AFTER an absolute and compleat _Conformation_ of ORGANS, the rational _Soul_ is infus’d and adapted; which is the ultimate Perfection of the _Human_ FOETUS: By which it becomes MAN and receives _Life_, living and subsisting henceforward by its own vivacious _Faculties_, distinct from those of the MOTHER. Now the Great and All-wise CREATOR undoubtedly is the only _Supream_, _Efficient_, and Immediate _Author_ and _Finisher_ of this noble _Work_; which, according to the nicest _Calculation_ of the greatest _Masters_ of _Nature_, is most commonly accomplished about the _Beginning_ of these _Middle Months_: At which time, the usual _Turn of Nature_ necessarily occasions different _Effects_ to the _Child-bearing Woman_; which are call’d _SYMPTOMS_ of the _Middle Months_. AND these _SYMPTOMS_, in short, I reduce to the following _Seven_ in Number; _viz._ 1. _Coughs_; 2. _Palpitations_ or _Heart-Beatings_; 3. _Swoonings_ or _Syncopes_; 4. _Watchings_; 5. _Pains_ in the _Hips_ and _Loins_; 6. _Hemorrhages_ or _Bleedings_; and, 7. _Fluxes_ of _Blood_. Of which, in their due Order. [Illustration] CHAP. XIV. _Of COUGHS._ COUGHS are either _Humid_ or _Siccid_: They are call’d _Humid_, when the _Humours_ contain’d in the _Aspera Arteria_, of whatsoever Nature, are expell’d by its own Force thro’ the _Mouth_. And _Siccid_, or dry COUGHS, when, notwithstanding great Pains and Trouble, nothing is _excreted_, only the whole Body fatigued by a continual irritated Endeavour to _Cough_ and _spit-out_; whence arise Pains of the _Head_, _Hypochondriacks_, and other Parts. THE _Cause_ of which _SYMPTOM_ is _Four-fold_, and proceeds either from the sharp acid _Vapours_ of the _Humours_ flying towards the _Lungs_, _Wind-pipe_, and _Jaws_; irritating the natural Faculty to _Expulsion_: Or, from the finer Part of the _Blood_, converting itself to the _pectoral Veins_: Or, from the _Humours_ themselves ascending to the _Head_, and relapsing upon the _Breast_: Or, in fine, from the suppressed _Albedines_ or WHITES, and whatsoever may vellicate the _Aspera Arteria_, or in any respect oppress or irritate the _same_. THIS _Symptom_ (however slighted or lightly esteem’d) is very Dangerous; forasmuch as it attenuates and weakens the _whole Body_, enervates or destroys its _Strength_ and _Vigour_, causes difficult _Respiration_, excites _Head-Aches_, hinders _natural Rest_, occasions _Watchings_, promotes Defluxions, and finally gives _Origin_ to _Fevers_, as well as most other _Diseases_: Besides that, it continually exagitates and distresses the _Muscles_ of the ABDOMEN, or lower Belly; and thereby too commonly provokes _Miscarriage_.