THIS is the Case of the whole Dutchy of upper _Styria_, where all the _Natives_ have a huge _Excrescence_ of FLESH, which grows up with the _Body_ (however visibly increasing and decreasing with the MOON) generally lying upon the Left side from the _Jaw-bone_, and hanging downwards: So that the _Women_ giving SUCK of that _Breast_, commonly cast this _carnous Excrescence_ (which they call CRAPE) over their Shoulders. This is so _Natural_ to them, and remarkable, that in a Journey once from _Venice_ to _Vienna_, passing thro’ the chief Town of that Country, call’d _Judenburg_, I had the Curiosity to go off the _Post-Waggon_, into the _Church_, with five other Gentlemen, Fellow-Passengers, to be better satisfy’d of the Truth of it. The _People_ were at MASS, but the sight of us soon confounded, or at least disturb’d their _Devotion_; for in a Moment, the Eyes of the whole _Congregation_ were staring upon us, wondering to see so many _deform’d Men_ (as they call’d us) in that Place at one Time. AND the same is the only Reason, that most _Children_ in _Spain_ and _Portugal_, are born with some SYMPTOMS of the _Venereal Disease_; which, however, is without any infectious _Malignity_, and so _Natural_ to them, that they seldom apply to the _Doctor_ for CURE, until the Case becomes more dangerous or desperate by the _Party’s_ own Means: which generally happens to them in a very few Years, being exceedingly _Salacious_ from their INFANCY, because of the stimulating _Acrimony_ of the _putrid Humours_ of the Body, which they only strive to mitigate, or allay, by _continual_ WHORING. FROM what’s already said, we see that the _Efficacy_ of the _Father’s_ SEED is very considerable; insomuch, that indeed many calamitous _Misfortunes_ may derive from it, to his _Posterity_: But it is, however, to be strictly observ’d, that what _Disorder_ soever of a vitious Nature derives itself this way from the _Mother_, hath yet the greater _Malignity_, and more powerful _Effect_ upon her _CHILDREN_[51]; the _Habits_ of her Body, Good or Bad, her _Virtues_ or _Vices_, taking still a deeper _Root_, or firmer _Footing_ in the Constitution of the FOETUS. Which _Distinction_, in short, must needs be a most plain _Case_, considering that the _Maternal Blood_ is its chief ALIMENT, and the very _secundary ORIGIN_ of its _Procreation_. AND this, in fine, is the only _natural Reason_ to be given, why many _Things_, no ways commendable in either SEX, are the less excusable in the WOMAN. [Illustration] [Illustration] SECT. III. [Illustration] CHAP. I. _Of CONCEPTION._