THIS _Effect_ is more extreme and disorderly in bearing a GIRL than a BOY; the _pituitous Humours_ having less _Concoction_, because of the want of requisite _Heat_: Which for the same Reason also occasions disagreeable _Flatulencies_, _Belchings_, and _Fluctuations_. I have, in the Course of my Experience, observ’d this _Evil_ to be most common in _Holland_; partly because of the _thick_ condensed _Air_ of the Country, and partly because the _Commonalty_ of the _Women_ live but on gross and cold Food, Fruit, Acids, _&c._ and are consequently of a cold humid _Temperature_, very subject to this Evil. THE _Diagnostick Signs_ of this _SYMPTOM_, are Weakness of _Body_, Dissolution of _Limbs_, Gnawing of _Stomach_, Loathing of _wholesome Food_, (and even _That_ very often which the _Party_ lov’d before) _Anxiety_, _Pensiveness_, frequent _Spittings_, and (at several times) _Vomitings_. IF the _Ventricle_ or _Stomach_ is only slightly affected with some sort of _viscous_ and _frigid Humours_, the _Party_ generally _longs_ for _sharp_ and _tart Meats_; if with _calid_ and _hot_ ones, she craves for those which are _bitter_ and _biting_: But if more severely affected, with _Humours_ of some perverse _occult Quality_, she longs for _strange unaccountable Matters_; and hence it is that all _monstrous APPETITES_ proceed. BUT if such _Humours_ become _Connatural_ to the _Woman_, by the _deep Impression_ of Diuturnity, she longs for things _resembling_ the very same _Nature_ of the _Humours_: As for Example, if they be of a _burning_ or _parching Nature_, she covets to eat _COALS_, _CINDERS_, &c. if of a _gross_ and _thick Quality_, _CHALK_, _LIME_, &c. if of a _Saltish_ Kind, _SALT_ itself: if of a _Melancholick_ Temper, _EARTH_, _CLAY_, _DUST_, &c. For because, as the Thing _containing_ changes the _Contents_, so the _Contents_ (in process of time, by Force of _constant Impression_) change the Thing _containing_. In like manner as _deprav’d Wine_ imparts a vitious _Taste_ or _Savour_ to the _CASK_, so those _Humours_ convert the Temperature of the _STOMACH_ into their own _Natural Qualities_. THE Similitude and Dissimilitude of _Humours_ and _Temperature_, may be thus known and distinguished, _viz._ The APPETITE, longing for things of a _like_ or _resembling Nature_ (as above), remains still _unsatisfy’d_, tho’ plentifully indulg’d with the Thing desir’d: Whereas the APPETITE of _different_ or[60]_discording_ Things, having obtain’d the Thing _long’d_ for, is easily _satiated_, and immediately ceaseth. THIS _Malicious_ or _Lusting SYMPTOM_, is most _dangerous_; degenerating commonly into a _Cacochymy_, _Dropsy_, _Phthisick_, or some other heavy _Disease_.