IT comprehends, in short, many various severe, and even wonderful SYMPTOMS in it self; whence I conclude, that, he who sufficiently understands the _present Case_ or _Condition_, may easily comprehend all the other Circumstances, belonging to the foregoing _general Head_; Since with whatever difference of _Symptoms_, or _Diagnostick Signs_, they may appear, the _Causes_ and _Effects_ are originally of the same _Nature_: For _This_ is the very _Affection_ which _Galen_[235] call’d the ωνὶξ ὑσεικὴ, that is, the _Hysterick Passion_, and he might as well have said the _grand Hysterick Passion_: The _Latins_ call it _Strangulatio_, or _Suffocatio_, or _Præfocatio Uterina_; because in the FIT, the _Woman_ seems to be _Suffocated_ or _Strangled_ by the WOMB. But to the Purpose,—— HOWEVER variously and copiously the Ancients have defin’d this EVIL, I think the few following Words, may properly explain it, _viz._ _This Suffocation is a Distemper of all the Natural, Vital, and Animal Actions, proceeding many different ways, from an ill or disaffected_ WOMB. I say many _different ways_, according to the many _different Sorts_ of the _AFFECTION_; because _One_ is, when the SYMPTOMS of the _læs’d Natural Faculty_ only appear; in which the _PATIENT_ labours under _Inflations_, and frequent _Rumblings_ of the _BELLY_, _Murmurings_, _Belchings_, _Pains_ of the STOMACH, _Anxiety_, _Uneasiness_, and sometimes _Vomitings_. _Another_ different _AFFECTION_ is, when the _vital Faculty_ is læs’d or indisposed, in which the _PATIENT_ is not only taken with _Heart-Beatings_, but also with _Faintings_ and _Swooning-Fits_, with a small, frequent, and unequal _PULSE_. A _Third_ is when the _Animal Faculty_ is læs’d or disaffected, which may happen many ways; and in this _Condition_ the WOMAN is depriv’d of _Motion_ and all _external Sense_, however she retains the principal _Functions_, together with her _PULSE_ and _BREATH_. AGAIN, farther yet, there is _another Sort_ of this _Hysterick AFFECTION_, in which the _Motion_ is deprav’d, turning to various CONVULSIONS of the _Legs_, _Arms_, _Teeth_, _Lips_, _Eyes_, and so of the whole Body. As also moreover, there is still _ONE_, or a _Fifth_ different _Sort_ of this SUFFOCATION, in which all the _Faculties of Life_ are seemingly abolished; so far, that (according to common Sense and Apprehension) the _PATIENT_ differs in Nothing from a _dead Person_. Hence it has often happen’d, that such _Women_ (upon a mistake) have been imprudently _buried_ (for _DEAD_,) and sometimes had the good Fortune to return from their _Graves_ to their _Houses_ again; whereof many learned _Authors_ give us remarkable _Instances_[236].