THESE _tender Women_ are also sometimes seiz’d with _Chronical Distempers_; such as _intermitting Fevers_, _lingring Coughs_, &c: But, in those _Cases_, PRESCRIPTIONS are not so Proper or Convenient, unless the _Distemper_ be very severe and extremely prejudicial to the FOETUS, because they commonly wear off before the DELIVERY. HOWEVER, be the _Constitution_, or Condition, of the _Woman_ as it will, I mean, _Strong_ or _Weak_, _Healthy_ or _Sickly_, all prudent PARENTS, who desire to be bless’d with comely, tractable, and hopeful _Children_, ought not only to perform their _Nuptial Duties_ with great _Serenity of Mind_, but also to take mutual _Care_ to prevent and suppress all _Family-Tumults_ or _Domestick Storms_: For there never ought so much as a _Cloud_ to appear in their _Conjugal Society_; since all such unhappy _Accidents_ strongly affect the growing INFANT, and intail the same _Qualities_ of DISPOSITION almost indelibly imprinted upon it. [Illustration] CHAP. IV. _Of the SYMPTOMS of the first three Months._ THE _Prolifick Seed_ being duly coagulated by a gentle _Ebullition_ of its own _vegetative Faculty_, by the Power of the _Plastick Virtue_ of the vital _Spirits_, and by the peculiar innate _Quality_ of the MATRIX; this inlivened Substance produceth an _Organical Body_, of a perfectly form’d, and delineated FOETUS: Which FOETUS, according to the various _Steps_ of its Progression in _Formation_, _Animation_, and _Maturation_, occasions as many various and different _Effects_ upon the BEARING WOMAN; as necessary _Consequences_ of the said three principal ACTS of the _Infant’s_ Constitution. NOW these consequential _Effects_ may be properly divided into _Three_ CLASSES; which are accordingly call’d SYMPTOMS of the _First_, _Second_, or _Middle_; and of the last _Three Months_. BUT it is to be observ’d by the Way, that all _Women_ are not alike subjected to them; SOME being more troubled with _Those_ of the _First_; OTHERS also with _Those_ of the _Second_; and OTHERS again with the SYMPTOMS of the _last Three Months_. But there are _some Women_, in fine, that continue to be troubled, in the _Middle Months_, with the SYMPTOMS of the _First_; and in the _Latter_, with some of _Those_ of the _Second_: All which happens according to their various _Regimens_, _Dispositions_ and _Habits_ of Body. HOWEVER, to proceed methodically, with all Submission, according to what competent _Knowledge_ and _Experience_ I have of the CONCEIV’D WOMAN; the SYMPTOMS most common to _Her_, in the _First Three Months_, may be briefly reduced to the following principal _Eight_ in Number; namely, (1.) _Vomiting or Nauseating_. (2.) _Fastidy_ or _Loathing_. (3.) _Pica_ or _Longing_. (4.) _Painful Cholicks_ or _Gripes_. (5.) _Diarrhea_ or _Looseness_. (6.) _Tooth-Aches_. (7.) _Head-Aches_. And, (8.) _Swimmings of the Head_. Of all which, I shall now separately treat in their Order. [Illustration]