THE sole Reason I add this _Chapter_, is, because our common _MIDWIVES_ are so often mistaken, and do so frequently err in this _Point_, having no thorough-pac’d _Knowledge_ of either sort of these _PAINS_: For when she comes to a Woman, taken ill with severe _PAINS_ in the _Belly_ or _Loins_, being ignorant of the accurate Nicety of the TOUCH, she presently concludes _These_ to be the true _labouring PAINS_, because they indeed often resemble them very much; and she farther finding perhaps the _ORIFICE_ a little _relax’d_ and _open_, expects it to enlarge to her Satisfaction. Which, however, not answering her Hopes, nor the _PAINS_ encreasing; she endeavours by _stimulating Medicines_ and other sinistrous _Means_, conformable to the perverse _Rules_ of her PRACTICE, to raise and provoke _Them_: So that this, in short, is the _Cause_, not only of many an _untimely BIRTH_, but also too commonly of many an _untimely DEATH_. NOW the _Wind-Cholick_, either in the Lower or Upper Part of the _Belly_, occasions frequent racking _PAINS_, as do also the HUMOURS by Virtue of their _Acidity_, corroding the _Intestines_; and these _Mordacious PAINS_ are generally attended with a subsequent _Looseness_. In which _Cases_, I always use proper _mitigating_ and _repelling_ MEANS, (such as a _Carminative_ and _Emollient Clyster_, &c: upon extreme Occasions); which proper _Means_ infallibly answer my Ends in either Condition. For if the _PAINS_ that afflict the Woman are _Spurious_, They are thereby suddenly _laid_ and repressed; and if _Genuine_, These very self-same _Means_ most effectually promote and advance _them_ to _BIRTH_. BUT again, _some Women_ are taken with a mix’d Complication of _Genuine_ and _Spurious_, or _Real_ and _False PAINS_, that are properly called _Tergiversant_; which one Moment seem to _depress_ the _BIRTH_, and _encourage_ the Woman to LABOUR; and the next convert themselves into scatter’d CRAMPS, and other contracting _PAINS_: And these dispersed _Bastard-Pains_ are always more pernicious to the Woman, than the most severe _natural_ LABOUR-PAINS: _This Case_ is also easily distinguished by the TOUCH; which done, the _false wandring Pains_ are first to be assuag’d or carry’d off, before the _BIRTH_ can well succeed. NOW, as to the real _Natural_ and _Genuine Pains_, They are, (methinks) in short, easily to be judged of by the _Manner_ in which they always seize the _Woman_; viz.