V. THE WOMB’S too _frigid_ and _siccid Intemperature_; which Qualities are the greatest Enemies to _Nature_ and all the _Actions_ of _Female LIFE_. VI. ITS _frigid_ and _humid Intemperature_; which (abounding with _Mucosities_ or _slimy Humours_) so relaxes the _Ligaments_, that they cannot hold or detain the _INFANT_. VII. ALL obdurated and confirmed _Tumours_ and _Ulcers_, all _Erysipelas_ and _Inflammations_ of the WOMB: Which often prove the _Causes_ of the same _Effect_. VIII. A _præternatural Situation_, or an _oblique Position_ may become the _8th_ and _last Cause_ of _ABORTION_, which I shall mention on part of the WOMB. FROM hence I come, _Thirdly_, in a due Method, to _Those Causes_ respecting the _neighbouring Parts_; which I humbly conceive to be as follow. I. ALL _Diseases_, _Pains_, and what _Causes_ soever of those _Parts_, may tend much to deject or affect the _Spirits_, and stir up the _Humours_ with unusual Alteration. II. ALL _Causes_ and bad _Affections_ compressing the _lower Belly_, and exagitating or straining its MUSCLES. III. A _præternatural Site_ and inapt _CONFORMATION_[97] of the _Umbilical Vessels_, for their due Operation. BUT then again, _Secondly_, It also often happens that, tho’ the _pregnant Woman_ labours under no _Disease_ or _Misfortune_, either in BODY, WOMB, or _neighbouring_ PARTS, yet notwithstanding the _Expulsive Faculty_ is irritated to EJECTION by several _Causes_ of the _Constitution_ of the _INFANT_ itself, as follow; _viz._ I. ITS _præternatural_ BULK, or vitious _Conformation_, oppressing and straining the WOMB, either in _Whole_ or in _Part_. II. ITS _Debility_ and _Weakness_, or contracted, infirm, feeble _Constitution_, as mentioned in the preceding _Chapter_. III. THE _Death_ of the _INFANT_, emitting nauseous _Vapours_ and putrefy’d _Matter_, stimulates the WOMB sooner or later to _Expulsion_: And (in this _tragical Case_) the _sooner_ the _Better_; as will hereafter appear. AND moreover, _Thirdly_, the _SYMPTOMS_ of the _Months_, frequently prove _Causes_ of _ABORTION_; of which _SYMPTOMS_, having already treated particularly, I shall in this place repeat little or nothing, only refer the READER to their respective _Chapters_ in the preceding _Part_ of this SECTION: And yet under this present _Head_, may be also comprehended all _Acute Diseases_, which (too often) prove of the same bad _Consequence_; as is evident from Chap. 28. FOURTHLY, There is a great _Variety_ of _Procatarctick Causes_, distinct from all _those_ above-mentioned, which most frequently occasion _ABORTION_: And _Those_ are _Two-fold_, _INTERNAL_ and _EXTERNAL_. Of which the _Internal_ are as follow, in my Judgment. I. THE _Passions_ of the Mind (mentioned in SECT. I. _Chap._ 5.) because such immoderate _Affections_ too much excite the _Humours_, and incense the _Spirits_.