Mifcelhnea Curiofa. 387 



difficultly faved from a Confamption. The ci- 

 ther (&) is a Story of an Inn-Kjeper in Ireland, 

 who from the 45 Year of his Life, to the ^jth 

 (m which it killed him) fuffered a Periodical E- 

 vacuation at the point of the Fore-Finger of his 

 Right-hand ; and altho the Fits here kept not 

 their returns fo certain as in the forementioned 

 Cafe, (it may be either from the irregular way of 

 Jiving of the Patient, or the mighty change eve- 

 ry Effulion made in his habit of Body, the quan. 

 tity feldom amounting to lefs than four Pounds 

 at a time) yet there is this remarkable Circum- 

 ftance in the Relation, that the firft beginning 

 of this Hemorrhage was at Eafter^ that is, the next 

 Full Moon after the Vernal Equinox, which is 

 one of the two Seafons of the Year, at which we 

 have proved the attraction of the Air, or lefien- 

 ingof its PreiTure, to be greater than at any other 

 time whatfbever. 



But we are befides this to confider,That the Sta- 

 tic Chair, and nice Obfervation taught Santlorim, 

 Q>) That Men do increafe a Pound or Wo in their 

 weight every Month^vohich overplus is difchargedat the 

 Months end, by a Crijis of copious,or thich^turbidVrine. 



It is not therefore atallftrange that we (hou'd 

 once a Month be liable to the returns of fuch 

 Diftempers as depend upon a Fullnefs of the 

 Veffels, chat thefe fhould take plate at thofe 

 times efpecially, when the ambient Air is leaft 

 able to reprefs the Turgency ; and that tho' 

 New and Full Moon are both of equal Force, 

 yet that fometimes one, and fometimes the o- 

 ther only mould Influence the Periods, accord- 

 C c ' ing 



(z) Pbilof. Travf. N° 171. 



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