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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online -at <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a>. 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. -</div> - -<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: A Briefe Discourse of a Disease called the Suffocation of the Mother</p> - -<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Edward Iorden</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: September 10, 2021 [eBook #66254]</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Character set encoding: UTF-8</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>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.)</div> - -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BRIEFE DISCOURSE OF A DISEASE CALLED THE SUFFOCATION OF THE MOTHER ***</div> - - - -<div class="transnote"> - -<p><b>Transcriber’s notes</b>:</p> - -<p>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. The footnotes have been -numbered consecutively and repositioned at the end. A short table of -contents (that was not present in the original) has been added to the -transcription to assist readers.</p> - -<p class="epubonly">The cover image of the book was created by the -transcriber and is placed in the public domain.</p> -</div> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<h1>A BRIEFE DIS<br /> -<span class="fwn">COVRSE OF A DIS<br /> -<i>EASE CALLED THE</i><br /> -<span class="fs85">Suffocation of the</span><br /> -<i><span class="fs60">Mother.</span></i></span></h1> - -<p class="tac"> -<span class="fs140">Written vppon occasion which</span><br /> -hath beene of late taken thereby, to suspect<br /> -possession of an euill spirit, or some such like<br /> -supernaturall power.</p> - -<p class="tac"> -<i><span class="fs140">Wherein is declared that diuers strange</span></i><br /> -actions and passions of the body of man, which in<br /> -<i>the common opinion, are imputed to the Diuell,<br /> -haue their true naturall causes, and do<br /> -accompanie this disease</i>.</p> - -<p class="tac"> -<span class="fs140">By <span class="smcap ls05">Edvvard Iorden</span></span><br /> -<i>Doctor in Physicke</i>.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="colophon" style="max-width: 12.6875em;"> - <img src="images/colophon.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="tac"> -<span class="lh2">LONDON.</span><br /> -Printed by <i>Iohn Windet</i>, dwelling at the Signe of<br /> -<i>the Crosse Keyes at Powles Wharfe</i>. 1603. -</p> -</div> - - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_title_verso" style="max-width: 12.8125em;"> - <img class="mtb3em" src="images/i_title_verso.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<div class="center"> -<table width="500" style="background-color:#EEEEEE;" summary="table of contents"> -<tr> -<td class="tac fs140" colspan="2"><div><b>Contents</b></div></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tal pl1" colspan="2"><a href="#i_a">Preface</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tal vat pl1"><a href="#Cap_1">Cap.1.</a></td> -<td class="tal pl2hi1 pr1">That this disease doth oftentimes giue occasion vnto simple and vnlearned people, to suspect possession, witchcraft, or some such like supernaturall cause.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tal vat pl1"><a href="#Cap_2">Cap.2.</a></td> -<td class="tal pl2hi1 pr1">What this disease is, and by what means it causeth such varietie of Symptoms.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tal vat pl1"><a href="#Cap_3">Cap.3.</a></td> -<td class="tal pl2hi1 pr1">Of the kinds of this disease, and first of that wherein the vitall facultie is offended.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tal vat pl1"><a href="#Cap_4">Cap.4.</a></td> -<td class="tal pl2hi1 pr1">Of that kind of this disease wherein the animall facultie is offended.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tal vat pl1"><a href="#Cap_5">Cap.5.</a></td> -<td class="tal pl2hi1 pr1">Of that kind wherein the naturall facultie is offended.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tal vat pl1"><a href="#Cap_6">Cap.6.</a></td> -<td class="tal pl2hi1 pr1">Of the causes of this disease.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tal vat pl1"><a href="#Cap_7">Cap.7.</a></td> -<td class="tal pl2hi1 pr1">Of the cure of this disease, so much as belongeth to the friends and attendants to performe.</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> - -<div class="chapter"> -<div class="figcenter" id="i_a" style="max-width: 26.875em;"> - <img class="w100 mt3em" src="images/i_a.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="tac"> -<span class="fs240 ls01">TO THE RIGHT WOR</span><br /> -<span class="fs120">shipfull the President and Fellowes of the</span><br /> -<i>Colledge of Phisitions in</i><br /> -London. -</p> -</div> - -<div id="i_b" style="max-width: 9.6875em;"> - <img class="dropcap" src="images/i_b.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="dropcap"><i>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.</i></p> - -<p><i>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.</i></p> - -<p><i>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</i> Santo <i>in</i> Padua <i>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</i>.</p> - -<p><i>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.</i></p> - -<p><i>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.</i></p> - -<p><i>One of their signes is</i> Insensibilitie, <i>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.</i></p> - -<p><i>There also you shall find conuulsions, contractions, -distortions, and such like to be ordinarie Symptoms in this -disease.</i></p> - -<p><i>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.</i></p> - -<p><i>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.</i></p> - -<p><i>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.</i></p> - -<p><i>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.</i></p> - -<p><i>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.</i></p> - -<p><i>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.</i></p> - -<p class="tac mrl10pc"> -<i>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.</i></p> - -<p class="tac"> -Your louing friend and Colleague.<br /> -<br /> -<i>Ed. Iorden.</i> -</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_1">1</span></p> -<div class="chapter"> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_001a" style="max-width: 26.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i_001a.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<p class="tac"><span class="fs200">Of the suffocation of</span><br /> -<span class="fs180"><i>the Mother.</i></span></p> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="Cap_1">Cap. 1.</h2> - -<p class="tac mrl10pc"><i>That this disease doth oftentimes giue occasion vnto simple -and vnlearned people, to suspect possession, witchcraft, -or some such like supernaturall cause.</i></p> - -<div id="i_001b" style="max-width: 6.25em;"> - <img class="dropcap" src="images/i_001b.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="dropcap">The passiue condition of womankind -is subiect vnto more -diseases and of <span class="nowrap">other<a id="FNanchor_1" href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">1</a></span> sortes -and natures then men are: and -especially in regarde of that -<span class="nowrap">part<a id="FNanchor_2" href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">2</a></span> from whence this disease -which we speake of doth -arise. For as it hath more varietie -<span class="nowrap">of<a id="FNanchor_3" href="#Footnote_3" class="fnanchor">3</a></span> 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 <i>The Suffocation of the mother</i>, -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; -<span class="sidenote"><i>Altomarus de -medend. hum. -corp. malis -cap. 110. -Barth. Montagnana -Consilio. 226.</i></span> -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 <i>Apoplexies</i>, <i>Epilepsyes</i>, -<i>Syncopyes</i>, subuersions of the stomacke, &c.) and -not all (vnlesse as in <i>Syncopyes</i> by consent, where the -vitall function ceasing, all the rest must needes -cease) in this case all the faculties of the bodie doe -suffer; -<span class="sidenote"><i>Mercatus lib. -2. cap. 2. & 3.</i></span> -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.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_2">2</span></p> -<p>And hereupon the <i>Symptoms</i> 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. -<span class="sidenote">Valetius scoffing -at their -ignorance calleth -this disease -a kind of -diuell. <i>in Holler. -cap. 59</i>.</span> -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.</p> - -<p>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: -<span class="sidenote"><i>Cosmocrit. li. 1 -cap. 7. pag. 153 -Inexperto medico -sapè suspitionem -ñuminis -præb̃uerunt</i></span> -when as Phisitions themselues, as <i>Cornelius -Gemma</i> 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 <i>suffocation</i> 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.</p> - -<p><i>Auicen</i> also in his Chapter of this disease, -<span class="sidenote"><i>Fen. 21. 3 cap: -26: tract: 4:</i></span> -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 <i>Iacobus -de Partibus</i> expoundeth it, they did thinke it to be inflicted -from aboue, yet notwithstanding he setteth -downe naturall causes of it, and a naturall cure.</p> - -<p><i>Hippocrates</i> -<span class="sidenote"><i>Lib. de morbo -sacro in principio.</i></span> -also long before finding this error -to bee helde by some in his time maketh mention -of diuerse of these <i>Symptoms</i>, 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: -<span class="sidenote"><i>Inscitia palliũ -maleficium & -incantatio. -R. Sc: li, 1. cap. 3</i></span> -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.</p> - -<p>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 <i>Symptoms</i>, -as hee proueth by an induction of diuerse of<span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">3</span> -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.</p> - -<p>The strength of this argument will better appeare -hereafter in the particular <i>Symptoms</i>, 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.</p> - -<p>It may likewise appeare by this, that whereas all -other diseases are knowne by their notes and signes -which resemble their cause (as <i>Choller</i>, <i>Flegme</i>, <i>Melancholy</i>, -<i>&c.</i> 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 <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_4" href="#Footnote_4" class="fnanchor">4</a>extraordinary</span> -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<span class="nowrap">;<a id="FNanchor_5" href="#Footnote_5" class="fnanchor">5</a></span> 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.</p> - -<p>The second argument of this is, that these <i>Symptoms</i> -do yeeld vnto natural causes, and are both procured -and also eased by such ordinary meanes, as other -diseases are: <span class="nowrap">and<a id="FNanchor_6" href="#Footnote_6" class="fnanchor">6</a></span> therefore they must needs be -naturall.</p> - -<p>The strength of this argument is grounded vpon -the very foundation of our profession which hath -beene layd <span class="nowrap">by<a id="FNanchor_7" href="#Footnote_7" class="fnanchor">7</a></span> <i>Hyppocrates</i> <span class="nowrap">and<a id="FNanchor_8" href="#Footnote_8" class="fnanchor">8</a></span> <i>Gallen</i> long agoe -and euer since confirmed by the practise and obseruations -of all learned men; that diseases are cured -by their contraries. I say <span class="nowrap">contrary<a id="FNanchor_9" href="#Footnote_9" class="fnanchor">9</a></span> both vnto the -disease, vnto the cause, and vnto the <i>Symptom</i>. And -the more exact the contrarietie is; the more proper -is the remedy: as when they are equall <span class="nowrap">in<a id="FNanchor_10" href="#Footnote_10" class="fnanchor">10</a></span> 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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">4</span> -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 <i>Hyppocrates</i> -must needes be true; that if these <i>Symptoms</i> do yeeld -vnto naturall remedies, they must also bee naturall -themselues. -<span class="sidenote"><i>Georg. Godelman. -de magis. -&c. lib 1: cap -8.</i><br /> -<i>Bruno Seidelius -de morbis -incurab: pag: 19: -Centuria 5, curat: -75.</i></span> -And thus much in explanation of -these two arguments of <i>Hyppocrates</i> 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.</p> - -<p><i>Amatus Lusitanus</i> reporteth of one <i>Diua Clara</i>, 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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p><i>Petrus Forrestus</i> -<span class="sidenote"><i>Obseruationũ -medicin: lib: 10 -obseru: 30.</i></span> -maketh mention of another maid -of 22. yeares old, which dwelt with a Burgermaster -of <i>Delft</i> in <i>Holland</i>, 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.</p> - -<p><span class="sidenote"><i>Thaddæus Dumus -miscall: cap -9.</i></span> -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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">5</span> -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 -<span class="sidenote"><i>Lib. 28. obseru. -26:</i></span> -what the doctrine of Phisitions is concerning -this disease of the Mother, which of all other -is most subiect vnto misconstruction. For that as -<i>Forrestus</i> saieth it is a harde matter to discerne in -what maner the Mother may occasion such strange -and manifold accidents.</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="Cap_2">Cap. 2.</h2> -</div> - -<p class="tac mrl10pc"><i>What this disease is, and by what means it causeth such -varietie of Symptoms.</i></p> - -<div id="i_005" style="max-width: 6.25em;"> - <img class="dropcap" src="images/i_005.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="dropcap">This disease is called by diuerse -<span class="sidenote"><i>Cardamus -de causis sig. 13 -locis morborum -cap. 114.</i> -<br /> -<i>Altomarus cap. -110. Guaynerius -cap. de suffo: -matricis.</i></span> -names amongst our Authors. <i>Passio -Hysterica</i>, <i>Suffocatio</i>, <i>Præfocatio</i>, -and <i>Strangulatus vteri</i>, <i>Caducus -matricis</i>, <i>&c.</i> In English the Mother, -or the Suffocation of the -Mother, because most commonly -it takes them with choaking in the throat: -<span class="sidenote"><i>Æesius tetr: 4 -Serm. 4. cap. 68 -P. Ægineta -lib. 3. cap. 71. -Victor Trincavel. -lib: 5. sect. 3 -cap. 9.</i></span> -and -it is <i>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></p> - -<p>I call it an <i>affect</i> in a large signification to comprehend -both <i>morbum</i> and <i>Symptoma</i>. For sometimes -it is either of them, and somtimes both. For -in regard the actions of expulsion or retention in -the <i>Mother</i> are hurt. It may be called a <i>Symptoma -in actione læsa</i>: in regard of the humor to be expelled -which corrupteth and putrifieth to a venemous -malignitie. It is likewise a <i>Symptom in excremento -vteri mutato</i>. And in regard of the perfrigeration -of the Mother, and so of the whole bodie. It is also a -<span class="nowrap"><i>Symptom</i><a id="FNanchor_11" href="#Footnote_11" class="fnanchor">11</a></span> <i>in qualitate tangibili mutata</i>, not <i>morbus ex -intẽperie</i><span class="nowrap">:<a id="FNanchor_12" href="#Footnote_12" class="fnanchor">12</a></span> 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 <i>morbus in situ</i>, in respect of the compression it -selfe, causing suffocatiõ and difficultie of breathing. -It may <span class="nowrap">be<a id="FNanchor_13" href="#Footnote_13" class="fnanchor">13</a></span> <i>causa morbi in forma</i> by causing <i>coarctation</i> -of the instruments of breathing. And sometimes -these are complicated <span class="nowrap">and<a id="FNanchor_14" href="#Footnote_14" class="fnanchor">14</a></span> 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<span class="nowrap">:<a id="FNanchor_15" href="#Footnote_15" class="fnanchor">15</a></span> by -those vapours are shortened of their wonted length, -and so draw vp the part higher then it should be, <span class="nowrap">or<a id="FNanchor_16" href="#Footnote_16" class="fnanchor">16</a></span> -for that the matrix being grieuously anoyed -with the malignity of those vapours doth contract it selfe<span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">6</span> -and rise vp by a locall motion towards the midrif.</p> - -<p>I say of the <i>Mother</i> 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: -<span class="sidenote"><i>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.</i></span> -(<i>Radix suffocationum vterus</i>) -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 <span class="nowrap">respiration<a id="FNanchor_17" href="#Footnote_17" class="fnanchor">17</a></span> with animall and naturall. -These parts are affected in this disease, and -do suffer in their functions as they are diminished, -depraued, or abolished<span class="nowrap">,<a id="FNanchor_18" href="#Footnote_18" class="fnanchor">18</a></span> according to the nature & -plenty of the humor, and the temperament and -scituation of the Mother: and that <i>diuersly</i>: -<span class="sidenote"><i>Petrus solius diuersus -pag. 400</i></span> -<span class="sidenote"><i>Mercat. pa. 170</i></span> -<span class="sidenote"><i>Merca. pa. 174</i></span> -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.</p> - -<p>Another diuersitie there is, in the order of these -fits: for somtimes they keep <span class="nowrap">due<a id="FNanchor_19" href="#Footnote_19" class="fnanchor">19</a></span> periods or circuits -yearly or monthly, according to the falling sicknes, -and sometime euery weeke, <span class="nowrap">sometimes<a id="FNanchor_20" href="#Footnote_20" class="fnanchor">20</a></span> 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 together had -euery day a fit of the Mother at a certaine houre. <i>D. -Argent</i> and I had another patient, in whome for 10. -weeks together we obserued a fit of the mother euery -saturday. I adde <i>by consent of the Mother</i> to distinguish -those <i>Symptoms</i> 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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">7</span> -facultie, are 2. the one respecting the preseruatiõ of -the whole body, as it is an <i>Emunctory</i> of diuers superfluities -which do abound in that sex. -<span class="sidenote"><i>Gabr. Fallopius -de med. purg. -Cap. 17. et 23. -via euacuationis.</i></span> -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.</p> - -<p><span class="sidenote"><i>Constant. Varelius -lib. 4. cap. 3</i></span> -It is also <i>Porous</i> for the better entertaining of -the vitall spirits and the necessitie it hath of distention -and contraction.</p> - -<p>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 <i>os sacrum</i>: -<span class="sidenote"><i>Gasparus Bauhinus -historia -anatom. p. 71.</i></span> -forwardes vnto the necke -of the bladder and <i>os pubis</i> by certaine membranes -deriued from the <i>peritoneum</i>: on each side it is tyed -vnto <i>ossa illii</i> 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.</p> - -<p>Now according to this description let vs consider -how by consent, the principall partes of the -bodie may bee affected from the matrix.</p> - -<p>The partes of our bodie doe suffer by <span class="nowrap">consent<a id="FNanchor_21" href="#Footnote_21" class="fnanchor">21</a></span> -two manner of wayes. The one is when they -doe recyue some offensiue thing from another -parte which is <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_22" href="#Footnote_22" class="fnanchor">22</a>called</span> <i>Communitas non absoluta</i>. -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. -<span class="sidenote"><i>Fernel. pathologiæ -li. 6. ca. 16</i></span> -or by insensible -pores (as <i>Hyppocrates</i> 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. -<span class="sidenote"><i>Forestus lib. 10 -obseru: 115: in -scholsis.</i></span> -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.</p> - -<p>The other kinde of communitie is that which -they call <i>Communitas absoluta</i>, wherein the part consenting -receiueth nothing from the other, but yet -is partaker of his griefe: either for <i>similitude</i> of substance -or function, which causeth mutuall compas<span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">8</span>sion: -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 <i>for -neighbourhood</i> 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 <i>reason of connexion or continuitie</i> -which it hath with other parts, -<span class="sidenote"><i>Gal: locorum -affect: 1: cap: 6</i></span> -by Vaines, -Nerues, Arteries, Membranes, Ligaments, &c. -whereby the offence is easily imparted vnto other -partes. Or lastly by priuation of some <i>facultie or -matter</i>, whereof the part hath neede. As in the obstruction -of the <i>Spina Dorsi</i> 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. -<span class="sidenote"><i>Rondeletius -cap 69. Trincauell -loco -citato:</i></span> -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.</p> - -<p>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. <i>According to the varietie of causes and -diseases wherewith the wombe is offended</i>, these <i>Symptoms</i> -doe differ in nature, or in degree. <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_23" href="#Footnote_23" class="fnanchor">23</a>A</span> plentifull -matter produceth a vehement <i>Symptom</i>: 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 <i>Symptoms</i>: as the rising of the -Mother, which alwayes causeth shortnes of breath: -<span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_24" href="#Footnote_24" class="fnanchor">24</a>Empostumes</span> of the Mother according to the -place where they are bred, and the quality of them, -doe also bring a difference in <i>Symptoms</i>. And thus -much for explanation of the definition.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">9</span></p> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="Cap_3">Cap. 3.</h2> -</div> - -<p class="tac mrl10pc"><i>Of the kinds of this disease, and first of that wherein the -vitall facultie is offended.</i></p> - -<div id="i_009" style="max-width: 6.25em;"> - <img class="dropcap" src="images/i_009.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="dropcap">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. -<span class="sidenote"><i>Affectus corporis -vel excretionum -vitiæ.</i></span> -Not that euerie <i>Symptom</i> 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.</p> - -<p>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: -<span class="sidenote"><i>Trincauel. li. 4 -cap. 24.</i></span> -<span class="sidenote"><i>De partium -morbis et symp. -lib. 5: cap. 12.</i></span> -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 <i>Fernelius</i> testifieth, hath sometimes displaced -the ribbes, and sometimes broken them -through the violent motion of the heart.</p> - -<p>This <i>Symptom</i> is called the palpitation or beating -of the heart, or Arteries whereof <i>Maximillian</i> -the Emperour died, as <i>Crato</i> reporteth, and wherewith -<i>Charles</i> the fift was oftentimes molested, as -<i>Vesalius</i> 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 some<span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">10</span>times -through the dilatation of the Arterie there -ariseth a <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_25" href="#Footnote_25" class="fnanchor">25</a>tumour</span> as bigge as ones fist. This <i>Symptom</i> -is euerie where mentioned by our <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_26" href="#Footnote_26" class="fnanchor">26</a>Authours</span> -in this disease and our dayly experience confirmeth -it.</p> - -<p>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 <i>Symptom</i> which is called <i>Syncope</i> or -swounding, the very image of death, where the -pulse is <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_27" href="#Footnote_27" class="fnanchor">27</a>scarcely</span> 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 <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_28" href="#Footnote_28" class="fnanchor">28</a>sometimes</span> 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 <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_29" href="#Footnote_29" class="fnanchor">29</a>errors</span> -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 -<span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_30" href="#Footnote_30" class="fnanchor">30</a><i>Mercurialis</i></span> reporteth, that no woman which was -subiect to this disease should be buried vntil she had -beene three dayes dead. Or as <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_31" href="#Footnote_31" class="fnanchor">31</a><i>Alexander Benedictus</i></span> -of <i>Bolonia</i> sayth 72. houres, which commeth to the -same reckoning. <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_32" href="#Footnote_32" class="fnanchor">32</a><i>Petrus Bayrus</i></span> 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 <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_33" href="#Footnote_33" class="fnanchor">33</a><i>Forrestus</i></span> in his obseruations.<a id="FNanchor_34" href="#Footnote_34" class="fnanchor">34</a><i>Plinie</i> maketh -mention out of <i>Heraclides</i>, 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 -<span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_35" href="#Footnote_35" class="fnanchor">35</a><i>Marcellus Donatus</i></span>) is not to be thought a fabulous -tale, seeing it is not repugnant to the rules of Philosophie -and Phisicke. And <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_36" href="#Footnote_36" class="fnanchor">36</a><i>Galen</i></span> making mention -of the verie same hystorie vnder the name of <i>Apnæa</i>, -discourseth of the reasons of it.</p> - -<p><span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_37" href="#Footnote_37" class="fnanchor">37</a><i>Rabbi Moses</i></span> 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.</p> - -<p><span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_38" href="#Footnote_38" class="fnanchor">38</a><i>Bottonus</i></span> 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.</p> - -<p><span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_39" href="#Footnote_39" class="fnanchor">39</a><i>Forestus</i></span> of <i>Alkmar</i> in north <i>Holland</i>, 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.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">11</span></p> -<p>The like also he citeth out of <i>Leouellus</i>, 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. -<span class="sidenote"><i>De hominis generat. -cap. 46.</i></span> -But the most -pitifull example of all other in this kinde, is that -which <i>Ambrose Paræe</i> reporteth of <i>Vesalius</i> 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 <i>Authenticall</i> 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.</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="Cap_4">Cap. 4.</h2> -</div> - -<p class="tac mrl10pc"><i>Of that kind of this disease wherein the animall facultie is -offended.</i></p> - -<div id="i_011" style="max-width: 6.25em;"> - <img class="dropcap" src="images/i_011.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="dropcap">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.</p> - -<p>This animall facultie hath this peculiar difference -from the vitall and naturall faculties, that the functi<span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">12</span>ons -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 <i>Galen</i> -testifieth, <i>lib. 2. de Symptomatum causis cap. 12</i>. -<span class="sidenote"><i>De motu musculorum -lib. 2. -cap. 7. 8.</i></span> -That it -may be abused by our owne will, he proueth also in -another place, where he bringeth an instance of a -seruant (<i>serui barbari</i>) who killed himselfe to anger -his maister by holding of his breath. -<span class="sidenote"><i>De ciuitate -Dei lib. 4: -Cosmoscrit. lib. -1. pag. 156.</i></span> -S. <i>Augustine</i> -saith that he knew a man that could make himselfe -to sweate when he list, by his imagination only. <i>Cornelius -Gemma</i> 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. -<span class="sidenote"><i>Medici parisienses -in historia -Martha. Brossier.</i><br/> -1. Sam. 21. 13. -<i>Gal. lib quomodo -deprehendũtur -qui agrotare -se fingunt. -cap. 1.</i></span> -And S. -<i>Augustine</i> tels of one that would make a kinde of -musicke that way. <i>Adrian Turnebus</i> 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 -<span class="sidenote"><i>Epidemiorum -5. R. Scot. lib. 7: -cap. 1.</i></span><i> -Hyppocrates</i> calleth <i>Eugastrimuthoi ventriloqui</i>, -such as was the holy maid of Kent, and <i>Mildred</i> 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. -<span class="sidenote"><i>Lib: 16. cap. 4.</i></span> -But for this -point I referre you to the histories of <i>Agnes Brigs</i>, -<i>Rachel Pinder</i>, <i>Martha Brossier</i>, &c. <i>Ren. Scot</i> 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.</p> - -<p>The functions of it are three, the first is called <i>Internall</i> -and principall sence which doth gouerne -and direct all the rest by <i>Imagination</i>, <i>Reason</i> and <i>Memory</i>: -which if it bee hurt either by imminution or -deprauation or total abolishment, then the inferior -functions doe necessarily participate with the of<span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">13</span>fence. -<span class="sidenote"><i>Hebetudo mentis.</i></span> -They are hurt by Imminution when a man -doth not <i>Conceiue</i>, <i>Iudge</i>, or remember so well as hee -ought to doe, -<span class="sidenote"><i>Imprudentia obliuio.</i></span> -as in dulnesse or blockishnesse<span class="nowrap">,<a id="FNanchor_40" href="#Footnote_40" class="fnanchor">40</a></span> as wee -call it in vndiscretion, foolishnes or want of iudgement, -in obliuion or forgetfulnes, &c. -<span class="sidenote"><i>Sopor.</i></span> -They are abolished -either in those drowsie affects which wee call -<i>Caros</i>, <i>Coma</i>, <i>veternus</i>, <i>Lethargus</i> &c. or in those astonishing -<i>Symptoms</i> wherein all the animall faculties -are at once taken away, -<span class="sidenote"><i>Apoplexiæ.</i><br /><i>Epilepsia.</i></span> -sometimes with a generall -resolution or palsie, as in <i>Apoplexies</i>: sometimes -with a generall conuulsion, as in the falling sicknes: -sometimes with a -<span class="sidenote"><i>Catalepsis.</i></span> -<i>Stifnesse or congelation</i> of the body, -wherein they lie like an image in the same forme -they were taken.</p> - -<p>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 <i>Auicen</i> 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.</p> - -<p>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. -<span class="sidenote"><i>Insania.<br /> -Delirium.<br /> -Melancholia.<br /> -Furor.</i></span> -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.</p> - -<p>These functions are also depraued in too much -wakefulnesse through the commotion of the animall -spirits, -<span class="sidenote"><i>Vigilia.<br /> -Insomnium.</i></span> -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 -<span class="nowrap">called<a id="FNanchor_41" href="#Footnote_41" class="fnanchor">41</a></span> <i>Saltus Sa<sup>ti</sup> viti</i>, or <i>Saltuosa dispositio membrorum</i> -wherein they will daunce, and leape, and cannot -endure to be quiet.</p> - -<p>This deprauation of the internall sences, is so ordinary -in the fits of the Mother, as <i>Horatius Augenius -Epistola</i>. 6. seemes to make it of the essence of this -disease, that the imagination is ever depraued in it. -But <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_42" href="#Footnote_42" class="fnanchor">42</a><i>Hyppocrates</i></span>, <i>Galen</i>, <i>Auicen</i>, 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.</p> - -<p><span class="sidenote"><i>Priuatio visus<br /> -Auditus.<br /> -Gustus.<br /> -Olfactus.<br /> -Tactus.</i></span> -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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">14</span> -the tongue of tasting, to the nose of smelling and to -diuers parts of the bodie the power of feeling.</p> - -<p>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 <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_43" href="#Footnote_43" class="fnanchor">43</a>paine</span> and offence, or when they feele -things falsely and otherwise then they are.</p> - -<p>Concerning hearing, although <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_44" href="#Footnote_44" class="fnanchor">44</a><i>Hyppoc. Rhasis</i></span> -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 <i>Mercatus</i> -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.</p> - -<p>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 <i>diminished</i> in that -affect which we cal <i>lassitudo</i>, werines or vnweldines, -wherein we are not able to move so strongly and -nimbly as we should.</p> - -<p><span class="sidenote"><i>Paralysis.</i></span> -It is <i>abolished</i>, either by a <i>resolution</i> or <i>palsie</i> where -the sound part drawes the sickly part, that is the part -resolued, & depending draws the muscles & nerues -&c. or by a <i>Spasmus</i> or <i>contractiõ</i> of them <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_45" href="#Footnote_45" class="fnanchor">45</a>where</span> the -sick part drawes the sound part, that is, the muscle -which is affected, drawes the member which is wel.</p> - -<p>A resolution or palsie is either generall of both -sides of the bodie <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_46" href="#Footnote_46" class="fnanchor">46</a>exempting</span> the head, or of one -side called <i>Hæmiplegia</i>, or yet more particular of the -hand, legge, finger, &c. called <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_47" href="#Footnote_47" class="fnanchor">47</a><i>parapligia</i></span>.</p> - -<p>A <i>Contraction</i> or <i>Spasmus</i> is also of like sortes, -sometimes the bodie is held vpright and cannot be -bowed any way in that affect which is called <i>Tetanos</i>, -sometimes it is bowed forwardes <i>Emprostotonos</i> -sometimes backward <i>Opistotonos</i>, somtimes the back -is crookt in some part of it, as in <i>Gibbo</i>, 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.</p> - -<p>It is <i>depraued</i> where the motions are immoderate, -peruerse, inordinate, or indecẽt, as when they are <i>vnquiet</i>, -& cannot abstaine frõ motions and gestures, -casting their armes and legges to and fro, vp and<span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">15</span> -downe, dauncing, capring, vawting, fencing, and in -diuerse maners forming their motions. -<span class="sidenote"><i>Marcellus Doc -natus. li. 2. ca. 4</i></span> -Also in <i>Convulsions</i> -of the members, where they are shaken and -pulled by inordinate motions, as wee see in the falling -sicknesse. -<span class="sidenote"><i>Felix Platerus -de motu deprauato. -pag. 401.</i></span> -Also in <i>trembling</i>, <i>palpitation</i>, <i>rigor</i> -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. -<i>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.</i></p> - -<p>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, -<span class="sidenote"><i>Suffocatio. -Anthon. Guaynerius. -cap. de -suffocatione.</i></span> -and are either <i>Respiration</i>, <i>Ingestion</i>, <i>or -Excretion</i>. Respiration hath annexed vnto it voyce, -and speach, this is diminished or abolished in <i>Suffocation</i> -or choaking, from whence this disease which -we intreat of taketh his name, -<span class="sidenote"><i>Priuatio vocis.</i></span> -as from the most cõmon -<i>Symptom</i> which appeareth in it. In <i>difficulty</i> of -breathing. In priuation of <i>voyce and speach</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="sidenote"><i>Citæ respiratio, -suspirium. -Oscitatio. -Singultus. -Sternutatio, -Ructus, -Tusus. -Deglutitio. -Excretio.</i></span> -It is depraued when it is done immoderately or -inordinately, whether it be voluntarie, or inuoluntarie, -as in <i>shortnesse of breath</i>, <i>sighing</i>, <i>yawning</i>, <i>the hickock</i>, -<i>sneesing</i>, <i>coughing</i>, <i>belching</i>, <i>vomiting</i>, <i>making of -noyses</i>, <i>blowing</i>, <i>and reaching</i>, <i>&c.</i></p> - -<p><i>Ingestion, or swallowing</i>, is also hurt in this affect, -when either they cannot swallow meate, or drinke -at all, or with great difficultie.</p> - -<p><i>Excretion</i> 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.</p> - -<p>These <i>Symptoms</i> also appeare in the Suffocation -of the Mother. <i>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.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">16</span> -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.</i></p> - -<p>These motions as they belong to the animall facultie -are principally hurt by <i>Resolution</i>, <i>contraction</i>, -or <i>conuulsion</i>, 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 <i>Suffocation</i>, where the animall -faculty doth principally suffer: for examples many -times do perswade more then doctrine. -<span class="sidenote"><i>De morbis internis -lib. 1. ca. -59. in scholiis.</i></span> -<i>Hollerius</i> reporteth -that the gouernour of <i>Roan</i> 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 <i>de Rochpot</i>, who being in -these fits would raue, laugh, & weep, her eies being -shut. -<span class="sidenote"><i>Lib. 28. obseru -26.</i></span> -<i>Forestus</i> maketh mention of one <i>Alcida Theodorici -at Alkmare</i> 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 -<span class="sidenote"><i>Aliam egregiã -motuum cõvulsiuorũ -ab vtero -hystor. vide -apud eundem. -li. 10. obser. 116 -Lib. 26. cap. 16.</i></span> -as if she were in an <i>Apoplexie</i>, 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.</p> - -<p><i>Alexander Benedictus veronensis</i> 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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">17</span> -was become of her great bellie. I could rehearse two -other such like examples within this citie, which -happened not many moneths since.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p><i>Bartholomeus Montagnana</i> reciteth vp 31. seuerall -<i>Symptoms</i> 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.</p> - -<p>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 -<i>Symptoms</i> in the animall facultie.</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="Cap_5"><i>Cap. 5.</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="tac mrl10pc"><i>Of that kind wherein the naturall facultie is offended.</i></p> - -<div id="i_017" style="max-width: 6.25em;"> - <img class="dropcap" src="images/i_017.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="dropcap">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 <i>facultas -auctrix</i>. 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 <i>facultas altrix</i>. -And thirdly seeing, notwithstanding our bodies -are continually nourished with the best food, -yet they must once die as well as other inferiour<span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">18</span> -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.</p> - -<p>These three naturall faculties haue diuerse others -attending vpon them, as the faculties of <i>Attraction</i>, -<i>Retention</i>, <i>Concoction</i>, <i>Expulsion</i>, <i>Alteration</i>, -<i>Formation</i>, <i>&c.</i> Which I will for breuitie sake ouerpasse -with their bare mention, because the <i>Symptoms</i> -<span class="sidenote"><i>Gal. de tremor. -palp. tis. &c. -cap. 2. sensibus -non exposita.</i></span> -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.</p> - -<p><span class="sidenote">Some of these -are <i>Symptomata -in qualitate -mutata</i>, or <i>in -excremento -vitiato</i>: but because -they are -in the naturall -parts, and arising -from errors -of that facultie, -I haue -inserted them -here.</span> -And to this place may we referre those accidents -often mentioned in this disease.<i><span class="nowrap">Gnawing<a id="FNanchor_48" href="#Footnote_48" class="fnanchor">48</a></span> in the -stomacke</i>, 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 -<span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_49" href="#Footnote_49" class="fnanchor">49</a>throat</span>, like vnto frogs, snakes, or other creatures, -or as if they would speake as <i>Hippocrates</i> reporteth -of <i>Polymarchus</i> wife.</p> - -<p>And these are three principall kindes of this -disease wherevnto most of the <i>symptoms</i> which euer -do appeare therein may be referred.</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="Cap_6">Cap. 6.</h2> -</div> - -<p class="tac mrl10pc"><i>Of the causes of this disease.</i></p> - -<div id="i_018" style="max-width: 6.25em;"> - <img class="dropcap" src="images/i_018.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="dropcap">The causes of this disease and -of the <i>Symptoms</i> 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</p> - -<p>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, <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_50" href="#Footnote_50" class="fnanchor">50</a>blood</span>, and nature.</p> - -<p>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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">19</span> -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.</p> - -<p><span class="sidenote"><i>Defectus.</i></span> -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 <i>Hyppocrates</i> doctrine. -<i>1. Morborum muliebrium</i>, and <i>Aristotle, de generat. -animal. cap. 11. vteri euacuati sursum ascendunt & -præfocationes faciunt. -<span class="sidenote"><i>Hollerius et -Rondelet loci -citatis.</i></span> -<span class="sidenote"><i>Comment. 2 in -lib. 1. Hypp de -morb. muliebr.</i></span> -Cordæus</i> 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 <i>Hyppocrates</i> -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: -<span class="sidenote"><i>Lib. 4. cap. 22.</i></span> -or as -<i>Mercurialis</i> doth enterpret it, doth impart by communitie -(as is aforesaid) the offensive qualitie vnto -the braine, and by that meanes procures convulsions, -&c. <i>Gallen</i> -<span class="sidenote"><i>2.loc. affect.</i></span> -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 <i>Symptoms</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="sidenote"><i>Excesses.</i></span> -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: -<span class="sidenote"><i>Gal. loc. affect. 6 -Pereda in paschalium -lib. 1. cap. 58. -Altomarus. -Syluius.</i></span> -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.</p> - -<p>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 <i>Symptoms</i>, according to the qualitie and degree -of the distemperature thereof.</p> - -<p><span class="sidenote"><i>Alteratio.</i></span> -This distemperature is either in manifest qualities, -of heate, colde, moisture, drines, according vnto -which it is said to be, -<span class="sidenote"><i>Hypp. de morbis -virginum.</i> -<i>Altomarus Corruptio.</i></span> -<i>Melancholicke</i>, <i>Flegmaticke</i>, -<i>Choloricke</i>, <i>&c.</i> producing <i>Symptoms</i> of the like nature, -or in corruption and putrefactiõ of this bloud -which breedeth diuers strange kinds of distẽperatures, -<span class="sidenote"><i>Mercatus loco citato.</i></span> -according to the diuersity of the humor putrefied, -the degree of putrefaction or the condition<span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">20</span> -of the cause or author thereof.</p> - -<p><span class="sidenote"><i>Rondelarius c. -69. Platerus.</i><br/> -<i>Pereda in pas. -et alia.</i><br/> -<i>Valesius de Tarranta. -lib. 6.</i><br/> -<i>Valesius testatur -se deprehendisse -circa vterũ -hystericarũ -croceum humorem -fatidissimũ -&c. lib. 5. c. -15.</i><br/> -<i>Mathaus de -grad. in 9. Rhasis. -ca. 28. Item -consilio 84.</i><br/> -<i>Mercatus.</i><br/> -<i>Gal.</i><br/> -<i>Avicen.</i><br/> -<i>Mercurialis.</i><br/> -<i>Bottonus locis -citatis.</i><br/> -<i>Hercules Saxonia -de plica. ca -14. et. 34.</i></span> -The other substance which most commonly -is found culpable of this disease, is nature or <i>sperma</i>: -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.</p> - -<p><i>Galen</i> 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; -<span class="sidenote"><i>Syluius, &c.</i></span> -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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p><i>Galen</i> -<span class="sidenote"><i>Loc. affect. 6. 5. -Petrus Salius de -affect. particu. -laribus pa. 326</i></span> -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, -<span class="sidenote"><i>Altomarus.</i></span> -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 <i>Epilepsies</i>, of sweating, &c. which oftentimes haue -their due recourse by the yeare, moneth, weeke, day -or houre, according to the nature of the humor:<span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">21</span> -<span class="sidenote"><i>Ga. loc. affect. 6 -Felix Platerus -de causis -febrium. -pag. 63. 65 -66. &c.<br /> -Mercatus. -Fernel. patholog. -li. 6, cap. 16</i></span> -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.</p> - -<p>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. -<span class="sidenote"><i>Quia multum.<br /> -Quia prauum.<br /> -Quia insuetũ.</i></span> -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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>The aire which compasseth our bodies and -which we breath into our bodies is the occasion of -many infirmities in vs, -<span class="sidenote"><i>Fernel. li. 1. de -morborũ causis.</i></span> -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.</p> - -<p><span class="sidenote"><i>Mathaus de -gradi. Mercat. -Rondel. cap. 69</i></span> -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, -<span class="sidenote"><i>Hier. Mercuria</i></span> -as the liuer -and spleene with sweete meates, or because the -animall spirites of the braine beeing thereby<span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">22</span> -stirred vp to motion, doe by consent affect the matrix -with the like.</p> - -<p><span class="sidenote"><i>Plater. pa. 443</i><br/> -<i>Iacobus Ruffius -de muliebribus -lib. 6. cap. 8</i><br/> -<i>Syluius Guaynerius.</i></span> -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 <i>Platerus</i> thinkes by stirring vp -the expulsiue facultie of the matrix, are a meanes -of the shortening of the fit.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p><span class="sidenote"><i>De nat. muliebri.<br /> -Lib. 2. obseru. -28.</i><br/> -<i>Hypp. libro citato -quicquid ederit -aut liberit -ipsam molestat</i></span> -And <i>Hyppocrates</i> in this disease forbids sweete -and fatte meats (<i>a dulcibus et pinguibus abstineat, donec -sana sit</i>) <i>Forrestus</i> telles vs of a Bruers wife of <i>Delft</i>, -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.</p> - -<p>The <i>Essex</i> Gentlewoman of whome I spake -before, -<span class="sidenote"><i>Heurnius de -morbis capitis -pag. 310.</i></span> -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.</p> - -<p>The errours about euacuation are also an externall -cause of diseases, and doe breed an internall -cause afterwardes.</p> - -<p>As in this disease the want of due and monethly -euacuation, -<span class="sidenote"><i>Altomarus.</i></span> -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. -<span class="sidenote"><i>Hollerius cap. -59. Rond. c. 69.</i></span> -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.</p> - -<p><span class="sidenote"><i>Hinc Cicero -Tusculanarum -3. perturbationes -animi, morbos -appellat.</i></span> -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.</p> - -<p>We haue infinite examples among our <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_51" href="#Footnote_51" class="fnanchor">51</a>Historiographers</span>, -and <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_52" href="#Footnote_52" class="fnanchor">52</a>Phisitions</span> 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 <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_53" href="#Footnote_53" class="fnanchor">53</a>women</span> deliuered of their children before their -time, vpon feare, anger, griefe, &c. others taken with<span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">23</span> -the <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_54" href="#Footnote_54" class="fnanchor">54</a>Falling</span> sickenesse, <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_55" href="#Footnote_55" class="fnanchor">55</a>Apoplexies</span>, <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_56" href="#Footnote_56" class="fnanchor">56</a>Madnesse</span>, -<span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_57" href="#Footnote_57" class="fnanchor">57</a>Swounding</span>, <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_58" href="#Footnote_58" class="fnanchor">58</a>Palsies</span>, and diuerse such like infirmities -vpon the like causes.</p> - -<p>And concerning this disease whereof we doe -intreate, <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_59" href="#Footnote_59" class="fnanchor">59</a><i>Iohannes Montanus</i></span> tels vs of a patient -of his, who fell into the fits of the Mother vppon -iealousie. <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_60" href="#Footnote_60" class="fnanchor">60</a><i>Forrestus</i></span> 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.</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="Cap_7">Cap. 7.</h2> -</div> - -<p class="tac mrl10pc"><i>Of the cure of this disease, so much as belongeth to the -friends and attendants to performe.</i></p> - -<div id="i_016" style="max-width: 6.25em;"> - <img class="dropcap" src="images/i_016.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="dropcap">The signes of this disease, seeing -they are drawne principally from -the causes and <i>Symptoms</i> 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.</p> - -<p>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 <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_61" href="#Footnote_61" class="fnanchor">61</a>presẽt</span> fit, & some things in -regard of the cause. In the fit let the bodies bee kept -<span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_62" href="#Footnote_62" class="fnanchor">62</a>vpright</span>, straight laced, and the belly & throat held -downe with ones hand. -<span class="sidenote"><i>Rondeltius -Hollerius.</i></span> -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 <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_63" href="#Footnote_63" class="fnanchor">63</a>tie</span> -their legs hard with a garter for reuulsion sake, &c.</p> - -<p>Out of the fit, in regard of <i>Externall</i> causes, remoue -from them all occasions of breeding or in<span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">24</span>creasing -the disease: as sweet sauors, pleasant meats -and drinks, much rest and slouthfulnesse, &c. Also if -<span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_64" href="#Footnote_64" class="fnanchor">64</a>discontinuance</span> 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, <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_65" href="#Footnote_65" class="fnanchor">65</a>let</span> 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 <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_66" href="#Footnote_66" class="fnanchor">66</a>by</span> inducing -hatred, or <span class="nowrap"><a id="FNanchor_67" href="#Footnote_67" class="fnanchor">67</a>by</span> permitting them to enioy their -desires, &c. <i>Galen</i> boasteth that he did euery yeare -cure many diseases by this stratagem of moderating -the perturbations of the mind by the example of -<i>Æsculapius</i> 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. -<i>Cardan</i> tels of a Gentlewoman, who finding her self -vexed with many grieuous <i>Symptoms</i>, imagined -that the Diuell was the author thereof, and by <i>Iosephus -Niger</i> 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 <i>Marcellus Donatus</i> tells vs of, which a -Physition vsed towardes the Countesse of <i>Mantua</i>, -who being in that disease which we call <i>melancholia -Hyppocondriaca</i> 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 <i>Trallian</i>, of a woman -who did thinke that she had a serpent within -her, and was cured by the like meanes.</p> - -<p>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: -<span class="sidenote"><i>Lib de incant. -adiuratione, -&c.</i></span> -as <i>Constantinus -Affricanus</i> (if it be his booke which is inserted -among <i>Galens</i> workes, <i>De incantatione, adiuratione -&c.</i>) affirmeth, and practized with good successe, -vpon one who was <i>impotens ad Venerem</i>, & thought -himselfe bewitched therewith, by reading vnto -him a foolish medicine out of <i>Cleopatra</i>, 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.</p> - -<p><span class="sidenote"><i>Si quis incantationem -sibi -prodesse confidat, -qualisicũq; -sit, cum tamen -suu. it. li. 1. proximé -citato.</i></span> -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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">25</span> -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 -<span class="sidenote"><i>4. Natural. 6.</i></span> -of <i>Auicen</i>, that the confidence of the patient in the -meanes vsed is oftentimes more auailable to cure -diseases then all other remedies whatsoeuer.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - - -<p class="tac">FINI<i>S</i>.</p> - - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p class="ml3em">Faults escaped.</p> - -<p><i>Fol. 1. b. lin. 22. dele one.</i><br/> - -<i>Fol. 3. a. lin. 27. remoted for remoued.</i></p> -</div> - - -<div class="footnotes"><h2>FOOTNOTES:</h2> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_1" href="#FNanchor_1" class="label">1</a> -<i>Hyppocras. 6 -vulgar. part. 7.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_2" href="#FNanchor_2" class="label">2</a> -<i>Galen 6. locorum -affect. -cap. 5. radix -suffocationum -vterus.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_3" href="#FNanchor_3" class="label">3</a> -<i>Mercatus de -muliebr. lib. 2, -cap. 1.</i></p> - -<p>1. <i>Ad sui ipsius -alimontam.</i></p> - -<p>2. <i>Ad species -propagationem</i>.</p> - -<p>3. <i>Ad beneficium -indiuidui -per euacuationẽ -superfluitatum.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_4" href="#FNanchor_4" class="label">4</a> -Luk. 8. 27. -28. &c.</p> - -<p><i>Ternel de abditis -rerum causis -lib. 2. cap 16 -Platerus de mẽtis -alienat. pag. -102.</i></p> - -<p><i>Beniuenius de -abditis morborum -causis cap. -8. Alsharauius. -C. de Epilepsia.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_5" href="#FNanchor_5" class="label">5</a> -<i>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.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_6" href="#FNanchor_6" class="label">6</a> -<i>Fernel loco citato -matheus -de Grad. ex Azariuio. -C. de Epilepsia.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_7" href="#FNanchor_7" class="label">7</a> -<i>Hippo. de natura -humaaa -circa medium. -Destatibus paulo -post principium.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_8" href="#FNanchor_8" class="label">8</a> -<i>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.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_9" href="#FNanchor_9" class="label">9</a> -<i>Valesius -meth. med: lib: -1. cap: 4:</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_10" href="#FNanchor_10" class="label">10</a> -<i>Mercatus meth -med: pag: 42: -43: Gal. Simplicium -lib. 3: -cap: 11: Valesius -controuers: -lib. 1. cap. 4</i> -Luk, 11. vers. -21. 22.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_11" href="#FNanchor_11" class="label">11</a> -<i>Albert. Bottonus -cap. 39.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_12" href="#FNanchor_12" class="label">12</a> -<i>Gal. locorum -affectorum 3. -cap. 7.</i></p> - -<p><i>Petrus Salius -pag. 467.</i></p> - -<p><i>Altomarus cap. -110.</i></p> - -<p><i>Horatius Angenius -Epist. 6</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_13" href="#FNanchor_13" class="label">13</a> -<i>Gal. de causis -morb. cap. 7</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_14" href="#FNanchor_14" class="label">14</a> -<i>Altomarus -citato. -Rondelesius -methodo -curand. morb. -cap. 69. matheus -de grad. in 9 -Rhasis. cap. 28</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_15" href="#FNanchor_15" class="label">15</a> -<i>Mercatus lib -2. cap 3.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_16" href="#FNanchor_16" class="label">16</a> -<i>Matheus de -grad. in 9. -Rhasis cap. 28. -Hor. Angenius -sibi offensum -fugiens vt et -iucundum insequens.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_17" href="#FNanchor_17" class="label">17</a> -<i>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.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_18" href="#FNanchor_18" class="label">18</a> -<i>Gal. 5. loc. affect. -6 -Mercatus pag. -173.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_19" href="#FNanchor_19" class="label">19</a> -**<i>Ætius lib. 26. -cap. 70</i></p> - -<p><i>P. Agineta. lib. -3. cap. 71.</i></p> - -<p><i>Rhasis cont. lib. -22. mesue sum. -4. part. 4. sect. 1 -cap. 8.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_20" href="#FNanchor_20" class="label">20</a> -**<i>Auicen Fen. 213. -cap. 16. tract -4. quandoque -sunt period. eius -tardi, quandoque -accidit omni -die.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_21" href="#FNanchor_21" class="label">21</a> -<i>Trincauel. l. 3 -Sect. 2. cap. 2.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_22" href="#FNanchor_22" class="label">22</a> -<i>Auicen. Fẽ. 1. -3. tract. 2. ca. 6 -Montagnana -consil. 226</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_23" href="#FNanchor_23" class="label">23</a> -<i>Mercatus -pag. 165.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_24" href="#FNanchor_24" class="label">24</a> -<i>Mathæus de -gradi. & Auicenna -locis -citatis.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_25" href="#FNanchor_25" class="label">25</a> -<i>Aneurisms. -Fernel. loco -citato.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_26" href="#FNanchor_26" class="label">26</a> -<i>Petrus Salius -pag. 429. -Skinckius de -cordis palpit. -obs. 211, item -218, 222. -Forestus lib. 17 -obs. 8.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_27" href="#FNanchor_27" class="label">27</a> -<i>Gal. loc. affect. -6.c 5. pulsum -vix perceptibilem -habent &c -Item de composit. -pharmac. s.l. -lib. 9. in finit.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_28" href="#FNanchor_28" class="label">28</a> -<i>Antho. Guaynerius. -cap. de -suffoc. matricĩs. -Albert. Bottonus -loco infra -citato. -Gal. loco citato. -Altomarus loco -citato.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_29" href="#FNanchor_29" class="label">29</a> -<i>Ambros. paræus -li. 24.c. 10</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_30" href="#FNanchor_30" class="label">30</a> -<i>De morbis -muliebr: lib. 4. -cap. 22. -Iacobus Syluius -de mensibus -mulierum.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_31" href="#FNanchor_31" class="label">31</a> -<i>De morbis -medicandis. -lib. 10. cap. 10.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_32" href="#FNanchor_32" class="label">32</a> -<i>Practica lib. 2. -cap. 17.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_33" href="#FNanchor_33" class="label">33</a> -<i>Lib. 10. obser. -79. in scholiis.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_34" href="#FNanchor_34" class="label">34</a> -<i>Histor. nat. -lib. 7. cap. 52.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_35" href="#FNanchor_35" class="label">35</a> -<i>De medica -hysteria mirabili. -lib. 4. ca. 11</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_36" href="#FNanchor_36" class="label">36</a> -<i>6. Locorum -affect. cap. 5.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_37" href="#FNanchor_37" class="label">37</a> -<i>Ioh. Schinckius -refert ex pictorio. -obseruat. -med. lib 4. -cap. 288.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_38" href="#FNanchor_38" class="label">38</a> -<i>De morbis -muliebribus -cap. 43.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_39" href="#FNanchor_39" class="label">39</a> -<i>Obseru. li. 10. -in scholiis ad -obseruat. 79. -Iacobus Ruffius -testatur se plures -huius mod. -vidiss. muliebr. -lib. 6. cap. 8.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_40" href="#FNanchor_40" class="label">40</a> -<i>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.</i></p> - -<p><i>Gal. loc. affect. -6. 5. De composit. -pharm. s. L. -lib. 9. in fine<br/> -Rhasis continẽt -22. Egineta. li.<br/> -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.<br /> -4: Idem. -Petr. salius de catelepsi. pag. 384.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_41" href="#FNanchor_41" class="label">41</a> -<i>Saltus viti. -F. Platerus de -mentis alienatione. -pag. 103</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_42" href="#FNanchor_42" class="label">42</a> -<i>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.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_43" href="#FNanchor_43" class="label">43</a> -<i>Iuxta receptam -a medicis -sententiam dolorem -hic insero -licet videatur -potius ad simpls̃ -ces corporis affectus -referendus.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_44" href="#FNanchor_44" class="label">44</a> -<i>Hyp: morb. muliebr. -lib.</i> 0. <i>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.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_45" href="#FNanchor_45" class="label">45</a> -<i>Contractio. -platerus. Gal. de -causis morborũ -lib. 2. cap. 7. et -loc. affect. li. 34.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_46" href="#FNanchor_46" class="label">46</a> -<i>Petrus Salius -pag. 401. tanquam -leuis Apoplexiæ -Fern. -de part. morbis -& sympt. li. -5. cap. 3.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_47" href="#FNanchor_47" class="label">47</a> -<i>Gal. prorhet -com. 2. 50. et -com. 3. 26. de -victus rat. tom. -4. 27. de morb. -vulg. com. 2. 56</i> -<i>Gybbus.</i> -<i>Trismos.</i> -<i>Tortura oris.</i> -<i>Strabismus.</i> -<i>Spasmus Cynicus.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_48" href="#FNanchor_48" class="label">48</a> -<i>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.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_49" href="#FNanchor_49" class="label">49</a> -<i>Schenkius obser. de ptisi obser. 137. Cornel. Gema. Cosmocr. Hyppocrat. -Epidem. 5. expectore obstrepebat. &c.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_50" href="#FNanchor_50" class="label">50</a> -<i>Gal. loc. affec. -6. cap. 5. Hollerius, -de morbis -internis. lib. 1. -cap. 59.</i></p> - -<p><i>Paschalius li. 1. -cap. 57.</i></p> - -<p><i>Altomarus. ca. -I 10. Item de -vtero gerentibus. -cap. 2.</i></p> - -<p><i>Jacobus Syluius -de mensibus.</i></p> - -<p><i>Hor. Augen<sup>ius</sup> -epist. 6.</i></p> - -<p><i>Cardanus de -causis, &c. -morborum. -cap. 114.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_51" href="#FNanchor_51" class="label">51</a> -<i>Plinium. valer. -max. Volateranum. -Pontanum. -Landum, -Gellium, -Krantzium.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_52" href="#FNanchor_52" class="label">52</a> -**<i>Cornex lib. 1 -consultat. med. -cap. 3.</i></p> - -<p><i>Gal. 2. Sympt. -causis cap. 5. de -præcognit. ca. 6 -Beniuenius.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_53" href="#FNanchor_53" class="label">53</a> -<i>Gal. in 5. Aphorism. -45. Amatus -lusit. -Cent. 3.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_54" href="#FNanchor_54" class="label">54</a> -<i>Gal. loc. affec. -5. de Grammatico Ioh. Montanus -cõsilio. 50 -Matheus de -grad. de proprio -filio. cap. de Epilepsia.</i></p> - -<p><i>Amatus lusit. -cent. 2. cap. 90.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_55" href="#FNanchor_55" class="label">55</a> -<i>Procopius de -bello Gothorum -lib. 1. Amatus -lusit. cent. 3.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_56" href="#FNanchor_56" class="label">56</a> -<i>Christoph. 'a -Vega. li. 4. ca. 14 -Corn. Celsus.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_57" href="#FNanchor_57" class="label">57</a> -<i>Gal. loco cita.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_58" href="#FNanchor_58" class="label">58</a> -<i>Aretæus lib. 5. -cap. 7.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_59" href="#FNanchor_59" class="label">59</a> -<i>Consilio 311.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_60" href="#FNanchor_60" class="label">60</a> -<i>Lib. 28. obser. -28. lib. 10. -obseru. 30.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_61" href="#FNanchor_61" class="label">61</a> -<i>Valetius in -Hollerium. c. 59 -Valescius di -Taranta. lib. 6.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_62" href="#FNanchor_62" class="label">62</a> -<i>Paschal. li. 1 -ca. 57. Altomar.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_63" href="#FNanchor_63" class="label">63</a> -<i>Rhasis ad Almansor. -cap. 28.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_64" href="#FNanchor_64" class="label">64</a> -<i>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.</i></p> - -<p><i>Mat. Rochius -de morb. mal. -cap. 5.</i></p> - -<p><i>Guaynerius suppositio -in hoc -casu principatũ -obtinet, &c.</i></p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_65" href="#FNanchor_65" class="label">65</a> -<i>Valetius in -Holl. Cap. 59. -istud genus demonii -non eiicitur -nisi multo -ieiunio.</i></p> - -<p><i>Paschali. 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