For Confirmation of which, we need only to reflect on what Mr. _Paschal_ has remark'd, _concerning the Motions of Diseases and Births and Deaths_[51]. Dividing the Νυχθήμερον into Four Senaries of Hours, the first consists of three hours before the Southing of the Moon, and three after; the second of the six hours following, and the third and fourth of the remaining Quarters of the natural day; He takes notice that none are born, or die a natural Death in the first and third Senaries, which he calls first and second Tides, but all either in the second or fourth Senaries, which he calls first and second Ebbs. In like manner, that in Agues, the tumult of the Fits generally lasts all the Tiding time, and then goes off in kindly Sweats in the Ebbs. From whence he very rationally concludes, that Motion, Vigour, Action, Strength, _&c._ appear most, and do best in the _Tiding Senaries_; and that Rest, Relaxation, Decay, Dissolution, _&c._ belong to the _Ebbing Senaries_. [25] Τας τῶν ἐπιλήπτων τηρεῖ περιόδους. _De Dieb. Critic. lib._ 3. [26] _Alexand. Trallian._ lib. 1. c. 15. [27] Matth. c. 17. v. 15. [28] _Apuleius de Virtutib. Herbar._ cap. 6. & 95. [29] _Anatom. Centur._ 2. H. 72. [30] _Observ. Med._ lib. 1. cap. 12. [31] _De Morb. à serosâ Colluvie_, Obs. 28. [32] _De Aere Aquis & Locis._ [33] Nᵒ 272. [34] _Philos. Trans._ Nᵒ 171. [35] _Medicin. Static._ Sect. 1. Aph. 65. [36] _De Experiment. circa Sanguin._ p. m. 341. [37] _Observat._ Lib. 2. c. 43. _vid. etiam Observ._ 52. [38] _Asthma & Tuss._ § 22. [39] _Treatise of the Asthma_, p. 17. [40] _Observat. Anatomic._ 92. [41] _Apud_ A. Gellium, lib. 20. c. 8. [42] _Astronomic._ lib. 2. [43] _De Feber. Intermit._ Ann. 1661. pag. _m._ 65. [44] _Comment. in Aphor._ 59. lib. 4. & _de Crisib._ lib. 2. c. 6. [45] _Epidem._ lib. 1. Sect. 3. [46] αἱ μὲν οὖν ἡμέραι ἐπισημόταταί εἰσιν ἐν τοῖς πλείστοις αἵτε πρῶται καὶ ἑβδομιαῖαι, πολλαὶ μὲν περὶ νούσων, πολλαὶ δὲ καὶ τοῖς ἐμβρύοις. _de Septimestri Partu._ [47] _Vid. Celsum_ lib. 3. c. 4. [48] _Ibid._ [49] _De diebus Decretor._ lib. 3. [50] _Ibid._ [51] _Philos. Transact._ Nᵒ 202. A COROLLARY. It having bin explained in the Beginning of this Discourse, how those Influences of the Heavens, which favour the _Returns_ of _Diseases_, may likewise raise _Winds_ at the same times; and that We feel the different Effects of _These_ according as other Causes do concurr to the Motion of the Air; it will not be amiss, to shew in one Instance or two, how much Natural History confirms this Reasoning. There happened on the 26th of _November_, 1703. a little before Midnight, a most terrible _Storm_ of _Wind_, the Fury of it is still fresh in every ones Mind, which lasted above six Hours.