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Show M i W Of7112561;ch £221 its Cure, , "gm I30 k III..." In pointol fig" l'trong and full nourilhment is to be avoided, as keep. ing the Blood high and enraged, wherefore it is more reafonable, to advilea thin Diet ofWatei-gruel, Bailey-Cream, thin broth of a Chicken, Mutton, C H A P. LXIX. Veal, 6w. 0f Stupidity zma' Mopiflmcfio His dull dilafefiion of Stupidity or Mopillinefs, is often a fad cons fequent of an habitual Madnels, fometimes degenerating into it 7 and {peaketh a deFeét in the intellectual Faculty, as not exerting its opem‘ » ‘ ~ . tion, produced by the faults of the Imagination and Memory, J not duely prelenting their Objecfts to the nobler Faculty of the Underltanding (the liib- Stupem- ;, ‘b‘m‘m" of cunlcquent Mymulnad- or \, Hzczivinnh 1. in mi»; Iiecclicsmiy the Veins, feared near the furface of the Body ; Or Leeches maybe applied b 1' ii to . (Stamina. to the wound, to fuck out the infeéted Blood. And afterward atttaétive Medicines may be Med, made of Garlick, Pidge. Attractive jeét of our prefent dilcourfe) proceeding from the difafl‘eétion of the nervous l'mmm‘ Liquor, and Animal Spirits. indgglinijcll ons dung, Muf'tard-feed, mixed with Walnut Leaves, Salt, and Honey : As 3311:3L3°‘"€ allb Plaifiers made of Pitch, Opoponax, (9hr. as its principal reprefentarive of the images of things: firll: imparted by the 5"" "mm" vitnttoth: outward Organs of Senle, and afterward to the Pliancy, {ometimes ap- miuml- g‘glmmmg I And the molt ready way to draw out: poifon in this cafe, is to apply an potgnt means to raw potfououtofihc 13'3","3‘1" 1855:2221: m actual Cautery, and the burning being pail, care is to be taken, thatthe will be fpeedily taken off, to dilcharge the venom by an Ulcer, and ifthe Patient be (0 timerous as not to admit an actual Cautei‘y, a potential may be ulecl, as Efcharoticks and the like, made of fublimated Mercury, and Pratcipitate, and prehcnding Objec'ts, which being firll: lodged in the Memory as a repofitory, are afterward offered to the imagination, whole notions are fpeculated by the Thefenfitive Soul is minil'terial to the rational, and bath the imagination, Timkngtivc underltanding, viewing and confideriiig them, in order to exert its more ex- tellent operations; whereupon, if the acts of the Memory and Phancy be impeded by forne defect of the Brain, in point of an ill Smart Nerrz/ofiw, and "‘"levan; the Ulcer may be long kept open, left fome parts of the venom be re- its more refined Particles, the light of the Underltanding receiveth an Eclipfe, as it is vailed by the clouds oftlie Memory and Imagination, unduely other. iiiiigifmm tained in the Body. In this cafe a Vein cannot fafely be opened, which weakeneth the Body, 3:23:32: Province being to give an account of the Pathalogy of Mopilhnefs, doth in- {fillsfigjfig‘l and not difcliargeth the poifon. Madmls. And Purgatives cannot be adviIEd, as draw- ing the poifon from the circumference to the Center, from the ambient parts to the Heart. ing pliantalines to the higher power of the Intelleét; So that our prelbnt duce me to difcourle of the caiifes; whereby the operations of the lVlcmorV and Phancy are rendred defective, in order to the more fiiblime Arts of the a Underllanding. The fear of the inward corporeal Functions of the lEnlitivc Soul, being The feared in the Corpm calla/um, and the more inward RecelIes of the Brain, are igiiiiigvciiilit exerted by the nervous Liquor, and Animal Spirits (the Nlinil'ters of the :fjffsu'rm Soul) which being hindted in their due temper and motion, do dil‘compofc the Memory, Phancy, and Underllanding, and produce a Ilupidity or Mov- Pillmefs, fometimes derived fromaManiack difpolition, dcflruftitc of the tone of the fine Spirits of the Brain. In lhipidity, the Animal Spirits are bereaved ofthcir fine Ingeny, as reii- MPMQEE‘S dred defiitute of their active Particles; {0 that their line rolatilAtomesgrow Elt?'.‘,‘1"""' :éiiiiéiifn» fixed and depi-effed, as alfo mixed with warty Recrements in the Brain. This Mopilhnefs fometimes happens only by the defeél of the more fpi- "m" rituous Particles of the 814ch Nerwafur, and othertimes is cahfed by the laultof the Brain, as the fubjeét and Organ of the Animal Faculty is confli- mm. r, titted of many requilite conditions , enabling it to perform its operations; gagging" lothatif any of them be deficient, or depraved, the acts of the underfland- ur‘rhcrrmn mg are more or lels clouded, according to the greater or lefs indifpofition "l COrporeal Organs. ‘ ‘ Andit hath been commonly obferved, that the Ingeny of Man is form: tImeslell‘ened, or abolilhed by the too greeat or little dimenlions of the Brain, and othettimes by the ill Figure, or Texture of it. A O 7‘? "NM-1&6): M... _ to compofe the unquiet Animal SPi. is very requilite And by reafon Sleep Hi'pipct;r‘" mi ' o- i ~ Cowllips, or Red Poppy-watery of atlv1led, be may mi "1 this rits, gentle Hypnoticks that of Lime-Flowers, or Lily ol the Valley, With forne C1nnamon~water pm" . . ( dillilled with Barley) and Syrupe of Poppy. Cupping-glaf- In reference to Madnefs (proceeding from the biting of a Mad Dog, lifclllftliii't- Wolfe, Viper, (9%) Cupping-glalles, with Scarifications, may be immediiliitiiiiiEEOFJ ately applied to the wounded part, or Pidgeons, or any other Bird,opened . iii the middle, and adminil'tred to the part afie&ed, do draw out the veneL nate Humor ( mixed with the falival Liquor) entring into the Extremiticsof |