Of OXFO%T).SHI%E. iP5 
itfelf: J oxk\t Infant^ in that it is an />7^/fx of its ftrength, and 
perfeftion of Organs^ To the Mother^ in the certainty that her 
child is living, and likely to promote its ovi^n exit ; To the State^ 
which is likely to be blefi: with an ahk fubje^i'. the Vagitii^ being 
nothing but fuch -^n Jo Triumph e., as Z-iz/j/^ reports was made by 
the infant in the mothers womb in Marrucinls^ (K Fabiu^ Maximm 
being the fourth time, and M.Marcdlu6 the third time COSS, So 
that if any thing amifs fall out after fuch Vagitm^ it muft be im- 
puted rather to chance than defign of nature: Let us but mend 
our Hves^ and no fuch matters can hurt us. 
3. In the birth of 77ian it is equally ftrange, that the fangs of 
the vroman in the exclufion of the child have fomtimes affefted the 
Abdomen of the hmband^ which yet to fuch as have experiment- 
ed the fecrecy of Jjmfathies , and underftand the fubtilty and 
power of effluviums^ perhaps may not feem difficult : But that 
the ;;7<2;2 fliould fomtimes fufFer {udipains^ whiPft the woman is 
well, and before (lie is in labor ^ is a problem I fear beyond all 
hopes of folution. And yet that this has happened to fome per- 
fins in Oxford IS very certain, and that to knowing ow^j- too, very 
unlikely to be deceived, and of unqueftionable veracity : where- 
of one of them told me (whom I enquired of more particularly 
concerning them") that they came upon hi?7i when he little thought 
of his wife^ and that the pangs were very odd onesj fuch as he 
never felt in his life ; not like any griping in the guts^ but lying 
in the mufcles of the Abdomen^ which yet he (liould never have 
thought to have had relation to his wife^ had they not fuddenly, 
and beyond expeftation ceafed, as foon as his wife began to be 
in labor. Which makes much for the credit of a relation of the 
German Virtuofi^^ concerning one Faber ofBuxovil 'm Alfatia^who 
conflantly afted the part of his pregnant wife^ being taken with vo- 
mitings^ and fuffering thofe inordinate longings that ufually at- 
tend women in that condition, his wife all the while fuffering no 
fuch inconveniencies. 
4. That ixich (jmptoms (liould be thus tranflated from the wo- 
man to the man^ the n?OOTdf« remaining well and undifturbed, Dr, 
Frimirofe^ thought fo irrational (upon account that natural Agents 
firft work on the neareft objects, and then on the remotcft^ and 
i <" '{'.hWuHifl- ah UrbeCond. //^. 24. MifcellaniaCuriofa Med, Thy f. German. An. 2, ohfurv. 215. 
^ Jac. Primirolii M. D. de vulgi error ibiiS) in Med. lib. 2. cap. 13. . 
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