HOWEVER in regard to the FOETUS, when we are certain of its _Existence_; tho’ in the WOMB, with _one_ or _more_ MOLES, it may perhaps be very safe; Therefore I again observe, that, in this _Case_, as long as the _Woman_ is no ways endangered, the _Exclusion_ of BOTH ought to be _Natural_, and accordingly the _appointed Time_ waited for: When according to all _Authors_, the MOLE comes sometimes before, sometimes with, sometimes immediately after, and sometimes a few Days, or perhaps Weeks, after the FOETUS. But such MIDWIVES as follow my _Method_, already plainly laid down[204], will scarce trust their WOMAN with the Charge of a MOLE, one moment after the _Birth_ of the INFANT and _Secundine_: Because by such means, yea, even by a small _Clod_ of BLOOD, which is a far less matter, retain’d after the BIRTH, _Millions_ of Women have lost their pretious _Lives_. IN the mean time, as MOLES are most commonly generated _alone_, without any FOETUS; I come now to indicate their peculiar _Diagnosticks_, which the _Reader_ may take as follows, _viz._ FIRST, the _Woman_’s BELLY swells equally in all its _Dimensions_; whereas in _Case_ of a _Natural_ CONCEPTION, it is raised, and as it were acuminated or pointed towards the NAVEL, and a little compressed on _both sides_. SECONDLY, The _Orifice_ of the WOMB never shuts in _this_, as it does in the _Natural_, CONCEPTION: And the MOLE may be distinctly felt by the _Touch_, like a _Globular Mass_, in the _Region_ of the WOMB and LOINS. THIRDLY, Any _expert Woman_ may also distinguish this _Case_, by its _Motion_; which is very different from that of a FOETUS, as also from that occasion’d by a _false_ CONCEPTION as above described: The FOETUS having not only a _total_, but also a _Partial Motion_; which always differs according to the _Part_ or _Member_ moved; and is consequently _first_ perceived about the _fourth Month_: Whereas the MOLE has no distinct _Motion_; only, as the _Woman_ turns to either _Side_, she may feel it (like a STONE) falling to the same _Side_; and in her walking, she may easily perceive its _suppressing dead_ WEIGHT. FOURTHLY, Her _Breasts_ swell, but give seldom any manner of MILK, and about the 4th and 5th _Months_, when she, who has a _Natural Conception_, is commonly best in _Health_; then the _MOLE-BEARER_ falls worse; Her _Limbs_ and _Legs_ extenuate; her _Face_ and _Skin_ are all over discoloured, as the whole _Body_ languishes; PAINS of the _Back_ and _Groins_ follow of Course, together with a Difficulty of _Respiration_; as sometimes also, _Wind_ and _Humours_ break out of the WOMB.