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THIS True CONCEPTION is likewise known by many various Signs; whereof I shall mention a Few, not out of any vain Curiosity, but meer Necessity: Because, supposing a Woman to labour under any dangerous acute Disease, it is of the greatest Importance, to be certain, whether she hath conceiv’d, or not; by reason that the Means of her future Relief must (of Necessity) be adapted to her present Condition.
CHAP. II. Of the Signs of CONCEPTION.
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THE Signs of Conception are many and various, and accordingly some more, some less certain, as hereafter set forth; whereof I shall only mention such as are most common and familiar to the Generality of Women: viz.
I. THE Retention or Suppression of the Menstrua; when not occasion’d by some other Indisposition.
II. SUDDEN Weakness, Feebleness, and Imbecility of the Body and Limbs.
III. LAZINESS, Weariness, and Sleepiness, with a Heaviness of the whole Body; but especially of the Reins and the Thighs.
IV. A sort of little Spots, or hard Warts, arising in the Face and Forehead.