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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 vapors, which I have denominated and distinguished by these symptoms chiefly: I shall here threat of these disorders in general, showing the nature of all convulsions, but particularly those incident to such constitutions, and attending these distempers, that I am principally treating of, and laying down the proper and peculiar method of cure, for each kind or degree. Topics discussed include; (1) the nature and cause of convulsions in general; (2) the cause of convulsions in nervous cases; (3) children's convulsions and their cure; (4) convulsions in the sex; and (5) nervous fits in grown persons. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)