Others ascribe this effect unto the numerous conception of the Viper; and this was the opinion of _Theophrastus_. Who though he denieth the exesion or forcing through the belly, conceiveth nevertheless that upon a full and plentiful impletion there may perhaps succeed a disruption of the matrix, as it happeneth sometimes in the long and slender fish _Acus_. [SN: _Needle-fish, found sometimes upon the Sea-shore, consisting of four lines unto the vent, and six from thence unto the head._] Now although in hot Countries, and very numerous conceptions, in the Viper or other Animals, there may sometimes ensue a dilaceration of the genital parts; yet is this a rare and contingent effect, and not a natural and constant way of exclusion. For the wise Creator hath formed the organs of Animals unto their operations, and in whom he ordaineth a numerous conception, in them he hath prepared convenient receptacles, and a sutable way of exclusion. Others do ground this disruption upon their continued or protracted time of delivery, presumed to last twenty days; whereat excluding but one a day, the latter brood impatient, by a forcible proruption anticipate their period of exclusion; and this was the assertion of _Pliny_, _Cæteri tarditatis impatientes prorumpunt latera, occisâ parente_; which was occasioned upon a mistake of the Greek Text in _Aristotle_, τίκτει δὲ ἐν μία ἠμέρα καθʼ ἐν, τίκτει δὲ πλείω ἢε εἴκοσιν, which are literally thus translated, _Parit autem una die secundum unum, parit autem plures quam viginti_, and may be thus Englished, _She bringeth forth in one day, one by one, and sometimes more than twenty_: and so hath _Scaliger_ rendered it, _Sigillatim parit absolvit, una die, interdum plures quam viginti_: But _Pliny_, whom _Gaza_ followeth, hath differently translated it, _Singulos diebus singulis parit, numero ferè viginti_; whereby he extends the exclusion unto twenty days, which in the textuary sense is fully accomplished in one. But what hath most advanced it, is a mistake in another text of _Aristotle_, which seemeth directly to determine this disruption, τίκτει μικρὰ ἐχίδια ἐν ὑμέσιν, ἁι περιρρήγνυνται τριταῖοι, ἐνίοτε δὲ καὶ ἔσωθεν διαφαγόντα αὐτὰ ἐξέρχεται, which _Gaza_ hath thus translated, _Purit catulos abvolutos membranis quæ tertio die rumpuntur, evenit interdum ut qui in utero adhuc sunt abrosis membranis prorumpant._ Now herein probably _Pliny_, and many since have been mistaken; for the disruption of the membranes or skins, which include the young ones, conceiving a dilaceration of the matrix and belly of the Viper: and concluding from a casual dilaceration, a regular and constant disruption.