The S^^tural Hijlory 
CHAP. VIII. 
Of Men and JVomen, 
H E fubjeft matter of this Chapterhtmg very narrow, ex- 
I tending it felf only to Man, whom God created Male 
and Female^ and them only in his own Image^ little 
lower than the Angels : It cannot be expelled, that the methods 
of the other Chapters can be obferved here, there being no new 
fj^ecies of Men to be produced, or not fufficiently noted already. 
All therefore that remains concerning them to be handled here, 
will be only the unufual Accidents that have attended them, where- 
of, though 1 have not met with over many in this County^ yeC 
they are enough to be diftributed into fuch as have attended 
them, 
rat or before their birth. 
titha'<in their courfe of life, 
^in their death or grave. 
2. Before the birtb of Man, the Vagitm uterinu^^or crying of the 
child in the mothers womh^ is not ordinarily to be met with, 
though we find many exam. pies of the thing in Authors to 
which may be added one more that lately happened at Heyford 
Furcel, where there was a child cryed very audibly in its mothers 
womb fomtime before the birtb. For the performance of which 
aftion, whether there be a neceffity of the hifants having refpi- 
ration whil'ft included in the Amnion ; or whether it may not be 
done without it ? let the /^>^///i^/7^ difpute : The matter of faft 
fuflBceth me at prefent that there was fuch a thing, the people 
being frighted with it, and expecling fome calamity (liould foon 
attend fuch a Prodigie, pernicious (forfooth) not only to the 
where heard, but to the ^'/^r/e it felf Whereas the learn- 
ed Bartholin more rightly notes, that the ruin of Kingdoms de- 
pends rather on the wickednefs of the people, living in con- 
tempt of God and his Laws^ than any fuch vagitU6 ; which por- 
tends nothing but happinefs to the Infant, the Mother^ and State 
' Tlyo.B^nholin.Wft.Analom.rar Ci'nt.i. 
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