THE _Prognosticks_ of this _Uterine_ SUFFOCATION, which I shall but briefly hint upon; and FIRST, observe, that where the HUMOURS overcharge the _Body_, and are implicated among themselves; in this _Case_ the FITS do not always keep their _Legitimate Times_, nor their _proper Insults_, but are sometimes more _frequent_, more _sharp_, and more _diuturnal_; in like manner, as a _Concourse_ of WINDS excites the most violent STORMS, according to the _Poet_[248], _“Unà Eurusque Notusque ruunt, creberque procellis “Africus, & vastos volvunt ad Littora Fluctus:_ So a _Concourse_ and _Confluxion_ of HUMOURS, must needs aggravate the _Distemper_; but more especially, when the afflicted _PATIENT_ is taken with a _Complication_ of _Distempers_, such as when the _HYSTERICK_ _FIT_ is join’d with a _Syncope_, or severe _Convulsions_, &c. _then_ the _Case_ is most dangerous.[249] —— —— —— _“Nam corpore in Uno “Frigida cum Calidis Pugnant, Humentia Siccis, “Mollia cum duris, Sine pondere habentia pondus._ These Things, consisting in the _Corruption_ and _Inflammation_, or in the _Quantity_ and _Quality_ of the _peccant HUMOURS_, concur with the _other Causes_, above defin’d, that the _Circulations_ of the _Distemper_ are either shorter or longer, more frequent or more rare, or more safe or more dangerous in the Event. SECONDLY, I observe in this place, that, if the _Distemper_ does not carry off the _PATIENT_, as often happens in the foregoing _Condition_, it commonly degenerates at last into an _Apoplexy_, or _Palsy_, _Stupidity_, or deep _Melancholy_, &c. Wherefore I come now _finally_ to treat of the Method of its _Cure_; which is twofold, _One_ in the _Access_ or _FIT_, and _another_ in the _Interval_. Then as to the _First_—— IN the _FIT_, _Revulsive_ and _Repressing Remedies_ are most apposite, together with _Corroboratives_ for the _HEART_ and _VENTRICLE_, as well as for the WOMB it self. But because _Revulsives_ are of many and different kinds, they are to be discreetly us’d, according to the Nature of the _Cause_ from whence the _Evil_ proceeds: For if suppressed BLOOD be the _Cause_, in that _Case_, _Galen_ agrees with _Hippocrates_ that an _Inferiour Vene-Section_ is convenient, and that even tho’ a _Syncope_ join the _SUFFOCATION_, because the _One_ is but the Effect of the _Other_[250]: Remembring always that such _Bleedings_ must be done with great Prudence and Caution, because of the present _Prostration_ of the _Strength_ and _Spirits_, and _Refrigeration_ of the PATIENT’s whole Body.