He that compares what has been already advanc’d concerning _Deliria_, with the _Bellinian_ Theory of Melancholy and Maniacal Distempers, and reflects upon the Nature of Baths, and their manner of Acting, will see so much Reason in this Practice, as to be sorry that ’tis now-a-days almost quite laid aside and neglected. For we must observe, that altho’ there be some Difference in the Treatment and Cure of _Deliria_, whether Maniacal or Melancholy, when they are Originally from the Mind, as the Effects of Care, Trouble, or the like, and when from an Indisposition of the Body; yet that both do agree in this, that they require an Alteration to be made in the Blood and Spirits; inasmuch as the Mind, by often, nay, almost continually, renewing to it self any one _Idea_, of Love, Sorrow, _&c._ does so constantly determine the Spirits and Blood, one and the same way, that the Body does at last as much share in the Alteration, as if it had been primarily affected, and consequently must have, in some manner, the same Amendment. Upon this Score _Baccius_ (109) asserts the admirable Use of Temperate Baths, in all kind of Distractions; and assures us, that not only common _Deliria_, but even the _Dæmoniaci_, _Phanatici_, _Lycanthropi_ themselves, _&c._ are cured by frequent Washings in fresh Water, and a moist and Nourishing Diet. But to insist upon this Subject is foreign to our purpose; only in regard that the most usual Methods of Cure in these Cases are so very tedious, and oftentimes unsuccessful at the last, I thought it not amiss to hint thus much, in order to the advancing something more Certain and Effectual towards the Removal of the greatest Unhappiness to which Mankind is liable. To conclude with the _Hydrophobia_; where these Remedies fail, or are Administred too late, the Patient, from the prevailing inflammatory Disposition of the Blood, grows more and more _Delirous_, and by Degrees downright raving Mad, at last (as it most commonly happens in Maniacal People) suffers a total Resolution of Strength, and Dies. Thus Dr. _Howna_’s Case ended in a perfect universal _Paralysis_. FOOTNOTES to Essay II. (48) _De Tarantul._ (49) _Histor. Animal. Nov. Hispan._ Tract 4. c. 5 (50) _Baglivi_, p. 11. (51) _Vid. Fig. 16._ (52) _Micrograph. Curios._ p. 69. (53) Pag. 40. (54) Of Languid and unheeded Motion. (55) _Borelli De Vi Percussion._ Prop. 90, _and_ 111. (56) _De Sanitate Tuenda_, lib. 1. c. 8. (57) _Pythior. Od._ 3. μαλακαῖς ἐπαοιδαῖς. _Vid. ibid. Scholia._ (58) _A Carmine._ (59) _Deipnosoph._ l. 14. p. m. 624. (60) _Vid. Bartholin. de Tibiis Veter._ l. 1. c. 9. (61) εἰ καταυλήσοι τις τοῦ τόπου τῇ φρυγιστὶ ἁρμονίᾳ. (62) _Morb. chronic._ l. 5. c. 1. _Qua cum saltum sumerent palpitando discusso dolore mitescerent._ (63) _Nect. Atticar._ l. 4. c. 13. (64) _Histor. Mirabil._ (65) _Apud Aul. Gell. loc. citat. Plurimis hominum Morbis Medicinam suisse Incentiones Tibiarum._ (66) _Plutarc. de Musica._ (67) _Loc. ante cit._