of a Person being cured
of the Epilepsy by voiding five Stones, _Chirurg._ vol. II.
p. 20; and of another who died of the Fits from a triangular
Stone remaining in the Kidneys, _ibid._ p. 416. Dr. _Short_
cured a Woman of an Epilepsy of twelve Years standing, by
extirpating a cartilagenous Substance, about the Bigness of a
large Pea, seated on the gastronemei Muscles, above a Nerve
which he cut asunder. _Edin. Medic. Essays_, vol. IV. Art.
27.

[105] _Galen_, tells us, of his having prevented the
Epileptic Fits in a Boy, who used to have one whenever he was
hungry, by making him carry Bread in his Pocket, and eat a
little as soon as he found the least Symptoms of Hunger. _De
Loc. Affect._ lib. v. cap. vi.--And _Van Swieten_ mentions
how he cured a Boy, who had a Fit every full Moon; whose
under Lip used to fall a Trembling before it began (a Symptom
which, he says, often precedes Vomiting); by giving a Vomit
every Month, for six Months successively, three Days before
the full Moon, and an Opiate in the Evening after its
Operation; and by putting him under a Course of strengthening
Medicines. It was observeable, that if he vomited in the Time
of the Paroxysm, it was soon at an End. See his _Comment._
vol. III. p. 439. sect. 1050.

OF THE SMALL-POX.

The Small-Pox appeared at _Paderborn_ in the Spring 1761, and five had
the distinct Kind, who recovered. Six or seven had them at _Osnabruck_
in _May_ and _June_, and one Man and a Child died of the confluent
Kind. Four had the distinct Kind at _Munster_ in _July_ and _August_
who all did well. During the Winter, we had sixteen in the Hospital I
attended at _Bremen_; ten had the distinct Kind, and all recovered;
five had the confluent Kind, of whom two died; as did also one who was
brought to the Hospital with all the Symptoms of the most malignant
Kind. Two were sent to _Natzungen_ in _July_, both ill of the
confluent Kind; the one died two Hours after his Arrival; the other
recovered: And we had only two in the Hospital at _Osnabruck_ in
Winter 1762-63, and both did well.

There was nothing particular either in the Course or Treatment of this
Disorder, different from what we meet with in daily Practice; only as
the Soldiers, who were attacked with it, were strong, and in full
Health, they required Bleeding and gentle Evacuations, and a cooling
Regimen, on the first Appeara