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A34010	A systeme of anatomy, treating of the body of man, beasts, birds, fish, insects, and plants illustrated with many schemes, consisting of variety of elegant figures, drawn from the life, and engraven in seventy four folio copper-plates. And after every part of man's body hath been anatomically described, its diseases, cases, and cures are concisely exhibited. The first volume containing the parts of the lowest apartiments of the body of man and other animals, etc. / by Samuel Collins ...	Collins, Samuel, 1619-1670.	1685 (1685)	Wing C5387; ESTC R32546	1,820,939	1,622

the Heart A fourth cause of the inordinate motion of the Heart may be deduced from the Nerves A fourth cause of Convulsive motions in the Heart animating the Carnous Fibres of the Arteries which do interrupt the equal and natural course of the Blood by reason the Cavities of the Arteries are very much narrowed by the Convulsion of the Nerves inserted into the Carnous Fibres whereupon the impulse of Blood is stopped as in the disorder of the Nerves in great passions of Anger Fear Sorrow and the like which cause great consternation and confusion So that it is probable that the Trunk of the Aorta being very much lessened by the Convulsion of the Nervous Fibril drawing the Carnous seated in the Coat of the great Artery adjoyning to the left Chamber of the Heart much hinder the motion of the Blood out of the Heart into the Aorta whereupon the Ventricle of the Heart being highly distended by overmuch Blood will cause many violent Pulsations or Convulsive Contractions to discharge the exuberant quantity of Blood into the Orifice of the great Artery Persons subject to immoderate passion of Anger Grief Joy and those that are much afflicted with Hypocondriacal and Scorbutical Diseases are very obnoxious upon every light occasion and sometimes without any provocation to passions and convulsive motions of the Heart called vulgarly the Palpitations of it as having the Cardiack Nerves affected with a gross Succus Nutricius proceeding from ill humors in a Cachectick body oppressed with Acide Ferments of the Blood acted also with gross saline Particles Palpitations of the Heart also proceed from a great quantity of Blood ready to suffocate the Heart and put the Fibres of the Heart into inordinate Motions as well as the Nerves highly irritated by an exuberance of Blood compressing of the Heart and thereby hindring the passage of the Nervous Liquor in the Interstices of the Filaments often productive of Convulsive motions afflicting the Heart These irregular motions are also generated in the origen of the Nerves when they are disordered with some Acrimonious Matter vellicating the Fibres seated in the ambient parts of the Brain As to the Cure of these Convulsive Motions producing a great exuberance of Stagnant Vital Liquor in the Heart it denoteth frequent opening of a Vein to sollicite the motion of Stagnant Blood to abase its quantity And in reference to the cause of Convulsions seated in the Nerves producing the palpitation of the Heart Cephalick Apozemes Electuaries Spirit of Hearts Horn Spirit of Amber Succinated c. may be of great use CHAP. XX. Of the Motion of the Blood HAving given my Sentiments of the Structure and Motion of the Heart I will now Treat of the Motion of the Blood as the End and Complement of the other by reason the Heart is designed by Nature to be a rare Engine of Motion to make good the circulation of the Vital Liquor The All Wise and Omnipotent Agent created Man as the Soveraign of this lower Orb after his own Image and inspired him with the Spirit of life conserved by Motion of the Blood and to this end the Grand Architect hath framed a fit Apparatus of Organs the Heart as a noble Blood-work furnished with numerous appendages of Channels as so many Sanguiducts the Veins and Arteries to import and export streams of Blood to and from the Heart as a choice Engine to promote the Motion of the Blood the great preservative of Life In order to the better understanding of the Motion of the Blood these Considerables may seem to offer themselves to our notice First The manner how this Motion is accomplished Secondly What quantity of Blood passeth through the chambers of the Heart in a short space of time Thirdly The Cisterns and Ducts through which this noble Liquor floweth out of the Heart first into the Lungs and after runs into all parts of the Body And Lastly the end to which the Motion of the Blood is consigned The manner of the motion of the vital Liquor The Motion of the vital Liquor is performed by the Diastole and Systole of the Heart the First is rather a Laxament than a Motion wherein its Fibres are relaxed by streams of Blood expanding the cavities of the Heart which being received through numerous Pores into the inward Compage of the fleshy fibres do enlarge their Dimensions and put them upon greater and greater Contractions as they more and more approach the center whereby the Concave surface of the Ventricles grow less and less as they approach nearer and nearer to each other In the Diastole of the distended fibres The Ventricles of the Heart are distended with Blood in the Diastole and emptied by a Systole the Ventricles are dilated with a quantity of Blood filling up their Cavities and in the Systole their concave Perimeter is taken up with fleshy fibres having imbibed innumerable drops of Blood whereupon the inward swelled walls of the Heart being drawn close to each other do squeeze the drops contained in the pores of the Fibres and the greater streams of Blood lately received into the empty spaces of the Ventricles into the neighbouring Arteries to make good the Motion of the Blood As to the manner how the motion of the vital Juyce is managed out of the Cistern of the Heart into the adjacent Sanguiducts The manner how the Motion of the Blood is made in the Blood-Vessels some conceive it to be acted mechanically by a spiral wreathing of the Fibres after the same manner as water is squeezed out of wet Cloaths by a greater and greater winding them round whereby the drops of liquor lodged in the many interstices of the Filaments do quit their Allodgments but it may be proved by Reason and ocular Demonstration that there can be no such straining the Blood by the constriction of the Ventricles of the Heart by the same Organs and the same mechanical action by reason the filaments of the Cloth were laxe before their Contorsion as having many interstices obtaining a repletion by many drops of Water but afterward when the Cloth was variously modelled into divers wreaths the filaments were forced to make many Circumvolutions about the body of the Cloth whereupon the threads were not only lengthened into oblong Gyres but were also lessened in bulk and rendred more tense but the repletion of the Cavities of the Heart with Blood was made in a different manner from that of the Interstices of the Filaments of the Cloth filled with Water in which the Threads require greater Dimensions in length but the Fibres of the Heart are rather contracted according to the nature of all Muscular Fibres and the Cavities of the Heart grow greater in breadth as being expanded by the repletion of Blood and above all the Pores of the Fibres and Cavities of the Ventricles are not emptied by any Contortion as it is made inward in the Filaments of Cloth when the Water is squeezed out of their Interstices

A preternatural Flatus is very troublesome as it consisteth of Elastic Particles productive of many Diseases having little or no mixture with benigne vapours issuing from a well Concocted Chyle but from crude and indigested Aliment in the Ventricle and afterward Steams being advanced into a more thin and volatil nature by the unkindly heat of the Stomach and Blood obtaineth an Elastick temper and not willing to be restrained as being ambitious to expand it self doth violently distend those fine sensible parts which give it Controul whence ensue great Inflations and Pains most evident in Stomacic Iliac Colic and Hypocondriacal Distempers So that this troublesome Inmate A Flatus is derived from ill Fermentation of Blood vitiating the Ferment of the Stomach highly perverting the Oeconomy of Nature is chiefly deduced from an ill Fermentation of the Vital Liquor consisting of Heterogeneous Elements which are of so contrary a disposition that they cannot be reduced to a Similar temper whence proceedeth an Effervescence of the Blood which having a recourse to the Stomach depraveth the Ferment of it And by reason of this irregular heat and Serous and Nervous Liquor the Compage of the Meat and Drink is not duly opened whence arise troublesome Vapours which being sublimed by the extravagant heat of the Stomach are turned into a Flatus raising Tumults in all parts in which it is encloistred Thus the Material and Efficient Causes and differences of Wind being premised as Ambulatory to a Tympanitis now I will make the best Inferences I can in order to it The Flatus being generated in the Ventricle The progress of Wind from part to part by a distempered heat and ill Ferments the Efficient Causes working upon Chyle as a remote Cause and by Vapours as the more immediate Materia Substrata which passeth first out of the Stomach into the Intestines as associated with an indigested Chyle and is thence conveyed through the Thoracic Ducts and the Subclavian Veins and Cava into the right Chamber of the Heart and afterward through the Lungs by the Pulmonary Vessels into the left Cistern and into the common and descendent Trunk of the Aorta and from thence the Flatus accompanying the watry Particles of the Blood insinuateth it self through the Terminations of the Mesenteric and Caeliac Arteries into the Cavity of the Abdomen whereupon its Membranous parts are blown up and enlarged by great quantities of watry Humours and Wind the most received continent causes of a Tympanitis This Disease is not attended with any extraordinary Pain but with an Uneasiness proceeding from a Flatus taking its rise from watry Vapours mixing with it which being of a soft Emollient temper do distend the Membranous parts without any great disturbance If a Tympanitis did receive its production from a high and consummated Flatus arising out of Volatil Saline and Sulphureous Atomes it would cause great Storms and violent Tensions flowing from Elastic restless Particles which have a bustling refractory disposition highly resisting and afflicting its soft Membranous Boundaries very conspicuous in flatulent disorders of the Stomach Intestines and Hypocondres but these torminous Pains are not felt in a Tympanitis A Tympanitis is generated by an imperfect Wind partly Vaporous and partly Flatulent produced by an imperfect Wind of a mixed nature partly vaporous and partly Flatulent and participate much of its origen of mild Steams which are of a gentle ingeny not highly irritating their soft inclosures lodged in the inward Recesses of the Belly Learned Doctor Willis Dr. Willis his opinion that a Tympanitis ariseth from the Animal Spirits moving in great disorder my dear Friend and Colegue is of an opinion that a Tympanitis is not produced by a Flatus confined either within or without the Intestines which this great Author saith is rather an Effect then a Cause that Windy Matter is detained within those parts And farther affirmeth That this Disease springeth from the Animal Spirits residing in the Nervous and Membranous parts of the lowest Apartiment which being hurried in great disorder do raise a Storm in the Nervous Fibres caused by a high Inflation whence ariseth a Tumour of the Peritonaeum hence the Mesentery Intestines and their empty Spaces are stuffed up and enlarged and Humours inwardly confined in them being first rarefied into Vapours are afterward turned into a Flatus This worthy Author A Ligature made upon the Par Vagum on each side of the Neck produces an Inflation of the Stomach backeth his Hypothesis with an Anatomical Observation in the Dissection of a living Animal in which the Neck was opened and a Ligature made upon the eight pair of Nerves descending on each side of the Neck whence immediately followed a Swelling of the whole Stomach as blown up with Wind which proceeded from Animal Spirits residing in the Fibres of the Ventricle and being parted from their origen did move in great Confusion puffing up the Nervous Filaments of the Stomach Whereupon to confirm his Assertion he reciteth a History out of Smetius A strange History out of Smetius of a young Man labouring with a Tympanitis in these words Qui cum conflictu sub axilla dextra vulnus punctim factum in pectoris Cavitatem penetrans accepisset postridie toto corpore post unam noctem mane turgidus apparebat non solum pectore sed dorso ventre lumbis immo scroto quoque praeterea Brachiis humeris collo vultuque ut ne palpebras quidem deducere possit quinetiam in vertice ipso Cute ubique distenta tumefacta Tumor ubique erat tensus cum dolore non pauco Learned Smetius calleth this Disaffection of several parts a Universal Tympanitis And Doctor Willis giveth a Reason of this strange Disease most suitable to his Hypothesis That in the Breast near the Axillaries are seated great plexes of Nerves with which being wounded the whole Nerves of the Body do sympathize viz. The Trunk of the Eight pair with the Intercostal Nerves and both with the Spinal Marrow the Elongation of the Brain from which Branches are propagated into most parts of the Body Whereupon this great Nervous Plex being wounded by the point of a Sword first the Spirits dwelling in that part grew unquiet and being hurried here and there into divers Branches of Nerves and the Spirits their Inmates take the Alarum and further the Tumult which afterward is raised in all parts of the Body by the propagation of numerous Nervous Fibres blowing up the whole Body And after this ingenious Author hath Explained and confirmed his Opinion of a Tympanitis he summeth up all in a pithy Discription of it Quod sit Tumor Abdominis fixus constans aequabilis durus renitens a pulsatione s●nitum edens a partium Viscerum Membranaceorum inflatione 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ortus propter Spiritus Animales in fibras istas nimia copia adductos ibidemque succi Nervei obstruentis vitio a recessu impeditos

also testaceous Powders taken with Cephalick Julapes which promote Sweat and give an allay to the inordinate motion of the Animal Spirits and the great effervescence of the Blood To this end Topicks may be applied as Epispastick Plaisters between the Shoulders insides of the Arms Thighs Legs As also Plaisters and Cataplasmes to the Feet Having discoursed a Delirium A Phrenitis is a high degree of a Delirium which is a more gentle kind of desipience it may not be amiss to speak of a Phrenitis as a more exalted degree of a Delirium and a Disease more radicated in the Membranes and Substance of the Brain proceeding from a fluctuation and not from a more remiss undulation of the Animal Liquor and Spirits A Phrensy may be described a continued and lasting Delirium The description of a Phrenitis with a depravation of the rational and sensitive Faculties accompanied with a continued Fever derived from the inflammation of the Dura and Pia mater and from the great and inordinate motion of the nervous Liquor very much expanding the Fibrils of the Brain And from a hot distemper of the Brain coming from bilious Matter as Sennertus will have it The Essence of this Disease is found in an irregular motion of the Animal Spirits The Essence of this Disea●e the great Ministers of the more noble and inferior Functions of the Brain and differeth in degree from a Delirium as the Animal Liquor is more vitiated and the Disease more rooted as coming from more active causes producing a rapid motion of the Animal Spirits in the Interstices of the Filaments belonging to the fibrous Compage of the Brain whereupon they grow more puffed up and disordered by the expansive part of the nervous Liquor dicomposing the fine Systemes of nervous Filaments constituting the admirable frame of the Brain so that the Images of things making appulses upon the Organs of the outward Senses are imparted by a continuation of Nerves to the common Sense Phancy and Memory and are indistinctly apprehended and after the same manner represented to the Understanding whose confused Notions are offered to the Will which is perverted in the elicite acts by the ill conduct of the superior Faculty whence flow incongruous Speeches and ridiculous actions and postures of the Body much repugnant to Reason and Sense This Disease doth very much consist in a great ebullition of Blood A Phrenitis consists in a high Effervescence of the Blood out of whose Albuminous Particles the Animal Liquor is generated in the Cortical Glands whence the Animal Spirits the more active Atomes of the nervous Juyce are acted with a Phlogosis enraging the substance of the Brain and its more noble parts the Animal Spirits rendring them fierce and restless whereupon the outward and inward Senses and more excellent Faculties are highly disordered Dr. Willis is of an Opinion that a Phrenitis doth proceed from an inflammation of the Animal Spirits and not from the coats of the Brain as he hath it in the Tenth Chapter De Delirio Phrenitide P. 314 315. Enim vero proba bile est sanguinem febriliter ardescentem particulas interdum sulphureas una cum spirituosis cerebro offundere quae semi accensae quodam modo efflagrantes si una cum alteris penetrarint exinde mox omnes ductus Medullares nervos subeuntes spiritibus ubique adherent adeoque omnes inflammatos summe efferos implacabiles reddunt Certe verisimilius est Phrenitida hoc ritu a spirituum Phlogosi potius quam a meningum aut cerebri inflammatione quae Cephaleam aut Lethargum certius quam furorem prout ex cerebri anatomiis compertum habui inferrent excitari But I humbly conceive with the leave of this Learned Physician That the Phrensie is not only deducible from an effervescence of the nervous Liquor and Animal Spirits A Phrenitis may proceed not only from an Effervescence of the Animal Liquor and Spirits but from an Inflammation of the Coats and Brain it self The cause of the Inflammatory disposition of the Animal Spirits but from an inflammation of the Membranes of the Brain proceeding from an extravasated Blood lodged in the Interstices of the Vessels seated in the substance belonging to the Membranes encircling the ambient parts of the Brain by reason the putrid indisposition of the Blood affecting the integuments of the Brain First indisposeth the Cortical Glands in which the nervous Liquor is generated as also the more inward penetrals of the Brain whereupon the Animal Spirits are endued with an inflammatory disposition highly disquieting their due motion as rendring them turbulent and irregular so that the lower and higher Faculties of the Brain cannot make due apprehensions of their objects presented unto them An Instance of this Hypothesis may be given The Pia mater may be inflamed without a Tumor of the Brain in which the Pia mater is often inflamed without the tumor of the substance of the Brain as it hath been seen in Dissections of the Heads of Persons dying of Phrensies A young Man of a lean and dry habit of Body was afflicted with a continued Tertian attended with ill Symptomes as a great pain of the Head proceeding from a hot and sharp mass of Blood carried by the internal Carotide Artery into the substance relating to the Coats of the Brain and was also tortured with most importunate watchings and afterward in a small space of time the Patient was highly disordered with a Phrenitis accompanied with horrid accidents which could not be appeased with a proper course of Physick and afterward died raging with Red squallide Eyes to the great disquiet of his Friends and standers by After death his Skull being taken off the Brain was bespecked with Red spots derived from extravasated Blood And the Membranes and especially the Pia mater was tumefied being distended with blackish Blood and the Branches transmitted through the substance of the Brain did seem to be swelled and inflamed which were imparted from the Pia mater Sometimes the Dura mater is ulcered A Phrenitis proceeding from an Ulcer of the Dura mater accompanied with a fulness of Blood-vessels in the Pia mater and an Abscess in the Cerebellum Of this Petrus Pauvius giveth an account Observat Octava Anatomica Quidam per biennium conquestus fuerat de dolore in occipite tandem hic Phrenitide ac convulsivis motibus correptus subito interiit Huic crassa cerebri membrana aliquot locit exesa erat variis foraminibus idque potissimum in bregmate sub sagittali sutura ubi ea cum coronali jungitur Ex iis foraminibus effluebat per membranam dictam effusus erat sanguis fermè concretus ater adustus admodum faetens Tali quoque sanguine distenta erant vasa per exteriorem crassae meningis superficiem discurrentia quin ea quae numerosa per tenuem disseminata sunt Huic intra cerebellum abscessus humore non naturali

sulphureous and acide corrosive nature may be conceived to destroy the finer parts of the Animal Spirits the Ministers of the Faculties of Reason and Sense and beget a Maniack disposition of the Brain perverting the Oeconomy of the Brain in reference to its different operations attended with raging passions screeches and out-cries and unseemly gestures and motions of the Limbs This Disease taketh its rise The rise of Madness either immediately from the Animal Liquor and Spirits the chief instruments of the Soul in producing its nobler and meaner acts of Reason and Sense or more remotely from the Blood as the Materia substrata of the Succus nervosus A Madness arising out of the Animal Spirits either proceedeth from an evident cause Evident causes of Madness as some extravagant passion or from an ill affection of the Brain caused by a Phrensy or Melancholy whereupon a Madness often succeedeth A violent passion doth highly influence the Brain Violent passions may be the cause of Madness and enrage the nervous Juyce and Animal Spirits as it s more refined and spirituous particles by rendring the nervous Liquor and its Spirits highly fermentative restless and disorderly in wandring motions confounding the regular operations of the Brain accompanied with a Raging a Delirium and other horrid Symptomes occasioned by immoderate Anger great Disgrace or Shame or high passion of Love breach of Vows or scruples of Conscience which highly discomposing the peace of the Soul do generate a Maniack distemper of the Brain wherein the Spirituous parts of the nervous Liquor being debased the saline parts are exalted and brought to a Fluor and being espoused to sulphureous Particles derived from the Blood do weaken the Compage of the Brain and render the Animal Spirits fierce and unquiet making new Meatus and passages by over-much expanding the Interstices of the nervous Filaments and causing inordinate motions do produce delirous Phantasmes which being offered to the understanding do form unreasonable conceptions Sometimes the Animal Spirits are too much exalted Pride the cause of Madness by great apprehensions of our own perfections and the too low esteems of others or when Men unreasonably court Honours or when they are Masters of them are highly puffed up to the great unquiet and disturbance of their Minds whereupon the nervous Liquor and Animal Spirits are put into a great agitation and ferment and at last acted with a Maniack affection Othertimes this Disease succeedeth Melancholy and the Phrensy A Madness succeeding Melancholy or Phrensy which have before indisposed the Brain and rendred it liable to Madness in the First being very high the Succus nervosus and its most spirituous Particles degenerate into an acide disposition which entring into fellowship with sulphureous Recrements coming from the Blood do produce so fierce a temper in the Animal Spirits that they generate a Mania A Phrensy is more akin to this Disease then Melancholy as it is accompanied with boldness and fury so that a Phrenitis is easily turned into a Mania The manner how Madness is generated as the Brain is clogged with a fiery temper arising out of nitrous and sulphureous Particles affecting the Succus nervosus and its more active Particles which being hurried in the fibrous Compage of the Brain do expand the Intetstices of the nervous Filaments and make new and wandring passages in them whereupon the Animal Spirits ranting in various progresses through the territories of the Brain make a Maniack Delirium and confound the acts of Reason and Imagination commonly called Madness This Disease most commonly borroweth its first rise from an ill mass of Blood in a great part vitiated with gross sulphureous Recrements Madness floweth chiefly from an ill mass of Blood sometimes caused by the ill tone of the Hepatick Glands not secerning the bilious from the more laudable parts of Blood produced sometimes by its grossness and by the straightness of the excretory Ducts of the Liver and othertimes by the obstruction or narrowness of the Meatus Cysticus and Choledochus whereby the Bile cannot be discharged into the Intestines so that it is forced to regurgitate into the Extremities of the Vena Cava and is thence carried with the Blood through the Right Ventricle of the Heart Lungs and Left Chamber of the Heart and afterward through the common ascendent Trunk and Carotide Arteries into the Cortex of the Brain wherein the Albuminous parts of the Blood being infected with sulphureous and nitrous Particles do spoil the nervous Liquor and Spirits producing a furious mad temper in the Brain And the acide Particles discomposing the Succus nervosus Madness coming from an ill-affected Pancreas and its more active parts in the production of Madness may claim in some part their Origen from an ill affected Pancreas whose numerous minute Glands having lost their due constitution cannot make a separation of the Recrements of the Blood from its pure substance or when the Origens of the excretory Vessels of the Glands or the common Pancreatick Duct are obstructed by the grossness or quantity of the pancreatick Juyce whereupon it being not transmitted into the Intestines is lodged sometimes in the Interstices of the Vessels where it being composed of Heterogenous Particles doth ferment and acquire greater degrees of acidity as being sometimes brought to a Fluor and afterward a stay being made in the spaces of the Vessels relating to the Glands the pancreatick Juyce is mixed with the Blood and carried by lesser Veins into the greater channel of the Cava and by other Veins and Arteries into the ambient parts of the Brain wherein the Christalline parts of the Blood as the Materia substrata of nervous Liquor being debased by acide saline and sulphureous Particles doth spoil the goodness and aeconomy of the Animal Spirits by giving them a high agitation and tumultuary motion in the fibrous frame of the Brain causing a furious disposition attended with great fierceness boldness clamor c. The Disease is hereditary in diverse Families Madness is sometimes hereditary who enjoy a regular use of their Reason and Imagination for many years and afterward are afflicted with the dreadful Malady of Madness which proceedeth at such a time from the due crasis of the Blood perverted and degenerating into a nitro-sulphureous disposition enraging the Animal Spirits and putting them into a high disorder in reference to a violent and unnatural motion And the reason of this hereditary Madness propagated from Parents to Children by way of Generation taketh its rise from the seminal Principle The cause of an hereditary Madness tainted with a Maniack affection which oftentimes exerteth it self after many years when the seeds of this Disease bear Fruit and come to maturity as fomented by ill Diet violent Passion Envy Pride Ambition or by some other severe accidents or disappointments in a troublesome course of life This hereditary Madness is not always continued but hath many lucid intervals and

are easily thrown into irregular Motions upon an immoderate affluxe of nervous Liquor The Second Reason may be because Children have an ill mass of Blood as wanting Respiration in the Uterus whereupon the Blood having but a slow motion for want of Air is not well depurated from Recrements in the Colatories of the Liver Kidneys c. so that it groweth gross and faeculent as often oppressed with saline and sulphureous Particles which vitiate the Animal Liquor and Spirits and highly discompose the tender systeme of Nerves seated in the Brain Viscera Muscular and Membranous parts of the whole Body The impurity of the Blood vitiating the Succus Nervosus which is contracted in the Uterus plainly appears because in the Month many Red spots commonly called the Red Gum do beset the Cutis and are the Efflorence or foul parts of the Blood secerned from the more refined in the outaneous Glands transmitted through the excretory Ducts into the Cuticula And if the coming out of these Recrements somewhat resembling the Measles be stopped these foul Humors have recourse to the Glands of the Palate and Tongue wherein they produce the Apthae which are small Ulcers of the Oral Glands discharging the foulness of the Blood which being cured by astringent Medicines repel the serous and saline parts of the Blood whereupon they having a recourse to the Brain do spoil the Nervous Liquor and make the Animal Spirits very unquiet productive of Convulsive motions beginning in the upper Apartiment which are afterward imparted to the other parts of the Body The Blood of Embryos being vitiated in the Womb is sometimes thin and serous and other times more gross and viscide The Blood of Embryos is depraved in the Vterus which do both participate of divers kinds of preternatural Salts and Sulphurs which being of a Fermentative nature as consisting of Heterogeneous Elements endeavouring to subdue each other are very much exalted in Children presently after the Birth by the nitrous Particles of Air whereupon Nature being highly aggrieved by the disputes of contrary Principles of the Blood endeavoureth when they cannot be mutually reconciled by a happy harmony to throw them from the Center to the Circumference by greater and smaller Arteries terminating into the cutaneous Glands wherein the offensive Recrements being severed from the more benigne and vital parts of the Blood are discharged by excretory Ducts into the Cutis and Cuticula which giveth a great ease and repose to Nature and often prevents Convulsive motions The Blood is debased as a secretion is not duly made in the various Glands both of the Cutis and Viscera and the Blood is often oppressed with so great a quantity or so ill a quality of ill Humors that Nature is not able to make a secretion of faeculent from its more profitable parts in the cutaneous Glands or those of the Kidney Liver and other Colatories of the Blood whereupon the Blood is transmitted from the Heart by the ascendent Trunk of the Aorta and internal Carotide Arteries into the Cortical Glands of the Brain wherein it tainteth the nervous Liquor which is first carried into the Extremities of the nervous Fibrils lodged in the Cortex and afterward into the fibrous Compage of the Corpus Callosum Fornix Corpora Striata Medulla oblongata Spinalis and thence by many pairs and plexes of Nerves into all the Viscera and Muscular parts of the Body wherein the Succus Nervosus and Animal Spirits being acted with flatulent heterogeneous elastick Particles do unnaturally puff up the Filaments of Nerves and render them unquiet till they have quitted their load by many violent concussive motions which I humbly conceive are performed after this manner The manner of Convulsive motions by various expansions and contractions of Nerves wherein the restless Animal Spirits residing in the Nervous Liquor infested with turbulent elastick parts do insinuate into the narrow Interstices of the Filaments constituting the Nerves and enlarge their spaces and puff up the body of the Nerves whereupon their Filaments being sensible of their burden do highly contract their enlarged Interstices to expel the unquiet Animal Liquor and Spirits and to reduce themselves to their former posture and repose as most agreeable to nature The causes productive of Convulsive motions The First head of Convulsive motions may be chiefly reduced to Two Heads the First may be whatsoever doth raise the immoderate Fermentation of the Blood which may proceed in sucking Children from the Heterogeneous parts of the Nurses Milk endued with nitro-saline or sulphureous Elements or from too large a quantity of Milk received from the Breast into the Ventricle of the Child endued with acide saline Particles vitiating the concoction of the Aliment which being conveyed through several kinds of Milky vessels into the mass of Blood which is rendred highly fermentative by contrary principles proceeding from the ill concocted Chyle which being associated with the vital Liquor is transmitted by the carotide Arteries into the Glands of the Cortex wherein it infecteth the Succus Nervosus and its more refined parts the Animal Spirits with elastick flatulent Particles highly discomposing the fibrous Compage of the Brain and other parts of the Body with violent agitations As to the Second Head The effervescence of the Blood is very much increased by ill Air. or cause of Convulsive Motions the effervescence of the Blood is also much intended by the heat and ill qualities of the Air and by the changes of the new and full of the Moon which do promote the undue Fermentation of the Blood chiefly founded in Heterogeneous Particles and different Elements producing great Contests and undue intestine Motions in the Blood which being transmitted to the Brain confound the Animal Liquor and Spirits and give a high disturbance to its fine contexture of numerous Fibrils putting the First into various irregular motions which are afterward transmitted into the systeme of Nerves sometime seated in one place and othertimes in another Convulsive motions may also proceed from Worms and sharp Humors Convulsive motions proceeding from Worms vellicating the tender Fibrils of the Intestines which draw into consent the Plexes of Nerves lodged in the Mesentery and other parts of the Body But the Concusions of the Muscular parts of the Face Limbs Convulsive motions are originally derived from the Brain and Trunk of the Body have their Origen chiefly from the great agitations of the fibrous contexture of the Brain and seldom from the disaffections obstructions and ill coctions of the viscera by reason when the lowest and middle Apartiments of many young Children have been opened and a great inspection made into the Viscera they have found them very sound and afterward the Skull having been taken off and the Processes of the Brain viewed they have been discovered to be immersed in serous Liquor full of saline and acide Particles taking away the bounty of the Succus Nervosus and Animal Spirits and rendring