FINALLY, as to the _third Cause_, Supposing this AFFECTION to seize _Women_, who not only Purge regularly, but are also satiated with _Virile Conversation_; or, as it sometimes happens, to take _Old Women_: In these _Cases_, the _Cause_ is undoubtedly very different from those mentioned, and proceeds either from _Winds_, _Vapours_, or putrid and corrupted _Humours_, contain’d in the WOMB, and communicated by various _Passages_, to the HEART and BRAIN: And this _Corruption_ may readily succeed in the WOMB, because, as _it_ is a part very different from any other of the BODY, endued with peculiar _Faculties_, so if it be not well disposed, the vitious _Humours_ may also corrupt in it, after a peculiar manner; if not in its own _Cavity_, in the _Uterine Vessels_, as most frequently happens. UPON which, I observe that, if these _Winds_ or _Vapours_ are communicated to the HEART, thro’ the _Veins_ and _Arteries_, the SUFFOCATION happens with _Palpitation_: If to the BRAIN, with a _Vertigo_, a _Tingling of the Ears_, and a _Suffusion_ from the _Phantasms of the Eyes_: Whereas, if the deprav’d _Humours_ or _Vapours_, ascend there, thro’ the _Nerves_, various _Convulsions_ happen; especially if the BRAIN abounds also with _frigid Humours_. And _these_, in short, according to the foresaid _Authorities_, are all the Proximous and _immediate Causes_ of the HYSTERICK PASSION. HENCE I come now to touch upon the _mediate Causes_ of the same _Distemper_, which may be easily conceiv’d by any who understands _those_ of the _suppressed_ MENSTRUA, GONORRHÆA, _&c._ which _Cases_ I can by no means enter upon at this Time, for the reasons mentioned in the last preceding _Chapter_. BUT from what is said (I hope) this _Uterine_ STRANGULATION, together with all its Differences, may be easily distinguished by the ingenious _Reader_. However yet, because all its _different Sorts_ have some degree of _Affinity_, with other diverse _Symptoms_, which no ways proceed from the WOMB; I come now to propose some SIGNS of _Distinction_, first in _general_, and next in _particular_, viz.—— THE _general_ SIGNS then are _Three_, by which I think, the HYSTERICK may be readily distinguished from all other _Affections_, namely,—— I. IT is a _Muliebrian Disease_, and that only familiar to some of the more _delicate Women_: When therefore we know, from the PATIENT herself, or from those about her, that she is obnoxious to this _Affection_; the HYSTERIC _Symptoms_ also appearing, we need not suspect any other Distemper. II. _Hysterical Women_ complain frequently of their WOMBS being ill-disposed, and out of order. As, III. _They_ are most commonly helped and freed from the PAROXYSM, by holding _Fœtids_ to the NOSE, and _Suaveolents_ to the PUDENDUM; which holds good in no other _Affection_. But more particularly——