I. THE _Retention_ or _Suppression_ of the MENSTRUA; when not occasion’d by some other _Indisposition_. II. SUDDEN _Weakness_, _Feebleness_, and _Imbecility_ of the Body and Limbs. III. LAZINESS, _Weariness_, and _Sleepiness_, with a _Heaviness_ of the whole Body; but especially of the _Reins_ and the _Thighs_. IV. A sort of little SPOTS, or hard WARTS, arising in the _Face_ and _Forehead_. V. A small _Pain_ about the NAVEL, and _Commotions_ in the _lower_ BELLY. VI. COLD Shivering, and trembling _Fits_; wandring _Pains_, and _Head-Aches_. VII. LOSS of wonted _Colour_, sunk _Eyes_, discolour’d _Eye-Balls_: A sparkling _Dimness_, and _Glimmering_ of the EYES; the _Ball_ growing less, and the _White_ larger. VIII. A _Protuberancy_ or Swelling of the VEINS, and BREASTS; their growing _Hard_, and giving _Pain_: As the NIPPLES become firm, large, and dark-colour’d, with a _livid Circle_ around them. THESE and many other _Signs_ often occur upon _CONCEPTION_; but except a _Plurality_ of them meet in _one Person_, they are not absolutely to be rely’d on: It being a _Vulgar Error_ among _Women_, to calculate precisely from the Time of _missing_ their MONTHS; for as _These_ are often suppress’d, without any such manifest _Cause_; so I have known some _Plethorick_ Persons, who have had them several repeated times after Conception. YEA, I was once given to understand by a LADY of Distinction, in the City of _Berlin_, that she never had _Them_, till she first _conceiv’d_ in the 19th Year of her Age; and then they came in _regular Course_, without any _Detriment_, during the whole FOETURA, or time of _Gestation_: After which, she had _Them_ no more, till she _conceiv’d_ again, when _They_ return’d, and continued as formerly; and thus it constantly happen’d to her, till she had done _Child-bearing_. THERE are _other_ more certain _Signs_ of _CONCEPTION_; touching which, let it suffice, that the _Physician_ knows them, from the _Relation_ of the PATIENT: And to these may be added the _Symptoms_ of the _MONTHS_. BUT notwithstanding all the positive _Diagnosticks_, which most Men have been, hitherto, guided by; I have met with so many _Fallibilities_ in this Point, that I shou’d readily have come into the Opinion of[55] _Paulus Sacchias_, and deny’d the _Certainty_ of _PREGNANCY_, even at an _advanc’d Time_, had I not been better instructed by Those most excellent _Physicians_ and MEN-MIDWIVES, Sig. _Garofanzzo_ of _Padua_, and _Pfizerus_ of _Wittenberg_; who agree in certain _infallible Signs_, which put an end to all my _Doubts_, as well as to the grand _Controversy_, touching _CONCEPTION_. AS to those common _Signs_, which discover the _CONCEPTION_ of a _Boy_ from a _Girl_, or _Vice Versa_; finding _them_ tend only to _Curiosity_, and to no real _Advantage_, I cannot think it worth while to allow them any Place _Here_. [Illustration] CHAP. III. _Of the DIET and REGIMEN of the Pregnant Woman._