Mifiellanea Curtofa. 589 



ed the Boy in his Iilnefs, obferved him to be 

 feized with his Pains at every Full Moon for Se- 

 veral Months together, which generally ended 

 with the voiding of a Srone. 



What Influence the Moon has in Afthmas, (a) 

 van Belmont takes Notice, Exacerbatur Paroxyfmus 

 (fays he) Lun<e Stationibus, & cevi tempeftatibus 

 quas ideo pr<efentit & prafagit (b) And 'Sir John 

 Vhyer, who has given us a more particular Hi- 

 ftory of this Difeafe than any Author, oblerves, 

 that The Fits ufually return once in a Fortnight, 

 and frequently happen near the Change of the Moon* 



5 Tis a more uncommon Effect of this Attra- 

 ctive Power that is related by the Learned Kerckr 

 ringius. (c) He knew a Young Gentlewoman, 

 whofe Beauty depended upon the Lunar Force, 

 infomuch that at Full Moon (he was Plump and 

 very Handfome, but in the decreafe of the Planet 

 fo Wan and ill Favoured, that (he was afham'd 

 to go abroad tiil the return of the New Moon 

 gave Fullnefs to her Face, and Attraction to her 

 Charms. 



TW this is indeed no more than an Influ- 

 ence of the fame kind, with that the Moon has 

 always been obfei ved to have upon Shell-Fifh, 

 and fome other living Creatures. For as the old 

 Latin Poet Lucilim (ays, (d) 



Luna alit OJlrea & implet Echinos, Muribu fibras 

 Et Pecui addit ■ 



Cci And 



fa) AfihmcL CST Tuff. §22. 



(b) Treatife of the Aftkma, p, 17. 



(c) Obfervat. Anatomic. 92. 



(d) ApuX A. Gdhum, lib. 20. c, 8. 



