IF it arises from _frigid Flatulencies_, the _Paroxysms_ or Fits are preceded by a _Hissing_ or _Tingling_ in the EARS; the PATIENT turns _pale_ and _wan_, and is taken with an odd extensive _Pain_ of the HEAD: And if these _Flatulencies_ generate in the HEAD, the _Party_ feels it _ponderous_, _lumpish_, and _heavy_; and is consequently much inclin’d to _Sleep_, _Stupidity_, _Dullness_, and _Inactivity_. IF the _Distemper_ is derived from a _flatulent Stomach_, the _PATIENT_ is troubled with _Rifting_ and _Rumbling_ of the Belly; with _Sobbing_ and _Sighing_, with _Hickups_, _Yawnings_, _Extensions_, _Inflations_, and frequent _Spittings_. IF it comes from a _Mordacity_ of the _Mouth of the Stomach_, the _Party_ is infested with a _Nausea_, _Loathing_ and _Fastidy_; with a Dejection of _Appetite_, a lasting or frequent _Thirst_, and a _Bitterness_ of the Mouth. But this _Affection_ also very often proceeds from the WOMB, and that either because of the suppress’d _Menstrua_, or longretain’d _Seed_; as will hereafter more fully appear in _Sect._ ix. _Chap. 8_. AS to the _Prognosticks_ of this _Distemper_, it does not always seem _Dangerous_, much less _Lethal_, at first; but its _Consequences_ are (however) very _Fatal_[69], if not timely prevented: For it often turns to _Inflammations_[70] of the HEAD, or _Convulsions_; sometimes to _Melancholy_ or _Madness_; and sometimes to _Epilepsies_ or _Apoplexies_. NOW because this _Affection_ observes _Lunar Periods_, and in extreme Cases, is near a-kin to the _Falling-Sickness_;[71] _Cœlius Aurelianus_ informs us, That it was call’d by the _Ancients_ the _little Epilepsy_: And as it admits of _periodical Accessions_ and _Circulations_ (I mean coming and going _Fits_) which depend chiefly upon the Power and Influence of the _New_ and _Full-Moon_; so it is to be treated with respect to _Cure_, in a different manner; one way in the _Access_, another in the _Interval_. BUT this _Cure_ is as different, as the Causes and Degrees of the _Distemper_ are various; wherefore I can, by no means, enter upon it in this place, for Brevity-sake. [Illustration] CHAP. XIII. _Of the SYMPTOMS of the middle Three Months._ THE FOETUS having receiv’d a distinct FORM, constituted of various _Organical Members_, and produced of divers _substantial Matters_, takes a various _Situation_; the different _Members_ possessing different _Places_, according to the _Institution of NATURE_.