IV. WHETHER Venæ-Sections or Purges are most dangerous in such a Case?
V. WHETHER it is practicable (in such a dangerous Case) to excite Abortion, for the Woman’s Health and Recovery?
VI. HOW far Clysters, Diureticks, and Diaphoreticks are convenient on such Occasions?
HAVING, thus, now, in fine, briefly hinted upon the sundry Heads of this Chapter, I shall, in the next Place, offer a few Words upon That, which (I think) is the most common Consequence of the foregoing Effects, viz.
CHAP. XXIX.
Of the DEBILITY and WEAKNESS of the Fœtus.
BESIDES all the enumerated Symptoms, Acute and Chronical Distempers, to which the Child-bearing Woman is subject; it also happens over and above (too frequently) that the Infant becomes Weak and Sick in the Womb.
THE Cause of which unhappy Accident I take to be fourfold: As it proceeds, either from a Debility and Insufficiency of the Parental Seed, or from a Scarcity or Want of requisite Sustenance, or from a certain Depravation of that Sustenance, or from some immediate Procatarctick Cause of the Mother; which may all be thus rationally distinguished, and severally accounted for; viz.
THE Cause certainly lies in the Seed, if the Woman has continued always healthy, eating, drinking, and living regularly.
IT may be imputed to the Scarcity of Aliment, if she has often laboured under Diseases, or been exposed to Hunger, Want, Penury, or any such like manifest retrenching Cause.