HOWEVER I take it to be the _First_ of these, which most commonly afflicts the _Conceiv’d Woman_; generated of improper _Diet_, or proceeding from an irregular _Regimen_: And _This_ is also sometimes so excessive, that I’ve seen the _PATIENT_ fall by its Extremity into a _Lipothymia_, or _Swooning-Fit_, which generally presages _ABORTION_, if not seasonably prevented by proper _Discutients_, and convenient _Diet_, _&c._ [Illustration] CHAP. IX. _Of a DIARRHEA, or LOOSENESS._ A _Looseness_, in my Sense, is an immoderate, frequent and sudden going to STOOL: in which the _liquid_ and _diluted_, as well as _sharp_ and _peccant_, _Excrements_ are voided, which is commonly preceded by the _Belly-ach_ and _Gripes_. IT differs from a LIENTERIA, in that the _Excrements_ are not indigested, unaltered, or _Chylous_, nor the STOOLS so quick after Meals: As it also differs from the _bloody Hepatick_, and _Hemorrhoidal Flux_, in that no _Blood_, _Matter_, or _Liquor_ like that, in which Meat may have been wash’d, is voided with the _Excrements_. SOME _Loosenesses_ are call’d _Bilous_, when so much of the sharp _Gall_ is expell’d as tinges the _Excrements Yellow_, however mix’d with other _serous Matter_: _Others_ are call’d _serous_ and _pituitous_, in which viscous watery _Humours_, less impregnated with GALL, are frequently and copiously voided. THIS _Symptom_ may proceed from a great Variety of _Causes_: For an _Error_ committed accidentally in _eating_ or _drinking_, or any _Irregularity_ in the way of Living may occasion it. [62] _HIPPOCRATES_ and many _others_, justly observe this _Case_ to be dangerous; because it not only relaxes and debilitates the _Body_ of the WOMAN, and _Ligaments_ of the INFANT; but also necessarily impairs its requisite _Nourishment_, and provokes _Nature_ to an _untimely Expulsion_ of the tender Fruit. Which unhappy _Consequence_ ought (by all means) to be prevented, if possible, and the grievous _Affection_ to be cured without any Loss of Time: Now I presume _That_ may be done _first_, by gentle _Abstergents_ and _Corroborants_; and _Then_ afterwards by proper _Restringents_ and _Strengthners_. [Illustration] CHAP. X. _Of the TOOTH-ACH._ THE _Cause_ of this SYMPTOM, proceeds from the sharper part of the _Humours_; which, ascending to the _Head_, vitiates the BLOOD, and thence occasions a _effluxion_ of _Rheum_ upon the TEETH: So that _This_ vitious _Rheum_ fixing itself at some of their _Roots_, affects the _Membranous Parts_ so sensibly, that instead of a small _Ach_, it proves a great _Pain_, and almost intolerable _Torment_ to the SUFFERER. THIS ill _Affection_ may also proceed from some _Frigid_ or _Calid_, _Serous_ or _Salt-Humour_, falling down upon the _Membrane_ of the JAWS, or _Nerves_ of the TEETH: Where, if it corrupts and lies putrefying, it commonly engenders WORMS.