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Show 0f Stupidity and iMOPIflJW/I. Book III, over-much indulge deep Meditations , which do much employ the Sm:- tur Now/w, and its more noble Particles in the Brain, hindring their progrefs down toward the Teflicular Glands; wherein .the Seminal Liquor wanting a clue proportion of nervous Liquor and Animal Spirits (as their excellent Element) cannot produce a well-difpofed Brain", whence cnfu‘ eth a. defeé't of right Reafon and Scnfe, The difliuflion ofMopill-i‘ rich. The Firi‘. hath a defect of Mtrnury, (fr. A ici'cfi of Thefe Diltafes of Stupidity and Mopifhnefs, if {'tric‘tly inquired into may admit a diitinétion, as the Firil: hath a defeé't of Memory, Imagina: tion, and Judgement, {0 that the perfons affected with Rupidity, arenot well apprehenfive of notions, not )udicious in the right confideration of things, and treat others with ridiculous: Language , and Gefiures; but that Mopifli perions have fomewhat more of the ufe of Reafon , is manfefi as undeifianding fimple notions , and retaining them fometime in theii Memory, but by reafon of a defeé‘t in Judgment, cannot compound and divide the notices of things; and entertain their companions fometimes With friVilous unpertinent difcourfes; and other times With dull Silence, Mopiflincfs. Mopifhntis may be Lan' ved from and refractory Humors. Our aim at this time is to give an account of both of them, as they proceed from diverfe Caufes, fome being accidental, as lVIopiihnefs flowing "WWW" from other difeafes of Madnefs, Hypocondriacal diitempers, Hyfierick, Epileptick, and Apopleé‘tick Fits, évc. Whereupon the Sum: Nerwfirr is often thickened and efiitte, as having loft its more volatil faline Particles; whereupon the Animal Spirits are rendred few and pawled, as having loft their more fine Particles, whereby they become difabled to exert the Animal Faculties. aniihntfs And I humbly conceive, that Stultitz‘a, or Stupidity arifeth outof a flat!!may proceed from the ill Figure, and fi om a natural ral defect of Senfe and Reafon, proceeding defect of Nerwfm, and its more Sitcom the when and Brain, the of Conformation Sonic and Real'un. {elect Particles are naturally indifpofed , as being hereditary, imparted from viriated feminal Liquor of Parents, which is much more difiicult to A hereditary be cured, then the acquifite diafl‘eéiion of MOpifhnefs, which in time Mopilliiicft. by doc methods of Phyfick, may be cured in fome degree. As to the Prognofiicks of Stupidity, if it be in a high degree wholly, The Progno{licks of Mo- piihncis. or for the mofli part cancelling the acts of right Reafon and Imagination, efpecially if it be Connate and Hereditary, doth [hew it incurable; yet Children that are fomewhar i'tupid, and dull in the acts of Witand Judgment, in tiper years get their parts more elevated, and obtain abetter ufe of Reafon and Senfe, as having the temper of the Smart Nerwf'" and Animal Sprits,endred more refined and volatil. If this Difeafe be accidental and acquifite, as proceeding from [1me gentle Cephalick Difealcs, it may be cured, and the Animal Faculties return to their regular operations: But if Stupidity, or rather Mopiilmes be derived from an inveterate Epilepfy, or a Lethargy, Coma, Caruf, 0‘ Apoplexy, the Malady proveth incurable, as having the Crafis of the ,. nervous Liquor, and Animal Spirits, wholly perverted. If a Lethargy be not of any long continuance; as alfo a Camatofe indilpolition, it may admit a Cute, and the Animal Powers, and their 3&5 may be reduced in fome degree, if not fully , to their Original temper, as having the Brain and its peculiar Juyce and Spirits repaired by I proper courfe of Phyfick, which I have fem in many of my Paritntia Sometime»A Be 1"- Of SWPMIU ratios/ta; '* '- , 1169" SOmetimes this Difeafe, if it be not too deeply radicated, having 'not Pro. long perverted the Oeconomy, a fupervening Fever in fome fort may duce a Cure, as refining the Blood, and nervous Liquor and Spirits, by are thrown ofl‘ by Fermentation; whereupon their impure Recrements the Skin; urine, and a free tranl‘piration through the excretory Duélsof recover Spirits the d, depurare being Liquor Animal and {0 that the Vital much of their former Crafis. As to the Cure of this Difeafe, if it do not arrive to a great degree the of stupidity, but rather an extraordinary dulnefs in the exercife of the a recovery, by gasoi Reafon and Senfe, it may in fome fort admit This Difeai': in (cm: (at may admit a Cure. which may c‘onaflifiance of a good Tutor ( as well as a Phyfician) adVamcemem; of to the tributemuch by good Rules and Precepts of Art, and Judgment. heavy parts, affected with amean apprehenfion, as giving good prefcria s, proficuou be may Phyfitian a of The advice and Animal Liquor tions of proper Medicines, to deputate the Viral by difpelling the and volatil, and active them rendring by Spirits, and the reception dark Clouds and Vapours of the Brain, to make way for immediate in. of lucid Particles, perfeétive of the Animal Spirits , the firuments of the Animal Povvers. a Vein Bleeding may In plethorick Bodies, labouring of Stupidity and Mopifhnefs, ufed with may be be good fucccft may be opened in the Neck, Forehead, Arm; as alfo Leeches in this Difealfi applied to the Haemorrhoidal Veins. Footaiiels in Mo; Fontanels may be made in the Arm, Neck , between the Shoulders, proper piihnci‘s. divert grofs Recrements from or in the infide of the Thigh or Leg, to Liquor, and its more fpithe Brain, and relieve the Blood and nervous more fit infiruments to celerituous Particles, whereupon they become ' . brate the operations of the Brain. in Purging Mr proper very be may s, Cephalick with diCines prePurging Medicines, prepared Anithe that pared with {0 , Nerwfu'r theft Difeafes, to refine the Blood, and Satan Cephalicks; laudarendted Bram the of Crafis the and exalted, mal Spirits may be Reafon. and Memory, ion, ' ble duely to exert the acts of Imaginat wers, Lily of the Cephalic}: Apozernts; Apozemes are very advantageous, made of Lime-Flo Compound added be, may which to y, Rotifmar Sage, Valley, Betony, or Lily of the Valley. . Peony-water, Syrupe of Patony, Lime-Flowers, fuccinated, may he gi- Spirit! ck Ammonia of Salt and n, Spirit of Hartflior Lily of the or of Black-Cherry Water, LimeWater , Vmin a draught . Valley, Patony and the like, Morning and Evening. With the Flowprepared good, be may Water A Magifiral difiilled y, Sage, Lime, Crs of Betony, Sage, Majoram; the Flowers of RorrfmarWith Canary for them e befprinkl and ; Lily of the Valley, Patony, Nutmegs AMagiRral dimii a W» tcr. quantity of Milk Twelve hours, and afterward dii'till them in a large quantity may be added a {mall in a ROTC Still; to this difiilled Water Water, or a {mall proper d Pxony, or Compound Briony 0f Compoun d0" of Spirit of Lavender. r may be given Tome drops Or in a draught of this difiilled Wate r Proprietatis, (:12. (epha'irk Of the tincture of Caller, Amber, or Elixi the Conferves of the Flowers of Sage, ElefluiticrA" Eleétuaty prepared with mixed with Condite ErinRorifmary, Betony, Lime, Lily of the Valley, ns, _ Powder of Caor that of Autanges, Limo g0 R003, or Citron-Pill, Lime-liloWers, at of Syrupe with up made oots, Pacony-R Amber, (for, draught of the diflzilled Wamy 0f the Valley, drinking after it a good Ale ‘Cf above advifed. |