TO which usual _Suggestions_, I answer; that as the _one_ is an ignorant and imprudent _Insinuation_, the _other_ is a downright _Falsity_: For in the _first CASE_, the _Woman_ is diverted by foolish _Hopes_ from applying for proper ADVICE, until perhaps it is past all REMEDY; and in the _second_, she is misled very often to her utter _RUIN_: Since whatever hath not yet _happen’d_, may peradventure be happily _prevented_; and even upon the _last Extremity_ of the most _violent Occasion_, the _Severity_ of the CASE may possibly be averted by good Management, and the _Danger_ entirely compounded for by proper Conduct. WHEREFORE, I cannot but think, it is worth any _Woman_’s while to know the MARKS of an _approaching_ and _instant ABORTION_: Whereof the _DIAGNOSTICKS_ are as follow, _viz._ I. A sudden EXTENUATION and _Falling_ of the BREASTS[101]; sometimes only of _One_, but more commonly of _Both_: That of _One_ denoting the _Woman_ to bear TWINS, of which she is about to lose _One_; and which, if the _right_ BREAST falls, is a MALE; but if the _left_, a FEMALE. II. A WATERY MILK flows[102] in Abundance from those _FALLEN BREASTS_, discovering the future Danger. III. PALPITATIONS of the _Heart_, frequently accompany’d with a _Coarctation_ of the _Sides_ and _Upper Belly_, very much incommoding the PATIENT. IV. A _GRAVITY_ or _Heaviness_ of the _Loins_, and _Thighs_; _Gnawing_ of the _Stomach_, _Pains_ of the _Head_ and _Eyes_. V. A _TREMOR_, or _Trembling_ and _Quaking FITS_, attended with a _Frigidity_ of the exteriour _Limbs_. VI. A _Rigor_ and Stiffness, or a _Vibration_ and Concussion of the _SKIN_ and _MUSCLES_ of the whole Body, with a concomitant _Chilness_. VII. HORROUR, _Fevers_, _Faintings_, _Swoonings_, and sometimes _Convulsions_, _Cramps_, &c. all foreboding the coming _Malady_. These are the usual and principal Marks of an _approaching ABORTION_: Which when _Instant_, and the _Time_ at Hand, then the VIII^{th} _DIAGNOSTICK_ plainly appears; which is a _corrupt WATER_ flowing _first_, next a _bloody WATER_, then _pure_ BLOOD, after that small _Clods_ of BLOOD, and at length, the INFANT itself (_form’d_ or _inform’d_) follows of Course. HENCE I proceed to the usual _Prognosticks_ of _ABORTION_; which take as follow in their proper Order, _viz._ I. ALL _Women_ are more endanger’d in a MISCARRIAGE, than in a _Natural Birth_: because THAT happening at a _preternatural Time_, is of greater _Violence_ than THIS. For like as _ripe Fruit_, whose _Stalk_ is so loose in its Season from the _Tree_, that the _Fruit_ falls of its own Accord: So it is in a _Natural Birth_, for the _Vessels_ and _Ligaments_, by which the INFANT adheres to the WOMB, easily loose and break spontaneously; which in an Abortion, must needs happen by a more dangerous painful _Force_ and _Violence_.