OF BODIES. Chap.XXXVI II . 



he was a child, had like to have died of drought, before his nurfe 

 came to underftand , that he had an antipathy againfi Beer or 

 Wine ; untill the tender nature in him , before he could /peak, 

 taught him to make earneft flgnes for water.that by accident he 

 lavvjthe greedy drinking of which, cured prefently his long lan- 

 gui/liing and pining fickneffe: and fuch examples are very fre- 

 quent. 



The caufe of thefe effects many times is , that their mothers, 

 upon their firft fuppreifion of their ufuall evacuations ,by reafbn 

 of their being withchild)took fbme ftrong diflike to fuch things, 

 their ftomacks being then opprefled by unnatural humors,vvhich 

 overflow their bodies upon fuch retentions } and which make 

 them oftentimes nek and prone to vomiting, (especially in the 

 mornings, whiles they are fafiing)and fometimes to defire ear- 

 nef tly(which they call /*) to feed upon fbme unwholefome, 

 as well as fbme particular wholefome things; and other whiles, 

 totakeaverfionagainftmeates, which at other feafons they a P~ 

 fe&ed well. Now the child being nourifhed by the fo imbued 

 bloud of the mother , no wounder if it taketh affeciiom or dif^ 

 likes, conformable to thofe which at that prefent raigne in the 

 mother : the which for the moftjpart ufed to be purged away, or 

 are overwelmed by the mattering qualities of better aliments 

 fucceding : but if by fbme mifchance, they become too much 

 grafted in the childs ttomaclc , or in fbme other part, through 

 which themafle of bloud muftpafTe ; then the child getteth an 

 a\ er/ion from thofe meats :and we often fee, that people retaine 

 a f^rong conver/ion to fuch meates or drinks , as their mothers 

 affeckd much or longed for, whiles they bred child of them. 



And thus we will leave this particular; adding only one note, 

 why there are more perfbns generally , who have antipathy a- 

 gainft cheefe,then againft any one fort of meate befides wfeatfb- 

 ever. A principall reafon of which fymprome ( vy here the prece- 

 dent oneharhnotplace)! conceiv e to be,that their nurfes proved 

 with child, while* thev gave them fuck : for I have by experience 

 found it to have been Co in as many as-I have made inquiry into. 

 And it is very conformable to reafon; for the nurfes mi'k crud- 

 liflg in her breft upon her breeding ofchild,and bccotnming ve> 

 r.yoffeafive to the childc* tender ftomacK , (whofe being fick, 



