Culpeper's directory for midwives: or, A guide for women. The second part. Discovering, 1. The diseases in the privities of women. 2. The diseases of the privie part. 3. The diseases of the womb ... 14. The diseases and symptoms in children.

Chap. 8. Of Crying in the Womb.

CHildren have somtimes cryed in the womb, as Fabricius saith in his Epistle to his Bro∣ther James Fin••el, and W••inridi••k of Monsters, writes thus, In this City of Bressa a child was heard to cry in the womb three daies before the tra∣vel; when he was a man, he was mis••rable with po∣verty and dis••as••s, till he died. Andreas Libavi•••• writes the same, and others.

Some sa•• it portends evil to the Mother, or Child, or Countrey.

* 1.1 It is a v••ice by the expulsion of the air th••ou••h the ••ough arte••y, and some air may in the c••vities

from vapors or Spirits, as in eggs when chic∣kens pip in them. And if the child have a rough artery, lungs and breasts which are the organs of breathing ••ound, and the child is strong, there is no hinderance but it may utter a voice. But som∣thing whatsoever it is, must stir it to make this noise.

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