_Treatment._—Where the patient is young, and it is the first attack, bleeding to a small extent is advisable; but in general, beyond the exhibition of stimulating draughts of ammonia and brandy, cold water dashed on the face, and heat applied to the feet, little or nothing can be done during the paroxysm beyond putting a gag in the mouth, and fastening it behind the head, so as to save the patient’s tongue; the treatment must be left till after the fit, and the remedies used with the hope of preventing a recurrence of the attack. When epilepsy proceeds from disease of the brain or spinal column, a seton should be established in the neck, the general correction of the system attended to, by change of scene, a course of mineral waters, a plain but unexciting diet, and the daily use of the subjoined pills, marked 1 and 2, continuing each for three weeks, resting one week, and then beginning the other with exactly the same routine. It may be here remarked, that no medicine has been found so efficacious in epilepsy as nitrate of silver or lunar caustic, and after that a preparation of copper. No. 1.—Take of Nitrate of Silver 4 grains. Bread Crumbs 1 drachm. Mix. Extract of gentian, sufficient to make a mass, which divide into twenty-four pills, of which give one, three times a day. No. 2.—Take of Ammoniate of Copper 6 grains. Bread Crumbs 1 drachm. Mix well, and add extract of camomile, enough to make into a mass, which divide into twenty-four pills, one to be given three times a day. When epilepsy is symptomatic, or the cause of worms or irritation in the bowels, it must be treated according to the provocative cause; in other cases, a course of mild aperient medicines should be adopted, and the bowels kept regularly open; exercise by walking, sea bathing, early hours, and such pastimes as give a healthy tone to the mind, steadily persisted in. For the tremor that sometimes follows the recovery from the fit, the following antispasmodic mixture will be found efficacious, though, as a general rule for symptomatic epilepsy, a regular diet, change of scene and air, exercise, and a constant mild action on the bowels, will be found sufficient. Take of Valerian Root 2 drachms. Serpentaria Root 1 drachm. Boiling Water ½ pint. Infuse for six hours, strain, and add Spirits of Hartshorn 3 drachms. Sulphuric Ether 1 drachm. Mix, and give one or two table-spoonfuls three times a day. By adding half a drachm of quassia to this infusion, a tonic property will be added to the antispasmodic effect of the mixture. FAINTING, OR SYNCOPE.