The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latin and compared with the French. by Tho: Johnson. Whereunto are added three tractates our of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, & nerves, with large figures. Also a table of the bookes and chapters.

CHAP. IX. Of Monsters caused by the ill placing of the Mother, in sitting, lying down, or any other site of the body in the time of her being with childe.

WE often too negligently and carelesly corrupt the benefits and corporal endow∣ments of nature in the comliness and dignity of conformation: it is a thing to be lamented and pitied in all, but especially in women with childe, because that fault doth not only hurt the mother, but deforms and perverts the infant which is contained in her womb: for we moving any manner of way, must necessarily move whatsoever is within us. Therefore they which fit idlely at home all the time of their being with childe, as cross-legged, those which holding their heads down, do sow or work with the needle, or do any other labour, which press the belly too hard with cloaths, breeches and swathes, do produce children wrie-necked, stooping, crooked, and disfigured in their feet, hands, and the rest of their joints, as you may see in the following figure.

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The effigies af a childe, who from the first conception, by the site of the mother, had his hands and feet standing crooked.