II. VICTUALS; if taken _too much_ at a time, suffocate the _INFANT_; if _too little_, it is _starved_, and the _MOTHER_ brought to a very low Condition of Life; and if _improper_, or of ill _Concoction_, the _CHILD_ is thereby either much _weaken’d_, or (which is worse) it dies of course. III. DRINKING immoderately, extinguisheth the _natural Calidity_ of the WOMB and the _INFANT_; as certainly _strong_ or _hot Liquors_ impress a vitious _Intemperature_ upon _Both_. IV. WATCHINGS a-Nights, too much exhaust and dissipate the _Spirits_; as too much SLEEP, on the other hand, dulls, lessens, and obtunds the _natural Heat_. V. ALL inward disorderly _Causes_ dissolving the _Uterine_ ACETABULA, _Ligaments_, or _Vessels_, by which the _INFANT_ attracts its _Nourishment_. VI. ALL _Venenated_, _Cathartick_, and _Diaphoretick MEDICINES_, _Acrimonious Clysters_, _Venæ-Sections_, _Baths_, &c: Which partly by exagitating the _Spirits_ and _Humours_, and partly by diminishing the _Aliment_, occasion frequent _ABORTIONS_. Again THE _external Procatarctick Causes_ are These, which ensue in their due Order. I. ALL inclement _Constitutions_ or bad _Influences_ of the WEATHER, WINDS,[98]and AIR; such as _Cold_, which pinches; or as _Heat_, which intercepts the _Breath_, and stifles the _INFANT_, &c. II. SMELLING or _Touching_, _Sitting_, or _Treading_ upon some Sorts of pernicious HERBS. III. ALL violent MOTIONS, immoderate _Exercises_, &c. such as _Running_, _Leaping_, _Dancing_, _Riding_, or _Coaching_, _Lifting_, or _Carrying a heavy Weight_, also _long Fasting_, _strait Lacing_, a _Fall_, a _Blow_ on the _Back_ or the _Belly_, &c. as I hinted before occasionally. IV. ALL _frightful_ OBJECTS, and _sudden Surprizes_ by hasty NEWS, FIRE, or such like terrifying Accidents. V. ALL _astonishing_ and terrible affecting _NOISES_; such as sudden Claps of _Thunder_, _Cannons_, _Guns_ &c. VI. ALL nauseous STINKS, on the one hand, and odoriferous SMELLS, _&c._ on the other, being _both_ disagreeable and dangerous. THOSE, and many other _trifling Matters_, such as the SMELL of an _extinguished Light_, or _Candle_, are known (too often) to be the _Reason_ and _Cause_ of _ABORTION_: which made (that great _Naturalist_) _Pliny_[99] justly take occasion to deplore the FRAILTY of Man.