Of
the
suffocation
of
the
Mother
.
Cap.
1.
That
this
disease
doth
oftentimes
giue
occasion
vnto
simple
and
vnlearned
people
,
to
suspect
possession
,
witchcraft
,
or
some
such
like
supernaturall
cause
.
THE
passiue
condition
of
womankind
is
subiect
vnto
more
diseases
and
of
other
[
a
](A04663-e10550-b)
a
Hyppocrat
.
6
vulgar
part.
7.
sortes
and
natures
then
men
are
:
and
especially
in
regarde
of
that
part
[
b
](A04663-e10580-b)
b
Galen
6.
locorum
affect
.
cap.
5.
radix
suffocationum
vter
us
.
from
whence
this
disease
which
we
speake
of
doth
arise
.
For
as
it
hath
more
varietie
of
[
c
](A04663-e10610-b)
c
Mercatus
de
muliebr
.
lib.
2.
cap.
1.
-
1.
Ad
sui
ipsius
alimoniam
.
-
2.
Ad
speciei
propagationem
-
3.
Ad
beneficium
indiuidui
per
euacuationem
superfluitatum
.
offices
belonging
vnto
it
then
other
partes
of
the
bodie
haue
,
and
accordingly
is
supplied
from
other
partes
with
whatsoeuer
it
hath
need
of
for
those
vses
:
so
it
must
needes
thereby
be
subiect
vnto
mo
infirmities
then
other
parts
are
:
both
by
reason
of
such
as
are
bred
in
the
part
it selfe
,
and
also
by
reason
of
such
as
are
communicated
vnto
it
from
other
parts
,
with
which
it
hath
correspondence
.
And
as
those
offices
in
their
proper
kindes
are
more
excellent
then
other
;
so
the
diseases
whereby
they
are
hurt
or
depraued
,
are
more
grieuous
.
But
amongest
all
the
diseases
wherevnto
that
sex
is
obnoxious
,
there
is
none
comparable
vnto
this
which
is
called
The
Suffocation
of
the
mother
,
either
for
varietie
,
or
for
strangenesse
of
accidents
.
For
whatsoeuer
straunge
accident
may
appeare
in
any
of
the
principall
functions
of
mans
bodie
,
either
animall
,
vitall
,
or
naturall
,
the
same
is
to
bee
seene
in
this
disease
,
by
reason
of
the
communitie
and
consent
which
this
part
hath
with
the
braine
,
Apoplexies
,
Epilepsyes
,
Syncopyes
,
subuersions
of
the
stomacke
,
&c.
)
and
not
all
(
vnlesse
as
in
Syncopyes
by
consent
,
where
the
vitall
function
ceasing
,
all
the
rest
must
needes
suffer
;
not
as
one
may
do
from
another
,
but
all
directly
from
this
one
fountaine
,
in
such
sort
as
you
shall
often
tymes
perceyue
in
one
and
the
same
person
diuerse
accidents
of
contrarie
natures
to
concurre
at
once
.
And
hereupon
the
Symptoms
of
this
disease
are
sayd
to
be
monstrous
and
terrible
to
beholde
,
and
of
such
a
varietie
as
they
can
hardly
be
comprehended
within
any
method
or
boundes
.
Insomuch
as
they
which
are
ignorant
of
the
strange
affects
which
naturall
causes
may
produce
,
and
of
the
manifold
examples
which
our
profession
of
Phisicke
doth
minister
in
this
kind
,
in
Holler
.
cap.
59.
haue
sought
aboue
the
Moone
for
supernaturall
causes
:
ascribing
these
accidents
either
to
diabolicall
possession
,
to
witch-craft
,
or
to
the
immediate
finger
of
the
Almightie
.
But
it
is
no
maruell
though
the
common
people
and
men
also
in
other
faculties
verie
excellent
may
bee
deceyued
by
the
rarenesse
and
straungenesse
of
these
matters
,
which
are
hidden
out
of
their
Horizon
amongest
the
deepest
mysteries
of
our
profession
:
when
as
Phisitions
themselues
,
Cornelius
Gemma
testifieth
.
If
they
bee
not
verie
wel
exercised
in
the
practise
of
their
profession
,
are
oftentimes
deceyued
,
imagining
such
manifolde
straunge
accidents
as
their
hee
mencioneth
to
accompanie
this
disease
,
(
as
suffocation
in
the
throate
,
croaking
of
Frogges
,
hissing
of
Snakes
,
crowing
of
Cockes
,
barking
of
Dogges
,
garring
of
Crowes
,
frenzies
,
convulsions
,
hickcockes
,
laughing
,
singing
,
weeping
,
crying
,
&c.
)
to
proceede
from
some
metaphysicall
power
,
when
in
deede
(
as
hee
there
sayeth
)
they
are
meerely
naturall
.
Iacobus
de
Partibus
expoundeth
it
,
they
did
thinke
it
to
be
inflicted
from
aboue
,
yet
notwithstanding
he
setteth
downe
naturall
causes
of
it
,
and
a
naturall
cure
.
This
hee
speaketh
of
the
Phisitions
of
his
time
,
whome
he
confuteth
principally
by
two
reasons
,
which
may
serue
for
excellent
rules
for
all
men
to
discerne
such
cases
by
.
The
first
is
,
that
there
is
no
supernaturall
Character
in
these
Symptoms
,
as
hee
proueth
by
an
induction
of
diuerse
of
them
,
which
in
the
common
opinion
were
thought
to
be
aboue
nature
:
yet
hee
proueth
to
haue
their
naturall
causes
in
the
bodie
of
man
aswell
as
others
haue
.
The
strength
of
this
argument
will
better
appeare
hereafter
in
the
particular
Symptoms
,
which
we
are
to
entreate
of
:
where
it
shall
be
made
manifest
that
the
most
of
them
doe
both
depende
vpon
such
naturall
causes
as
other
diseases
haue
in
our
bodies
,
and
also
are
oftentimes
mixed
with
other
diseases
which
are
accompted
naturall
.
It
may
likewise
appeare
by
this
,
that
whereas
all
other
diseases
are
knowne
by
their
notes
and
signes
which
resemble
their
cause
(
as
Choller
,
Flegme
,
Melancholy
,
&c.
haue
their
proper
markes
,
corruption
and
putrefaction
,
their
proper
notes
and
malignity
his
Character
)
so
there
must
be
some
Character
or
note
of
a
supernaturall
power
in
these
cases
(
as
[
a
](A04663-e11120-b)
a
Luk.
8.27.28
.
&c.
Ternel
de
abdi
tis
rerum
causis
lib.
2
cap
16
Platerus
de
men
t
is
alienat
.
pag.
102.
Beniuenius
de
abditis
morborum
causis
cap.
8.
Alsharauius
.
C.
de
Epilepsia
.
extraordinary
strength
or
knowledge
or
suffering
)
or
else
we
haue
no
cause
but
to
thinke
them
naturall
.
If
the
diuell
as
an
externall
cause
,
may
inflict
a
disease
by
stirring
vp
or
kindling
the
humors
of
our
bodies
,
and
then
depart
without
supplying
continuall
supernaturall
power
vnto
it
;
[
b
](A04663-e11140-b)
b
Auicen
.
C.
de
melancholisi
conting
at
a
De
monio
sufficit
nobis
quod
conuert
at
comptexionem
ad
choleram
nigram
,
&c.
vide
Iacobum
de
partibus
inhunc
locum
.
Valesius
meth
;
medendi
lib.
2.
cap.
2.
then
the
disease
is
but
naturall
,
and
will
submit
it selfe
vnto
Physicall
cure
.
For
externall
causes
when
they
are
already
remoted
,
giue
no
indication
of
any
remedy
.
The
second
argument
of
this
is
,
that
these
Symptoms
do
yeeld
vnto
natural
causes
,
and
are
both
procured
and
also
eased
by
such
ordinary
meanes
,
as
other
diseases
are
:
and
[
c
](A04663-e11190-b)
c
Fernel
loco
ci
tato
matheus
de
Grad
.
ex
Azariuio
.
C.
de
E
pilepsia
.
therefore
they
must
needs
be
naturall
.
The
strength
of
this
argument
is
grounded
vpon
the
very
foundation
of
our
profession
which
hath
beene
layd
by
[
d
](A04663-e11210-b)
d
Hippo.
de
natura
humaaa
circa
medium
.
Destatibus
pau
lo
post
principix
um
.
Hyppocrates
and
[
e
](A04663-e11230-b)
e
Gal.
de
vena
sectione
aduersus
Erasistr
:
cap
:
8
,
in
arte
medicina
li
cap
:
8
9.
in
constitutione
artis
cap
;
13.
methodi
med:
lib.
9.10.11
.
&c.
Gallen
long
agoe
and
euer
since
confirmed
by
the
practise
and
obseruations
of
all
learned
men
;
that
diseases
are
cured
by
their
contraries
.
I
say
contrary
[
f
](A04663-e11290-b)
f
Valesius
meth.
med:
lib
:
1.
cap
:
4
:
both
vnto
the
disease
,
vnto
the
cause
,
and
vnto
the
Symptom
.
And
the
more
exact
the
contrarietie
is
;
the
more
proper
is
the
remedy
:
as
when
they
are
equall
in
[
g
](A04663-e11330-b)
g
Mercatus
meth
med:
pag:
42
:
43
:
Gal.
Simplicium
lib.
3
:
cap
:
11
:
Valesi
us
controuers:
lib.
1.
cap.
4
Luk
,
11.
vers.
21.22
.
degree
or
in
power
.
But
what
equality
of
contrariety
either
in
degree
or
in
power
,
can
there
be
betweene
a
supernaturall
suffocating
power
,
and
the
compression
of
the
belly
or
throate
.
They
are
disperats
in
Logicke
,
but
not
contraries
.
For
contrarietie
is
betweene
such
as
are
comprehended
vnder
one
generall
.
And
where
one
is
opposed
vnto
one
alone
,
and
not
indifferently
vnto
many
.
Neither
doe
I
thinke
,
that
any
man
wel
aduised
,
will
say
that
by
compression
of
those
parts
,
he
is
able
to
suppresse
the
power
of
the
diuell
.
The
like
may
be
saide
of
the
application
of
cupping
glasses
,
of
sweete
plaisters
,
of
ligatures
,
&c.
beneath
,
and
of
euell
smelles
aboue
;
by
all
which
we
do
obserue
those
kindes
of
fits
to
be
mitigated
:
and
yet
there
can
bee
no
such
contrary
respect
in
them
against
a
supernatural
cause
,
as
is
between
a
remedy
and
a
disease
.
They
are
also
procured
vpon
sweete
smelles
,
vpon
pleasant
meats
and
drinkes
,
vpon
feare
,
anger
,
iealousie
,
&c.
as
in
the
particular
causes
shall
bee
farther
declared
:
and
yet
no
such
consent
can
bee
shewed
in
them
with
any
supernaturall
affect
,
as
that
they
may
any
way
cause
or
encrease
it
.
Wherefore
the
rule
of
Hyppocrates
must
needesbe
true
;
that
if
these
Symptoms
do
yeeld
vnto
naturall
remedies
,
they
must
also
bee
naturall
themselues
.
And
thus
much
in
explanation
of
these
two
arguments
of
Hyppocrates
against
the
errour
of
his
time
:
which
notwithstanding
hath
been
continued
in
the
mindes
of
men
vntill
this
day
,
and
no
maruell
:
vnlesse
the
same
corruption
which
bred
it
at
the
first
,
had
beene
remoued
out
of
the
world
.
And
therefore
diuers
of
our
Authors
doe
make
especiall
mention
of
this
case
wherein
they
report
the
common
people
to
haue
beene
deceiued
by
imagining
witchcraft
or
possession
,
Amatus
Lusitanus
reporteth
of
one
Diua
Clara
,
In
those
fits
euery
part
of
her
body
was
distorted
,
she
felt
nothing
,
nor
perceiued
any
thing
:
but
had
all
her
sences
benummed
,
her
hart
beating
,
her
teeth
close
shut
together
:
yet
for
an
houres
space
or
two
she
would
haue
such
strong
motions
,
that
shee
would
weary
the
strongest
men
that
came
at
her
.
When
she
had
beene
three
weekes
in
this
case
,
her
left
arme
began
to
be
resolued
with
a
palsie
,
&c.
He
being
called
vnto
her
prescribed
such
remedies
as
are
vsuall
in
this
case
,
and
within
few
dayes
recouered
her
,
to
the
great
admiration
of
the
beholders
.
Petrus
Forrestus
maketh
mention
of
another
maid
of
22.
Cap.
2.
What
this
disease
is
,
and
by
what
meanes
it
causeth
such
varietie
of
Symptoms
.
THis
disease
is
called
by
diuerse
names
amongst
our
Authors
.
Passio
Hysterica
,
Suffocatio
,
Praefocatio
,
and
Strangulatus
vteri
,
Caducus
matricis
,
&c.
In
English
the
Mother
,
or
the
Suffocation
of
the
Mother
,
an
affect
of
the
Mother
or
wombe
wherein
the
principal
parts
of
the
bodie
by
consent
do
suffer
diuersly
according
to
the
diuersitie
of
the
causes
and
diseases
wherewith
the
matrix
is
offended
.
I
call
it
an
affect
in
a
large
signification
to
comprehend
both
morbum
and
Symptoma
.
For
sometimes
it
is
either
of
them
,
and
somtimes
both
.
For
in
regard
the
actions
of
expulsion
or
retention
in
the
Mother
are
hurt
.
It
may
be
called
a
Symptoma
in
actione
laesa
:
in
regard
of
the
humor
to
be
expelled
which
corrupteth
and
putrifieth
to
a
venemous
malignitie
.
It
is
likewise
a
Symptom
in
excremento
vteri
mutato
.
And
in
regard
of
the
perfrigeration
of
the
Mother
,
and
so
of
the
whole
bodie
.
It
is
also
a
Symptom
[
a
](A04663-e11940-b)
a
Albert.
Bottonus
cap.
39.
in
qualitate
tangibili
mulata
,
not
morbus
ex
intemperie
:
[
b
](A04663-e11970-b)
b
Gal.
locorum
affectorum
3.
cap.
7.
Petrus
Salius
pag.
467.
Altomarus
cap
110.
Horatius
Angenius
Epist.
6
because
it
is
suddenly
inflicted
&
suddenly
remoued
.
But
in
regard
of
the
rising
of
the
Mother
wherby
it
is
somtimes
drawn
vpwards
or
sidewards
aboue
his
natural
seate
,
compressing
the
neighbour
parts
,
&
so
consequently
one
another
.
It
may
be
said
to
be
morbus
in
situ
,
in
respect
of
the
compression
it selfe
,
causing
suffocation
and
difficultie
of
breathing
.
It
may
be
[
c
](A04663-e12000-b)
c
Gal.
de
causis
morb.
cap.
7
causa
morbi
in
forma
by
causing
coarctation
of
the
instruments
of
breathing
.
And
sometimes
these
are
complicated
and
[
d
](A04663-e12030-b)
d
Altom
arus
ccitate
.
Rondeletius
methodo
curand
.
morb.
cap.
69.
matheus
de
grad.
in
9
Rhasis
.
cap.
28
together
with
a
venemous
vapour
,
arising
from
this
corrupt
humor
vnto
diuers
parts
of
the
bodie
,
there
will
be
an
euill
position
of
the
matrix
also
:
either
because
the
ligaments
,
vaines
and
arteries
beeing
obstructed
:
[
e
](A04663-e12040-b)
e
Mercatus
lib
2.
cap
3.
by
those
vapours
are
shortened
of
their
wontedlength
,
and
so
draw
vp
the
part
higher
then
it
should
be
;
or
[
f
](A04663-e12060-b)
f
Matheus
de
grad.
in
9
Rhasis
cap.
28.
Hor.
Augenius
sibi
offensum
fugiens
vt
et
iucundum
insequens
.
for
that
the
matrix
being
grieuously
anoyed
with
the
malignity
of
those
vapours
doth
contract
it selfe
and
rise
vp
by
a
locall
motion
towards
the
midrif
.
I
say
of
the
Mother
or
wombe
because
although
the
wombe
many
times
in
this
disease
doe
suffer
but
secondarily
,
yet
the
other
parts
are
not
affected
in
this
disease
but
from
the
Mother
:
(
Radix
suffocationum
vterus
)
which
finding
it selfe
anoyed
by
some
vnkind
humor
,
either
within
it selfe
,
[
g
](A04663-e12110-b)
g
Gal.
de
difficultate
respirā
di
lib.
1.
cap.
7.
Trincauel
.
li.
4
cap.
12.
Felix
platerus
ca.
de
respira
.
defectu
Gal.
de
sympt
.
differentiis
Cap
2.3
.
the
instruments
of
respiration
with
animall
and
naturall
.
These
parts
are
affected
in
this
disease
,
and
do
suffer
in
their
functions
as
they
are
diminished
,
depraued
,
or
abolished
,
[
h
](A04663-e12130-b)
h
Gal.
5.
loc.
affect
.
6
Mercatus
pag.
173.
according
to
the
nature
&
plenty
of
the
humor
,
and
the
temperament
and
scituation
of
the
Mother
:
and
that
diuersly
:
For
somtimes
the
instruments
of
respiration
alone
doe
suffer
,
sometimes
the
heart
alone
,
sometimes
two
or
three
faculties
together
,
sometimes
successiuely
one
after
another
,
sometimes
one
part
suffereth
both
a
resolution
and
a
conuulsion
in
the
same
fit
,
Another
diuersitie
there
is
,
in
the
order
of
these
fits
:
for
sometimes
they
keep
due
g
periods
or
circuits
yearly
or
monthly
,
D.
Argent
and
I
had
another
patient
,
in
whome
for
10.
weeks
together
we
obserued
a
fit
of
the
mother
euery
saturday
.
I
adde
by
consent
of
the
Mother
to
distinguish
those
Symptoms
or
diseases
from
such
as
are
caused
originally
by
the
part
affected
.
For
being
procured
but
by
consent
,
they
endure
no
longer
than
the
fits
of
the
mother
do
continue
.
The
consent
or
communitie
which
the
matrix
hath
with
those
principal
parts
of
the
body
is
easily
perceiued
,
if
wee
consider
the
anatomy
of
that
part
,
&
the
diuers
waies
wherby
it
may
and
doth
communicate
with
them
.
The
functions
of
this
part
,
besides
that
which
is
common
to
all
other
for
their
nutriment
deriued
from
the
naturall
facultie
,
are
2.
the
one
respecting
the
preseruation
of
the
whole
body
,
as
it
is
an
Emunctory
of
diuers
superfluities
which
do
abound
in
that
sex
.
It
is
also
Porous
for
the
better
entertaining
of
the
vitall
spirits
and
the
necessitie
it
hath
of
distention
and
contraction
.
It
is
tied
vnto
diuers
partes
of
the
body
that
it
might
the
better
beare
the
weight
of
an
infant
:
backwards
by
little
strings
vnto
the
lower
gut
,
Now
according
to
this
description
let
vs
consider
how
by
consent
,
the
principall
partes
of
the
bodie
may
bee
affected
from
the
matrix
.
The
partes
of
our
bodie
doe
suffer
by
consent
[
b
](A04663-e12430-b)
b
Trincauel
.
l.
3
Sect.
2.
cap.
2.
two
manner
of
wayes
.
The
one
is
when
they
doe
receyue
some
offensiue
thing
from
another
parte
which
is
[
c
](A04663-e12470-b)
c
Auicen
.
Fē
.
1.3
.
tract.
2.
ca.
6
Montagnana
consil.
226
called
Communitas
non
absoluta
.
And
this
is
either
a
qualitie
as
in
venemous
and
infectious
diseases
,
where
the
malignitie
creeping
from
one
part
to
another
doth
alter
the
qualitie
of
the
parts
as
it
goeth
,
and
at
the
last
is
comminicated
to
the
principall
parts
,
as
the
head
,
heart
,
liuer
,
longs
,
&c.
or
a
substance
which
either
by
manifest
conducts
,
as
vaines
,
nerues
,
arteries
,
&c.
or
by
insensible
pores
(
as
Hyppocrates
saith
,
The
other
kinde
of
communitie
is
that
which
they
call
Communitas
absoluta
,
wherein
the
part
consenting
receiueth
nothing
from
the
other
,
but
yet
is
partaker
of
his
griefe
:
either
for
similitude
of
substance
or
function
,
which
causeth
mutuall
compassion
:
as
all
neruous
partes
haue
with
the
braine
:
whereby
if
any
Nerue
or
neruous
part
bee
hurt
or
pricked
,
the
braine
suffreth
a
convulsion
,
or
for
neighbourhood
and
vicinitie
,
whereby
one
part
may
offend
another
,
by
compression
or
incumbencie
:
as
in
the
prolapse
of
the
Mother
,
the
bladder
or
fundament
is
oftentimes
offended
in
their
naturall
excretion
.
And
in
this
disease
which
we
haue
in
hand
by
the
locall
motion
of
it
vpwardes
,
the
midriffe
is
straightned
of
his
scope
,
whereby
the
lunges
doe
faile
in
their
dutie
,
or
by
reason
of
connexion
or
continuitie
which
it
hath
with
other
parts
,
by
Vaines
,
Nerues
,
Arteries
,
Membranes
,
Ligaments
,
&c.
whereby
the
offence
is
easily
imparted
vnto
other
partes
.
facultie
or
matter
,
whereof
the
part
hath
neede
.
As
in
the
obstruction
of
the
Spina
Dorsi
there
followeth
a
resolution
or
palsie
of
the
legges
or
armes
,
by
reason
that
the
animall
facultie
that
should
giue
sence
or
motion
to
the
part
is
intercepted
and
hindered
in
his
passage
.
Likewise
in
a
resolution
of
the
Muscles
of
the
brest
,
as
in
a
wound
of
that
part
,
or
in
swounding
the
voice
is
taken
away
,
All
these
manner
of
wayes
hath
the
Matrix
by
consent
to
impart
her
offence
vnto
other
parts
.
For
there
wanteth
no
corruption
of
humor
,
vapour
,
nor
euill
qualitie
,
where
this
part
is
ill
affected
,
to
infect
other
partes
withall
,
there
wantes
no
oportunitie
of
conueyance
or
passage
vnto
any
part
,
by
reason
of
the
large
Vaynes
,
Arteries
,
and
Nerues
,
which
are
deriued
vnto
it
,
with
which
it
hath
great
affinitie
and
similitude
of
substance
,
besides
the
connexion
it
hath
with
the
heart
,
liuer
,
braine
,
and
backe
.
It
is
linked
also
in
neighborhoode
with
diuerse
partes
of
great
vse
,
as
the
bladder
,
guttes
,
midriffe
,
&c.
which
are
likely
to
bee
warmed
when
this
part
doth
burne
.
According
to
the
varietie
of
causes
and
diseases
wherewith
the
wombe
is
offended
,
these
Symptoms
doe
differ
in
nature
,
or
in
degree
.
[
a
](A04663-e12750-b)
a
Mercatus
pag.
165.
A
plentifull
matter
produceth
a
vehement
Symptom
:
a
corrupt
matter
according
to
the
degree
of
corruption
,
and
the
qualitie
of
the
humor
corrupted
,
causeth
like
accidents
.
The
diseases
also
of
the
Mother
being
complicated
with
the
former
corrupt
humors
do
yeeld
varietie
of
Symptoms
:
as
the
rising
of
the
Mother
,
which
alwayes
causeth
shortnes
of
breath
:
b
Empostumes
of
the
Mother
according
to
the
place
where
they
are
bred
,
Cap.
3.
Of
the
kinds
of
this
disease
,
and
first
of
that
wherein
the
vitall
facultie
is
offended
.
HOw
I
come
to
the
kinds
and
sorts
of
this
disease
,
which
may
bee
reduced
vnto
three
principall
heades
,
according
as
euerie
part
of
the
bodie
belongeth
vnto
some
of
the
three
principall
functions
which
do
gouerne
the
bodie
of
man
.
Not
that
euerie
Symptom
in
this
disease
doth
hurt
some
of
the
three
functions
,
1
The
vitall
function
which
by
preseruing
naturall
heat
in
a
due
temperature
,
maintaineth
the
coniunction
of
soule
and
bodie
togither
,
hath
his
principall
mansion
in
the
heart
,
and
from
thence
by
his
Arteries
conueyeth
vitall
spirites
vnto
euery
member
.
So
as
without
this
wee
could
not
liue
:
and
therefore
it
is
accounted
the
principallest
function
,
because
the
rest
receyue
their
being
from
this
,
and
this
fayling
they
must
needes
all
cease
.
This
function
is
performed
by
the
motion
of
the
heart
,
and
Arteries
,
which
in
this
affect
of
the
Mother
is
drawne
into
consent
as
it
is
either
diminished
,
abolished
,
or
depraued
.
The
deprauation
of
this
motion
is
either
when
it
is
too
fast
and
quick
,
or
when
it
beates
disorderly
.
The
pulse
in
this
disease
is
oftentimes
too
quicke
,
although
it
bee
weake
withall
:
but
seeing
it
brings
no
great
offence
with
it
,
the
patient
doth
seldome
complaine
therof
.
The
greater
offence
is
when
it
beates
disorderly
,
and
keepes
no
equall
nor
orderly
stroke
,
but
either
trembleth
and
daunceth
in
the
motion
,
or
else
is
violently
impelled
:
insomuch
as
it
doth
not
onely
remoue
ones
hande
being
applied
to
some
part
where
the
Arteries
are
great
,
This
Symptom
is
called
the
palpitation
or
beating
of
the
heart
,
or
Arteries
whereof
Maximillian
the
Emperour
died
as
Crato
reporteth
,
and
wherewith
Charles
the
fift
was
oftentimes
molested
,
as
Vesalius
writeth
.
It
is
chiefly
to
bee
perceyued
where
the
Arteries
are
great
&
neare
the
skin
:
as
vnder
the
left
ribbes
towards
the
backe
,
and
in
the
necke
:
as
you
may
obsrue
in
Maides
that
haue
the
greene
sickenesse
,
by
the
shaking
and
quiuering
of
their
ruffes
,
if
they
sit
close
to
their
neckes
:
where
sometimes
through
the
dilatation
of
the
Arterie
there
ariseth
a
[
a
](A04663-e13010-b)
a
Aneurisma
.
Pernel
.
loeo
citato
.
tumour
as
bigge
as
ones
fist
.
This
Symp
tom
is
euerie
where
mentioned
by
our
[
b
](A04663-e13030-b)
b
Petrus
Salius
pag.
429.
Skinckius
de
cordis
palpit
.
abs
.
211.
item
218.222
.
Forestus
lib.
17
obs.
8.
Authours
in
this
disease
and
our
dayly
experience
confirmeth
it
.
This
motion
of
the
heart
and
Arteries
in
this
affect
of
the
Mother
is
oftentimes
diminished
either
in
part
or
to
sense
totally
.
In
part
,
where
the
pulse
in
this
disease
is
weake
,
slow
,
obscure
,
intermittent
,
&c.
and
the
whole
bodie
accordingly
feeble
and
slow
in
euery
action
,
for
want
of
influence
of
vitall
facultie
from
the
heart
.
It
is
totally
diminished
in
that
Symptom
which
is
called
Syncope
or
swounding
,
the
very
image
of
death
,
where
the
pulse
is
[
c
](A04663-e13120-b)
c
Gal.
loc
,
affect
.
6.
c
5.
pulsum
vix
perceptibilem
habent
&c
Item
de
compox
sit
.
pharmac
.
s
.
l.
lib.
9
in
finit
.
scarcely
or
not
at
all
perceyued
;
the
breath
or
respiration
cleane
gone
:
by
reason
that
the
heart
wanting
his
motion
,
hath
no
neede
of
the
helpe
of
the
lungs
to
refresh
it
withall
,
all
the
faculties
of
the
body
fayling
,
it self
lying
like
a
dead
corpse
three
or
foure
houres
togither
,
and
[
d
](A04663-e13160-b)
d
Antho.
Guaynerius
.
cap.
de
suffoc
.
matricīs
.
Albert
,
Botionus
loco
infra
citato
.
Gal.
loco
citato
.
Altomarus
loco
citato
.
sometimes
two
or
three
whole
dayes
without
sense
,
motion
,
breath
,
heate
,
or
any
signe
of
life
at
all
(
like
as
wee
see
Snakes
and
other
creatures
to
lie
all
the
winter
,
as
if
they
were
dead
,
vnder
the
earth
)
insomuch
as
diuerse
[
e
](A04663-e13170-b)
e
Ambros
.
paraeus
li.
24.
c.
10.
errors
haue
beene
committed
in
laying
foorth
such
for
dead
,
which
haue
afterwards
beene
found
to
haue
life
in
them
,
and
haue
risen
vp
in
their
burials
,
whereupon
there
haue
beene
lawes
enacted
,
as
[
f
](A04663-e13200-b)
f
De
morbis
muliebr
:
lib.
4.
cap.
22.
Iacobus
Syluius
de
mensibus
mulierum
.
Mercurialis
reporteth
,
that
no
woman
which
was
subiect
to
this
disease
should
be
buried
vntil
she
had
beene
three
dayes
dead
.
Or
as
[
g
](A04663-e13240-b)
g
De
morbis
medicandis
.
lib.
10.
cap.
10.
Alexander
Benedictus
of
Bolonia
sayth
72.
houres
,
which
commeth
to
the
same
reckoning
.
[
a
](A04663-e13290-b)
a
Practicae
lib.
2.
cap.
17.
Petrus
Bayrus
setteth
downe
diuerse
reasons
why
they
should
not
be
buried
before
three
dayes
bee
ended
,
besides
the
experience
of
some
(
as
hee
saith
)
that
haue
beene
found
aliue
in
their
graues
after
they
had
beene
buried
.
I
will
refer
the
reader
for
the
reasons
to
the
author
himself
,
and
to
[
b
](A04663-e13330-b)
b
Lib.
10.
obser.
79.
in
scholiis
.
Forrestus
in
his
obseruations
.
[
c
](A04663-e13370-b)
c
Histor.
nat.
lib.
7.
cap.
52.
Plinie
maketh
mention
out
of
Heraclides
,
of
a
woman
who
for
seuen
dayes
together
lay
for
dead
in
a
fit
of
the
mother
,
and
was
restored
againe
to
life
:
which
(
saieth
[
d
](A04663-e13420-b)
d
De
medica
hystoria
mirabili
.
lib.
4.
ca.
11
Marcellus
Donatus
)
is
not
to
be
thought
a
fabulous
tale
,
seeing
it
is
not
repugnant
to
the
rules
of
Philosophie
and
Phisicke
.
And
[
e
](A04663-e13460-b)
e
6.
Locorum
affect
.
cap.
5.
Galen
making
mention
of
the
verie
same
hystorie
vnder
the
name
of
Apnaea
,
discourseth
of
the
reasons
of
it
.
[
f
](A04663-e13520-b)
f
Ioh.
Schinckius
refert
ex
pictorio
.
obseruat
.
med.
lib
4.
cap.
288.
Rabbi
Moses
an
ancient
Author
in
Physicke
,
reporteth
also
of
a
woman
,
that
in
the
fitte
of
the
mother
,
did
lie
six
dayes
without
sense
and
motion
,
her
Arteries
being
waxt
hard
,
and
she
readie
to
be
buried
,
and
yet
recouered
.
[
g
](A04663-e13570-b)
g
Demorbis
muliebribus
cap.
43.
Bottouus
a
late
professor
of
Physicke
in
Padua
,
reporteth
of
a
woman
that
beeing
giuen
ouer
for
dead
in
a
fit
of
the
Mother
,
was
by
such
conclusions
as
he
tried
,
discouered
to
be
yet
aliue
,
and
recouered
her
former
health
againe
by
such
remedies
as
he
prescribed
.
[
h
](A04663-e13610-b)
h
Obseru
.
li.
10.
in
scholiis
ad
obseruat
.
79.
Iacobus
Ruffius
testatur
se
plures
huiusmod
.
vidiss
.
mulieb●
.
l●b.
6
,
cap.
8.
Forestus
of
Alkmar
in
north
Holland
,
but
lately
dead
,
setteth
downe
the
like
example
of
another
,
that
lay
in
that
maner
24.
houres
,
and
was
by
him
restored
to
health
againe
.
The
like
also
he
citeth
out
of
Leouellus
,
in
that
place
,
of
one
that
lay
with
her
eyes
shut
,
and
dumb
a
whole
day
,
and
by
conuenient
remedies
was
deliuered
from
her
fit
,
and
could
rehearse
all
that
was
done
about
her
in
the
time
of
her
fit
.
But
the
most
pitifull
example
of
all
other
in
this
kinde
,
Ambrose
Paraee
reporteth
of
Vesalius
a
worthie
Physition
,
&
for
anatomicall
dissections
much
renowmed
,
who
being
called
to
the
opening
of
a
Gentlewoman
in
Spaine
,
which
was
thought
to
be
dead
through
the
violence
of
one
of
these
fits
,
began
to
open
her
,
and
at
the
second
cut
of
the
knife
she
cried
out
,
and
stirred
her
limbes
,
shewing
manifest
signes
of
life
to
remaine
.
The
beholders
were
exceedingly
amazed
at
the
sight
,
and
blamed
the
Physition
much
for
it
:
who
though
hee
tooke
her
for
dead
,
yet
tooke
he
great
apprehension
of
sorrow
for
that
accident
,
that
he
estranged
himselfe
.
After
through
griefe
and
remorse
of
conscience
for
his
error
,
pretended
(
as
others
say
)
a
pilgrimage
for
the
absenting
of
himselfe
,
and
therein
died
.
Many
more
examples
to
this
end
could
I
produce
out
of
Authenticall
writers
,
and
late
experiences
,
if
it
were
free
for
mee
to
mention
them
:
but
these
may
suffice
to
shew
how
wonderfully
the
vitall
facultie
is
ouerthrowne
in
this
disease
,
and
withall
respiration
,
sense
,
motion
,
and
all
the
functions
of
the
bodie
by
reason
of
this
.
Cap.
4.
Of
that
kind
of
this
disease
wherein
the
animall
facultie
is
offended
.
THe
second
kind
of
this
disease
is
,
where
the
animall
facultie
doth
principally
suffer
;
and
it
is
that
faculty
whereby
we
do
vnderstand
,
iudge
,
and
remember
things
that
are
profitable
or
hurtfull
vnto
vs
,
whereby
also
we
haue
sence
and
do
feele
the
qualities
of
things
,
and
moue
to
and
fro
,
&
performe
diuers
other
voluntary
actions
for
the
commoditie
of
the
bodie
.
For
nature
had
made
vs
but
base
creatures
,
if
she
had
giuen
vs
onely
the
vitall
facultie
barely
to
liue
,
and
the
naturall
to
grow
,
and
to
supply
the
expence
that
is
daily
made
of
naturall
moisture
:
If
she
had
not
withall
giuen
vs
knowledg
and
vnderstanding
of
such
things
as
we
are
subiect
vnto
,
and
abilitie
to
moue
our
bodies
at
our
pleasure
,
to
apprehend
that
which
is
profitable
&
to
shun
that
which
is
offensiue
,
&c.
And
therefore
as
a
facultie
making
most
for
the
dignitie
and
vse
of
man
,
it
is
placed
principally
in
the
braine
;
from
whence
it
disperseth
his
beames
of
influence
into
euery
part
of
the
bodie
,
according
to
the
seuerall
vses
and
necessitie
of
each
part
.
This
animall
facultie
hath
this
peculiar
difference
from
the
vitall
and
naturall
faculties
,
that
the
functions
of
it
are
subiect
vnto
our
wil
,
&
may
be
intended
remitted
,
or
peruerted
at
our
pleasure
,
otherwise
than
in
the
other
faculties
:
For
no
man
can
make
his
pulse
to
beate
as
he
list
,
or
alter
the
naturall
functions
at
his
will
and
pleasure
.
But
these
animall
functions
may
be
abused
both
by
our
owne
will
,
and
by
the
violence
of
some
disease
,
and
by
both
,
as
Galen
testifieth
,
lib.
2.
de
Symptomatum
causis
cap.
12.
That
it
may
be
abused
by
our
owne
will
,
he
proueth
also
in
another
place
,
Cornelius
Gemma
saith
,
that
he
knewe
one
that
could
weepe
when
he
list
:
others
that
could
make
their
bodies
stiffe
like
an
image
,
imitate
the
voyces
of
all
kinde
of
creatures
,
raise
a
hickocke
,
and
breake
wind
as
often
and
in
what
maner
they
would
.
And
S.
Augustine
tels
of
one
that
would
make
a
kinde
of
musicke
that
way
.
Adrian
Turnebus
saw
a
rogue
that
gayned
much
money
by
shewing
this
feate
,
we
do
also
daily
see
that
some
can
countersait
madnes
,
1.
Sam.
21.13
.
Gal.
lib
quomo
do
deprehenduntur
qui
aegrotare
sefingunt
.
cap.
1.
some
drunkennesse
,
some
the
falling
sicknesse
,
some
palsies
and
trembling
,
some
can
play
the
fooles
and
supply
the
roomes
of
innocents
,
some
can
make
noyses
&
speake
in
their
bellies
or
throates
,
as
those
which
Hyppocrates
calleth
Eugastrimuthoi
ventri
loqui
,
Agnes
Brigs
,
Rachel
Pinder
,
Martha
Brossier
,
&c.
Ren.
Scot
tels
of
one
that
being
blind
,
deafe
,
and
dumbe
,
could
reade
any
canonicall
Scripture
,
but
no
Apocripha
:
But
was
discouered
by
inserting
a
leafe
of
Apocrapha
:
among
the
canonicall
.
Another
faining
her selfe
to
be
possessed
with
a
diuell
,
would
answere
to
any
question
made
in
English
,
but
vnderstood
no
latine
.
Diuers
such
like
examples
might
bee
procured
to
shew
how
the
animall
functions
may
be
abused
by
our
owne
will
.
But
against
our
willes
this
faculty
doth
suffer
by
consent
in
the
suffocation
of
the
Mother
diuersly
according
to
the
varietie
of
offices
or
functions
which
it
performeth
.
The
functions
of
it
are
three
,
the
first
is
called
Internall
and
principall
sence
which
doth
gouerne
and
direct
all
the
rest
by
Imagination
,
Reason
and
Memory
:
which
if
it
bee
hurt
either
by
imminution
or
deprauation
or
total
abolishment
,
then
the
inferior
functions
doe
necessarily
participate
with
the
offence
They
are
hurt
by
Imminution
when
a
man
doth
not
Conceiue
,
Iudge
,
or
remember
so
well
as
hee
ought
to
doe
,
as
in
dulnesse
or
blockishnesse
,
Caros
,
Coma
,
veternus
,
Stifnesse
or
congelation
of
the
body
,
These
internall
sences
are
ouerthrowne
either
in
part
or
in
whole
in
this
suffocation
of
the
mother
:
[
a
](A04663-e14290-b)
a
Hypp
.
de
mor
bis
muliebr
.
lib
1
et
2.
Torpor
occupat
caput
mens
percellitur
et
improba
fit
non
facile
intel
ligit
.
De
virginum
morbis
cor
fatuum
fit
,
ex
fatuitate
torpor
.
and
thereupon
it
is
likened
vnto
these
former
diseases
:
and
this
kind
is
accounted
by
Auicen
to
be
the
most
grieuous
of
all
other
,
where
the
imagination
and
reason
is
hurt
:
and
the
other
which
holds
them
with
conuulsions
,
contractions
,
&c.
he
accounts
to
bee
the
milder
and
the
more
vsuall
.
And
therefore
he
saith
that
commonly
they
can
remember
what
was
done
about
them
in
their
fit
:
The
Internall
sence
is
depraued
when
a
man
doth
imagine
,
iudge
,
or
remember
thinges
that
are
not
as
if
they
were
,
or
things
that
are
,
otherwise
then
they
are
indeed
.
Whether
they
do
it
in
cogitation
alone
,
or
do
expresse
it
by
word
or
deede
.
As
we
see
in
those
fooles
which
wee
call
naturals
,
These
functions
are
also
depraued
in
too
much
wakefulnesse
through
the
commotion
of
the
animall
spirits
,
[
b
](A04663-e14520-b)
b
Saltus
viti
.
F.
Platerus
de
mentis
alienatione
.
pag.
103
Saltus
Sati
viti
,
or
Saltuosa
dispositio
membrorum
wherein
they
will
daunce
,
and
leape
,
and
cannot
endure
to
be
quiet
.
This
deprauation
of
the
internall
sences
,
is
so
ordinary
in
the
fits
of
the
Mother
,
as
Horatius
Augenius
Epistola
.
6.
seemes
to
make
it
of
the
essence
of
this
disease
,
that
the
imagination
is
euer
depraued
in
it
.
But
[
c
](A04663-e14580-b)
c
Hippocrat
.
de
morbit
virg.
prae
acuta
infla
matione
insanit
prae
putredi
ne
clamat
,
&c
De
morbis
muliebr
.
lib.
1.
men
re
alienatur
in
hoc
morbo
et
de
liria
fiunt
furi
osa
dentibus
fiendet
vigilabit
anxia
erit
&c.
Auicen
loco
citato
facit
accidere
alienationem
per
communitatem
cerebri
,
&c.
Aetius
garrulae
inquietae
&
iracundae
fiunt
.
lib.
16.7
4.
Hier.
mercurialis
mormorborum
muliebr
.
lib.
4.
c.
10.
Iacobus
Syluius
demensibus
.
Mathaeus
de
grad.
consilio
.
80.
histortaem
narrat
furtosi
.
Hyppocrates
,
Galen
,
Auicen
,
and
most
of
the
best
Authors
in
our
profession
,
do
affirme
that
very
often
there
happeneth
an
alienation
of
the
minde
in
this
disease
,
whereby
sometimes
they
will
waxe
furious
and
raging
depriued
of
their
right
iudgement
and
of
rest
.
The
second
function
of
the
animall
facultie
is
the
externall
sensitiue
function
;
which
giueth
to
the
eye
the
facultie
of
seeing
,
to
the
eare
of
hearing
,
to
the
tongue
of
tasting
,
This
function
in
all
these
kindes
is
diminished
,
depraued
,
or
cleane
abolished
,
but
especially
in
this
disease
of
the
mother
,
we
do
obscrue
the
offence
which
is
done
to
the
feeling
facultie
,
when
the
parts
are
benummed
or
do
not
feele
at
all
,
or
when
they
feele
[
d
](A04663-e14670-b)
d
Iuxta
recep
tam
a
medicis
sententiam
dolorem
hic
insero
licetvideatur
potius
ad
simplices
corporis
affectus
referendus
.
paine
and
offence
,
or
when
they
feele
things
falsely
and
other
wisen
then
they
are
.
Concerning
hearing
,
although
[
e
](A04663-e14690-b)
e
Hyp
:
morb
muliebr
.
lib.
o.
caligo
ante
oculos
obuersatur
et
vertigo
,
oculi
non
acutevidēt
nihil
olfaciunt
vocata
non
audit
Rhasis
22.
cont.
in
hac
passione
non
audit
quando
datur
in
auribus
eius
vox
terribilis
Aegineta
loco
citato
.
Instrumentorum
sen
sensus
apprehensio
&c.
Auicen
narrat
plurimum
eius
quod
fuit
in
ea
nisi
sit
maxima
et
immoderata
Aetius
sensus
et
motus
intercipiuntur
.
Gal.
immobiles
sine
sensu
racent
Horatius
Angenius
Epist.
6
,
Gal.
de
motu
musc
.
lib.
2.
cap.
6.
et
8.
Hyppoc
.
Rhasis
and
diuers
others
doe
obserue
that
sometimes
it
is
hindred
:
yet
it
seemes
to
be
in
the
former
kinde
where
the
internall
facultie
doe
suffer
.
For
Mercatus
puts
it
as
a
difference
from
the
falling
sicknes
,
that
in
this
suffocation
of
the
matrix
they
doe
commonly
heare
.
The
priuation
of
the
other
sences
of
seeing
,
tasting
,
smelling
and
feeling
,
are
verie
ordinarie
in
this
disease
,
as
you
may
obserue
in
the
Histories
following
,
and
in
these
quotations
.
The
third
function
is
that
which
giues
motion
to
the
whole
bodie
.
This
motion
serueth
either
for
a
voluntary
vse
onely
,
or
for
a
naturall
vse
also
.
The
motions
for
the
voluntary
vse
are
the
free
motions
of
the
externall
members
of
our
bodies
:
as
to
bowe
the
whole
bodie
and
the
head
by
meanes
of
the
backe
,
to
apprehend
with
the
hand
,
to
stand
and
goe
with
the
feete
and
legges
,
to
chewe
with
the
iawes
,
to
open
&
shut
the
lips
&
eyelids
,
to
moue
the
eies
,
&c.
This
function
is
diminished
in
that
affect
which
we
cal
lassitudo
,
werines
or
vnweldines
,
wherein
we
are
not
able
to
moue
so
strongly
and
nimbly
as
we
should
.
It
is
abolished
,
[
g
](A04663-e14860-b)
g
Contract
io.
platerus
.
Gal.
de
causis
morborum
lib.
2.
cap.
7.
et
loc.
affect
.
li.
34.
where
the
sick
part
drawes
the
sound
part
,
that
is
,
the
muscle
which
is
affected
,
drawes
the
member
which
is
wel
.
A
resolution
or
palsie
is
either
generall
of
both
sides
of
the
bodie
[
h
](A04663-e14890-b)
h
Petrus
Salius
pag.
401.
tanquam
leuis
Apoplexia
Fern.
de
part
.
morbis
&
sympt
.
li.
5.
cap.
3.
exempting
the
head
,
or
of
one
side
called
Haemiplegia
,
or
yet
more
particular
of
the
hand
,
legge
,
finger
,
&c.
called
[
i
](A04663-e14940-b)
i
Gal.
1.
prorhet
com
.
2.50
.
et
com
.
3.26
.
de
victus
rat
.
tom.
4.27
.
de
morb.
vulg.
com
.
2.56
Gybbut
.
Trismos
.
Tortura
oris
.
Strabismus
.
Spasmus
Cynicus
.
parapligia
.
A
Contraction
or
Spasmus
is
also
of
like
sortes
,
sometimes
the
bodie
is
held
vpright
and
cannot
be
bowed
any
way
in
that
affect
which
is
called
Tetanos
,
sometimes
it
is
bowed
forwardes
Emprostotonos
sometimes
backward
Opistotonos
,
somtimes
the
back
is
crookt
in
some
part
of
it
,
as
in
Gibbo
,
sometimes
the
iawes
,
lips
,
face
,
eyelids
,
&c.
are
contracted
,
wherby
they
make
many
strange
faces
and
mouthes
sometimes
as
though
they
laughed
or
wept
,
sometimes
holding
their
mouthes
open
or
awry
,
their
eyes
staring
,
&c.
Sometimes
the
handes
,
armes
,
legges
,
fingers
,
toes
,
&c.
are
contracted
,
sometimes
particular
muscles
in
the
sides
,
backe
,
armes
,
legs
,
&c.
one
or
more
at
once
,
as
in
crampes
.
It
is
depraued
where
the
motions
are
immoderate
,
peruerse
,
inordinate
,
or
indecent
,
as
when
they
are
vnquiet
,
&
cannot
abstaine
from
motions
and
gestures
,
casting
their
armes
and
legges
to
and
fro
,
vp
and
downe
,
dauncing
,
capring
,
vawting
,
fencing
,
and
in
diuerse
maners
forming
their
motions
.
trembling
,
palpitation
,
Hyppocrat
.
de
morbi
muliebr
.
lib.
1.
Albas
oculorum
partes
subuertit
,
dentibus
frendet
,
&
similis
fit
his
qui
herculeo
morbo
detinentur
.
Item
fit
conuulsio
fortis
articulorum
corporis
,
claudam
facit
aut
impotentem
prae
rigore
,
alias
atque
alias
seipsam
iactabit
.
Horror
.
Erectae
ceruicis
spiratio
ipsam
tenet
,
&
quicquidederit
aut
biberit
ipsam
molestat
.
Torpor
occupat
manus
&
inguina
,
&
crura
&
poplites
.
Magnis
pedum
digitis
conuelluntur
gybbosa
fit
,
de
nat.
muliebr
.
Gal.
lib.
de
semine
cap.
3.
Tensiones
lumborum
&
manuum
,
&
pedum
viduam
apprehendebant
loc.
affect
.
6.5
.
Aliis
crura
&
bracchia
contrahuntur
.
Auicenna
.
minor
suffocationum
est
quae
facit
accidere
spasmum
&
tetanum
,
sine
nocumento
in
ratione
&
sensu
.
Quandoque
claudit
oculos
&
non
aperit
eos
.
Stridor
dentium
,
percussio
oculorum
,
&
motus
inuoluntarius
lacertorum
.
Rhasis
.
Stridor
dentium
cum
spasmo
&
torquedine
extremitatum
,
dolores
fortes
adeo
vt
mulierem
torquere
faciant
vndique
&
caput
genibus
implicari
.
&c.
Mesue
loco
superius
citato
.
Aetius
.
Oculi
post
multam
grauitatem
attolluntur
,
vterus
paulatim
laxatur
&
intellectum
&
sensum
recipit
.
&c.
The
animall
motions
which
doe
serue
for
naturall
vse
,
haue
their
power
from
the
animall
facultie
,
but
their
vrging
and
prouoking
and
cause
from
the
naturall
,
and
are
either
Respiration
,
Ingestion
,
or
Excretion
.
Respiration
hath
annexed
vnto
it
voyce
,
and
speach
,
voyce
and
speach
.
It
is
depraued
when
it
is
done
immoderately
or
inordinately
,
whether
it
be
voluntarie
,
or
inuoluntarie
,
as
in
shortnesse
of
breath
,
sighing
,
yawning
,
the
hickock
,
sneesing
,
coughing
,
belching
,
vomiting
,
making
of
noyses
,
blowing
,
and
reaching
,
&c.
Ingestion
,
or
swallowing
,
is
also
hurt
in
this
affect
,
when
either
they
cannot
swallow
meate
,
or
drinke
at
all
,
or
with
great
difficultie
.
Excretion
is
also
hurt
in
this
case
,
by
vomit
,
seege
or
vrine
,
&c.
when
either
they
cannot
performe
it
being
prouoked
,
or
do
it
out
of
season
,
or
more
then
is
conuenient
.
&c.
These
Symptoms
also
appeare
in
the
Suffocation
of
the
Mother
.
Hyppocrat
.
de
nat.
muliebri
.
Muta
derepentè
fit
.
de
morbis
muliebr
.
linguaipsius
refrenatur
&
hanc
non
claram
habet
.
Aliquibus
etiam
vocis
priuatio
.
Spiritus
sublimis
it
,
et
suffocatio
et
anhelatio
densa
ipsam
corripit
.
De
nat.
muliebr
.
Tussis
detinet
&
contabiscit
&
videtur
peripnumonia
esse
,
&c.
Gal.
9.
de
compis
.
Ph.
s●l
.
aliquibus
voxintercipitur
.
loc.
affect
.
6.5
.
aliae
interceptas
habent
spirationes
aliae
suffocationes
,
&c.
Hyppoc
.
de
nat.
muliebr
.
quicquid
ederit
autbiberit
ipsam
molestat
.
Auicen
.
Abscinditur
loquela
&c.
Rhasis
.
Strictura
anhelitus
,
squinantia
,
peripneumonia
,
aposlema
in
gutture
ex
communicatione
Diaphragmatis
cummatrice
.
Gal.
Loco
citato
humiditas
quaedam
ê
locis
muliebribus
excurrit
.
&c.
Rondalat
.
cap.
69.
Hollerius
.
cap.
59.
Syluius
suspirium
.
Montagnana
consilio
.
225.
These
motions
as
they
belong
to
the
animall
facultie
are
principally
hurt
by
Resolution
,
contraction
,
or
conuulsion
,
according
as
the
simple
motions
are
,
and
therefore
we
shall
not
need
to
stand
any
longer
vppon
them
in
this
place
:
as
they
belong
vnto
the
naturall
facultie
,
and
do
receyue
offence
in
that
respect
shall
be
declared
hereafter
in
the
third
general
faculty
.
In
the
mean
time
let
vs
produce
some
examples
of
this
2.
kind
of
Suffocation
,
where
the
animall
faculty
doth
principally
suffer
:
for
examples
many
times
do
perswade
more
then
doctrine
.
de
Rochpot
,
who
being
in
these
fits
would
raue
,
laugh
,
&
weep
,
Alcida
Theodorici
at
Alkmare
a
yong
lusty
maid
who
was
held
24.
houres
in
a
most
grieuous
fit
of
the
mother
,
wherin
she
lay
as
if
she
had
beene
halfe
dead
,
hearing
what
was
said
about
her
,
but
could
not
speake
,
nor
enioy
her
other
senses
.
Sometimes
she
would
bee
pulled
as
if
she
had
the
falling
sickenesse
,
sometimes
would
lie
still
as
if
she
were
in
an
Apoplexie
,
sometimes
she
would
onely
stirre
her
legges
,
Alexander
Benedictus
veronensis
testifieth
,
that
he
saw
a
woman
in
a
fit
of
the
Mother
,
that
was
besides
her selfe
,
and
would
sometimes
laugh
&
sometimes
crie
.
Those
that
attended
her
,
applied
Partrige
feathers
vpon
coales
vnto
her
nostrilles
,
and
by
chance
through
want
of
care
there
fell
a
great
coale
out
of
the
Chafingdish
into
her
bosome
,
where
it
burnt
her
,
and
made
a
great
blister
,
but
she
perceyued
it
not
vntill
the
next
day
,
and
then
complained
of
her
breasts
.
My selfe
had
a
patient
in
this
Citie
yet
liuing
and
in
good
health
(
whome
I
will
name
vnto
any
whome
it
may
concerne
)
that
endured
a
violent
fitte
of
the
Mother
a
whole
day
together
:
wherein
shee
had
many
strong
conuulsions
,
and
sometimes
did
lie
as
if
she
had
beene
dead
.
Insomuch
as
the
midwiues
would
haue
giuen
her
ouer
,
and
imputed
ignorance
vnto
mee
that
I
woulde
attempt
any
thing
for
her
recouerie
.
But
her
husband
being
perswaded
by
me
to
make
triall
of
some
meanes
which
I
had
prescribed
for
her
,
shee
was
within
three
or
foure
houres
deliuered
of
a
childe
;
yet
knew
not
of
it
,
vntill
shee
was
throughly
recouered
of
her
fit
,
which
was
fourteene
or
fifteene
houres
after
,
and
then
she
asked
her
husband
what
was
become
of
her
great
bellie
.
I
could
rehearse
two
other
such
like
examples
within
this
citie
,
which
happened
not
many
moneths
since
.
But
we
had
of
late
a
most
rare
example
of
this
disease
in
an
Essex
Gentlewoman
of
good
note
,
who
being
once
frighted
by
squibs
,
fell
into
these
fits
of
the
Mother
,
which
held
her
euery
day
,
and
whensoeuer
else
she
did
eate
any
comfortable
meat
,
for
the
space
of
fifteene
or
sexteene
yeares
togither
,
with
such
violent
conuulsions
,
as
fiue
or
six
strong
men
could
scarce
hold
her
downe
.
Sometimes
her
limbes
would
be
contracted
,
sometimes
perticular
Muscles
,
which
would
cause
swellings
in
diuerse
parts
of
her
bodie
,
sometimes
she
would
be
without
all
maner
of
sense
.
And
being
made
beleeue
by
a
stranger
Physition
that
she
was
bewitched
,
her
fits
increased
vpon
her
,
and
grew
to
bee
stronger
then
before
.
Bartholomeus
Montagnana
reciteth
vp
31.
seuerall
Symptoms
of
this
disease
which
hee
obserued
in
a
Gentlewoman
which
was
his
patient
.
Conuulsions
,
swoundings
,
choaking
in
the
throate
,
sadnesse
and
lamentation
,
coldnes
ouer
her
whole
bodie
,
dumbnesse
,
and
yet
could
heare
,
drowsinesse
,
beating
of
the
heart
,
trembling
of
the
handes
,
contraction
of
the
fingers
,
&c.
It
were
in
vaine
to
heape
vp
many
examples
to
this
purpose
,
seeing
our
daily
experience
doth
yeeld
vs
sufficient
store
of
proofe
of
the
varietie
of
these
Symptoms
in
the
animall
facultie
.
Cap.
5.
Of
that
kind
wherein
the
naturall
facultie
is
offended
.
THe
third
kinde
of
this
disease
is
,
where
the
naturall
facultie
doth
principally
suffer
.
This
facultie
is
of
great
necessitie
for
the
maintenaunce
of
mankinde
and
according
to
the
diuerse
vses
thereof
is
distinguished
.
For
seeing
that
nature
bringes
vs
not
forth
into
the
world
perfect
men
,
in
that
ripenesse
and
integritie
,
of
all
humaine
actions
which
afterwards
we
attaine
vnto
,
when
wee
come
to
full
growth
,
it
was
meete
to
be
prouided
of
such
a
facultie
in
our
bodies
as
might
encrease
ourstature
,
&
strengthen
the
instruments
of
the
whole
body
,
for
the
better
perfection
of
the
actions
thereof
.
And
this
is
called
facultas
auctrix
.
Seeing
also
that
wee
are
made
of
a
fluxible
moulde
which
wasteth
and
spendeth
it selfe
many
wayes
,
whereby
it
standeth
in
neede
of
continuall
refection
and
replie
:
Therefore
it
was
meete
to
be
furnished
with
such
a
facultie
as
might
repaire
the
decay
and
expence
of
our
substance
,
by
yeelding
continually
apt
matter
for
the
nourishment
of
the
bodie
.
And
that
is
called
facultas
altrix
.
And
thirdly
seeing
,
notwithstanding
our
bodies
are
continually
nourished
with
the
best
food
,
yet
they
must
once
die
as
well
as
other
inferiour
creatures
doe
:
therefore
God
hath
indued
vs
as
well
as
other
creatures
with
the
facultie
of
generation
:
whereby
wee
may
bee
able
to
make
our
kind
to
continue
as
long
as
the
world
shall
endure
.
These
three
naturall
faculties
haue
diuerse
others
attending
vpon
them
,
as
the
faculties
of
Attraction
,
Retention
,
Concoction
,
Expulsion
,
Alteration
,
Formation
,
&c.
Which
I
will
for
breuitie
sake
ouerpasse
with
their
bare
mention
,
because
the
Symptoms
of
these
faculties
are
not
so
euident
to
the
beholders
eye
,
Symptomata
in
qualitate
mutata
,
or
in
excremento
vitiato
:
but
be
cause
they
are
in
the
naturall
parts
,
and
arising
from
errors
of
that
facultie
,
I
haue
inserted
them
here
.
And
to
this
place
may
we
referre
those
accidents
often
mentioned
in
this
disease
.
[
a
](A04663-e15840-b)
a
Hypp
.
de
morbis
mulieb
.
lib.
1
Rhasis
con.
li.
22.
Fernel
.
de
partium
morb.
lib.
6.
cap.
16.
Mercatus
lib.
2.
cap.
2.
&
3.
Bottonus
,
&
Mercurialis
lociscitatis
.
Syluius
de
mensibus
.
Gnawing
in
the
stomacke
,
and
paines
in
diuerse
partes
of
the
bodie
,
breaking
of
wind
,
vomiting
,
purging
by
siege
,
vrin
,
or
other
excretion
,
loathing
of
meate
,
thirst
,
extraordinarie
hunger
,
swelling
in
the
throat
,
swelling
in
the
body
,
in
the
feet
,
obstructions
in
the
vaines
,
consumptions
,
tumors
,
feuers
,
priuation
of
voice
,
palenesse
of
colour
,
rumbling
and
noise
in
the
belly
or
[
b
](A04663-e15930-b)
b
Schenkiusobser
.
deptisiobser
.
137.
Cornel.
Gema
.
Cosmocr
.
Hyppocrat
.
Epidem
.
5.
expectore
obstrepebat
.
&c.
throat
,
like
vnto
frogs
,
snakes
,
or
other
creatures
,
or
as
if
they
woule
speake
as
Hyppocrates
reporteth
of
Polymarchus
wife
.
And
these
are
three
principall
kindes
of
this
disease
wherevnto
most
of
the
Symptoms
which
euer
do
appeare
therein
may
be
referred
.
Cap.
6.
Of
the
causes
of
this
disease
.
THe
causes
of
this
disease
and
of
the
Symptoms
belonging
therunto
,
haue
euer
bin
found
hard
to
be
described
particularly
:
and
especially
in
a
vulgar
tongue
,
I
hold
it
not
meete
to
discourse
to
freely
of
such
matters
,
and
therefore
I
doe
craue
pardon
if
I
do
but
slenderly
ouerpasse
some
poynts
which
might
be
otherwise
more
largely
stood
vpon
The
causes
of
this
disease
are
either
internall
,
or
externall
.
The
internall
causes
may
be
any
thing
contained
within
the
bodie
,
as
spirit
,
blood
,
humors
excrements
,
&c.
whereby
this
part
is
apt
to
be
offended
,
but
principally
they
are
referred
vnto
these
two
,
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a
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a
Gal.
loc.
affec
.
6.
cap.
5.
Hollerius
,
demorbis
internis
.
lib.
1.
cap.
59.
Paschalius
li.
1
cap.
57.
Altomarus
.
ea
.
1
10.
Item
de
vtero
gerentibus
.
cap.
2.
Iacobus
Sylutus
de
mensibus
.
Hor.
Augenius
epict
.
6.
Cardanus
de
causis
,
&c.
morborum
.
cap.
114.
blood
,
and
nature
.
Blood
is
that
humor
wherwith
we
are
nourished
:
without
which
the
infant
in
the
mothers
wombe
could
neither
grow
&
increase
in
bignesse
,
nor
yet
liue
:
and
therefore
it
was
necessarie
that
those
that
were
fit
for
generation
,
should
be
supplied
with
sufficient
store
of
this
humor
,
for
the
vse
of
this
part
wherin
the
infant
is
to
be
nourished
,
for
which
cause
there
are
large
vaines
&
arteries
deriued
vnto
it
for
the
conueyance
of
bloud
thereunto
,
and
there
is
greater
prouision
thereof
made
in
womens
bodies
then
in
mens
:
least
this
part
should
bee
forced
to
withdraw
nourishment
from
other
parts
of
the
bodie
,
and
so
leaue
them
weake
and
consuming
.
But
this
prouision
of
nature
is
oftentimes
defectiue
:
as
when
it
is
cut
off
by
violent
causes
,
Aristotle
,
de
generat
.
animal
.
And
as
the
want
and
scarsitie
of
bloud
may
procure
this
griefe
,
But
if
this
bloud
wanting
his
proper
vse
doe
degenerate
into
the
nature
of
an
excrement
,
then
it
offendeth
in
qualitie
as
well
as
in
excesse
,
and
being
detayned
in
the
bodie
,
causeth
diuers
kinds
of
Symptoms
,
according
to
the
qualitie
and
degree
of
the
distemperature
thereof
.
This
distemperature
is
either
in
manifest
qualiries
,
of
heate
,
Melancholicke
,
Flegmaticke
,
Choloricke
,
&c.
producing
Symptoms
of
the
like
nature
,
or
in
corruption
and
putrefaction
of
this
bloud
which
breedeth
diuers
strange
kinds
of
distemperatures
,
The
other
substance
which
most
commonly
is
found
culpable
of
this
disease
,
is
nature
or
sperma
:
Galen
comparing
the
corruption
of
these
two
together
,
affirmeth
that
although
from
the
putrefaction
of
bloud
,
diuers
most
terrible
accidents
doe
arise
,
yet
they
are
not
so
deadly
as
those
which
proceede
from
the
corruption
of
nature
;
others
also
hauing
those
ordinarie
matters
in
good
sorte
,
yet
being
widdowes
and
taken
with
this
grief
haue
felt
decay
in
those
faculties
as
well
as
in
the
rest
.
How
these
two
substances
by
consent
may
affect
the
whole
bodie
according
to
their
seuerall
natures
,
hath
beene
shewed
before
:
But
one
scruple
remaineth
here
to
be
discussed
,
namely
how
this
venemous
matter
may
lurke
so
long
in
our
bodies
in
silence
not
showing
it self
but
at
certaine
times
only
.
Galen
in
the
former
place
declareth
this
by
the
example
of
a
mad
dogge
,
63.
65
66.
&c.
Mercatus
.
Fernel
.
patholog
.
li.
6
,
cap.
16
as
for
the
offence
therof
the
part
affected
is
not
able
to
brooke
and
for
the
weakenesse
of
the
expulsiue
facultie
not
able
to
auoide
out
of
the
bodie
:
but
filling
the
vaines
,
arteries
,
and
the
habit
of
the
body
,
is
communicated
to
the
principall
parts
;
diminishing
or
deprauing
their
functions
so
long
,
vntill
that
portion
of
vapours
be
discussed
through
naturall
heate
:
and
ceasing
againe
so
long
vntill
by
fermentation
and
concoction
,
another
portion
of
the
corrupt
humor
shall
be
digested
.
The
vniformitie
of
this
humor
and
of
the
heate
of
concoction
causeth
the
vniformitie
of
fits
.
And
this
is
the
cause
of
the
due
periods
or
circuites
which
oftentimes
are
obserued
in
this
disease
,
whereof
wee
haue
spoken
before
:
2
according
also
to
the
condition
of
the
part
affected
,
which
seruing
as
an
euacuatorie
to
the
whole
bodie
,
is
accustomed
to
such
kind
of
humors
and
therefore
can
endure
them
better
then
other
parts
can
.
And
this
is
another
cause
why
this
humor
giues
no
signe
of
his
presence
vntill
it
may
communicate
with
the
principall
partes
:
The
externall
causes
of
this
disease
are
either
such
things
as
are
ordinary
and
necessary
for
our
life
and
which
we
cannot
shun
,
as
our
meate
and
drink
,
motion
and
rest
,
sleepe
and
watching
,
euacuation
and
perturbations
of
the
minde
:
or
such
things
as
happen
vnto
vs
accidentally
,
and
may
bee
shunned
by
vs
,
as
bathes
,
ointments
,
plaisters
,
cloathes
,
smelles
or
vapours
,
medicines
,
venus
,
noyses
,
riding
,
swimming
,
sayling
,
wounds
,
contusions
,
falles
,
biting
of
venomous
beasts
,
&c.
which
may
be
also
referred
to
the
former
kindes
.
These
and
such
like
as
they
are
the
externall
causes
of
all
diseases
,
our
bodies
being
subiect
to
be
hurt
and
offended
by
euery
one
of
them
:
so
they
are
oftentimes
accessary
to
this
particular
disease
.
The
aire
which
compasseth
our
bodies
and
which
we
breath
into
our
bodies
is
the
occasion
of
many
infirmities
in
vs
,
But
especially
wee
doe
obserue
that
breathing
in
of
sweete
sauours
doth
commonly
procure
these
sittes
,
And
therefore
wee
doe
especially
forbid
that
they
may
not
smell
vnto
any
sweet
thing
that
are
subiect
vnto
this
griefe
:
Meate
and
drinke
is
the
Mother
of
most
diseases
,
whatsoeuer
the
Father
bee
,
for
the
constitution
of
the
humors
of
our
bodies
is
according
to
that
which
feedes
vs
.
And
therefore
it
is
reckoned
as
a
principall
externall
cause
of
diseases
.
And
Hyppocrates
in
this
disease
forbids
sweete
and
fatte
meats
(
a
dulcibus
et
pinguibus
abstineat
,
The
Essex
Gentlewoman
of
whome
I
spake
before
,
The
errours
about
euacuation
are
also
an
externall
cause
of
diseases
,
and
doe
breed
an
internall
cause
afterwardes
.
As
in
this
disease
the
want
of
due
and
monethly
euacuation
,
or
the
want
of
the
benefit
of
marriage
in
such
as
haue
beene
accustomed
or
are
apt
thereunto
,
We
haue
infinite
examples
among
our
[
a
](A04663-e17190-b)
a
Plinium
.
Valer
.
max.
Volateranum
.
Pontanum
.
Landum
.
Gellium
,
Krantzium
.
Historiographers
,
[
b
](A04663-e17200-b)
b
Cornex
lib.
1
consultat
.
med.
cap.
3.
Gal.
2.
sympt
.
causis
cap.
5.
de
praecognit
.
ca.
6
Beniuenius
.
and
Phisitions
of
such
as
haue
dyed
vppon
ioy
,
griefe
,
loue
,
feare
,
shame
,
and
such
like
perturbations
of
the
mind
:
and
of
others
that
vpon
the
same
causes
haue
fallen
into
grieuous
diseases
:
as
[
c
](A04663-e17260-b)
c
Gal.
in
5.
Aphorism
.
45.
Amatus
lusit
.
Cent.
3.
women
deliuered
of
their
children
before
their
time
,
vpon
feare
,
anger
,
griefe
,
&c.
others
taken
with
the
[
1
](A04663-e17300-b)
1
Gal.
loc.
affec
.
5.
de
Grammatico
Iob.
Montanus
consilio
.
50
Matheus
de
grad.
de
proprio
filio
.
cap.
de
Epilepsia
.
Amatus
lusit
.
cent.
2.
cap
90.
Falling
sickenesse
,
[
2
](A04663-e17350-b)
2
Procopius
de
bello
Gothorum
lib.
1.
Amatus
lusit
.
cent.
3.
Apoplexies
,
[
3
](A04663-e17380-b)
3
Christoph.
a
Vega.
li.
4.
ca.
14
Corn.
Celsus
.
Madnesse
,
[
4
](A04663-e17410-b)
4
Gal.
loco
cita
.
Swounding
,
[
5
](A04663-e17420-b)
5
Aretaeus
lib.
1
cap.
7.
Palsies
,
and
diuerse
such
like
infirmities
vpon
the
like
causes
.
And
concerning
this
disease
whereof
we
doe
intreate
,
[
6
](A04663-e17460-b)
6
Consilio
311.
Iohannes
Montanus
tels
vs
of
a
patient
of
his
,
who
fell
into
the
fits
of
the
Mother
vppon
iealousie
.
[
7
](A04663-e17490-b)
7
Lib.
28.
obser.
28.
lib.
10.
obseru.
30.
Forrestus
of
another
,
who
had
her
fits
whensoeuer
shee
was
angred
:
and
of
another
that
vpon
loue
fell
into
this
disease
.
My
felfe
do
know
a
Gentlewoman
,
who
upon
the
sight
of
one
particular
man
would
alwaies
feele
an
vterin
affect
:
and
another
that
vpon
feare
of
being
chidden
,
or
seeing
another
in
the
fit
of
the
mother
,
would
also
fall
into
it
herselfe
.
Cap.
7.
Of
the
cure
of
this
disease
,
so
much
as
belongeth
to
the
friends
and
attendants
to
performe
.
THe
signes
of
this
disease
,
seeing
they
are
drawne
principally
from
the
causes
and
Symptoms
before
declared
shall
not
neede
any
particular
discourse
,
especially
considering
the
vse
of
them
belongeth
properly
to
the
Physition
,
to
direct
him
in
his
cure
.
And
therefore
I
thinke
good
to
ease
my selfe
of
this
labour
,
which
would
bee
altogither
vnprofitable
to
the
reader
.
Concerning
the
cure
also
I
thinke
it
not
meete
to
say
more
then
may
concerne
the
friends
and
assistants
vnto
the
patient
to
looke
vnto
:
referring
Physitions
workes
vnto
Physitions
.
There
are
some
things
by
the
friendes
to
bee
performed
vnto
the
patient
in
regard
of
the
[
a
](A04663-e17610-b)
a
Valetius
in
Hollerium
.
c.
59
Valescius
dï
Taranta
.
lib.
6.
present
fit
,
&
some
things
in
regard
of
the
cause
.
In
the
fit
let
the
bodies
bee
kept
[
b
](A04663-e17640-b)
b
Paschal
.
li.
1
ca.
57.
Altomar
.
vpright
,
straight
laced
,
and
the
belly
&
throat
held
downe
with
ones
hand
.
Let
heed
be
taken
that
they
hurt
not
themselues
by
biting
their
fingers
,
[
c
](A04663-e17680-b)
c
Rhasis
ad
Al●…ansor
.
cap.
28.
tie
their
legs
hard
with
a
garter
for
reuulsion
sake
,
&c.
Out
of
the
fit
,
in
regard
of
Externall
causes
,
remoue
from
them
all
occasions
of
breeding
or
increasing
creasing
the
disease
:
as
sweet
sauors
,
pleasant
meats
and
drinks
,
much
rest
and
slouthfulnesse
,
&c.
Also
if
[
a
](A04663-e17720-b)
a
Hollerius
nullum
remedium
melius
marito
.
Valescus
de
taranta
,
Syluius
.
si
nubilis
est
nec
monialis
nubat
sinon
libet
aut
non
licet
nubere
vtatur
frigidis
&c.
Mat.
Rochius
de
morb.
mal
.
cap.
5.
Guaynerius
suppositio
in
hoc
casu
principati●
obtinet
,
&c.
discontinuance
of
any
thing
accustomed
bee
the
cause
of
this
disease
,
bring
it
into
custome
againe
:
if
want
of
any
thing
necessary
for
their
health
,
let
it
be
supplied
,
[
b
](A04663-e17740-b)
b
Valetius
in
Holl.
Cap.
59.
istud
genus
demonii
non
eiicitur
nisi
multo
ieiunio
.
Paschali
.
Si
non
possit
vti
viro
praecibus
&
ieiuniocurabitur
.
Guaynerius
.
Curpus
macerātibus
vtatur
.
let
theirdiet
be
sparing
and
vpon
cooling
things
,
let
them
vse
much
fasting
and
prayer
,
and
all
other
meanes
to
pull
downe
their
bodies
:
and
contrariwise
abstaine
from
egges
,
wine
,
flesh
,
&c.
If
the
perturbations
of
the
mind
be
any
occasion
hereof
,
let
them
haue
their
proper
remedies
,
as
anger
and
iealousie
are
to
be
appeased
by
good
counsell
and
perswasions
:
hatred
and
malice
by
religious
instructions
,
feare
by
incouragements
,
loue
[
c
](A04663-e17760-b)
c
Auicen
,
Fen.
1
3.
c.
14.
tract.
4.
de
Ylisco
.
by
inducing
hatred
,
or
[
d
](A04663-e17800-b)
d
Aretaeus
.
lib.
1.
cap.
5.
De
sani
.
tuenda
lib.
1.
cap.
11.
De
subtilit
.
l.
19
De
medica
bist
oria
miraebili
.
lib.
2.
cap.
1.
by
permitting
them
to
enioy
their
desires
,
&c.
Galen
boasteth
that
he
did
euery
yeare
cure
many
diseases
by
this
stratagem
of
moderating
the
perturbations
of
the
mind
by
the
example
of
Aesculapius
who
deuised
many
songs
and
ridiculous
pastimes
for
that
purpose
.
To
which
end
also
other
phisitions
haue
vsed
diuers
sorts
of
fallacies
to
encounter
the
melancholike
conceits
of
their
patients
.
Cardan
tels
of
a
Gentlewoman
,
who
finding
her self
vexed
with
many
grieous
Symptoms
,
imagined
that
the
Diuell
was
the
author
thereof
,
and
by
Iosephus
Niger
was
cured
by
procuring
her
son
to
make
her
beleeue
that
he
saw
three
diuels
in
her
looking
glasse
,
&
one
great
one
to
driue
them
out
.
Another
like
policie
Marcellus
Donatus
tels
vs
of
,
which
a
Physition
vsed
towardes
the
Countesse
of
Mantua
,
who
being
in
that
disease
which
we
call
melancholia
Hyppocrondriaca
did
verily
beleeue
that
she
was
bewitched
,
and
was
cured
by
conueying
of
nayles
,
needles
,
feathers
,
and
such
like
things
into
her
close
stoole
when
shee
tooke
physicke
,
making
her
beleeue
that
they
came
out
of
her
bodie
.
The
like
there
he
mentioneth
also
out
of
Trallian
,
of
a
woman
who
did
thinke
that
she
had
a
serpent
within
her
,
and
was
cured
by
the
like
meanes
.
So
that
if
we
cannot
moderate
these
perturbations
of
the
minde
,
by
reason
and
perswasions
,
or
by
alluring
their
mindes
another
way
,
we
may
politikely
confirme
them
in
their
fantasies
,
that
wee
may
the
better
fasten
some
cure
vpon
them
:
as
Constantinus
Affricanus
(
if
it
be
his
booke
which
is
inserted
among
Galens
workes
,
De
incantatione
,
adiuratione
&c.
)
affirmeth
,
and
practized
with
good
successe
,
vpon
one
who
was
impotens
ad
Venerem
,
&
thought
himselfe
bewitched
therewith
,
by
reading
vnto
him
a
foolish
medicine
out
of
Cleopatra
,
made
with
a
crowes
gall
,
and
oyle
:
whereof
the
patient
tooke
so
great
conceit
,
that
vpon
the
vse
of
it
he
presently
recouered
his
strength
and
abilitie
againe
.
The
like
opinion
is
to
bee
helde
of
all
those
superstitious
remedies
which
haue
crept
into
our
profession
,
Another
course
hath
beene
taken
sometimes
in
these
cases
,
by
remouing
the
cause
of
these
affections
,
or
by
inducing
of
other
perturbations
of
a
diuerse
nature
.
Whereby
as
(
experience
teacheth
vs
)
most
grieuous
diseases
haue
beene
oftentimes
cured
beyond
expectation
.
A
yong
man
falling
out
of
fauour
with
his
father
,
fell
thereupon
into
the
fits
of
the
falling
sicknesse
,
and
continued
long
and
often
molested
there
with
;
vntill
a
reconciliation
was
wrought
with
his
father
:
who
sending
him
a
kind
letter
to
that
effect
,
the
yong
man
was
presently
deliuered
from
that
fearefull
disease
.
A
yong
Maiden
also
vpon
some
passion
of
the
minde
,
as
it
was
credibly
reported
,
fell
into
these
fits
of
the
Mother
,
and
being
in
one
of
them
,
a
Physition
then
present
modestly
put
his
hand
vnder
her
cloathes
to
feele
a
windie
tumor
which
shee
then
had
in
her
backe
.
But
a
Surgeon
there
also
present
not
contented
with
that
maner
of
examination
,
offered
to
take
vp
her
cloathes
,
and
to
see
it
bare
:
whereupon
the
Maid
being
greatly
offended
,
tooke
such
indignation
at
it
,
as
it
did
put
her
presently
out
of
her
fit
.
And
it
is
no
maruel
that
the
affections
of
the
mind
doe
beare
such
rule
in
this
disease
,
seeing
we
doe
obserue
that
most
commonly
besides
the
indisposition
of
the
bodie
:
here
is
also
some
Melancholike
or
capricious
conceit
ioyned
withall
of
loue
,
feare
,
hatred
,
iealousie
,
discontentment
,
witchcraft
,
poysoning
,
&c.
which
being
by
policie
or
good
instructions
and
perswasions
remoued
,
the
disease
is
easily
ouercome
.
Other
matters
of
gouernment
of
them
either
in
the
fit
or
out
of
the
fit
,
togither
with
the
cure
in
regard
of
the
internall
causes
,
because
they
are
properly
belonging
to
the
Physition
,
I
do
purposely
omit
.
FINIS
.