BUT _Sleep_ is not to be too much indulged, especially not in the _Mornings_; altho’ _she_ be _Then_ more propense to it, by reason of the abundance of _VAPOURS_ ascending to the _Brain_. LASTLY, to perfect and confirm this _CURE_, I would recommend[33] _Hippocrates_’s sound Advice to the _Patient_; which is to the following _Purpose_, of _marrying_ betimes for the sake of _Health_, and to prevent all the future ill Consequences of this growing _Malady_. “EGO, _inquit, Autor sum, ut Virgines hoc malo affectæ quàm celerrimè viris conjungantur; iisq; cohabitent: Si enim conceperint, convalescent. Si verò in pubertate hoc malo non corripiantur, tum paulo post eas invadit._” UPON which excellent _Sentence_, the two following _Observations_ may, (I hope) appositely here follow and take place, _viz._ I. _Quod etiam Ratione & Experientiâ confirmatur[34]: Venere etenim Uterus & partes circa Uterum incalescunt, viæq; aperiuntur & laxantur, ut sanguis Menstruus postea faciliùs ad Uterum confluere & per eundem effluere possit._ II. _Rectissimè etiam dictum, convalescent, si concipiant; quia Sanguis, qui præter Naturam antea retinebatur, jam in Fœtûs Formationem absumitur; & si quid vitiosorum humorum in Utero cumulatum sit, id post partum evacuatur._ I have thought it proper to insist the _more_ upon this HEAD; because I know _none_ else among all the _Indispositions_ of Life, which can properly be accounted _peculiar_ to VIRGINS. SOME however may think perhaps, that I had a fair Opportunity in this _Place_, to introduce the various _Diseases_ and _Symptoms_ of the _WOMB_, _VAGINA_, and _PUDENDUM_; the divers _Symptoms_ of the MENSTRUOUS FLUX, together with _Those_ which are incident to all _Women_ after PUBERTY. WHICH _Objection_ I humbly beg leave briefly to answer, that a _twofold Reason_ dissuaded me from undertaking to treat of _Those Heads_ in this Place. I. BECAUSE _They_ are _common_ to all WOMEN in general, and incident to the _Wife_, or _Widow_, as well as to the _Virgin_; wherefore, I hope, another _Place_ in this _BOOK_ may be assigned to _Them_, more proper and convenient than _This_, without any _Digression_. II. BY reason the several _Branches_ of these HEADS are so very many and different, that to discuss ’em all _Here_, as I ought to do, would too much swell the _Bulk_ of the _Volume_, and enhance the _Price_ of this _BOOK_; which I design for the Good of the _poorer_ Sort of _Women_, as well as the Benefit of the _Rich_. However, what is most _Essential_ and necessarily _Requisite_, shall not be omitted (at least _coincidently_) in its _proper Place_. Wherefore I shall leave the VIRGIN, after a digressive Hint in the following _Section_, upon her darling _Passion_, [_LOVE_]: and supposing her to have _alter’d_ her _Condition_, I shall thenceforward treat her as a WIFE. [Illustration] CHAP. IV. _Of LOVE._