434 OF PUBERTY. 



To the aftonifhment of the afliftants, the one 

 child was black and the other white. This e- 

 vident tcftimony of the woman's infidelity to her 

 huil^and, obliged her to acknowledge, that, one 

 morning, her hufband having juft left her bed, a 

 negro entered her chamber, and, by threats of 

 immediate death, compelled her to gratify his de- 

 fires. This fad: fhows, that the conception of 

 two or more children docs not always happen at 

 one time, and fupports rny opinion, that the fe- 

 men penetrates through the texture of the uterus. 

 There are many other equivocal figns of preg- 

 nancy, by which it is faid to be early didin- 

 guifhable ; as a flight pain in the region of the 

 uterus and loins ; a numbnefs over the whole 

 body; a continual drowfinefs; a melancholy 

 and capricious difpofition; the toothach, head- 

 ach ; and a vertigo, which obfcures the fight ;• 

 yellowifh, blood-ihot eyes, with eontraded pu- 

 pils and depreffed eye-lids 5 a pale and fpotted 

 countenance; a depraved appetite, accompanied 

 with vomiting and fpitting; hvfteric fymptoms; 

 the fiuor albus ; the floppage of the menflrual 

 difcharge, or, inftead of it, an haemorrhage ; the 

 fecretion of milk in the breads, &c. Many o- 

 ther iTpkrks fuppofed to be peculiar to pregnan- 

 cy might be added ; but they are frequently 

 nothing more than the effeds of particular 



difeafes. But we fhall leave the difcufTion of 

 thefe to phyficians. Details of this kind, to be 



ufeful. 



