BY the above-mentioned, which are all the most prevalent _Means_ in the _ACCESS_, we will now suppose the _PATIENT_ to be _recover’d_; in which _Case_, the next step needful, is to guard against, and prevent the _Return_ of the _FIT_, and consequently to _Cure_ the _DISEASE_; which can only be effected by removing the _Cause_, whatever it may be: And _This_, in my Opinion, may be most effectually perform’d in manner following, _viz._—— IF the _Distemper_ proceeds from the _suppressed BLOOD_ or _MENSTRUA_, This is by proper _Means_ to be reduced to its _Natural Course_ and _Condition_. If from a retain’d _Seminal Matter_ in the _Uterine Vessels_, the _Cure_ depends chiefly upon a proper _Regimen_ of _Diet_ and _Exercise_; frequent gentle _Purges_, and repeated inferiour _Venæ-Sections_: Whereas if already collected and venenated in the _WOMB_, and the _Body_ consequently _refrigerated_, no _VEIN_ may properly be touch’d or open’d; but in this _Case_, as if the _Evil_ proceeded from _vitious putrid HUMOURS_, it is to be evacuated in the same manner, as in _other Conditions_ of the _humid Intemperature_ of the _WOMB_; always corroborating and fortifying the more affected or debilitated _Parts_. NOW this Method of _Cure_, in short, being taken from the wisest of the _Ancients_[253], I shall farther add _one_ singular and essential _Step_ towards the perfecting of it; namely, if it be so, that the most severe and dangerous _Symptoms_ of this _DISTEMPER_ proceed from the _Retention_ of the _vitiated SEED_; then of Course and without Controversy, the _HYSTERICK PASSION_ must needs be most familiar to _WIDOWS_ and _marriageable VIRGINS_; to whom I must finally say, _Let them Marry_. _Si tales etenim pruriginosas, Connubio destinari contingat, ac Semen subdito virili Pessulo elici, in usumq, procreandæ Sobolis depromi, protinus illas efflorescere videas, ac faciem roseo, nitidóq; colore perfundi, blandas denique atque Amabiles, minúsq; tetricas ac morosas. Quod etiam docet_ GALENUS, _Exemplo viduæ cujusdam, quæ multo Semine effuso, à Symptomatibus integrè est liberata[254]. Itaq; dico, tales dissuetæ maturæve viro sunt tempestive elocandæ._ In fine, _MARRIAGE_ will very much help such indisposed Persons, according to the Wise _Judgment_, _Advice_ and _Direction_ of the best Antient _WRITERS_. [Illustration] CONCLUSION. BEFORE I close this finishing _Chapter_, I must entreat the _READER_’s Patience, and finally observe (by way of _Recapitulation_ upon it, which will also serve to Answer the same End upon divers places interspers’d throughout this whole BOOK) that I am very Sensible before hand, that some considerate Readers, even among the _Learned_ themselves, will be ready to stop or cavil at some of my _Sentiments_, and say, _Quo te Mœri Pedes? Et quæ te Dementia cepit?_