Selected quad for the lemma: sense_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	body_n	motion_n	nerve_n	1,652	5	10.7938	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67767	Physick refin'd, or, A little stream of medicinal marrow flowing from the bones of nature wherein several signs, particular rules, and distinct symptoms whereby the most ordinary diseases may be distinctly known, and truly judged, are perspicuously delineated : and the most proper way, safe method, and simpathetical care, whereby nature may be helped, the sick eased, and languishing patients relieved (without the use of poysonous purging potions, and venomous medicaments) is succinctly demonstrated / by John Yarwood.	Yarwood, John, 17th cent.	1683 (1683)	Wing Y18; ESTC R25217	23,195	122

a Feaver Madness is without the Phrensie is dangerous Madness is tedious not perilous The Cure For to help the Phrensie give 10 grains of salt of Pearl in Poppy water for one dose or 5 grains or Laudanum given at twice 6 hours betwixt dissolve it in Sack Potable Silver taken 6 grains at a time in this case is excellent Tincture of Antimony or the flowers corrected are powerful Black Helibore is a famous specifick make it into powder and boyl it twelve hours in water to the thickness of a Syrup add its weight of Sugar and give half a dram at a time Madness is cured with the same medicines Laudanum excepted give now and then a dram of the blood of an Ass taken out of the veins behind the ears and sweat after it oyl of Rosemary is good I use salt of Lead and Ens Veneris with good success 8 grains of the first and 20 of the latter Sect. X. Lethargy and Deep or dead sleep THe Lethargy is a drowsie distemper conjoyn'd with a Feaver the patient breaths weakly sleeps profoundly the Pulse is great and strikes seldom though the party be often spoken to he through sluggishness scarcely answereth to the question only openeth his eyes and shuts them again sometimes raves and is very forgetful If he be old Gross Fat and the disease of long continuance 't will hardly be cured The deep or dead sleep is a disorder of the Brain wherein the Patient sleeps with his eyes continually shut and he will say nothing though he be stirred and pricked with needles it 's difference from a Lethargy is only in degrees and this is without a Feaver the cure is difficult The Cure The principal cure of these diseases is potable silver taken 5 grains at night and as much in the morning The Chimical oyl of Rosemary is excellent and may be given from 10 to 15 drops at a time in a little Sack and the Temples and head being shaved may be anointed with it or oyl of Caster then lay a Plaister of Stickticum Paracelsi on the head taking now and then in the day time 20 or 30 drops of Elixir Proprietatis and sweating with 15 drops of spirit of Harts-horn or 10 grains of Bezoar Mineral is good Sect. XI Apoplexia Catalepsis THe Apolexia is a depriving the whole body of sense and motion they have pain in the head sleep deeply gnaw the Teeth feel not when hurt open not the eyes Answer no questions make little Urine its sediment is like meal and its colour like Rust or Canker they snore and breath little 'T is said to be caused through obstruction of those passages whereby the spirits are carryed from the Heart to the Brain If this distemper be a strong one 't is uncurable and how weak soever not easily helped 't is the worst when it seizeth young people in the summer And if Medicines prove effectual against the Apoplexia yet commonly it leaves a Palsie either in the whole or part of the body Catalepsis is a kind of Congelation sudden detention or benuming both in Body and Mind the Patient lies as though he was dead moves not the eyes Sense and Motion are lost the pulse is weak and he remains in the same figure of body in which he was taken whether he lye stand or sit with his eyes shut or open the disease if cured degenerates many times into an Apoplexia or Lethargy The Cure In both these distempers the Essence of Rosemary is excellent a quarter of an ounce at a time or 10 drops of the Chymical oyl taken in 2 or 3 spoonfuls of wine or 15 drops of the spirit of the brains blood of a sheep taken often Aurum Potabilie 6 grains at once transcends all other medicines bath the head with tincture of Papper and anoint it with Balsamum Polychrestum Elixir Proprietatis 15 grains in wine is proper in these cases Sect. XII Epilepsia THe Falling-sickness is a Convulsion of the body hurting the mind and senses at some certain times for when the fit comes the patient is pluckt together falls down trembles cryes out and if the disease be violent foams at mouth Van Helmont saith t is caused by an infensitive befooling and mad poyson afflicting for a space being installed in the Midriff It commonly happens to children but if it happen to persons of full age t is seldom cured The Cure Provoke sneezing with Helebore and administer Elixir Proprietatis or Elixir Vitae a dram at a time the Antepileptick spirit of Vitriol 8 grains at once in some cordial spirit is excellent take 12 grains of Pulvis Antepilepticus twice in a week Take the Livers of forty Frogs dry them with a gentle heat and give them in fine powder at five times morning and evening The powder of native Cinabar is much commended mixt with the oyle of Carraways Oyl of Amber ten grains at once may be often administred dry the brains of a Weesle make the same into fine powder and drink it in vinegar The volatile Salt and spirit of venal blood is famous in this case 5 grains of the Salt or ten drops of the spirit for one dose Take every morning 2 drams of the Opeate of Moniagnana commended by Riverius Give a new born child 2 drams of oyl of sweet Almonds mixt with sugar before it suck or take any thing for preventing this distemper Sect. XIII Palsie and Trembling THe Palsie is a distemper in which the whole body or some particular part or member doth lose its sense or motion or both according as all or some of the Nerves are obstructed If the back bone be principally affected with the obstruction the lower parts are afflicted but from the affection of the brain the face and upper parts are offended this disease is more frequently seizing in the winter than in summer and happens oftner to old people than young ones If it be not occasioned from the cutting of a sinew it may be cured Trembling commonly goes before a Palsie and is caused through weakness of the sinew either by reason of old Age or excessive drinking The Cure Tincture of Tarter 10 drops or spirit of Tartar 20 drops at a time are proper in the case take 12 grains of Pulvis Antepilepticus once in two dayes and provoke sweat by 10 grains of Bezoar Mineral taken at night or six grains of potable silver bathe the place grieved with an essence of Green Tobacco leaves made with Malmsey wine rub and chafe it well in and use it often Then anoint with Balsamum Hystericum or V●guentum Martiatum A cataplasm of the greater Walnut-root is much commended and often bathing the part with Milk and Oyl Trembling is helped by the use of Elixir Proprietatis a dram taken at once morning and night and by all the former medicines mentioned against the Palsie Sect. XIV Melancholia THey that languish under this distemper have strange imaginations conceiting themselves to be like what they resemble not