BUT more particularly, the WOMB has sundry proper _Actions_ in this _Constitution_, which are peculiarly dependent of, and accordingly discharged by ITSELF only; and therefore it is not the sole or pure Instrumental _Agent_. But the Reason that I call it the _Secundary_ or _Disponent_, not the _Primary Cause_, in constituting the FOETUS, is, because the _Actions_ of the WOMB do not precisely terminate in this _Constitution_, but chiefly in disposing the _Causes_ constituting the MAN. And as (I think) there are _Eight_ such _Actions_ belonging to the WOMB, I shall undertake to define them all particularly in a few Words. And, I. THE _FIRST Action_ of the WOMB is, that by its _attractive Faculty_, it may allure the _Masculine Seed_ infus’d by Coition into the FUND of its _Capacity_, after the same manner as a _famishing Stomach_ snatches at the Victuals by the _Gullet_ from the _Mouth_ of the Eater. II. THE _SECOND_ is like unto the _FIRST_, and consists in _attracting_ (after the same manner) the _Muliebrian_ SEED from the Vessels of the TESTICLES, into the same _Cavity_. III. THE _THIRD Function_ of the WOMB, is the _Copulation_ and mutual _Conjunction_ of the SEEDS of both Parents; which it prepares and perfects by its innate _Power_, constricting itself in all Parts: And this _Action_, I do not (in this place) call a _Permistion_ of these SEEDS, as it is generally term’d, because a _Mixture_ is properly perform’d only by the concording _Qualities_ and mutual _Actions_ of two or more miscible _Copulatives_, without any _Assistance_ of the _Thing Containing_. IV. THE _FOURTH Office_ of the WOMB, is an _Effusion_ of the _Menstruous Blood_ upon the aggregated _Seed_, from a Relaxation of the little _Orifices_ of the VEINS terminating in its interiour _Surface_. V. THE _FIFTH Action_ of the WOMB, is, the _Retention_ of those three conjoin’d _Bodies_; to effect which _Work_, the WOMB contracts itself on all sides, and shuts up all its _Orifices_, even to the sensible Animadversion of the WOMAN. VI. THE _SIXTH Function_ of the WOMB, is to excite the Virtue of the _Torpent Lifeless_ SEED, and rouze it up from _Idleness_ to _Activity_; as the latent Virtue of PHYSICK in the Body is _excited_ to Operation by the _natural Heat_ of the VISCERA. VII. THE _SEVENTH Office_ of the WOMB, is (after the FOETUS is Form’d and Organiz’d) the _Attraction_ of the BLOOD from the _Maternal Veins_, into the _Umbilical Vessels_, for its _Nutrication_ and Growth. VIII. THE _EIGHTH_ and last _Function_ of the WOMB, is _Birth_, which I shall remember to speak more particularly of in its proper Place.