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Some Women under this Diforder, fancy a Rope ty'd about their Necks, ready to lirangle thern ; and others, a Piece got into their Throats, which they cannot fwallow, but ftops their Bread : Some will even remain a good while as if really ftrangled, without any Senfe or Motion.

The more common Symptoms or Accidents of this Dif- eate, are a Swimming of the Head, Dazzling of the Eyes, Inquietudes, Pains of the Abdomen, Belches, Naufeas, Vo- mitings, Deliriums, Convulfions. It is not always attended with all thefe Symptoms, but fometiuies with more, and ibmetimes with lefi, and thofe more or lefs violent.

Dr. 'Furcel delcribes a Hyjleric Paroxyfm, as beginning with a Senfe of Coldnefs creeping up the Back, and after- wards fpreading over the whole Body ; Then enfues a Head-ach, and ibmetimes a Palpitation of the Heart, with a fainting, from which the Patient foon recovers. Some- times, after the Coldnefs, fucceeds a remarkable Heat, which brings on the fore-met.tion'd Symptoms. Saglivi adds, that Hyjleric Women feel a Senfe of Cold in the Crown of the Head ; and this he takes to be the chief Di- agnollic of the Dileafe.

The ordinary Caules of this Diforder are violent Pamons, Rage, Love, Grief, ill News, (weet Smells, &c. As for the popular' Notion of malignant Vapours riling from the "Womb, and occalioning all thefe Symptoms ; the Learned all diicard it, and hold Men as fubjeft to the Difeafe as Women. The real Caufe is in the Animal Spirits, and the nervous Syftem ; and the Affection does not differ from the Hypocondriac.

For the Cure ; as many of the Symptoms are convulfive, Antifpalmodicks are indicated. During the Paroxyfm, fcetld Things, whether internally or externally apply'd, are of Advantage ; particularly Caftoreum, the Smoak of burnt Horn, or burnt Feathers held to the Nofe. Volatile Spirits alio help to wake the Patient out of the Paroxyfm ; as alfo tickling" in the Soles of the Feet. Where 'tis feverer than ordinary, recourfe muft be had to Function, Scarification, Ve- ficarories, Caufticks, iSc. See Hysteric Medicines.

HTSTERICKS, or Hysteric Medicines, are Remedies proper to remove Hyjleric Affections ; particularly Diforders of the Womb.

There are divers Species ofHyJlericks : Some evacuate or cleanfe the Womb, by expelling any Impurities lodg'd therein ; Others tend to flop immoderate Fluxes thereof ; And others (Irengthen the Tone of the Womb.

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According to Dr. £>uiticy, Hyjleric Affeflions arife either from too titillating, or roo unealy Seniations : The former proceed from that Irritation of the Nerves, which the Make and Secretion of thofe Parts have natutally fubjefled them to, and which, in fome Sorts of Conftitutions, arife to that Degree, as to draw the whole Syftem into Diforder,' and occalion a furprizing Variety of Symptoms ; e. gr. ieveral Sorts of Convulfions, and Species of Madnels ; which there- fore are by fome termed Furores Urerini. See Uterine..

Thefe Diforders feem molt effectually allay'd, by fuch Things as are in a Manner the Reverie of Cordials, and are both in Smell and Tafte veryoffenfive and difagreeable : They feem to anfwer this End by fuffocating, as it were, the Spi- rits, and damping their inordinate Sallies, fo that iuch Sti- mulation ceafes, and the Fibres return to their natural Tone and Motions : For as what is grateful to the Senfes, gives an inexpreffible Emotion to the fine nervous Filaments ; fo does what is fcetid and difagreeable quite deftroy that Emotion, and deaden it : And as the former Kind confift chiefly of fine fubtile volatile Parts, by which, as before explain'd un- der CsrHALicKS, they are fitter to enter the Nerves; fa thefe are generally of a clammy vifcous Contexture, and thereby the fitter to envelope and entangle that fubtile Juice 5 whereby its Motion is much retarded, and confequently the Fibres render'd lefs fpungy.

HYSTEROLOGY, Hysterolooia, in Rhetoric, a vitious Manner of fpeaking, wherein the natural Orddr of Things is inverted ; call'd by the Greeks, 5«£f>' and vfePrtgor, q. d. to put the firft Thing where the laft ftiould be.

The Word is Greek, unoAiijia, fignifying a Diftourfe in- verted.

HYSTEROMATOCY, in Chirurgery, an Operation more ufually call'd in our Language the Ciefarian Operation or Seffiion. See CjesArian.

HYSTERON-Proteron, Ssipw 5rp»7ifw- See Hyste- rology.

HYSTEROTOMIA, in Anatomy, an Anatomical De- fection of the Uterus, or Womb. See Matrix.

The Word is form'd of the Greek, M&, Matrix, Womb, and Tiiatt, few, I cut, I diffect.

HYTH, a Port, Wharf, or little Haven, to embark or land Wares at. — Such are §>uttit4)ytt>, now MtodentJttiy. S£ft See Port, Haven, gte.

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