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THE Cause of this SYMPTOM proceeds from the various Humours of deprav’d Qualities, inherent in the Tunicks of the STOMACH, vitiating the Ferment of the VENTRICLE; and so affecting the Orifice, that it becomes the very Seat and Source of this Evil: from whence arises the Variety of the Humours, exciting a strange and uncommon Variety of Appetite.

THE Nature and Quality of these HUMOURS, have occasion’d many learned Disputes, which yet remain undecided. But tho’ Platerus takes upon himself to call them Malignant and Poisonous, yet it is the Opinion of many learned Men, and as excellent Authors, that They are not to be justly accounted for, any farther than that they are of an occult perverse Quality, generated in the STOMACH, from irregular Diet, improper Food, and bad Concoction, attended with an erroneous Regimen in other Cases.

THIS Symptom begins commonly about the 40th Day from Conception, and continues to the 4th Month: Against which time, part of the vitious Humours are excreted or thrown up by Vomiting, and the Remainder (by degrees) imbib’d by the growing Infant; which Humours being so consum’d, the Distemper ceases of Course.