CHAP. XX. _Of the SYMPTOMS of the last three Months_.
TWO _third Parts_ of the common Duration and Conjuncture of CHILD-BEARING, being, by this time faithfully, if not so fully, accounted for; it remains now, that we also more particularly consider the MOTHER and her INFANT throughout the last _Three Months-Travail_. These are the _Finishing Maturating Months_ of the _INFANT_: I mean peculiarly, as to its _Strength_ and _Vigour_; since in other respects, the _Middle Months_ have duly _perfected_ the Ornaments of the _particular Members_, and gracefully compleated the SHAPE and FORM of the whole Body.
WHEREFORE, as, in these _latter Months_, the _CHILD_ encreases in _Bulk_, _Vigour_, and _Activity_, it then affords the tender MOTHER incredible _Uneasinesses_, and grows sometimes almost _Obstreperous_: Which _Augmentation_ of the FOETUS (of natural Consequence) occasions in her Constitution of Body various different _Effects_; call’d _SYMPTOMS_ of the last _Three Months_.
NOW these _SYMPTOMS_, I hope I may pertinently reduce to the following _Nine_, in Number; namely, 1. _Dysuries_; 2. _Ischuries_; 3. _Stranguries_; 4. _Costiveness_; 5. _Tenesms_; 6. _Varices_; 7. _Inflations_ of the _Legs_; 8. _Fissures_ of the Belly; and 9. and lastly, _Water-Fluxes_. Of which I shall take leave to treat separately, in their proper Order.
CHAP. XXI. _Of DYSURIES, ISCHURIES, and STRANGURIES._
THE _Dysuria_ is a painful and difficult _Excretion_ of _Urine_; as the _Ischuria_ is an entire _Suppression_ of the SAME: And the _Stranguria_ nothing but an _Effect_ of the other TWO; being an _Excretion_ made Drop by Drop, with a continual _Stimulation_ or _Propensity_ to make Water, however without any acute _Pain_, tho’ not without some _Uneasiness_.
NOW these _three SYMPTOMS_ have all their respective _Causes_, which I shall not particularly enter upon here at large; but only, take notice by the By, that in the _Pregnant Woman_, they most commonly proceed from _One_ and the same _Original_: Wherefore I shall in this Place discourse of them _conjunctly_; and observe that all three _SYMPTOMS_ may proceed from the _ponderous_ WOMB, lying upon, and depressing the _Neck of the Bladder_; and _that_ the more heavily, the nearer the _Woman_ is to her TIME. The _pungent Acrimony_ of the URINE sometimes also occasions _Incontinence_, or want of _Retention_; as its _Inflammatory Heat_ causeth almost a total _Suppression_. However, in short, such _SYMPTOMS_ may likewise proceed from some _crude_ and _unconcocted Matter_, obstructing and oppressing the _Sphincter-Muscles_.