenote: _Gal. de tremor. palp. tis. &c. cap. 2. sensibus non exposita._] These three naturall faculties haue diuerse others attending vpon them, as the faculties of _Attraction_, _Retention_, _Concoction_, _Expulsion_, _Alteration_, _Formation_, _&c._ Which I will for breuitie sake ouerpasse with their bare mention, because the _Symptoms_ of these faculties are not so euident to the beholders eye, nor so straunge as those of the vitall and animall faculties are, yet that these are also hurt in the suffocation of the Mother, appeareth both by dayly obseruation, and by the authorities of all both auncient and late physitions who haue written of this disease. [Sidenote: Some of these are _Symptomata in qualitate mutata_, or _in excremento vitiato_: but because they are in the naturall parts, and arising from errors of that facultie, I haue inserted them here.] And to this place may we referre those accidents often mentioned in this disease. [48]_Gnawing in the stomacke_, and paines in diuerse partes of the bodie, breaking of wind, vomiting, purging by siege, vrin, or other excretion, loathing of meate, thirst, extraordinarie hunger, swelling in the throat, swelling in the body, in the feet, obstructions in the vaines, cõsumptions, tumors, feuers, priuation of voice, palenesse of colour, rumbling and noise in the belly or [49]throat, like vnto frogs, snakes, or other creatures, or as if they would speake as _Hippocrates_ reporteth of _Polymarchus_ wife.