WHEREAS if the _PAROXYSM_ proceeds from _venenated_ _SEED_, or depraved _Humours_, no _VEIN_ is to be open’d; but instead of _That_, I would lay the _Woman_ supine in her _BED_, for breathing the freer, and loose all her _Laces_, _Garters_, &c. Then if Strong _Sternutatories_, _Fœtid Smells_, _Vellication_ of her _Ears_, _Nostrils_, _Pilorumve Pudendi_, did not help her _Condition_; I would use _dolorifick Ligatures_, and _Frictions_ of _THIGHS_, _LEGS_, and _FEET_; or apply _Cupping Glasses_ without _Scarification_ to the _THIGHS_ and _GROIN_ it self: As also proper _Liniments_, _Clysters_, _Suppositories_, _Pessaries_, &c. are convenient Means: And sometimes _Suffumigations_ of _GALBANUM_, _ASSAFOETIDA_, _Old Leather_, _Cloth_, _Sulphur_, _Partridge Feathers_, _Horse-Tetters_ or _Warts_, &c. Or (which is reckon’d _Best_ of all) a few of the _PATIENT_’s _Hairs_ of her _Head_, burnt, and held to her _NOSE_. Or, while I should often tickle the _NOSTRILS_ with a _Feather_, or my _Finger_ dipp’d in the sharpest _Vinegar_, _Oleum Succini_, or the like, I would anoint the _PALLET_ with _Triacle_, _Mithridate_, or such other Things dissolv’d in pleasant _WINE_. HOWEVER, in such _Cases_, as well as in all others, _à mitioribus adhibitis, progrediendum est ad valentiora_; I say, we are to _begin with the more gentle, and proceed gradually to the more strong and powerful REMEDIES_; using all proper Means with the utmost Prudence and Discretion, and _that_ only according to the absolute Necessity and imminent Danger of the _incident Case_. Now moreover, I would add for _such_ as lose both _PULSE_ and _BREATH_, that some of the above _REMEDIES_ are not only requisite; but also, according to the excellent _Horatius Augenius_, a little generous _WINE_ with _Nutmeg_, _Cinnamon_ and _Cloves_, adding _five Grains_ of _MUSK_, is altogether proper for _this PATIENT_[251]: Tho’ for _others_, who have not quite lost all _Sense_ and _Motion_, nothing is perhaps more pernicious than the _USE_ of such _Odoriferous Matters_, since I have known several _Women_ to have been immediately _suffocated_, even by the very _Smell_ of _MUSK_, _CIVET_, _AMBER_, &c. But when the Sick _PATIENT_ lies (as above) for _dead_, if such _Odours_ can excite the _WOMB_, they can likewise move the _Arteries_, and give Hopes of _Recovery_; upon which occasion also, I would apply hot _Sear-Cloths_ to the _Regions_ of the _HEART_ and _WOMB_: Or, if I suspected the _HEAD_ to abound with _frigid Humours_, I would moreover apply _Vesicatories_ behind the _EARS_, or an _Issue_, or _drawing Plaister_ to the _NAPE_ of the _Neck_, always cherishing the _STOMACH_ with proper _Fomentations_: As also according to some, the _Hoof_ of an _ELK_, is a present _REMEDY_ in all such _Suffocations_ or _FITS of the Mother_[252].