SECT. II.
SUCHDistempersas are incident to thisSexinChildhood, are generally common to theOther; wherefore I shall take another Opportunity to treat of them moreparticularly, and conduct theChild, whetherMaleorFemale, thro’ all theIndispositions, to which its tenderAge, or flexileNature, may subject it, from the Moment ofBirth, until the Time ofPuberty: At whichAge, the more delicateConstitutionofFemales, takes a quite differentTurnfrom That of theother Sex.
ATthisCrisis, or Juncture of Time, theImbecilityof theirnatural Dispositionsbegins to display itself, by various and differentSYMPTOMS; to which, some are more, and some less, expos’d from Henceforward; very few being altogether exempted from what is so peculiar to theirState: Wherefore (in the first place)I shall undertake to lay down theCauses, theSymptoms, theDegreesof Danger, and the respectiveMethods of CuringsuchDiseasesas are incident toVirgins: Which leads me previously to define theVirgin-State, in