Mijcettanea Curioja. 385 



Whether or no it be 1 1 r o want of due Heed and 

 Enquiry that we have not in all the Collections of 

 Hiftories and Cafes, any Inftance of the like Nature 

 lb particular as this is, I know not ; this is cer- 

 tain, that as the Vertigo is a Difeafe nearly rela- 

 ted to the Epilepfy, and the Hyfterical Symptoms do 

 partake of the fame Nature ; fo both one and the 

 other are frequently obferved to obey the Lunar 

 Influence. In like manner, the raving Fits of 

 Mad People, which keep Lunar Periods, are 

 generally in fbme degree Epileptic too, 



Tulpius (4) and Fijo (b) afford us remarkable 

 Inftancesof Periodical Palfeys, 



Every one knows how great a fhare the Moon 

 has in forwarding thofe Evacuations of the weaker 

 Sex, which have their Name from the conftant 

 Regularity they keep in their Returns \ and 

 there is no queftion to be made, but the Corre- 

 fpondency we here obferve, would be greater 

 {till, and even Univerfal, did not many Acci- 

 dents, and the infinite Varieties in particular Con- 

 ftitutions one way or other concur to make a dif- 

 ference. Jt is very obfervable that in Countries 

 nearer! to the iEquator, where we have proved the 

 Lunar Action to be ftrongefl: ; thefe Monthly Se- 

 cretions are in much greater quantity than in 

 thofe near the Poles, where this force is weaker!. 

 This Hippocrates (c) takes notice of, and gives 

 it as one Reafon why the Women in Scythia are 

 not very fruitful. 



The Cafe being thus with Females,it is no wonder 

 if we fomecimes meet with Periodical Hemorrhages 



anfwering 



(a) Obferv. DAeL lib. I. cap. 12. 



(b) DeCMorb. a ferofa CoUvie % Obf. a 8. 



(c) De Aere Jquis & locis. 



