II. THO’ _Women_ (in this _Case_) may frequently escape with their _Lives_, yet their _Natural Constitution_ is thereby too often broke at least, and debilitated, or thereupon subjected to one or other heavy _SYMPTOM_ or _DISEASE_; if not also rendred quite _BARREN_. FOR sometimes, because of the _Pains_, _Flux_, or _Putrefaction_ of the retain’d BLOOD, _Fevers_, and other _Distempers_ generally ensue: Sometimes by the violent _Disruption_ of the _Vessels_, great _Floodings_ and Loss of BLOOD happen; upon which _Faintings_, _Swoonings_, _Convulsions_, and at length DEATH it self follows: But, in fine, _Convulsions_ happening[103] either _at the Time_, or _after ABORTION_, the _Case_ is most _dangerous_; for then the PATIENT seldom escapes. III. THE _first MISCARRIAGE_ is most _dangerous_ to all; because the _Genital Parts_ are more streight or constricted, and less acquainted with such severe distending _Pains_: And besides the ORIFICES of the _Vessels_ being so violently dilacerated, the _Party_ often continues afterwards _Sterile_ or _Barren_ the rest of her Life[104]. IV. LEAN and _tender Women_ are much endanger’d in _ABORTION_, by Reason of their _Debility_ and _Infirmity_: As Women too fat are, on the other Hand; because of the great _Astriction_ and _Narrowness_ of the PASSAGES. V. THE _younger_ the ABORTIVE _Production_ happens to be, the less the _Woman_ is endanger’d; because the _larger_ the INFANT is, it gives the greater _Pains_ and _Ruption_ of the _Vessels_. VI. WHATEVER happens in the 7th or 9th _Month_, may be reckon’d a _safe BIRTH_, provided the _Child_ be ALIVE: Whereas if DEAD, it is extremely dangerous. But above _All_, the _Eighth_ MONTH is to be most _dreaded_, not only because of the _Largeness_ of the _INFANT_, but also because of the _pernicious Quality_ of _that_ MONTH; as will hereafter more amply appear in Chap. 34. WHICH Consideration leads me farther to observe; That, from the Beginning of the _5th_, until the Middle of the _6th_ _Month_, the _INFANT_ is least liable to _Danger_[105]: So next in the _4th_, and from the Middle of the _6th_, until the Close of the 7_th Month_: Then of course it is _safer_ in the _3d_ and _2d_ _Months_, than in the _1st_ or _9th_. For the least _Cause_ may expell the EMBRYO in the _First_, and break the _Mature Ligaments_ of the _INFANT_ in the _Ninth_. But of all the whole Time, as I said before, the _8th_ _Month_ is the _most_[106] _dangerous_, both to _MOTHER_ and _INFANT_: according to which Consideration and Order of TIME, the prudent _Physician_ may, with more or less either _Fear_ on the _one hand_, or _Assurance_ on the _other_, exhibit or prescribe proper _REMEDIES_ for the _Preservation_ or _Recovery_ of his PATIENTS.