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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: A Briefe Discourse of a Disease called the Suffocation of the - Mother - -Author: Edward Iorden - -Release Date: September 10, 2021 [eBook #66254] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Thiers Halliwell, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was - produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital - Library.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BRIEFE DISCOURSE OF A DISEASE -CALLED THE SUFFOCATION OF THE MOTHER *** -Transcriber’s notes - -The content of this book has been preserved in its original form as far -as possible. However, because some of the scanned text was indistinct -and difficult to interpret, the transcription is a ‘best guess’ in -some places. The text has many anomalies with regard to punctuation, -capitalisation and use of italics. The Middle English language has -archaic uses of ‘u’ ‘v’ ‘i’ and ‘j’ as well as the long ‘s’ (replaced -with a normal ‘s’ in this transcription). In keeping with the era, the -spelling is non-standard and uses space-saving contractions (equivalent -to present-day use of an apostrophe to indicate omitted letters). -Some of the marks denoting a contraction were indistinct, but in this -transcription all are represented by a tilde (~) above the word. -The text contains many sidenotes and footnotes, some of which were -impossible to differentiate with certainty. Three footnotes (19, 20, -52) lacked identifiable anchor markers within the text, so markers have -been inserted at ‘best guess’ locations and the respective footnotes -identified with two asterisks. In this plain text version, italic text -is denoted by _underscores_ and superscripted text is preceded by a -caret (^). Sidenotes precede the relevant paragraphs, and footnotes -follow the paragraphs. A short table of contents (that was not present -in the original) has been added to the transcription to assist readers. - - - - - A BRIEFE DISCOVRSE - OF A DISEASE - _CALLED THE_ - Suffocation of the - _Mother_. - - - Written vppon occasion which - hath beene of late taken thereby, to suspect possession - of an euill spirit, or some such like - supernaturall power. - - - _Wherein is declared that diuers strange_ - actions and passions of the body of man, which in - _the common opinion, are imputed to the Diuell, - haue their true naturall causes, and do - accompanie this disease_. - - - By EDVVARD IORDEN - _Doctor in Physicke_. - - [Illustration] - - - LONDON. - Printed by _Iohn Windet_, dwelling at the Signe of - _the Crosse Keyes at Powles Wharfe_. 1603. - - - - -[Illustration: - - MVSEVM - BRITAN - NICVM -] - - - - - Contents - - Preface - - Cap.1. That this disease doth oftentimes giue occasion vnto simple - and vnlearned people, to suspect possession, witchcraft, - or some such like supernaturall cause. - - Cap.2. What this disease is, and by what means it causeth such - varietie of Symptoms. - - Cap.3. Of the kinds of this disease, and first of that wherein the - vitall facultie is offended. - - Cap.4. Of that kind of this disease wherein the animall facultie - is offended. - - Cap.5. Of that kind wherein the naturall facultie is offended. - - Cap.6. Of the causes of this disease. - - Cap.7. Of the cure of this disease, so much as belongeth to the - friends and attendants to performe. - - - - -[Illustration] - - - - - TO THE RIGHT WOR - shipfull the President and Fellowes of the - _Colledge of Phisitions in_ - London. - - -_As I am desirous to satisfie all indifferent men concerning the -occasion and intent of this my discourse: so I thought good to direct -the same especially vnto this societie, whereof I am a member; to -testifie both how iustly or rather necessarily I haue beene drawn to -the vndertaking and publishing hereof: as also how willing I am to -submit my selfe to your learned censure; the argument of my writing -being such as none can better iudge of then your selues._ - -_And first I protest vpon that credit which I desire to haue among you, -that I haue not vndertaken this businesse of mine owne accord, as if -I esteemed of mine owne knowledge and obseruation in this case aboue -other mens. For (if it had beene thought good to haue imposed it vppon -others) I do acknowledge that there are many among vs better able then -my selfe to haue written in this kind, vnto whome I would willingly -haue put ouer my taske. Neither did I euer find my selfe prouoked -hereunto upon any peeuish humor to contradict or to disgrace any who -doe iudge otherwise of some pointes contained herein, then my selfe -doe: many of them being such as I do loue and affect well. Neither vpon -any fawning humor to please or flatter any person whatsoeuer; which I -doe esteeme more base then begging. But disclayming both hony and gall, -I haue plainely set downe the true doctrine of Phisicke concerning -that disease which giues to great occasion of distraction among many -good men: especially such as haue not learning sufficient to resolue -them of this point, or not that moderation and humilitie of spirit to -acknowledge their insufficiencie, and to hearken vnto others whom in -all reason they might thinke able to direct them better in such a case._ - -_For if it be true that one man cannot be perfect in euery arte and -profession, and therefore in cases out of our owne callings, we do -depend vpon those which haue beene trayned up in other particular -subiects, beleeuing men in their owne professions: Why should we -not prefer the iudgements of Phisitions in a question concerning -the actions and passions of mans bodie (the proper subiect of that -profession) before our owne conceites; as we do the opinions of -Diuines, Lawyers, Artificers, &c. in their proper Elements. Neither -haue I done this as taking vpon me to reforme the mindes of men which -are not vnder my charge (for I could willingly haue permitted euery -man to enioy his owne opinion:) But being a Phisition, and iudging -in my conscience that these matters haue been mistaken by the commõ -people; I thought good to make knowne the doctrine of this disease, -so farre forth, as may be in a vulgar tongue conueniently disclosed, -to the end that the vnlearned and rash conceits of diuers, might be -thereby brought to better vnderstanding and moderation; who are apt -to make euery thing a supernaturall work which they do not vnderstand, -proportioning the bounds of nature vnto their own capacities: which -might proue an occasion of abusing the name of God, and make vs to vse -holy prayer as vngroundedly as the Papists do their prophane trickes; -who are readie to drawe forth their wooden dagger, if they do but see a -maid or woman suffering one of these fits of the Mother, coniuring and -exorcising them as if they were possessed with euil spirits. And for -want of worke, will oftentimes suborne others that are in health, to -counterfait strange motions and behauiours: as I once saw in the_ Santo -_in_ Padua _fiue or sixe at one sermon interrupting and reuiling the -Preacher, vntill he had put them to silence by the signe of the Crosse, -and certaine powerlesse spelles_. - -_Wherefore it behoueth vs as to be zealous in the truth, so to be -wise in discerning truth from counterfaiting and naturall causes from -supernaturall power. I doe not deny but that God doth in these dayes -worke extraordinarily, for the deliuerance of his children, and for -other endes best knowne vnto himselfe; and that among other, there may -be both possessions by the Diuell, and obsessions and witchcraft, &c. -and dispossession also through the Prayers and supplications of his -seruants, which is the onely meanes left vnto vs for our reliefe in -that case. But such examples being verie rare now adayes, I would in -the feare of God aduise men to be very circumspect in pronouncing of -a possession: both because the impostures be many, and the effects of -naturall diseases be strange to such as haue not looked throughly into -them._ - -_But let vs consider a little the signes which some doe shew of a -supernaturall power in these examples. For if they say there neede -no such signes appeare, because the Diuill by witchcraft may inflict -a naturall disease: then I ask them what they haue to doe with the -Diuell, or with dispossessing of him, when he is not their present, -but hath beene onely an externall cause of a disease, by kindling or -corrupting the humours of our bodies; which disease as well as other -will submit it selfe to physicall indications: as is shewed, cap. 1. -Wherefore they must needes make him to be an internall cause, and to -possesse the members and faculties of the bodie, and holde them to -his vse: or else they vnderstand not what they say, when they doe -peremptorily disclaime naturall meanes, and auouch that they speake -certaine wordes, and performe certaine voluntarie motions vpon his -incitation, and are hindred by him from speaking other wordes which -they would faine vtter. And therefore to this end diuerse signes and -Symptoms are alledged by them, as arguments of a supernaturall and -extraordinarie power inhærent in the body._ - -_One of their signes is_ Insensibilitie, _when they doe not feele, -being pricked with a pin, or burnt with fire, &c. Is this so strange a -spectacle, when in the Palsie, the falling sicknesse, Apoplexis, and -diuerse other diseases, it is dayly obserued? And in these fits of the -Mother it is so ordinarie as I neuer read any Authour writing of this -disease who doth not make mention thereof. This poynt you shall finde -proued both by authorities and examples in the 4. Chapter._ - -_There also you shall find conuulsions, contractions, distortions, and -such like to be ordinarie Symptoms in this disease._ - -_Another signe of a supernaturall power they make to be the due & -orderly returning of the fits, when they keepe their iust day and -houre, which we call periods or circuits. This accident as it is -common to diuerse other chronicall diseases, as head-aches, gowtes, -Epilepsies, Tertians, Quartians, &c. so it is often obserued in this -disease of the mother as is sufsiciently proued in the 2. Chapter._ - -_Another argument of theirs is the ofsence in eating, or drinking, as -if the Diuell ment to choake them therewith. But this Symptom is also -ordinarie in vterin affects, as I shew in the sixt Chapter: and I haue -at this time a patient troubled in like maner._ - -_Another reason of theirs is, the comming of the fits vpon the presence -of some certaine person. The like I doe shew in the same Chapter, and -the reasons of it, from the stirring of the affections of the mind._ - -_Another maine argument of theirs, is the deliuerance vpon fasting -and prayer: which we will imagin to be so in deed, without any -counterfeiting in that point. You shall see in the 7. Chapter, how this -may be a naturall remedie two maner of wayes: the one by pulling downe -the pride of the bodie, and the height of the naturall humors therof; a -verie conuenient meanes, and often prescribed by our Authours in yong -and lustie bodies: the other by the confident perswasion of the patient -to find release by that means: which I shew in that Chapter by rules -and authorities in our profession and also by examples, to be a verie -effectuall remedie in curing diuerse diseases of this nature._ - -_Many other such like instances they may produce, according vnto -euerie ones seurall conceit: which were in vaine for me to repeat -perticulary: vnlesse I knew wherein they would principally insist. But -in the discourse following I haue as neare as I could described al the -Symptoms of this disease; whereby euerie man may readily find answers -to his seuerall obiections._ - -_Now to testifie my loue and affection to this societie of ours, and -that I esteeme more of the censure of a fewe learned and graue men, -then of the opinions of a multitude of other people: I thought good -to choose no other persons to patronize this slender discourse then -your selues, who are best able of any in this land, or any such like -societie elsewhere (that euer I could find) to iudge whether I write -true doctrine or no._ - - _Wherefore desiring you to accept it in good part, and - as occasion may serue to giue testimonie vnto it according - as your iudgements and consciences - shall lead you, I take my leaue this - 2. Martii, 1602._ - - Your louing friend and Colleague. - - _Ed. Iorden._ - - - - -[Illustration] - - - - -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._ - -[Sidenote: _Altomarus de medend. hum. corp. malis cap. 110. Barth. -Montagnana Consilio. 226._] - -[Sidenote: _Mercatus lib. 2. cap. 2. & 3._] - -The passiue condition of womankind is subiect vnto more diseases and -of other[1] sortes and natures then men are: and especially in regarde -of that part[2] from whence this disease which we speake of doth -arise. For as it hath more varietie of[3] 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, heart, and liuer, the principall seates of these three -functions; and the easie passage which it hath vnto them by the Vaines, -Arteries, and Nerues. And whatsoeuer humor in other partes may cause -extraordinarie affects, by reason of the abundance or corruption of -it, this part will affoord the like in as plentifull a manner, and in -as high a degree of corruption: and with this aduauntage that whereas -in the other, some one or two of the faculties onely one are hurt -(as in _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 cease) in this -case all the faculties of the bodie doe 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. - - [1] _Hyppocras. 6 vulgar. part. 7._ - - [2] _Galen 6. locorum affect. cap. 5. radix suffocationum - vterus._ - - [3] _Mercatus de muliebr. lib. 2, cap. 1._ - - 1. _Ad sui ipsius alimontam._ - - 2. _Ad species propagationem_. - - 3. _Ad beneficium indiuidui per euacuationẽ superfluitatum._ - -[Sidenote: Valetius scoffing at their ignorance calleth this disease a -kind of diuell. _in Holler. cap. 59_.] - -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, haue sought aboue the Moone for supernaturall -causes: ascribing these accidents either to diabolicall possession, to -witchcraft, or to the immediate finger of the Almightie. - -[Sidenote: _Cosmocrit. li. 1 cap. 7. pag. 153 Inexperto medico sapè -suspitionem ñuminis præb̃uerunt_] - -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, as _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. - -[Sidenote: _Fen. 21. 3 cap: 26: tract: 4:_] - -_Auicen_ also in his Chapter of this disease, speaking of the causes -of it, sayth, that there were some wise Phisitions in his time which -said, that the cause of this disease was vnknowne: Because as _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. - -[Sidenote: _Lib. de morbo sacro in principio._] - -[Sidenote: _Inscitia palliũ maleficium & incantatio. R. Sc: li, 1. -cap. 3_] - -_Hippocrates_ also long before finding this error to bee helde by some -in his time maketh mention of diuerse of these _Symptoms_, and sayeth, -that hee doth not see anie thing in them more supernaturall, or more -to bee admired, then there is in Tertians, and Quartans, and other -kindes of diseases: imputing it either vnto ignorance, and want of -experience that Phisitians of his time did iudge otherwise; or vnto a -worser humor, when as beeing loath to bewray their owne defects through -pride and arrogancie: and not knowing what to prescribe would flie -vnto diuine causes, and neglecting naturall meanes for their reliefe, -would wholy relie vpon expiations, incantations, sacrifices, &c. -cloaking their ignoraunce vnder these shadows, and pretending both more -knowledge, and more pietie then other men: by which course they gained -this aduauntage, that if the patient chanced to recouer, they should -bee highly renowmed for their skill; if not, their excuse was readie -that Gods hande was against them. - -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 cõmon opinion were thought -to be aboue nature: yet hee proueth to haue their naturall causes in -the bodie of man as well 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 [4]extraordinary strength or knowledge or -suffering) or else we haue no cause but to think them naturall. If the -diuell as an externall cause, may inflict a disease by stirring vp or -kindling the humours of our bodies, and then depart without supplying -continuall supernaturall power vnto it;[5] 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. - - [4] Luk. 8. 27. 28. &c. - - _Ternel de abditis rerum causis lib. 2. cap 16 Platerus de mẽtis - alienat. pag. 102._ - - _Beniuenius de abditis morborum causis cap. 8. Alsharauius. C. de - Epilepsia._ - - [5] _Auicen. C. de melancholisi contingat a Demonio sufficit nobis - quod conuertat comptexionem ad choleram nigram, &c. Vide Iacobum de - partibus inhunc locum. Valesius metb; medendi lib. 2. cap. 2._ - -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[6] therefore they must needs be -naturall. - - [6] _Fernel loco citato matheus de Grad. ex Azariuio. C. de - Epilepsia._ - -The strength of this argument is grounded vpon the very foundation -of our profession which hath beene layd by[7] _Hyppocrates_ and[8] -_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[9] 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[10] 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 thẽ 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 needes be 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, where indeed -there was none. - - [7] _Hippo. de natura humaaa circa medium. Destatibus paulo post - principium._ - - [8] _Gal. de Venesectione aduersus Erasistr: cap: 8, in arte - medicina li cap: 89. in constitutione artis cap: 13. methodi med: - lib. 9. 10. 11. &c._ - - [9] _Valesius meth. med: lib: 1. cap: 4:_ - - [10] _Mercatus meth med: pag: 42: 43: Gal. Simplicium lib. 3: cap: - 11: Valesius controuers: lib. 1. cap. 4_ Luk, 11. vers. 21. 22. - -[Sidenote: _Georg. Godelman. de magis. &c. lib 1: cap 8._ - -_Bruno Seidelius de morbis incurab: pag: 19: Centuria 5, curat: 75._] - -_Amatus Lusitanus_ reporteth of one _Diua Clara_, a maide of 18. years -of age, which had euery day two or three such strange fits, as those -that were about her, gaue out that she was haunted with an euill spirit. - -In those fits euery part of her body was distorted, she felt nothing, -nor perceiued any thing: but had all her senses 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 usuall in this case, and within -few dayes recouered her, to the great admiration of the beholders. - -[Sidenote: _Obseruationũ medicin: lib: 10 obseru: 30._] - -_Petrus Forrestus_ maketh mention of another maid of 22. yeares old, -which dwelt with a Burgermaster of _Delft_ in _Holland_, who falling in -loue with a yong man, fell also into these fits of the Mother: which -held her many houres together with such violent horrible accidents, -as hee neuer sawe the like: her whole body being pulled to and fro -with convulsiue motions, her belly sometimes lifted vp, and sometimes -depressed, a roaring noise heard within her, with crying and howling, a -distortion of her armes and handes: insomuch as those about her thought -her to be possessed with a diuell, and out of all hope of recouery. He -being called vnto her in Ianuarie 1565. applied conuenient remedies as -there he setteth downe, and in a short time restored her to her health -againe. - -[Sidenote: _Thaddæus Dumus miscall: cap 9._] - -[Sidenote: _Lib. 28. obseru. 26:_] - -Many more such like examples might bee produced both out of -authenticall writers in our profession and out of our own experiences, -which yet do liue (were it not that late examples would bee -offensiue to rehearse:) but these may suffice to show how easily -men vnexperienced in those extraordinarie kinds of diseases, may -mistake the causes of them: when through admiration of the vnwonted -and grieuous accidents they behold, they are caried vnto Magicall -and Metaphysicall speculations. But the learned Phisition who hath -first beene trained vp in the study of Philosophy, and afterwards -confirmed by the practise and experience of all manner of naturall -diseases, is best able to discerne what is naturall, what not naturall, -what preternaturall, and what supernaturall, the three first being -properly subiect to his profession: and therefore they doe wrong -vnto the faculty of Phisicke, and vnto them selues, and oftentimes -vnto others, who neglecting that light which wee might yeeld them, -doe runne headlong and blindefold into many errors and absurdities. -For preuention whereof I haue breefly set downe what the doctrine of -Phisitions is concerning this disease of the Mother, which of all other -is most subiect vnto misconstruction. For that as _Forrestus_ saieth -it is a harde matter to discerne in what maner the Mother may occasion -such strange and manifold accidents. - - - - -Cap. 2. - - _What this disease is, and by what means it causeth such varietie of - Symptoms._ - - -[Sidenote: _Cardamus de causis sig. 13 locis morborum cap. 114._ - -_Altomarus cap. 110. Guaynerius cap. de suffo: matricis._] - -[Sidenote: _Æesius tetr: 4 Serm. 4. cap. 68 P. Ægineta lib. 3. cap. -71. Victor Trincavel. lib: 5. sect. 3 cap. 9._] - -This disease is called by diuerse names amongst our Authors. _Passio -Hysterica_, _Suffocatio_, _Præfocatio_, and _Strangulatus vteri_, -_Caducus matricis_, _&c._ In English the Mother, or the Suffocation -of the Mother, because most commonly it takes them with choaking in -the throat: and it is _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 læsa_: -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_[11] _in qualitate tangibili -mutata_, not _morbus ex intẽperie_:[12] 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 suffocatiõ and difficultie of breathing. It may be[13] -_causa morbi in forma_ by causing _coarctation_ of the instruments of -breathing. And sometimes these are complicated and[14] 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:[15] by -those vapours are shortened of their wonted length, and so draw vp -the part higher then it should be, or[16] 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. - - [11] _Albert. Bottonus cap. 39._ - - [12] _Gal. locorum affectorum 3. cap. 7._ - - _Petrus Salius pag. 467._ - - _Altomarus cap. 110._ - - _Horatius Angenius Epist. 6_ - - [13] _Gal. de causis morb. cap. 7_ - - [14] _Altomarus citato. Rondelesius methodo curand. morb. cap. 69. - matheus de grad. in 9 Rhasis. cap. 28_ - - [15] _Mercatus lib 2. cap 3._ - - [16] _Matheus de grad. in 9. Rhasis cap. 28. Hor. Angenius sibi - offensum fugiens vt et iucundum insequens._ - -[Sidenote: _Galen. 6. loc. affert. cap. 5. Auicen. Fen. 21 3. cap. 16. -tract 4. initium est ex matrice et peruenit ad communitatẽ fortem -cordis et cerebri &c. Horatius Angenius Epistola 6._] - -[Sidenote: _Petrus solius diuersus pag. 400_] - -[Sidenote: _Mercat. pa. 170_] - -[Sidenote: _Merca. pa. 174_] - -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, or in the vessels adioyning or belonging vnto it, -doth by a naturall instinct which is ingrafted in euery part of the -body for his owne preseruation, endeuour to expell that which is -offensiue: in which conflict if either the passage be obstructed, or -the humor inobedient or malignant, or the functions of the wombe any -way depraued, the offence is communicated from thence vnto the rest of -the body. The principall part of the body are the seates of the three -faculties, which do gouerne the whole body. The braine of the animall, -the hart of the vitall, the liuer of the naturall; although some other -parts are plentifully endewed with some of these faculties, as the -stomacke, entrailes, vaines, spleene, &c. with naturall faculties, the -instruments of respiration[17] with animall and naturall. These parts -are affected in this disease, and do suffer in their functions as they -are diminished, depraued, or abolished,[18] 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, or when as it suffereth in one part and not in another, as we -see oftentimes sense and motion to bee taken away and yet hearing and -memorie to remaine, the speech failing and respiration good. Sometimes -respiration, sense, and motion do altogether faile, and yet the pulse -remaine good: So that the varietie of those fits is exceeding great, -wherein the principall parts of the body doe diuersly suffer. - - [17] _Gal. de difficultate respirãd: lib. 1. cap. 7. Trincauel. - li. 4. cap. 12. Felix platerus ca. de respira. defectis. Gal. de - sympt. differentiis Cap 2. 3._ - - [18] _Gal. 5. loc. affect. 6 Mercatus pag. 173._ - -[Sidenote: _Gabr. Fallopius de med. purg. Cap. 17. et 23. via -euacuationis._] - -Another diuersitie there is, in the order of these fits: for somtimes -they keep due[19] periods or circuits yearly or monthly, according to -the falling sicknes, and sometime euery weeke, sometimes[20] euery day, -&c. I know a gentlewomã in this towne, who for 2. yeares together -neuer missed a fit of the Mother in the afternoone. The like is -hereafter mentioned in the Essex gentlewo. who for 16. years altogether -had euery day a fit of the Mother at a certaine houre. _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 thẽ the fits of the mother do continue. The -consent or communitie by 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 whereby it may and doth communicate with -them. The fũctions of this part, besides that which is commõ to all -other for their nutriment deriued from the naturall facultie, are 2. -the one respecting the preseruatiõ of the whole body, as it is an -_Emunctory_ of diuers superfluities which do abound in that sex. The -other for the propagation of mankind, where it is to be conceiued and -nourished vntill it be able to appeare in the world. In regard of these -offices this part hath neede of great varietie of prouision, according -as the vses are manifold. The substance is neruous, for the great -necessitie it hath of sence and motion. - - [19] **_Ætius lib. 26. cap. 70_ - - P. Agineta. lib. 3. cap. 71. - - Rhasis cont. lib. 22. mesue sum. 4. part. 4. sect. 1 cap. 8._ - - [20] **_Auicen Fen. 213. cap. 16. tract 4. quandoque sunt period. - eius tardi, quandoque accidit omni die._ - -[Sidenote: _Constant. Varelius lib. 4. cap. 3_] - -It is also _Porous_ for the better entertaining of the vitall spirits -and the necessitie it hath of distention and contraction. - -[Sidenote: _Gasparus Bauhinus historia anatom. p. 71._] - -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, vnto the loines and _os sacrum_: forwardes vnto the necke -of the bladder and _os pubis_ by certaine membranes deriued from the -_peritoneum_: on each side it is tyed vnto _ossa illii_ by a ligament -growing from the muscles of the loynes. It receiueth also for the -former vses, vaines from the liuer, arteries from the hart, and nerues -from the braine and backe, which are all inserted into the substance -of the part, to deriue vnto it the benefit of those 3. faculties, both -for the proper vse of the part, and for the vse of propagation and to -discharge the whole bodie of diuers superfluities, which otherwise -would be an occasion of many infirmities in them. - -Now according to this description let vs consider how by consent, the -principall partes of the bodie may bee affected from the matrix. - -[Sidenote: _Fernel. pathologiæ li. 6. ca. 16_] - -[Sidenote: _Forestus lib. 10 obseru: 115: in scholsis._] - -The partes of our bodie doe suffer by consent[21] two manner of wayes. -The one is when they doe recyue some offensiue thing from another parte -which is [22]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 communicated 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, our bodies are transpirable, -and transmeable) is conuaied from one part to another: whether it -be a vapour or a humor, as wee doe commonly obserue in the fits of -feuers, where a vapour arising from the part affected, disperseth it -selfe through the whole body, and affecteth the sensiue parts with -colde or heate, the motiue parts with trembling, the vitall parts with -fainting, sounding, inequalitie of pulse, &c. the naturall parts with -deiection of appetite, subuersion of the stomacke, &c. vntill nature -haue ouercome and discussed it. In these Feuers also many times humors -are so plentifully sent vp vnto the braine, as by custome or long -continuance they breede some proper affect there. - - [21] _Trincauel. l. 3 Sect. 2. cap. 2._ - - [22] _Auicen. Fẽ. 1. 3. tract. 2. ca. 6 Montagnana consil. - 226_ - -[Sidenote: _Gal: locorum affect: 1: cap: 6_] - -[Sidenote: _Rondeletius cap 69. Trincauell loco citato:_] - -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. Or lastly by priuation of some _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, because the matter of it -which is breath, is either not sufficiently made, or is carried another -way, or not competently impelled to the organs of voyce. - -All these manner of wayes hath the Matrix by consent to impart her -offence vnto other parts. For there wãteth 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 -Nerves, 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. [23]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 cõplicated with the former corrupt humors do yeeld varietie of -_Symptoms_: as the rising of the Mother, which alwayes causeth shortnes -of breath: [24]Empostumes of the Mother according to the place where -they are bred, and the quality of them, doe also bring a difference in -_Symptoms_. And thus much for explanation of the definition. - - [23] _Mercatus pag. 165._ - - [24] _Mathæus de gradi. & Auicenna locis citatis._ - - - - -Cap. 3. - - _Of the kinds of this disease, and first of that wherein the vitall - facultie is offended._ - - -[Sidenote: _Affectus corporis vel excretionum vitiæ._] - -Now 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, for some are onely molestations -or deformities, as sudden Collickes, windie humors, noyses, alteration -of colour, &c. But because euerie part may well bee mustred vnder -some of these generals: and we doe seldome see any hystericall affect -wherein some one or mo of the functions are not affected. These -functions as they are distinct in office, so they possesse in our -bodies seuerall seats and haue seuerall instruments belonging vnto them. - -[Sidenote: _Trincauel. li. 4 cap. 24._] - -[Sidenote: _De partium morbis et symp. lib. 5: cap. 12._] - -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 thereof. 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 and near to the skinne (as lately appeared in a -noble Gentleman of this lande now dead) but as _Fernelius_ testifieth, -hath sometimes displaced the ribbes, and sometimes broken them through -the violent motion of the heart. - -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 obserue in Maides that haue the greene sicknesse, 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 [25]tumour as bigge as ones fist. This _Symptom_ is euerie -where mentioned by our [26]Authours in this disease and our dayly -experience confirmeth it. - - [25] _Aneurisms. Fernel. loco citato._ - - [26] _Petrus Salius pag. 429. Skinckius de cordis palpit. obs. 211, - item 218, 222. Forestus lib. 17 obs. 8._ - -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 [27]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 -[28]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 [29]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 [30]_Mercurialis_ reporteth, that no woman -which was subiect to this disease should be buried vntil she had beene -three dayes dead. Or as [31]_Alexander Benedictus_ of _Bolonia_ sayth -72. houres, which commeth to the same reckoning. [32]_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 [33]_Forrestus_ in his obseruations. [34]_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 [35]_Marcellus Donatus_) is not to be thought a fabulous tale, -seeing it is not repugnant to the rules of Philosophie and Phisicke. -And [36]_Galen_ making mention of the verie same hystorie vnder the -name of _Apnæa_, discourseth of the reasons of it. - - [27] _Gal. loc. affect. 6.c 5. pulsum vix perceptibilem habent &c - Item de composit. pharmac. s.l. lib. 9. in finit._ - - [28] _Antho. Guaynerius. cap. de suffoc. matricĩs. Albert. - Bottonus loco infra citato. Gal. loco citato. Altomarus loco - citato._ - - [29] _Ambros. paræus li. 24.c. 10_ - - [30] _De morbis muliebr: lib. 4. cap. 22. Iacobus Syluius de - mensibus mulierum._ - - [31] _De morbis medicandis. lib. 10. cap. 10._ - - [32] _Practica lib. 2. cap. 17._ - - [33] _Lib. 10. obser. 79. in scholiis._ - - [34] _Histor. nat. lib. 7. cap. 52._ - - [35] _De medica hysteria mirabili. lib. 4. ca. 11_ - - [36] _6. Locorum affect. cap. 5._ - -[37]_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. - -[38]_Bottonus_ 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. - -[39]_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. - - [37] _Ioh. Schinckius refert ex pictorio. obseruat. med. lib 4. - cap. 288._ - - [38] _De morbis muliebribus cap. 43._ - - [39] _Obseru. li. 10. in scholiis ad obseruat. 79. Iacobus Ruffius - testatur se plures huius mod. vidiss. muliebr. lib. 6. cap. 8._ - -[Sidenote: _De hominis generat. cap. 46._] - -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, is that which _Ambrose Paræe_ reporteth -of _Vesalius_ a worthie Physition, & for anatomicall dissections -much renowned, 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 sense and do feele the qualities of things, and -moue to and fro, & performe diuers other voluntary actions for the -cõmoditie 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. - -[Sidenote: _De motu musculorum lib. 2. cap. 7. 8._] - -[Sidenote: _De ciuitate Dei lib. 4: Cosmoscrit. lib. 1. pag. 156._] - -[Sidenote: _Medici parisienses in historia Martha. Brossier._ - -1. Sam. 21. 13. _Gal. lib quomodo deprehendũtur qui -agrotare se fingunt. cap. 1._] - -[Sidenote: _Epidemiorum 5. R. Scot. lib. 7: cap. 1._] - -[Sidenote: _Lib: 16. cap. 4._] - -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 intẽded remitted, or peruerted at our pleasure, otherwise -thẽ in 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 animal 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, where he bringeth an instance of a -seruant (_serui barbari_) who killed himselfe to anger his maister by -holding of his breath. S. _Augustine_ saith that he knew a man that -could make himselfe to sweate when he list, by his imagination only. -_Cornelius Gemma_ saith, that he knew 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 manner 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 counterfait madnes, 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 ventriloqui_, such as was the holy maid of Kent, and -_Mildred_ of westwall, &c. And it is strange to see how young bodies -will be bowed and writhed diuersly, as wee see in tumblers iuglers, -and such like companions. Hereupon diuers haue counterfaited diseases -as I once saw a poor fellow being arested for a smal debt coũterfaited -a fit of the falling sicknes, with strange and violent motions: -whereby the creditor in compassion was moued to release him. Being -released he was well againe, and vnto his friendes seemed to confesse -the cousonage: others haue counterfaited possessions, either vpon -meere deceit or inticed therto through the conceite of some disease -wherewith they haue beene troubled. But for this point I referre you -to the histories of _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. - -[Sidenote: _Hebetudo mentis._] - -[Sidenote: _Imprudentia obliuio._] - -[Sidenote: _Sopor._] - -[Sidenote: _Apoplexiæ._ _Epilepsia._] - -[Sidenote: _Catalepsis._] - -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,[40] as wee -call it in vndiscretion, foolishnes or want of iudgement, in obliuion -or forgetfulnes, &c. They are abolished either in those drowsie affects -which wee call _Caros_, _Coma_, _veternus_, _Lethargus_ &c. or in -those astonishing _Symptoms_ wherein all the animall faculties are at -once taken away, sometimes with a generall resolution or palsie, as in -_Apoplexies_: sometimes with a generall conuulsion, as in the falling -sicknes: sometimes with a _Stifnesse or congelation_ of the body, -wherein they lie like an image in the same forme they were taken. - - [40] _Hypp. de morbis muliebr. lib 1 et 2. Torpor occupat caput - mẽs percellitur et improba fit non facile intelligit. De virginum - morbis cor fatuum fit, ex fatuitate torpor._ - - _Gal. loc. affect. 6. 5. De composit. pharm. s. L. lib. 9. in fine_ - - _Rhasis continẽt 22. Egineta. li. 3. ca. 71._ - _Ætius tetr. 4._ - _Serr21 4. cap. 68. paschalius lib. 1: cap. 58._ - _Valescus de Taran. Iacobus Syluius Altomam. Augeni. Aui. Fen. 21. - 3. cap. 16. tract. 4: Idem._ - _Petr. salius de catelepsi. pag. 384._ - -These internall sences are ouerthrowne either in part or in whole in -this suffocatiõ of the mother: 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: -vnlesse it be of this most grieuous kinde. - -[Sidenote: _Insania. Delirium. Melancholia. Furor._] - -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 -we call naturals, in mad men, in melancholike men, in those that are -furious, in such as do dote, in such as are distracted through loue, -feare, griefe, ioye, anger, hatred, &c. In some of which they will -laugh, crye, prattle, threaten, chide, or sing, &c. according to the -disposition of the party or the cause of the affect. - -[Sidenote: _Vigilia. Insomnium._] - -These functions are also depraued in too much wakefulnesse through -the commotion of the animall spirits, also in dreames, where somtimes -besides the deprauation of the fantasie they wil walke, talke, laugh, -crye, &c. And lastly in that disease which is called [41]_Saltus -Sa^{ti} viti_, or _Saltuosa dispositio membrorum_ wherein they will -daunce, and leape, and cannot endure to be quiet. - - [41] _Saltus viti. F. Platerus de mentis alienatione. pag. 103_ - -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 ever depraued -in it. But [42]_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. - - [42] _Hippoccrat. de morbis virg. præ acutæ inflamatione infamis - præ putredione clamat, &c De morbis muliebr. lib. 1. mente alienatur - in hoc morbo et deliria fiunt furiousa dentibus frendet vigilabit - anxia erit &c. Avicen loco citato facit accidere alienationem per - communitatem cerebri, &c. Ætius garrula inquieta & iracunda fiunt. - lib. 16. 7. 4. Hier. mercurialis morborum muliebr. lib. 4. c. 10. - Iacobus Sylvius demensibus. Mathæus de grad. consilio. 806 8 c. 6 - historiam narrat furiosi._ - -[Sidenote: _Priuatio visus Auditus. Gustus. Olfactus. Tactus._] - -The second function of the animall facultie is the externall sensitive -function; which giueth to the eye the facultie of seeing, to the eare -of hearing, to the tongue of tasting, to the nose of smelling and to -diuers parts of the bodie the power of feeling. - -This function in all these kindes is diminished, depraued, or cleane -abolished, but especially in this disease of the mother, we do obserue -the offence which is done to the feeling facultie, when the parts are -benummed or do not feele at all, or when they feele [43]paine and -offence, or when they feele things falsely and otherwise then they are. - - [43] _Iuxta receptam a medicis sententiam dolorem hic insero licet - videatur potius ad simpls̃ ces corporis affectus referendus._ - -Concerning hearing, although [44]_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. - - [44] _Hyp: morb. muliebr. lib._ 0. _caligo ante oculos - obuersatur et vertigo, oculi non acute vidẽt nilhil olfaciunt - vocata non audit Rhasis 22. cont. in hac passione non audit - quando datur in auribus eius vox terribilis. Ægineta loco citato. - Instrumentorum 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 sacẽt Horatius Angenius - Epist. 6, Gal. de motu musc. lib. 2 cap. 6. et 8._ - -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 functiõ is _diminished_ -in that affect which we cal _lassitudo_, werines or vnweldines, -wherein we are not able to move so strongly and nimbly as we should. - -[Sidenote: _Paralysis._] - -It is _abolished_, either by a _resolution_ or _palsie_ where the sound -part drawes the sickly part, that is the part resolued, & depending -draws the muscles & nerues &c. or by a _Spasmus_ or _contractiõ_ of -them [45]where the sick part drawes the sound part, that is, the muscle -which is affected, drawes the member which is wel. - - [45] _Contractio. platerus. Gal. de causis morborũ -lib. 2. cap. 7. et loc. affect. li. 34._ - -A resolution or palsie is either generall of both sides of the bodie -[46]exempting the head, or of one side called _Hæmiplegia_, or yet more -particular of the hand, legge, finger, &c. called [47]_parapligia_. - - [46] _Petrus Salius pag. 401. tanquam leuis Apoplexiæ Fern. de - part. morbis & sympt. li. 5. cap. 3._ - - [47] _Gal. prorhet com. 2. 50. et com. 3. 26. de victus rat. tom. - 4. 27. de morb. vulg. com. 2. 56_ _Gybbus._ _Trismos._ - _Tortura oris._ _Strabismus._ _Spasmus Cynicus._ - -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. - -[Sidenote: _Marcellus Doc natus. li. 2. ca. 4_] - -[Sidenote: _Felix Platerus de motu deprauato. pag. 401._] - -It is _depraued_ where the motions are immoderate, peruerse, -inordinate, or indecẽt, as when they are _vnquiet_, & cannot abstaine -frõ 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. Also in _Convulsions_ of the members, -where they are shaken and pulled by inordinate motions, as wee see in -the falling sicknesse. Also in _trembling_, _palpitation_, _rigor_ -where the teeth do chatter, horror where the haire standes vpright, -stretching, yawning, gasping twinckling of the eyes, &c. These -impediments and deprauations of motion are dayly obserued in vterne -affects: as may appeare by these testimonies. _Hyppocrat. de morbi -muliebr. lib. 1. Albas oculorum partes subuertit, dentibus frendet, -& similis fit his qui herculeo morbo detinentur. Item fit cõuulsio -fortis articulorum corporis, claudam facit aut impotentem præ rigore, -alias atque alias seipsam iactabit. Horror. Erectæ ceruicis spiratio -ipsam tenet, & quicquid ederit aut biberit ipsam molestat. Torpor -occupat manus & inguina, & crura & poplites. Magnis pedumigitis -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 quæ 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._ - -[Sidenote: _Suffocatio. Anthon. Guaynerius. cap. de suffocatione._] - -[Sidenote: _Priuatio vocis._] - -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, this is -diminished or abolished in _Suffocation_ or choaking, from whence this -disease which we intreat of taketh his name, as from the most cõmon -_Symptom_ which appeareth in it. In _difficulty_ of breathing. In -priuation of _voyce and speach_. - -[Sidenote: _Citæ respiratio, suspirium. Oscitatio. Singultus. -Sternutatio, Ructus, Tusus. Deglutitio. Excretio._] - -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 deprepentè fit. de morbis muliebr. -lingua ipsius 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. Pb. s.l. aliquibus vox -intercipitur. loc. affect. 6. 5. aliæ interceptas habent spirationes -aliæ suffocationes, &c. Hyppoc. de nat. muliebr. quicquid ederit -aut biberit ipsam molestat. Auicen. Abscinditur loquela &c. Rhasis. -Strictura anhelitus, squinantia, peripneumonia, apostema in gutture ex -cõmunicatione Diaphragmatis cum matrice. Gal. Loco citato humiditas -quædam ê locis muliebribus excurrit. &c. Rondalat. cap. 69. Hollerius. -cap. 59. Syluius suspirium. Montagnana consilio. 225._ - -[Sidenote: _De morbis internis lib. 1. ca. 59. in scholiis._] - -[Sidenote: _Lib. 28. obseru 26._] - -[Sidenote: _Aliam egregiã motuum cõvulsiuorũ ab vtero hystor. vide -apud eundem. li. 10. obser. 116 Lib. 26. cap. 16._] - -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. _Hollerius_ reporteth that the gouernour of _Roan_ in -France had two daughters which were helde with these fits, in such -sort as they would laugh an houre or two togither, and confessed that -they could not refraine from laughing, although diuerse means to that -end were vsed, both by entreaty, and by threates. He tels also of a -gentlewoman _de Rochpot_, who being in these fits would raue, laugh, -& weep, her eies being shut. _Forestus_ maketh mention of one _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, the rest of -her bodie being dull: and although she could not speake, yet she would -crie and laugh by turnes, and then be sullen and dumpish, as if she -were dead againe. - -_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 be stronger than -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 our stature, & 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. - -[Sidenote: _Gal. de tremor. palp. tis. &c. cap. 2. sensibus non -exposita._] - -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, nor so straunge -as those of the vitall and animall faculties are, yet that these are -also hurt in the suffocation of the Mother, appeareth both by dayly -obseruation, and by the authorities of all both auncient and late -physitions who haue written of this disease. - -[Sidenote: Some of these are _Symptomata in qualitate mutata_, or _in -excremento vitiato_: but because 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. [48]_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, cõsumptions, tumors, feuers, priuation -of voice, palenesse of colour, rumbling and noise in the belly or -[49]throat, like vnto frogs, snakes, or other creatures, or as if they -would speake as _Hippocrates_ reporteth of _Polymarchus_ wife. - - [48] _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 locis citatis. Syluius de mensibus._ - - [49] _Schenkius obser. de ptisi obser. 137. Cornel. Gema. Cosmocr. - Hyppocrat. Epidem. 5. expectore obstrepebat. &c._ - -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 external. 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, [50]blood, -and nature. - - [50] _Gal. loc. affec. 6. cap. 5. Hollerius, de morbis internis. - lib. 1. cap. 59._ - - _Paschalius li. 1. cap. 57._ - - _Altomarus. ca. I 10. Item de vtero gerentibus. cap. 2._ - - _Jacobus Syluius de mensibus._ - - _Hor. Augen^{ius} epist. 6._ - - _Cardanus de causis, &c. morborum. cap. 114._ - -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 infãt 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 provision 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 leave -them weake and consuming. - -[Sidenote: _Defectus._] - -[Sidenote: _Hollerius et Rondelet loci citatis._] - -[Sidenote: _Comment. 2 in lib. 1. Hypp de morb. muliebr._] - -[Sidenote: _Lib. 4. cap. 22._] - -[Sidenote: _2.loc. affect._] - -But this prouision of nature is oftentimes defectiue: as when it -is cut off by violent causes, and the part left destitute of this -familiar humor, which should serue both for the comfort of the -infant, and of the part it selfe: which finding offence thereby doth -communicate it vnto the other partes with which it hath affinitie -according to _Hyppocrates_ doctrine. _1. Morborum muliebrium_, and -_Aristotle, de generat. animal. cap. 11. vteri euacuati sursum -ascendunt & præfocationes faciunt. Cordæus_ giues vs an example of one -who by chaunce cutting a vaine in her leg, whereupon she did bleede -plentifully, fell into a fit of the Mother, and by moist and nourishing -diet was recouered. The reason whereof _Hyppocrates_ referreth to the -ouerdrying of those parts through large euacuation of bloud, wherby -the matrix doth labour by such motion as it hath to supply it selfe -with moysture from other parts of the body: or as _Mercurialis_ doth -enterpret it, doth impart by communitie (as is aforesaid) the offensive -qualitie vnto the braine, and by that meanes procures convulsions, -&c. _Gallen_ refferreth it into the ouercooling of those parts which -necessarily must follow a large euacuation of bloud, which coldenesse -being very offensive vnto the nerues and neruous partes by consent and -compassion offendeth the braine also, and by that meanes may procure -the former _Symptoms_. - -[Sidenote: _Excesses._] - -[Sidenote: _Gal. loc. affect. 6_ - -_Pereda in paschalium lib. 1. cap. 58._ - -_Altomarus._ - -_Syluius._] - -And as the want and scarsitie of bloud may procure this griefe, so the -abundance & excesse thereof doth more commonly cause it, where the -patients do want those monethly euacuatiõs which should discharge -their bodies of this superfluitie: as we see in strong and lustie -maidens, who hauing ease and good fare inough, haue their vaines filled -with plenty of bloud, which wanting sufficient vent distẽdeth them in -bulck and thicknes, and so contracteth them in their length, whereby -the matrix is drawne vpwards or sidewards, according as the repletion -is, whereupon followeth a compression of the neighbour parts, as of -the midrif which causeth shortnes of breath, by straightning the -instruments of respiration of their due scope. - -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. - -[Sidenote: _Alteratio._] - -[Sidenote: _Hypp. de morbis virginum._ - -_Altomarus Corruptio._] - -[Sidenote: _Mercatus loco citato._] - -This distemperature is either in manifest qualities, of heate, -colde, moisture, drines, according vnto which it is said to be, -_Melancholicke_, _Flegmaticke_, _Choloricke_, _&c._ producing -_Symptoms_ of the like nature, or in corruption and putrefactiõ of -this bloud which breedeth diuers strange kinds of distẽperatures, -according to the diuersity of the humor putrefied, the degree of -putrefaction or the condition of the cause or author thereof. - -[Sidenote: _Rondelarius c. 69. Platerus._ - -_Pereda in pas. et alia._ - -_Valesius de Tarranta. lib. 6._ - - _Valesius testatur se deprehendisse circa vterũ -hystericarũ croceum humorem fatidissimũ &c. lib. 5. c. 15._ - -_Mathaus de grad. in 9. Rhasis. ca. 28. Item consilio 84._ - -_Mercatus._ - -_Gal._ - -_Avicen._ - -_Mercurialis._ - -_Bottonus locis citatis._ - -_Hercules Saxonia de plica. ca 14. et. 34._] - -The other substance which most commonly is found culpable of this -disease, is nature or _sperma_: which besides the suspition of -superfluitie in some persons, may also receiue diuers sortes of -alteration, and likewise of corruption, able to worke most strange and -grieuous accidents in our bodies. For as it is a substance of greatest -perfection & puritie so long as it retayneth his natiue integritie: So -being depraued or corrupted, it passeth all the humors of our bodie, -in venom and malignitie. For it must needs be a vehement and an impure -cause that shal corrupt so pure a substance, which would easily resist -any weake assault: and a substance so pure and full of spirits as -this is, must needes proue most malitious vnto the bodie when it is -corrupted. And therefore it is compared to the venom of a serpent, a -Scorpion, a Torpido, a madde dogge, &c. which in a small quantitie is -able to destroy or depraue all the faculties of our bodies at once. - -[Sidenote: _Syluius, &c._] - -_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; and proueth it by this obseruation that diuers -women enioying the benefit of mariage, yet through the suppression -of their ordinary euacuation falling into this disease, had their -respiration and vitall faculties vntouched, although otherwise they -were most grieuously affected. - -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 shewing it self but at -certaine times only. - -[Sidenote: _Loc. affect. 6. 5. Petrus Salius de affect. particu. -laribus pa. 326_] - -[Sidenote: _Altomarus._] - -[Sidenote: _Ga. loc. affect. 6 Felix Platerus de causis febrium. pag. -63. 65 66. &c. Mercatus. Fernel. patholog. li. 6, cap. 16_] - -_Galen_ in the former place declareth this by the example of a mad -dogge, whose venom being receiued of us, although but by the foame -of his mouth, will remaine sometimes sixe moneths within our bodies -vndiscouered, and then hauing gotten more strength and ripenes vnto it -selfe, and opportunitie of conuaying his euil quallity vnto the parts, -breaketh forth to open view by diminishing or peruerting the faculties -of those parts. I had once a patient in Kent who feeding vpon a mad -hogge which hee had killed for couetousnesse sake, found himselfe -distempered therewith at the first, but within fiue or sixe moneths -after grew suddenly to be starke madde, and before his death, being -by Phisicke restored to some reasonable vnderstanding, he confessed -the eating of that hogge to haue beene the true cause of his disease. -Diuers reasons may be yeelded of this as well as of the fits of -intermittent agues of _Epilepsies_, of sweating, &c. which oftentimes -haue their due recourse by the yeare, moneth, weeke, day or houre, -according to the nature of the humor: which being crude expecteth his -concoction in our bodies and giues no signe of his presence vntill -such a proportion of it be digested and resolued into vapours, as for -the offẽce therof the part affected is not able to brooke and for -the weaknesse 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. - -[Sidenote: _Quia multum. Quia prauum. Quia insuetũ._] - -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: which are soone offended either with the plenty of those -vapours, or with the malignity, or with the vnwonted and vnaccustomed -approach of them. - -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. - -[Sidenote: _Fernel. li. 1. de morborũ causis._] - -The aire which compasseth our bodies and which we breath into our -bodies is the occasion of many infirmities in vs, if either it be -distempered in quallitie or corrupted in substance, or suddenly -altered. And this may be the cause why women are more subiect vnto this -disease at one time of the yeare than at another, according to the -constitution of the ayre: as in the winter time, by reason of colde -and moyst weather the humors of our bodies are increased and made more -crude and grose, and our pores stopped, whereby expiration is hindered, -&c. - -[Sidenote: _Mathaus de gradi. Mercat. Rondel. cap. 69_] - -[Sidenote: _Hier. Mercuria_] - -But especially wee doe obserue that breathing in of sweete sauours doth -commonly procure these fittes, either for that the matrix by a naturall -propertie is delighted with sweete sauoures, as the liuer and spleene -with sweete meates, or because the animall spirites of the braine -beeing thereby stirred vp to motion, doe by consent affect the matrix -with the like. - -[Sidenote: _Plater. pa. 443_ - -_Iacobus Ruffius de muliebribus lib. 6. cap. 8_ - -_Syluius Guaynerius._] - -And therefore wee doe especially forbid that they may not smell -vnto any sweet thing that are subiect vnto this griefe: but rather -vnto euill sauoures: which as _Platerus_ thinkes by stirring vp the -expulsiue facultie of the matrix, are a meanes of the shortening of the -fit. - -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. - -[Sidenote: _De nat. muliebri. Lib. 2. obseru. 28._ - -_Hypp. libro citato quicquid ederit aut liberit ipsam molestat_] - -And _Hyppocrates_ in this disease forbids sweete and fatte meats (_a -dulcibus et pinguibus abstineat, donec sana sit_) _Forrestus_ telles vs -of a Bruers wife of _Delft_, who could neuer eate or drinke any thing -that was sweete or pleasant but her fit would take her a fresh, and -thereuppon was faine to mixe wormewood with euery thing that she did -eate or drinke. - -[Sidenote: _Heurnius de morbis capitis pag. 310._] - -The _Essex_ Gentlewoman of whome I spake before, could neuer take any -comfortable sustenance, but she was sure to haue a fit of the mother. -The reason of this may be the same which we haue alleaged of sweet -vapours. - -The errours about euacuation are also an externall cause of diseases, -and doe breed an internall cause afterwardes. - -[Sidenote: _Altomarus._] - -[Sidenote: _Hollerius cap. 59. Rond. c. 69._] - -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, breeds a congestiõ of humors about that part, -which increasing or corrupting in the place, causeth this disease. -And therefore we do obserue that maidens and widowes are most subiect -thereunto. Motion and rest being well ordered do preserue health, -but being disordered do breed diseases, especially to much rest and -slothfulnesse is a meanes of this griefe, by ingendering crudities -and obstructions in womens bodies, by dulling the spirits and cooling -naturall heate, &c. So likewise sleepe and watching, the one by -benumming, the other by dissipation of the spirits and natural heate, -may occasion this griefe. - -[Sidenote: _Hinc Cicero Tusculanarum 3. perturbationes animi, morbos -appellat._] - -Lastly the perturbations of the minde are oftentimes to blame both -for this and many other diseases. For seeing we are not maisters of -our owne affections, wee are like battered Citties without walles, -or shippes tossed in the Sea, exposed to all maner of assaults and -daungers, euen to the ouerthrow of our owne bodies. - -We haue infinite examples among our [51]Historiographers, and -[52]Phisitions of such as haue dyed vpon 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 -[53]women deliuered of their children before their time, vpon feare, -anger, griefe, &c. others taken with the [54]Falling sickenesse, -[55]Apoplexies, [56]Madnesse, [57]Swounding, [58]Palsies, and diuerse -such like infirmities vpon the like causes. - - [51] _Plinium. valer. max. Volateranum. Pontanum. Landum, Gellium, - Krantzium._ - - [52] **_Cornex lib. 1 consultat. med. cap. 3._ - - _Gal. 2. Sympt. causis cap. 5. de præcognit. ca. 6 Beniuenius._ - - [53] _Gal. in 5. Aphorism. 45. Amatus lusit. Cent. 3._ - - [54] _Gal. loc. affec. 5. de Grammatico Ioh. Montanus cõsilio. - 50 Matheus de grad. de proprio filio. cap. de Epilepsia._ - - _Amatus lusit. cent. 2. cap. 90._ - - [55] _Procopius de bello Gothorum lib. 1. Amatus lusit. cent. 3._ - - [56] _Christoph. 'a Vega. li. 4. ca. 14 Corn. Celsus._ - - [57] _Gal. loco cita._ - - [58] _Aretæus lib. 5. cap. 7._ - -And concerning this disease whereof we doe intreate, [59]_Iohannes -Montanus_ tels vs of a patient of his, who fell into the fits of the -Mother vppon iealousie. [60]_Forrestus_ of another, who had her fits -whensoeuer shee was angred: and of another that vpon loue fell into -this disease. My selfe 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 her selfe. - - [59] _Consilio 311._ - - [60] _Lib. 28. obser. 28. lib. 10. obseru. 30._ - - - - -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 altogether -vnprofitable to the reader. - -[Sidenote: _Rondeltius Hollerius._] - -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 -[61]presẽt fit, & some things in regard of the cause. In the fit -let the bodies bee kept [62]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, striking their armes & legs against -hard things, &c. apply euil smels to their nostrils, and sweet smels -beneath [63]tie their legs hard with a garter for reuulsion sake, &c. - - [61] _Valetius in Hollerium. c. 59 Valescius di Taranta. lib. 6._ - - [62] _Paschal. li. 1 ca. 57. Altomar._ - - [63] _Rhasis ad Almansor. cap. 28._ - -Out of the fit, in regard of _Externall_ causes, remoue from them all -occasions of breeding or increasing the disease: as sweet sauors, -pleasant meats and drinks, much rest and slouthfulnesse, &c. Also -if [64]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, [65]let their diet 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 -[66]by inducing hatred, or [67]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 _Æsculapius_ 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 grieuous _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_ tells vs of, which a Physition vsed towardes the Countesse -of _Mantua_, who being in that disease which we call _melancholia -Hyppocondriaca_ 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. - - [64] _Hollerius nullum remedium melius marito. Valescus de taranta, - Syluius: si nubilis est nec monialis nubat si non libet aut non licet - nubere vtatur frigidis &c._ - - _Mat. Rochius de morb. mal. cap. 5._ - - _Guaynerius suppositio in hoc casu principatũ obtinet, &c._ - - [65] _Valetius in Holl. Cap. 59. istud genus demonii non eiicitur - nisi multo ieiunio._ - - _Paschali. Sinõ posit vti viro præcibus & ieiunio curabitur._ - - _Guaynerius. Curpus macerãtibus vtatur._ - - [66] _Auicen, Fen. 1 3. c. 1. 4. tract. 4. de Ylisco._ - - [67] _Aretæus. lib. 1. cap. 5. De sani tuend. lib. 1. cap. 11. De - subtilit. l. 19 De medica historia mirabili. lib. 2. cap. 1._ - -[Sidenote: _Lib de incant. adiuratione, &c._] - -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. - -[Sidenote: _Si quis incantationem sibi prodesse confidat, qualisicũq; -sit, cum tamen suu. it. li. 1. proximé citato._] - -[Sidenote: _4. Natural. 6._] - -The like opinion is to bee helde of all those superstitious remedies -which haue crept into our profession, of Charmes, Exorcismes, -Cõstellations, Characters, Periapts, Amulets, Incense, Holie water, -clouts crossed and folded superstitiously, repeating of a certaine -number and forme of prayers or Aue Maries, offering to certaine -Saintes, pissing through the wedding Ring, and a hundred such like -toyes and gambols: which when they preuaile in the cure of diseases, -it is not for any supernaturall vertue in them, either from God or -from the diuell (although perhaps the Diuell may haue a collaterall -intent or worke therein, namely to drawe vs vnto superstition) but by -reason of the confident perswasion which melancholike and passionate -people may haue in them: according to the saying of _Auicen_, that -the confidence of the patient in the meanes vsed is oftentimes more -auailable to cure diseases then all other remedies whatsoeuer. - -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. - - -FINI_S_. - - - Faults escaped. - - _Fol. 1. b. lin. 22. dele one._ - - _Fol. 3. a. lin. 27. remoted for remoued._ - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BRIEFE DISCOURSE OF A DISEASE -CALLED THE SUFFOCATION OF THE MOTHER *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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