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THIS Effect is more extreme and disorderly in bearing a Girl than a Boy; the pituitous Humours having less Concoction, because of the want of requisite Heat: Which for the same Reason also occasions disagreeable Flatulencies, Belchings, and Fluctuations.

I have, in the Course of my Experience, observ’d this Evil to be most common in Holland; partly because of the thick condensed Air of the Country, and partly because the Commonalty of the Women live but on gross and cold Food, Fruit, Acids, &c. and are consequently of a cold humid Temperature, very subject to this Evil.

THE Diagnostick Signs of this SYMPTOM, are Weakness of Body, Dissolution of Limbs, Gnawing of Stomach, Loathing of wholesome Food, (and even That very often which the Party lov’d before) Anxiety, Pensiveness, frequent Spittings, and (at several times) Vomitings.

IF the Ventricle or Stomach is only slightly affected with some sort of viscous and frigid Humours, the Party generally longs for sharp and tart Meats; if with calid and hot ones, she craves for those which are bitter and biting: But if more severely affected, with Humours of some perverse occult Quality, she longs for strange unaccountable Matters; and hence it is that all monstrous APPETITES proceed.