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has fail’d my Expe6lation in the Mania^ and other Ca- 
fes wherein the Genus Nervofum and Blood feem to 
be affeded after the fame Manner, but in a lefs Degree. 
At your Requeft, 1 fend you the Hiftory of Four Cafes, 
with all the Exadnefs my Memory can afford. I own 
1 flatter my felf, that from the Effeds of this Medicine 
Phyficians may be led into a more fure Way of Reafon- 
ing \xiNervousH> 'iforders^ and therefore give you Leave 
to publilh thefe Hiflories, if you think they may be of 
Ufe to the Publick. 
I. A Gentlewoman of Nineteen Years of Age^ from 
an obflinate Fading for Two Days, and Averfion to fee ' 
Company, in a religious Turn Eafler^ fell into 
a deep Melancholy, would not talk, nor anfwer any 
Qiieftion for fome Time, but moan’d and (igh’d conti- 
nually \ flept very little for Ten Days. This happen’d 
in the Y)ecline of the Moon. The Night before the 
Change fhe fpoke, and call’d for fome Water to drink, 
which being given her, fhe immediately fell a darting 
and laughing, and her Eyes got a Brisknefs in them 
fomewhat uncommon, (as her Relations told me) then 
began to talk wildly, and continu’d fo all that Night. 
She became next Morning very furious ; whereupon a 
Phydcian was call’d, who bled her Four Times a Week 
the fird Fourteen Days, vomited her, purg’d her, us’d 
the Cold Bath^ and many other Methods common in 
fuch Cafes, all to no Purpofe. In this Condition ftie 
continu’d for Nine Months^ then I was apply *d to, 
I fird began her with an Antimonial Vomit, which had 
no other Effed than that of fetting her fad afleep for 
T welve Hours. Next Day I gave her » S^inapi ai of Cam^ 
fhire in a Bolus^ and as much at Night. She continu’d 
to red well all that Night, and had a great Moidnefs all 
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