Eminent Physician, and very Learned Writer, and is this; He was call’d to see a Maid which had been severely Tormented with Hysterick Fits for several days, and had taken plenty of the Remedies usual in that Case, without any effect; upon which he was resolv’d to try, what a good large Dose of a true generous Wine would do, considering she was a Servant, and consequently could not be suppos’d to be accustom’d to that Liquor, which would have render’d his attempt fruitless; he therefore prescrib’d some Pouders of no Efficacy, to obviate the Phancy of the By-standers, and order’d the Apothecary to ply her with some Wine of his own procuring, that he could depend upon, till she had taken a quantity, which to her might be reckon’d very large; this succeeded like a Charm, after a good Sleep, she was freed of all her terrible Symptoms the next Morning, tho’ before she could scarce stir her head from the Pillow, but she fell into a Fit. And I have twice had the Occasion, to see something of the like nature my self; the first was, where a large Dose of Wine took off some very ill Symptoms, occasion’d by strong Purgers, erroneously repeated in a certain Nervous Case. But the Person had not been us’d to drink Wine, otherwise it could not have produc’d such a happy effect. I instance in these things only to shew, that the Remedies which are most proper and adequate to this Case, must be such as have something of an inimitable Mediocrity in ’em; and that Exercises do produce Alterations in the Body, which resemble the effects of such a singular and Noble Mean, is not improbable, in regard they act so equally (as I observ’d before) both upon the Solids and Fluids. And one would think the Ill Success of any thing, but like Violence, should lead us to some such Measures as these. One would be apt to think that when a Distemper, which carries as little, or may be, the least danger of Life in it, of any whatsoever, tho’ so very troublesome, when this nevertheless becomes one of the most difficult to be perfectly rooted out, one would think, I say, that this odd Circumstance, so like to Contradiction, should prompt us to look out for the real Reason of it.