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lime-water with her pills; but fhe has 
continued perfectly well ever fince, without 
taking any thing. | | 
1. WERE not thefe a kind of periodi- 
cal nephritic convulfions? I have known 
nephritic fymptoms particularly trouble- 
fome to other female patients about the 
time of menftruation ; ; which feems to 
be owing to the greater turgefcence of 
the neighbouring parts of the uterus at 
that period, by which the urinary veflels 
- become at the fame time fuller and more 
ftraitened. 
2. Ir is remarkable thefe convulfions 
were {carce accompanied with any fymp- 
tom of the nephritic kind till the pain and 
dy fury Seat appeared fo, after the third 
fit, which the intermediate means feem to 
have contributed to make much flighter 
than the two former. 
Tus will lead us, efpecially in nervous 
cafes, which are often found to be fympa- 
thic, to be more particularly attentive to 
even the fmaller fymptoms, which are 
fometimes a better clue to guide us to the 
origin of the diforder, than thofe violent 
accidents 
