HOWEVER, it is very observable, that a _Woman_[88], bearing a FEMALE, is more readily seized, and more easily freed or cured of _acute_ DISEASES, than _she_ who bears a MALE: And that because FEMALES are naturally more obnoxious to _Distempers_, proceeding from the _Retention_ of the MENSTRUA, and consequently more _favourably affected_, because of the _natural Affinity_ and _Familiarity_ of the Case.
AND this is the Reason that FEMALES, after the _first Months_, do bear and sustain more _Pains_ than the MALES; as daily Experience confirms, in that a _Female Miscarriage_[89] seldom happens after the _first Months_: whereas the _Male Abortion_ is most of all to be feared, after the TIME of _Motion_ or _Animation_, because the ACETABULA, or _Cavities_, being then more _siccid_, are the more easily broken by its _stronger Motion_.
IN Cases of _Acute_ DISEASES, the worst is, that the necessary _Helps_, which such incident _Distempers_ otherways absolutely require, are not always safe and convenient for the _Child-bearing Woman_: which Condition, (with respect to the CURE) renders the CASE one of the _nicest Points_ in the ART of _Physick_. Wherefore I would, with Submission, advise, that _none_ but the ablest and well-qualified _Physician_ should undertake either the _Care_ or the CURE of such a PATIENT. To whom I am not to prescribe _Rules_, and therefore I shall only refer him to his own more _Acute Judgment_, and the _Curious Solutions_ of (that most learned PHYSICIAN) _Daniel Senertus_[90], upon the _six following Questions_, thus stated by himself, _viz._
I. HOW _far slender Diet is convenient for the Child-bearing Woman_, _labouring under an acute Disease?_
II. HOW _far it is convenient to open a Vein or bleed this Woman upon such an Occasion?_
III. HOW _far it may be proper to purge her on the same Occasion?_
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._