HOWEVER, this melancholy _Accident_ can never happen worse than to the _Conceiv’d Woman_; and the _farther_ she is gone in her Time, the more _Danger_ still. And that because of the _Scarcity_ or _Want_ of _pure_ BLOOD, which ought to be imbibed by the _Infant_, either in part or in whole, according to its Age and Strength: Or, because of the _Plenty_ of _vitious_ BLOOD, which tends to no other end, than to _imbecilitate_ the Woman, and render her _incapable_ of suffering the _Insults_ of such _acute_ DISEASES. For _Nature_ may (perhaps) be able to bear up against _one simple Effect_, but when it is joined and aggravated by _another_, the PATIENT is too often obliged to _succumb_, and yield herself up to be _overpower’d_ in the Struggle of Life. BUT, after all yet, _acute_ DISEASES are not always _mortal_ to the _Conceived Woman_; for, as Experience teaches, SOME have the good Fortune to _escape_, tho’ indeed the Odds[87] are very great on the other Side. But of such sharp MALADIES, _those_ without any _Fever_ are reckoned most _dangerous_; because they are not only _Acute_, but also _most Acute_: And by _those_ the MOTHER is more immediately endangered than the INFANT; whereas by _those_ which come with a _Fever_, the tender INFANT is first and chiefly endangered, because of the MOTHER’s internal _Calidity_ and _Depravation_, which easily affects, and soon suffocates or stifles it in a short time. HOWEVER, it is very observable, that a _Woman_[88], bearing a FEMALE, is more readily seized, and more easily freed or cured of _acute_ DISEASES, than _she_ who bears a MALE: And that because FEMALES are naturally more obnoxious to _Distempers_, proceeding from the _Retention_ of the MENSTRUA, and consequently more _favourably affected_, because of the _natural Affinity_ and _Familiarity_ of the Case. AND this is the Reason that FEMALES, after the _first Months_, do bear and sustain more _Pains_ than the MALES; as daily Experience confirms, in that a _Female Miscarriage_[89] seldom happens after the _first Months_: whereas the _Male Abortion_ is most of all to be feared, after the TIME of _Motion_ or _Animation_, because the ACETABULA, or _Cavities_, being then more _siccid_, are the more easily broken by its _stronger Motion_.