WHICH binding _SYMPTOM_ is of the same dangerous _Nature_ and[80]_Consequence_ with the preceding _Case_; both having an equal _Effect_ of Power, if not prevented, to expel and dislodge the INFANT. Which _Notion_ cannot be otherways better maintain’d; for the WOMB being situated upon the _Intestinum Rectum_, must suffer great _Commotions_ by continual _Needings_ and _Strainings_ in both Cases. BUT the safest CURE, in short, in my humble Opinion, is to be perform’d by proper _Decoctions_, _Fomentations_, and absterging _Clysters_. [Illustration] CHAP. XXIV. _Of the VARICES, or Vein-Tumours._ THIS _Symptom_ is nothing else, than a _Distention_ or _Dilatation_ of the HIP, THIGH, and LEG-VEINS: Which however chiefly appears about the HAM; and it happens most commonly to _Plethorick Women_, who walk much, or exercise themselves more freely upon any Occasion. THE _Cause_ proceeds only from a _Plenty_, or _Superfluity_ of the suppressed BLOOD, more than the _Infant_ can consume: which being carry’d by the _Arteries_ to the _lower Parts_, is thence received by the _Crural_ and _Saphene_ or _Ankle-Veins_. Insomuch that the WOMB, being (by this time) both _Ponderous_ and _Bulky_, so presseth the ILIAC-VEINS, that it hinders the BLOOD in its _Course_, and obstructs its free _Motion_ and _Circulation_; whereby (of consequence) these _inferiour Veins_ must swell and distend themselves proportionably. HOWEVER, the _Danger_ of the _SYMPTOM_ is not great; because after a safe _BIRTH_, when the super-abounding BLOOD and _Humours_ are evacuated, these preternatural _Tumours_ settle, and the VEINS return to their _Pristine State_. WHEREFORE the only necessary _Relief_ of this Malady, consists chiefly in the _Woman’s_ abstaining from too much _Walking_, and all other extravagant _Exercises_; upon indulging her _inferiour Limbs_, by keeping them rais’d upon a _Couch_ or _Stool_, that the BLOOD may not settle too much to these _lower Parts_: Or (which is far better) let her prudently keep her _Bed_; in which _Posture_, the BLOOD can meet with no such _Difficulty_ in returning by these _Veins_ to the HEART, as it will find when it must ascend by the _Woman’s SITTING_ or _STANDING_ upright; so that consequently it must needs _circulate_ the more readily and with more _Ease_. Hence in short, it is, that from this more Free and Easy CIRCULATION in _Bed_, such _Women_ are always more easy, or better dispos’d, and far less _pain’d_ or troubled in the _Mornings_, than at _Nights_, in This Condition.