Of the Nervous Disorders of the Convulsive Tribe, particularly of Hysterical and Hypochondriacal Fits, and those other Paroxysms that attend Nervous Disorders

§ I. As most of those Disorders which are commonly called Nervous, Hysterical, or Hypochondriacal, are attended with some Convulsive Motions, Fits, or paroxysms, especially when they arrive to their higher and more eminent Degrees, and to the second Stage of Vapours, which I have denominated or distinguished by these Symptoms chiesly: I shall here treat of these Disorders in general, shewing the Nature of all Convulsions, but particularly those incident to much Constitutions, and attending these Distempcrs that I am principally treating of, and laying down the proper and peculiar Method of Cure, for each Kind or Degree.