See PAROXYSM.

Dr Cheyne is of opinion that fits of all kinds, whether epileptic, hysteric, or apoplectic, may be cured solely by a milk-diet, of about two quarts of cows milk a-day, without any other medicine.

FITCHY, in heraldry, (from the French fis, i.e. fixed); a term applied to a crofs when the lower branch ends in a sharp point; and the reason of it Mackenzie supposes to be, that the primitive Christians were wont to carry crofes with them wherever they went; and when they flopped on their journey at any place, they fixed those portable crofes in the ground for devotion's sake.