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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57358	The practice of physick in seventeen several books wherein is plainly set forth the nature, cause, differences, and several sorts of signs : together with the cure of all diseases in the body of man / by Nicholas Culpeper ... Abdiah Cole ... and William Rowland ; being chiefly a translation of the works of that learned and renowned doctor, Lazarus Riverius ...; Praxis medica. English. 1655	Rivière, Lazare, 1589-1655.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.; Cole, Abdiah, ca. 1610-ca. 1670.; Rowland, William.	1655 (1655)	Wing R1559; ESTC R31176	898,409	596

able to exercise a voluntary Motion perfectly The Spirits are made weak either by a fault in themselves or by a defect in the Nerves which are the Conduit Pipes by which they are carried and do act The fault is in the Spirits either when they are but few at the first or when they are afterwards dissipated They are few at the first either by reason of the cold distemper of the Brain as in old men or through the want of vital Spirits which are the matter of which the animal are made The Spirits are dissipated from many external Causes as immoderate Evacuations much use of Venery and unseasonable great pain and constant fasting sorrow and long violent Diseases The Spirits are hurt by defect in the Nerves and are weakned either when the Nerves are too cold or are infected with a malignant quality or obstructed or compressed They grow too cold either from a cold Air from use of cold meats or much drinking of Water swimming often in cold water and the like They are infected by the use of Opium Henbane Poppy and the vapor of Quick-silver as it is seen in Gold-smiths and them which have the French Pox and have been cured with the fume of Cinnaber So in malignant Feavers tremblings come also which are rather to be accounted Convulsive Motions and also they come from the provocation or irritation of the Nervous parts They are stopped not wholly as in a Palsey but much less but by the same cause namely a watery humor gently sprinkled upon the Nerves which is produced of gluttony drunkenness and other Causes Lastly Trembling may come from compression of the Nerves when excrementitious humors abounding in the whol Body do compress the Nerves and hinder the free passage of the Animal Spirits Hercules Saxonia besides the causes mentioned borrowed from Galen acknowledgeth another Tremor coming of wind and Cardanus another from pain in nervous parts But they are deceived because the Motion produced from those Causes are to be referred to Palpitation or Convulsive Motion There is no need of signs in this disease because trembling appears of it self But the Causes that produce it are to be known by their proper signs as also we must search for those external Causes which went before As for the Prognostick Trembling of it self is not dangerous but if it be in old people it continueth with them til they die But it may be deadly by accident in as much as it usually goes before a Palsey or an Apoplexy You must Cure Trembling as you cure the Palsey and therefore we shall not make vain repetitions of Medicines CHAP. XI Of Phrenitis or Phrenzie A Phrenzy is an Inflamation of the Brain and its Membranes with a continual dotage and a a sharp constant Feaver By the word Inflamation we understand a true Tumor which is commonly called a contracted Inflamation coming of Blood out of the Vessels falling upon the substance of the part for the Blood being hot and Chollerick and in the Membranes or substance of the Brain causeth a true Erysipelas or an Erysipelas Phlegmonodes or Phlegmon Erysipelatodes By Delirium or Doting we understand the erring of Reason for we suppose that fault cannot be in the Imagination alone without a fault be in the Reason in a Phrenzy whatsoever others think we are led by the Authority of Galen who in his Book of the Difference of Symptomes chap. 3. gives an Example of one Theophilus a Physitian who thought Fidlers sate continually in a corner of his house playing and beleeved that he saw them somtimes standing somtimes sitting and cried continually that they should be cast out of doors And Galen saith that in him the Imagination was hurt without the Reason First therefore we may say that Theophilus had not a Phenzy for Galen doth not say that he had but speaking of a Delirium which Theophilus had therefore it was rather Melancholly because they somtimes err in one object and discourse wel concerning other so saith Galen of Theophilus that he had wisdom in other things both to discourse and to know his friends But we say further of Theophilus that not only his Imagination but also his Reason was hurt because he really thought the Fidlers were there and desired they should be put forth For when the Imagination alone is hurt the Reason being not hurt acknowledgeth the error of Imagination as in a Vertigo in which the Patient thinks al things run round but Reason knoweth that it is not so indeed but that Imagination doth err Nor is the Opinion of Eustachius Rudius to be received in this case who saith That it never comes to pass that the Imagination should be hurt the Reason being sound because Reason worketh upon Phantasms received from the Imagination and therefore if foolish Phantasms are offered to the Reason he thinks it necessary that the Understanding beholding those foolish fansies should also be foolish And hence Eustachius gathers that the Imagination is not depraved but there is a meer and simple deceit of the sight We say that the understanding doth run from one thing to another and is busied about those Species which are retained in the Memory and though the Fansie presents absurdities to the Mind yet the Species before received are still retained in the Memory and are presented to the Reason it can know and correct that mistake of the Fansie namely if it judg that those absurd fansies which are brought to it by a depraved Imagination do neither agree with time place or other circumstances which still remain in the Memory and are known to be true So in a Vertigo Reason being in order judgeth that it is impossible that Roofs Walls and Pavements should turn round and therefore they are falsly represented to the Imagination So the Phylosopher that was bit with a mad dog and his Imagination began to decay going into a Bath perceived the false Image of a Dog therein but Reason being sound reproved the error of his Imagination and made him speak thus What hath a Dog to do in a Bath and presently he cast himself into the Bath by which means he was delivered from the danger of a Disease called Hydrophobia or fear of Water There are two kinds of Phrenzie namely a true Phrenzy which is laid down in the Definition above mentioned Another which is called Paraphrenitis or Bastard Phrenzy A true Phrenzy is somtimes in the Disposition which is most usual somtimes in the Habit which is called Hectical Phrenzy in which the Chollerick Humors are strongly fixed in the Brain and possess many parts thereof sticking thereto like a tincture or dye A Paraphrenitis or bastard Phrenzy is when a hot distemper is communicated to the Brain either from the whol Body as in burning Feavers or from some part inflamed as the Stomach Liver Lungs and especially the Diaphragma or Midriff which by inflamation doth produce a Disease very like a Phrenzy namely a cont●nual Dotage called Delirium which cometh to