1. THE turgid swell’d BREASTS of the _Pregnant Woman_, all on a sudden[91], fall and extenuate into a _Flabbiness_. 2.[92]THEY diffuse copiously a thin _Waterish Milk_, not half digested to its due Perfection. 3. THE _Menstrua_ return at an uncommon _Rate_, and in an irregular _Manner_. 4. THE _Woman_ personally is either very frequently _Sick_, or long expos’d to a lasting _Sickness_. Or, 5. SHE is either subject to a very frequent, or long continu’d _Looseness_, and constant _Diarrhæa_. 6. THE _Infant_ which used (as it ought) to _move briskly_, is now but very _seldom_, and more _faintly_ perceiv’d in _Motion_. ON the other hand, the _Prognosticks_ of this CASE, are briefly _Two_: For either _Abortion_ follows, or (which is worse) the _Infant_ dies; if not timely prevented, by removing the _Efficient Cause_ of it, upon _comforting_ and _strengthening_ both the WOMAN and the CHILD. IN a Word, the _Latter_ of these tragical _Events_ I shall refer to SECT. V. _Chap._ last. But the _Former_ leads me more immediately to consider it in the proper Method of my Discourse. [Illustration] CHAP. XXX. _Of ABORTION._ WOMEN _miscarry_ so frequently, that if any curious Persons will diligently observe and examine that _Matter_, they will find the Number of MISCARRIAGES to exceed _That_ of _timely_ BIRTHS: Wherefore I have reason to think, that this _Head_ deserves to be handled more at large, and to be more particularly insisted upon, in the following manner. THE _Modern Practisers_ in _MIDWIFERY_, distinguish MISCARRIAGES, by _four_ different _Appellations_; according to the _four_ different _Times_ of the _Constitution_ of the _CONCEPTION_. viz. A MISCARRIAGE happening in the Time of _Spumification_, is call’d an _Effluxion of the GENITURA_: That which happeneth in the _Vegetation_, or Time of _Ramification_, or (as some will have it) before the 40th _Day_, is call’d a _Deperdition_ of the EMBRYO: _That_ which falls out in the _sensitive_ Progression, or Time of _Carnification_, or (as others will have it) before the _90th Day_ from _CONCEPTION_, they call an _Abortion_ of the FOETUS. But what so happens afterwards preceding the _7th Month_, is properly call’d an entire _Abortion_ of the INFANT. HOWEVER, _Others_ will have a _fifth Distinction_ made; namely, what so happens in the 7th, 8th, and preceding the 20th Day of the 9th _Month_, to be call’d an untimely _BIRTH_; because tho’ born with _Life_, they alledge it to be very seldom, or never really _Vital_, or likely to _Live_: Upon which I shall, in good Time, introduce my own _Sentiment_ in the subsequent Chapters of this _Section_.