The third and last Case, which I shall expresly consider, is the _Hysterick_ or _Hypochondriacal_ Case; in the Cure of which the several Exercises, which I shall hereafter Recommend, may all be us’d. This Distemper falls the most under a Gymnastick Method, because the least proper to be treated with much Internal Physick; this is a Distemper which will not drive, as we say, but if kindly treated will lead, that is, will not be expell’d by Purging, Bleeding, Sweating or the like, but must be treated by more gentle and leisurely Methods; ’tis a Distemper of the Spirits, and the Vessels which immediately convey ’em; and therefore those means by which they are more immediately affected, are the most likely to prove beneficial. Here it is, if ever, strictly true, that a little Matter gives the turn, but then that little matter must be equally apply’d; we must give an equal lift to all the Parts of the Oeconomy at the same time, we must not apply to the Fluids, and neglect the Solids. ’Tis the want of this Distinction, which I take to be the Ground of all our mistakes in the Cure of this Distemper; we cure but half the Man, When I meet with a Languid Hysterick Pulse, I can easily raise it, and give a full Beat to the Artery, by Anti-Hysterick Medicines; but then what becomes of the Nerves, they are not much help’d by this, But sometimes impair’d by it? but then let the same Person have Recourse to some moderate Exercise, his Pulse shall rife as high as upon the use of Internals, but with this Difference, that the Nerves as well as the Blood partake of the Benefit. For we may distinguish between this natural advance of the Bodily heat, which is procur’d by Exercises, and that which is acquir’d by Medicines, just as we may between the Effects of the Kindly Heat of the Sun, and those of an Artificial Fire: Now in the matter of the Vegetation of Plants, and the Management of some sorts of nicer Workmanship, tho’ the greatest Care and Industry be us’d to raise a gentle heat, which to our Senses and even to the Measure of the Thermometer, may seem equal to that of the Sun, yet it shall never be able to produce the same exquisite effects, as the heat of the Sun does. And so we see in this Case the mildest and seemingly most agreeable Gumms prove Purgers to some of these People, others again can’t bear _Castor_, without some troublesome inconveniences; and how much soever some People may be Rapt up with their _Sal Volatile_, and such like Preparations, I can perhaps give an instance of more wonderful Relief given in this Case, by a more Common Cordial, than ever those splendid Medicines could produce; it may not be amiss to relate it in this place, because it serves to illustrate my Design in shewing that nothing that has the least seeming Violence in it, or rather that nothing, which is not very mild and agreeable to Nature, can be of very great moment in the Cure of this Distemper. The Instance then I mean, was communicated to me by an