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A35394	Culpeper's school of physick, or, The experimental practice of the whole art wherein are contained all inward diseases from the head to the foot, with their proper and effectuall cures, such diet set down as ought to be observed in sickness or in health : with other safe wayes for preserving of life ... / by Nich. Culpeper ... ; the narrative of the authors life is prefixed, with his nativity calculated, together with the testimony of his late wife, Mrs Alice Culpeper, and others.; School of physick	Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.; Gadbury, John, 1627-1704. Nativity of Nicholas Culpeper.	1659 (1659)	Wing C7544; ESTC R9312	234,529	544

be made clean or the Nodes taken away and sometimes leave the Bone foul By the which means they purchase to themselves both shame and infamy for within four or five moneths the Ulcers open with great corruption of the Bone Moreover they commit an errour touching the Unction for they anoint the Head the Region of the Heart and other noble parts against all reason and also all the whole body over which is the occasion of many a mans death Therefore to amend these errors when you see that this disease is confirmed and that there are hard Ulcers hard Swelling or Nodes it is the most surest way to mundifie the said Ulcers and to open the Nodes with acaustick then you shall make incision in the Node unto the corruption of the Bone and then apply Praecipitatum or else Pledgets with Basilicon and Praecipitatum mingled together this done you shall take away the corruption of the bone And then after that you may safely use your Unctions made with Axungia Gummes Minerals Oyles and Mercury also if you adde thereto of fine Treacle or Mithridatum it will be the better You shall anoint the Shoulders the Muscles of the Back the Loins the Hips the Thighs the Knees and all the outward members as Legs and Arms. But you must take very good heed that you touch not the Head the Region of the Heart the Somach nor the ridge of the Back Also you must have a good respect to cease your anointing in such order that you bring not too many accidents to the mouth whereby the Patient may utterly lose the use both of his Tongue and Teeth Because that so many ignorant Chyrurgeons have taken upon them this cure without either discretion in applying the Unction or ordering of the Patient I have thought good to write two or three words touching the ordering of the Patient When the body is prepared with apt and meet Medicines as well Syrrups Decoctions Purgings and opening of the Vein according to the disposition of the body the Patient shall be placed in a place naturally hot or else otherwise made warme which must be free from all cold having the doors windows and other open places closely stopt for the cold Air is very hurtful both for the Sinewie parts and also for the working of Medicines for it will diminish and hinder the actions thereof And in this case there are many which commit great errors which are worthy of reprehension for as well in the Winter as in the Summer they anoint the Patients in great and large Chambers where very much Air entreth Wherefore at the beginning of this cure if the place be not very close and warm you shall make a Pavilion with Coverings and such other like round about a fire by the which means you shall keep the cold Air from the Patient But if it be possible it is better to have a little Chamber close and warm and also continually a pan with Coles in the midst of it If it be so that the Patients be so weak that they cannot abide the heat of the fire or would be loath to be seen naked as Women or Maids you shall anoint them lying in their Beds First the Patient shall put out one Arm and then the other and so the rest of the parts shall be anointed one after another And you shall use the Patients from time to time to such a course as is required against the disease The third Error is concerning Wounds piercing into the Breast IT fortuneth oftentimes that the Wounds pierce the hollowness of the Breast so that great quantity of blood doth fall down into the bottom of the same and there doth stay upon the Diaphragma also the heaviness of the said blood oppresseth the Diaphragma Diaphragma is two Muscles which go overthwart the Breast and separateth the Heart from the Liver and putrefieth and ingendreth an evil Qualtity The which putrefaction sending Vapors to the heart causeth a continual Feaver and commonly death within ten dayes Of the which the common Chyrurgeons have no consideration or else by their ignorance they know not the cause and so the Patient is destitute of all help Wherefore when you see that the Wound pierceth into the Thorax or Breast you shall take good advisement in searching out diligently whether the Blood be descended into the lower part of the Diaphragma the which may be known by the stinking of the Breath and by the relation of the Patient which doth feel the Blood quivering or shaking inwardly And also commonly his face will be of a reddish or high colour by reason of the Vapors which ascend up And note that at the which side the blood doth most remain in lying upon the same side the Patient shall feel less pain then upon the other because that the said blood oppresseth the Lungs and the Diaphragma the Chyrurgeon ought to have a good respect to the sign● above written and whilest that the strength of the Patient is yet remaining it shall be needful to make way for the said blood to be evacuated between the fourth and fifth rib a hand breadth or a little more from the ridge of the back and your Incision-knife being very sharp also you shall do it by little and little very gently in cutting Mesopleuria or the Muscles between the ribs it ought to be done toward the lower part of the said Muscles for the Vein which nourisheth them and the Ligaments which giveth them their moving and feeling are placed more above then below After that the Incision is made you shall let out the corrupted blood by little and little according to your discretion and it shall sufficc to evacuate every dressing five or six ounces this done it shall be very profitable to use the wonted Potions which you shall finde in the writings of learned Practitioners which have largely written of the said potions and by this means above written I healed four in one year The which cures without the aforesaid remedies could never have been done for the which I give unto God most hearty thanks The foruth Error touching the applications of the Traepans Terebelles for fractures of the Head IN the fractures of the Scull there are committed great errors touching the application of the Traepan principally when the bone is broken in many parts for they have no consideration of the shivering of the Scull but apply the Traepan by the which means they press down the shivers of the bone upon the Dura Mater and rent or tear it in such order that it produceth grievous accidents whereby commonly death ensueth Wherefore in this case you shall have a good consideration before that you apply the Traepan for it is better if it be possible in this case to use other Instruments as Eleviatories Cisers Lenticuli or such other like to make way for the bruised matter which depresseth the Dura Mater it shall be the better and less danger for the Patient By this means I

increased the Sinews feebled the natural Moisture and Heat of the body overhastily wasted and swift old Age brought upon us with an infinite number of discommodites besides Which the Nations finding where we have it do so delay it that rather they seem to drink wined Water then watered Wine except the aged or such as are feeble stomached And divers Nations which may have of the best because they would be sure to banish the use of it count it sacriledge to taste it as the Turks at this day who use instead thereof a distilled water of Rice steeped in Milk thereby supplying the use of Wine Neither do we finde this discommodity of Wine by the abuse of drunkenness or surfeting onely but even keeping within the three cups that Eubolus powreth out to wise men whereof the first is of health and nourishment the second of mirth and joy of heart and the third of sleep so that a draught or twain doth marvellously distemper our bodies which inconvenience we finde not by our ordinary drink yea though it be stronger then wine If I should compare our Mede with the best Wine and the Metheglin of the Welchmen with Malmsie I could take great arguments from the nature of Honey to prove it Especially being tempered with certain wholesome Herbs which have vertue to strengthen the parts of the body And by experience it is known that Honey mixed with water turneth in time to a wholesome liquor in taste much like to Wine Whereupon Pena in his Chapter of Honey folio 22. doubteth not to affirm that the Mede of the Polonians and Muscovites and the Metheglin of the Welchmen are more wholesome and pleasant then many of the best kindes of Wines he himself being a French man and therefore in his judgement less partial Wherefore to conclude this argument seeing Wine which is the glory of strange Merchandise is but an hurtful superfluity the rest must needs be far other then necessaries But Medicines being such as without which our health and life runneth into infinite perils by causes inward and outward through breach of Diet unwholesomness of Meat Wounds Bitings of venemous Beasts Infections of the Air and such like it followeth necessarily that they be not such as God would have one Nation gratifie another with which if they were greater reason were it to charge the neighbour Nations therewith that thereby their mindes might with performance of such mutual duties so necessary be in streighter amity and peace linked who cease not for the enlarging of limits to vex one another rather then the Nations so far distant who have neither fellowship of love nor quarel of hatred equal with the Borderers Neither would I be so taken as though I knew not at sometimes that one Na●ion hath need of another even in things necessary as the supply made by Joseph to his ●ather Jacob and other Nations out of the store of Egypt but the controversie is of an ordina●y course which the Lord useth in bestowing his ●lessings wherewith he doth fully satisfie ●he need of all Nations with things necessary ●aving when he punisheth with Famine or ●●ant of Victuals which is extraordinary in re●pect of his accustomed course of preserving his ●●eatures Now if the strange Medicines for he most part hot should seem rather in the whole kinde then by reason of abundance superfluous to them and so more fit for us being of a colder temper we are to consider the use of them is manifold to the inhabitants and not onely to warne them as the Ethyopians called Troglodites although they be parched with vehement heat of the Sun are said to live with Pepper not to correct the distemper of the● Bodies which would rather increase it then diminish but to correct their evil Waters and waterish Fruits wherewith they in part do live Again we are to understand that the disease which is most agreeable with Age Sex Region Custome Complexion is alwayes most dangerous as ingendred by an exceeding vehemen● of the cause whereto Nature hath yielded an● so requireth a like vehement Medicine wherefore if the Arabian the Indian the Spaniard fall into cold diseases or such as follow cold no marvel though Nature hath ministred unto them plenty of strong Wines and Spices whi●● the Northren Nations need not Who as th● be more apt to fall into such diseases then the● their temper thereto agreeing the Air and R●gion furthering the same so are they not ther●of so dangerously sick as they of the So● Countries and therefore require not so for●able a Medicine But I minde not to stand 〈◊〉 shew the use which foreign Nations have of th● Commodities let them see to it Hitherto h● been shewed both that they be hurtful unto 〈◊〉 and that it is not absurd for hot Regions to 〈◊〉 bound with hot Simples the use of them be● divers both in respect of curing their Bodies and other uses without the compass of Physick These be the reasons which move me to suspect the use of strange Drugs and drive me to think that Nature hath better provided for us and as the Indian Arabian Spaniard have their Indish Arabian and Spanish Medicines so also the Germane hath his the French man his and the English man his own proper belonging to each of them I know gentle Reader nothing doth more hinder the accepting of truth divers times especially with such as see with other mens eyes then the person of him who first propoundeth the matter being taken rather to be an opinion of one then an undoubted truth to be cherished of all as who have interest therein Wherefore that such might be satisfied I will adde to my former reasons taken from the Nature of the thing the authority of moe Doctors then one who agreeing with this which I hold may be a means to draw the gentle Reader the more seriously to consider of this matter and truth may take some strength thereby and win the more credit Pliny in his four and twenty Book of his History and first Chapter hath this Sentence thus much in English Nature would that such onely should be Medicines that is to say which easily might be come by of the common people easie to be found out without charge taken from the things whereby we live but in process of time the craft of men and sleights of their wits found out these shops of strange drugs in which a sale of mens lives is offered whereupon confectious and infinite mixtures began to be extolled India and Arabia a man would think he were in them and for a little gall or small ulcer a medicine must be fetched from the Red Sea whereas every day the poorest do sup with true medicines And in his two and twenty Book and four and twenty Chapter We do not meddle saith he with the medicines taken from the merchandise of India and Arabia or of the New World they are not fit for medicines and remedies they grow too far off they are not

little cynamon and seed of Annis white wine mixt with water musick is good in this disease and such means must be used as may cause sleep Of Melancholly of black Choller THis disease is a kinde of doting without a feaver arising from such maligne and melancholick humors which distrub the seat of the Minde The signs of melancholly are fear and sadness evil thoughts without any cause proceeding from such vapors of black Choller as darken the mind and over-cloud the brain Melancholy which seizes on the essence of the brain and continues there long is altogether incureable The Air where the Patient resides must be of a wholesom smell moist and temperate his diet moist but of good juyce easie of digestion Let him drink white wine and exercise himself moderately his sleep should be somewhat longer then ordinary he is to be cherisht with mirth and good hopes perturbations of minde being wholly avoided Of the overflowing of the monethly Tearms THe superfluous flux of moneths is when it doth tend to be the hurt rather then the good of the woman by reason that they are purged more then they should but in such women as are of a moist constitution that have good diet and much ease the moneths may be suffered to flow more then ordinarily they use The womb is the part chiefly affected sometimes the whole body sympathizeth this affection is an accident which appertains to the immoderate excretion it is not altogether against nature as it is in the bleeding of the nose and other bleedings for here onely too great a quantity of the monethly flux is unnatural This distemper takes away the appetite hinders digestion breeds crudities weakens the whole body the colour of the face is changed feaverish heats arise in the body sometimes the feet are swelled and a dropsie follows one cause is by reason of the heat thinness or abundance of blood more then is requisite or else because of the continual motion for when these concur Nature is defeated Immoderate fluxes caused by the birth of a large Infant are less dangerous because they will stay of themselves This disease is to be feared if the body be weakned or the colour of the face changed the woman being reduced to such coldness faintness of heart swoundings and sometimes death The Air that this Patient lives in should be temperate the meat binding and thickning exercise is forbidden her rest and sleep must be moderate her minde pleased Of the suppression of the Moneths AS the overflowing is dangerous so the retention on the contrary is as dangerous and unnatural if they be of age unless they have conceived the womb is chiefly affected in regard of the fatness thereof whereby the veins are crushed together and so the flux is hindred In this disease the forepart of the head is pained spreads it self to the neck shoulders and loins her appetite is taken away her minde unquiet her stomach queasie she loathes meat her face discoloured she is troubled with phlegm and taken with a trembling her urine is thick red and muddy sometimes blackish with a red watry substance in the bottom the chief cause is gross and phlegmy matter mixed with blood which stops the veins leading to the womb whereby the straitness of the veins doth happen or else from the inflammation of the womb if the Tearms are stopt other diseases must of necessity follow The Air she is to breathe must incline to heat her meat must be heating she must not sleep too long her minde must not be disquieted Of the Obstruction of the Liver THe Obstruction of the Liver is a binding or straitning of the Veins or Liver passages The Liver is the Store-house of blood from which all parts of the body draw nourishment and together with purer blood gross and slimy humors are generated in the Liver seeing that the branches of the hollow Veins are knit unto the Vena Porta in such sort that the knitting and combination doth not come within the compass of our sight as also that all the nutriments of the body must be conveighed through the port Veins and the hollow Veins ends which are very small where they end in the Liver substance so that it is no wonder that by reason of the passages and straitness Obstructions are oftner caused in the Liver then in any other Bowel This Disease doth breed in the extream parts of the vessels of the hollow part and Veins and they are terminated in the Livers substance with thin ends knit one into another with little bones the universal nourishment of the whole body being to be made through these This Disease is to be discerned by a heaviness and stretching pain in the right side then most to be perceived when the Patient is exercised presently after meat The narrowness of the Liver and Veins passages is the cause of this Disease The air for the Patient must be hot and clear his diet such as may heat not stopping he must shun bathing and exercise after meat his diet moderate he may sleep in the day time but not too long at night not at the most above seven hours his belly must be kept loose and his minde delighted The Hicket THe Hicket called Singultus is a violent or vehement motion of the Stomach whereby it doth endeavour to expel such things as rest in the Tunicles and in the Body and also such as do stick fast thereto The Hicket though it much resemble vomiting yet this Disease is rather stirred up then vomit when the humors are strongest the part affected is the mouth of the Stomach sometimes the inflamation of the Liver This Disease comes often for the most part by fits as the Cough doth with a swooning the cause of the swooning in this disease is the straitness of the passage of the air which is contained in the stomach it being often caused by fulness and superfluous moisture by which the Patient is either loaded ●or in a manner shrunk together If this disease be caused by fulness if a sneezing come the Patient will soon be rid of it if it be accompanied with wringing in the guts commonly called Illiaca passia it is a bad Omen but if it follow doating swooning or convulsion it is mortal A temperate air is best for the Patient his meat must be such as doth heat and dry a small quantity of Wine may be permitted Of the Stone THe Stone of the Kidneys is a hard substance bred like a Sand-stone in the Reins from whence by the force of the Urine it is often conveighed through the straight pipes into the Bladder if it be not too great which doth so stretch the passages of the Urine that great pain doth follow the settled pain is in the Veins and sometimes the right side or the left is affected or both at one time even as the right or left Kidney is affected for the gravel is bred in the mouth of the Kidney or substance of them This Disease is

accompanied with a loathing of meat frequent belchings and extream pains in the Reins The cause of this Stone is a gravelly and sandy constitution and immoderate heat of the Kidneys for the most part of a gross and slimy humor Those that are troubled with this Disease are loose bodied and do often vomit this Disease in old men is hardly cured The air where the Patient lives must be clear and bright his diet moderate he may drink small Wine he must avoid exercise his belly must be kept loose he may sleep more then ordinary his minde being free from perturbations Of thickness of Hearing SUch men as cannot understand a loud voice such men we say are deaf sometimes the cause of this effect is in it self sometimes by accident when as the Brain or Nerve through which this faculty is conveighed is hurt This Disease is known by the Patients complaints and answers this Disease is sometimes caused by the distemper of the Brain by gross or cold humors thrust into the ears and there fastned this Disease if it slowly increase in process of time brings with it an incureable deafness The air for the Patient to live in must be hot and dry he is to abstain as much as may be from meat especially from those that breed gross vapors his drink must be small Wine his exercise moderate his belly kept loose by art or nature Of Madness MAdness or Fury is an inflamation of melancholly to the great fierceness and alienation of the mind Such as have this Disease rage like beasts Madness differs from a Phrenzie as a Feaver is the companion of a Phrenzie from which madness is free the part affected is the Brain which doth appear by the hurt of the principal functions of the minde The signs of this disease are various sometimes laughing singing then sad fearful rash doating crying out threatning skipping leaping then serious c. This Disease doth chiefly arise from the distemper of the Brain from hot or melancholly humors so much sometimes dried up as to turn to black Choller sometimes by yellow Choller over-burnt or the boiling of the blood Young persons are most subject to it it is an ill sign if the Patient have no stomach a good if Ulcers arise in the face The air the person lives in must be temperate his diet liquid broths and moistners of the body his drink Barley-water by no means Wine except his disease came by fear moderate exercise more then usual sleep strangers must not see him Of Shortness of Breathing CAlled the Asthma it is a thick and a fast breathing without a Feaver such as is usual to them which run this disease often pestreth the Patient so that he cannot breath except he hold his neck streight up and if he lies down it almost choaks him in this distemper the Wind-pipes branches scattered into the Lungs distance are affected The Patient in this distemper findes a heaviness at his breast and feels a straitness and shrinkings coughs often and voids nothing in old men this disease is never cured hardly in young men The air the Patient breaths must be hot and dry he must forbear such meat as breed gross and slimy matter his exercises must be little his sleeps in the day time those in the night very moderate his mind not perturbed Of the Worms THis disease is for the most part caused by the stopping of the passages of the vessels through which the Gall is conveyed from the Liver and Spleen into the Bowels by reason of gross humors which do heat the Liver and generate plenty of Gall therein these Worms which do breed in the Bowels are called Lumbrici or Belly Worms there are others which are called Ascarides like to Mites which breed in rotten Cheese It is evident that Worms are of several kindes as they breed in many parts of the body in rotten Ulcers in Teeth in Ears and Kidneys but the Guts are for the most affected Those that are troubled with the Ascarides have an extream itch in their fundament and narrow Guts have a desire to go often to the stool after they have voided somewhat they are not so much troubled The cause of worms commonly is rottenness or gross Phlegmy and slimy matter apt to corrupt with a putrefying heat which accompanies all these which doth prepare this matter and then it is wrought by the perfusion of natural heat which gives life to the Worms many persons of age and stature have slighted the Worms till their Guts have been fretted and brought into danger of death For the remedy the air must be temperate the meat such as breed good Juyce Let the Patient eat largely or else the Worms will gnaw their Gutts for wants of sustenance the excrements of the Belly must be kept loose Of the Plague THe Plague is caused by unusual and pernicious putrefaction sometimes the constitution of the body is so different from the natural temperature that it is altogether changed into a pernicious and poysonous quality This disease is sometimes caused by corrupt and poysonous exhalations by Carrion by the evil influence of the Stars which is then the immediate hand of God and properly called the pestilence when it proceeds from outward causes 't is called a pestilent Feaver or the Plague the air infected first gets into the heart the air being subtle thin and apt to get into the pores it first infects the Genital Spirits then the Radical Moisture at last the whole substance of the body This disease first begins to discover it self by the Patients unquietness loss of his appetite the members dull and heavy the head aking the stomach pained the spirits decayed strength failing especially the Vital with many other Symptomes except the disease be supernatural and then the signs are so gentle that they can scarcely be perceived the infected air which is a great cause doth not onely weaken the humors and spirits of the body but also the sollid substance of the heart The Plague of all other diseases is most dangerous for although the signs are good yet suddenly the Patient dies the danger is the greater if no Pushes or Carbuncles break forth it is also as dangerous if they break and run in again this disease is consummated and brought to its full ripeness in four and twenty hours if a cold sweat arise on the body the face and eyes look black the spirits are cast down extraordinarily and the Patients excrements that are voided diversly coloured it is a sign of death The air must be rectified by sweet perfumes every day they must not be spared At the beginning of the disease the diet must be cooling the sleep short for by long sleeping the corrupt matter turns again to the heart Venery must be eschewed the belly kept loose and the minde freed from all careful perturbations Catarracta or Suffusion IS when the sight is by little and little dulled by a slimy humor frozen from Ice and droping over the eyes

shall onely treat of that pain that doth follow asharp disease by the inflamation of the inner skin for if the inflamation be in the outward Muscles or if the pain be great because of windiness this is but a basterd Pleurisie and the Patient is without a Feaver The signs of this disease besides the difficulty of breathing and a vehement Cough is a pricking pain which plainly doth demonstrate that the membranes and some other tender parts are affected this pricking pain sometimes spreads it self over the sides and breast sometimes to the short Ribs to the Channel-bone of the Throat so that the Patient is forced to breath short and thick also there is a continual Feaver because the inflamation doth border on the heart the Pulse is thick not too great hard and unequal and by that means tough and like to a saw a cough also cometh withal the first day and then nothing cometh at length spettle is voided and comes up coloured according to the nature of the excrements and it is also moister there are many other signs the cause for the most part is blood running from the hollow Veins into the Ribs thin Veins sometimes it is caused by Phlegmy blood and then the disease is longer of continuance and the spettle frothy and white sometimes the blood is Chollerick and then a sharper disease is caused The suppression of the Hemrhoides or monethly tearms will cause a Pleurisie this disease is dangerous to old men to Women with childe and such as have been sick twice or thrice of it it vexes the Patient more in the night then day time whosoever is sick of a Pleurisie and is not cleansed in fourteen dayes they turn to supurati●● This disease kills by choaking or too m●ch pain or by the translation of the matter into the Lungs whereby the Consumption of them is caused and also Ulcers The air the Patient lives in must be temperate somewhat inclining to heat his meat easie of digestion he is not to drink Wine till the disease be abated he may be permitted longer then ordinary sleep his belly must be kept loose Of the Bleeding at the Nose THe Bleeding at the nose called Hemorrhagia doth signifie a Bleeding at the Nose whether it doth come immediately from the Nostrills carried thither by the Veins of the palate through which for the most part nature doth expel the superfluous blood of many or else whether it comes from the Veins of the Head further off but in general it doth signifie any bleeding whether it be of Nose Womb or any other part of the body when blood comes forth moderately in the beginning of a Pleurisie Impostume Squinancy Burning Feaver Small Poxs it is alwayes for the best yet this Bleeding in some other diseases is Critical foreshewing death the Nostrills are chiefly affected but not alwayes the essence of the Nostrils but they are affected by the consent of some other part the Veins by which this blood is cast out at the Nose run from the palate and Mouth into the Nostrills and sometimes from the head when too much blood is voided the colour of the face waxeth pale the body is of a leaden colour the outward parts are cold and a swooning follows and many times after death Oftentimes bleeding at the Nose is caused by nature which doth by this means expel the excrements and which is troublesome to the body Sometimes it is caused by the evil affection of the Veins wherein the blood is contained and the blood runs out of the Veins the Veins being opened by the plenty of blood which they could not contain There are sundry other causes If bleeding have continued long swooning weakness and too much cooling of the Liver Lachexia or the Dropsie is to be feared Bleeding at the Nose without coldness of the outwards parts is mortal The air the Patient should live in must be somewhat cold his meat must be such as doth nourish well and easie of digestion he must avoid exercise and speak little he must avoid all passions of the minde especially anger Of the Falling-sickness THe Falling-sickness is a Convulsion of all the parts of the body not continual but that which cometh by distances of time the minde and senses being thereby hurt This disease doth either happen when the brain hath the cause of the disease in it self which is usual or by the evil effect of the mouth of the stomach or from some other part underneath by which the venemous effect creepeth into the brain through secret passages the Patient feels the cause of this Disease like a vapour of cold winde to be carried to the brain by the continuity of the other parts from the part of the body wherein the Disease is chiefly seated the cause of this Disease being for the most part a venomous vapour carried up from some lower part of the body into the brain and then the Patient doth suddenly fall with a Convulsion The brain is the part affected either by it self or by the consent of the stomach or by some other parts The fit comes oftentimes suddenly with much foam which because it is slimy may be drawn out at length yet in a gentler Falling-sickness this doth not appear when the Patient is deprived of his senses he falls to the ground with a violent shaking of his body his face is wrested his eyes turned upwards his chin somewhat driven to his shoulder and oftentimes he voids seed and ordure against his will his Muscles are loosened all these are signs of a strong f●t Sometimes their teeth are so fast closed together that they are in danger of stifling paleness of the face inordinate motion of the tongue pain and heaviness of the head forgetfulness sadness troublesome dreams are ushers to this Disease the Patient being taken with a giddiness sometimes darkness and divers dim glisterings appear before his eyes This Disease is for the most part caused by abundance of melanchol●ck and phlegmatick humors from whence cor●upt venomous and stinking vapors break out whereby obstructions are caused in the passages ●f the brain and the passages of the spirits are ●●ereby hindred by this means the brain and the roots of the Sinnews shrink and as it were tremble in the expelling of that which is obnoxious whether it be vapor or humor This disease frequents children because they are of a moister brain then yong men next to these men o● a full growth and old men least of all This Disease is more incident to men then women and usually it doth stick close to the Patient unless it be taken away by medicines in the minority If the Disease be vehement and come often on the Patient it is incurable but if a quartane Ague or any longer Feaver surprize him i● portends health The air wherein the Patien● lives must be hot and dry his meat mixed with such things as do dissolve and extenuate the humors exercise of the body and frication of th● head are prevalent