[102] _William Glen_, a Patient in the _Royal Infirmary_ at _Edinburgh_ in _September_ 1747, was freed from Epileptic Fits, which used to return ten or twelve Times a Day, for a Quarter of a Year, by a Diarrhœa coming on; but they afterwards returned. _A Man_ subject to the Epilepsy was cured of it by a Quartan Ague, and had afterwards no Return of the Disorder. _Miscell. Curios. Dec. 3. Ann. 3._ p. 34. [103] There are numerous Instances of the good Effects of Issues and Drains in diverse Authors. _Tulpius_, _Van Swieten_, &c. [104] _La Motte_ gives one Instance of a Person being cured of the Epilepsy by voiding five Stones, _Chirurg._ vol. II. p. 20; and of another who died of the Fits from a triangular Stone remaining in the Kidneys, _ibid._ p. 416. Dr. _Short_ cured a Woman of an Epilepsy of twelve Years standing, by extirpating a cartilagenous Substance, about the Bigness of a large Pea, seated on the gastronemei Muscles, above a Nerve which he cut asunder. _Edin. Medic. Essays_, vol. IV. Art. 27. [105] _Galen_, tells us, of his having prevented the Epileptic Fits in a Boy, who used to have one whenever he was hungry, by making him carry Bread in his Pocket, and eat a little as soon as he found the least Symptoms of Hunger. _De Loc. Affect._ lib. v. cap. vi.--And _Van Swieten_ mentions how he cured a Boy, who had a Fit every full Moon; whose under Lip used to fall a Trembling before it began (a Symptom which, he says, often precedes Vomiting); by giving a Vomit every Month, for six Months successively, three Days before the full Moon, and an Opiate in the Evening after its Operation; and by putting him under a Course of strengthening Medicines. It was observeable, that if he vomited in the Time of the Paroxysm, it was soon at an End. See his _Comment._ vol. III. p. 439. sect. 1050. OF THE SMALL-POX. The Small-Pox appeared at _Paderborn_ in the Spring 1761, and five had the distinct Kind, who recovered. Six or seven had them at _Osnabruck_ in _May_ and _June_, and one Man and a Child died of the confluent Kind. Four had the distinct Kind at _Munster_ in _July_ and _August_ who all did well. During the Winter, we had sixteen in the Hospital I attended at _Bremen_; ten had the distinct Kind, and all recovered; five had the confluent Kind, of whom two died; as did also one who was brought to the Hospital with all the Symptoms of the most malignant Kind. Two were sent to _Natzungen_ in _July_, both ill of the confluent Kind; the one died two Hours after his Arrival; the other recovered: And we had only two in the Hospital at _Osnabruck_ in Winter 1762-63, and both did well.