CHAP. IX. Of monsters caused by the ill placing of the mother, in sitting, lying downe, or any other site of the body in the time of her being with childe.
WEE often too negligently and carelesly corrupt the benefits and corpo∣rall endowments of nature in the comelinesse and dignity of conforma∣tion: it is a thing to be lamented and pitied in all, but especially in wo∣men with childe, because that fault doth not onely hurt the mother, but deformes and perverts the infant which is conteined in her wombe: for wee moving any manner of way, must necessarily move whatsoever is within us. Therefore they which sit idely at home all the time of their being with childe, or crosse-legged, those which holding their heads downe, doe sow or worke with the needle, or doe any other labour, which presse the belly too hard with cloaths, bree∣ches or swathes, doe produce children wrie-necked, stooping, crooked and disfigu∣red in their feet, hands, and the rest of their joints, as you may see in the following figure.