CHAP. XV. Whether the Infant lying yet in the mothers wombe, is to be accounted a living creature or no?
PLATO directly pronounceth that such an Infant is a living creature: for that it moveth, and is fed within the bellie of the mother.
The philosophie, commonlie called, the morals vvritten by the learned philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea. Translated out of Greeke into English, and conferred with the Latine translations and the French, by Philemon Holland of Coventrie, Doctor in Physicke. VVhereunto are annexed the summaries necessary to be read before every treatise
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The STOCKS say, it is a part of the wombe, and not an animall by it selfe. For like as fruits be parts of the trees, which when they be ripe do fall; even so it is with an Infant in the mothers wombe.
EMPEDOCLES denieth it to be a creature animall, howbeit that it hath life and breath with∣in the bellie: mary the first 〈◊〉〈◊〉 that it 〈◊〉〈◊〉 respiration, is at the birth; namely when the super∣fluous humiditie which is in such unborne 〈◊〉〈◊〉 is retired and gone, so that the aire from with∣out entreth into the void vessels lying open.
DIOGENES saith, that such Infants are bred within the matrice inanimate, howbeit in heat: whereupon it commeth that 〈◊〉〈◊〉 hear, so soone as ever the Infant is turned out of the mo∣thers wombe, is drawen into the lungs. [ 10]
〈◊〉〈◊〉 leaveth to unborne babes a mooving naturall; but not a respiration; of which motion the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 be the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 cause; but afterwards they become per∣fect living animall creatures, when being come forth of the wombe they take in breath from the aire.