SECT.VII.
HAVINGparticularly defin’d theNatural Conception, in Chap. I. Sect. III. and hitherto treated of its various differentConsequences, both inGestation,BirthandChild-Bed; I come in the next place (conformable to my promise before-mentioned) to treat of the opposite andreverse Case, commonly call’d (by theAuthors) a vitious or depravatedConception: Which however, I shall distinguish by the generalTitleofpræternatural, as I have oneSetofBirthsunder the same Denomination, contained in Sect. V. But——
NOW, because I judge all suchConceptionsas well asBirths, to bepræternatural, which, tho’ not according to theordinary InstitutionofNature, are yet however notrepugnanttoNature: And because suchConceptions, as well as thePræternaturalBirthsalready defin’d, happen after many different ways and manners; I shall also reduce and divide them intotwoClasses,viz.——
FIRST,PræternaturalConceptionsin respect of theNumber; to which belong allSuperfætations, and other NumerousConceptions; AndSecondly,PræternaturalConceptionsin respect to theFormorSubstance; to which belong allfalseConceptions,Moles,Monsters,&c.Of all which particularly and briefly in their due Order, andFirst——