after, while
others had a Return of the Disorder when they came back to
_Holland_. _Comment._ vol. III. p. 436. sect. 1080.

[101] _Celsus_ has long ago observed, that the Appearance of
the Menses in Girls, and of Puberty in Boys, often removes
this Disorder, lib. iii. cap. xxiii.--On the 22d of
_November_ 1758, _Mary Evans_, a Girl of eighteen Years of
Age, was admitted into _St. George_'s Hospital for Fits. She
had never had the Menstrua; but, for above two Years, found
regularly, once a Month, a Fulness in her Breasts, and had a
slight Head Ach, and other Symptoms which generally precede
this Discharge; and were succeeded with violent Epileptic
Fits, which continued returning frequently for two or three
Days, and then went off; and she had no more Symptoms of
them, till about the same Time next Month. She was ordered to
take ten Grains of the _pilulae foetidae_ Morning and Evening,
and a Dose of Physic twice a Week; and as I found that she
became plethoric near the Time her Fits used to return, I
began to imagine, that both the Fits and Stoppage of the
Menstrua were owing to too great a Fullness of the Vessels,
which prevented the Heart and vascular System from having
such free Play, as to drive the Blood through the extreme
uterine Vessels: I therefore ordered seven Ounces of Blood to
be taken away from her immediately. In three Days Time the
menstrual Discharge began to make its Appearance; and on the
10th of _January_ she was discharged the Hospital, seemingly
in good Health, after the menstrual Discharge had returned
for two regular Periods, without any Appearance of Epileptic
Fits. She was desired to come back to the Hospital, if the
Fits returned; but I never heard more of her.

[102] _William Glen_, a Patient in the _Royal Infirmary_ at
_Edinburgh_ in _September_ 1747, was freed from Epileptic
Fits, which used to return ten or twelve Times a Day, for a
Quarter of a Year, by a Diarrhoea coming on; but they
afterwards returned.

_A Man_ subject to the Epilepsy was cured of it by a Quartan
Ague, and had afterwards no Return of the Disorder. _Miscell.
Curios. Dec. 3. Ann. 3._ p. 34.

[103] There are numerous Instances of the good Effects of
Issues and Drains in diverse Authors. _Tulpius_, _Van
Swieten_, &c.

[104] _La Motte_ gives one Instance