Now,
that a childe borne in the seuenth moneth may liue, both Astrologers
and Phisicions [102] doe affirme, but in the 8. they deny it;
and these are their reasons: The Astrologers hold, that the
child in the mothers wombe, is successiuely gouerned euery moneth,
by the seuen Planets, beginning at Saturne: after which reckoning,
he returning to his rule the 8, month, by his dreery influence,
infortunateth any birth that shal then casually befall: whereas
his succeeder Iupiter, by a better disposition worketh a more
beneficiall effect. The Phisicions deliuer, that in the seuenth
moneth, the childe, by course of nature, turneth it self in the
mothers belly; wherefore, at that time, it is readier (as halfe
loosed) to take issue by any outward chance. Mary, in the eighth,
when it beginneth to settle againe, and as yet retayneth some
weakenes of the former sturring, it requireth a more forcible
occasion, & that induceth a slaughtering violence. Or if these
coniecturall reasons suffice not to warrant a probability of
the truth, Plynies authority in a stranger case, shall presse
them farther: for hee writeth, that a woman brought a bed of one
childe in the seuenth moneth, in the moneths following, was also
deliuered of twinnes.
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