OCR Text |
Show I 184. Of the Pal/ingnficknejr17afindjs Curer. , , Book Ill. "x MintralsproAndI farther conceive, tlgat Antigonizénf ?fapioreéicnm,farl11d Sother Pie. mi" '" Parations Antimon ma e very ene era in t C ure 0 t e curve . priepfy. Purgingofand Diuretick bylinerals may be proper in this Difiafe as {hey C H A P. refine the Blood, which is very confines: to the fursehof if; d And Fontanels made in the Nee , tween 1: e on ers, an in it]: _ Arm; as alfo Blifiering Plaifiers applied to the Neck, between the Shoul. ders, to the infide of the Arms, Thighs, and Legs, are of great ufe in this Malady, as they difchatg]; the vitiated Particles of the Blood, and Nervous Liquor the caufe of an pilepfy. ' L X XI I. . 0f t/M‘ Cantu/five Motion: of Children, . . _ Hildren are more obnoxious to Covulfive Motions,then thol'e of more Conraifirc mature age, by reafon the fibrous Compage of their Brain is more 2:53:33: weak and tender, as not being come to due perfeéiion 3 ['0 that the ill fer- Chlmm‘ mentative Elements of the Blood, infeéling the nervous Liquor, may eafily annoy the mofi fenfible and fine frame of Nerves (feared in the higheii, middle, and lowefi Apartiment) which are unable in Children to oppofe the aflaults of turbulent, faline, and fillphureous Recrements; whereupon this terrible Malady of Convulfive Motions is more familiar to Children then perfons of greater age, who are mofl liable to them in the firf'c Month after their Birth, or about the time of breeding Teeth. Children , (being of an ill confiitution of Body) till they come to be Two Clonulfirrcm- ytarsold, are often aflliéted with Convulfive Motions (dii'torting their Eyes, i-‘l'rliii‘éha Lips,and Face) which fometimes make great concumons of the Arms,Thighs, legs, and all Mufcular parts of the Body 3 by reafon fometimes the Origens, other times the Body and Plexes, and extremities of the Nerves too, are tortured with great {forms ofConvulfive motions, which are called univerfal, as they infeli: all parts of the Body, which firiketh terror into the beholder. This Difeafe is mofl afiliétive of Children upon a double account, Firf}, Th‘e‘jitflcfi becaufe their Nerves are endued with a laxe Tone, and are ealily thrown {12% 3?: more into irregular Motions, upon an immoderate affluxe of nervous Liquor, gfifjlf" ""9 The Second Reaf'on may be, becaufe Children have an ill malls of Blood, as 233°" Wanting Refpiration in the "term; whereupon the Blood having but a flow motion, for want of Air, is not well depurated from Recrements l" the Colatories of the Liver , Kidneys, (w. (0 that it groweth grofs, and faculent, as often oppteITed with faline and fulphureous Particles, which vitiate the Animal Liquor and Spirits, and highly dilEompofe the tender ly- cme of Nerves, feared in the Brain, Vifiera, Multular, and Membranous Putsof the whole Body. ; . he impurity of the Blood (vitiating the Sumu Newafm) which is conmfled in the utem, plainly appears, becaufe in the Month, many Bed {POE} Commonly called the Red Gum, do beret the Cutir, and are the EFOrence or foul parts of the Blood (Ecerned from the more refined in the Wtaneous Glands) tranfmitted through the excretory Dué‘ts into the Cuticula; And if the coming out of thefe Recrements ( fomewhat refemling the Meafles) be flopped; thefe foul Humors have recourl‘e to the Glands of the Palate and Tongue, wherein they produce the Apt/M, which are {mall Ulcers of the Oral Glands ( difcharging the foulnel‘s of the Blood) Which being cured by aflzringent Medicines, repel the ferous and {Aline Parts Of the Blood ; whereuPon they having a recourfe to the Brain, do Fpotl ‘ e Nervous Liquor, and make the Animal Spirits very unquiet, produfilve ° Co"Vuliive motions, beginning in the upper Apartiment, which are after; Ward imparted to the other. parts of the Bod)" _ . . V .. , 6 Blood of Embryor (being viriatcd in the Womb) is fometimes thin Thcnlbod or. a . . . ‘. _ E mlrwr is. and ferous and other time<more grofs and vrlcrdc, which do both partlu- dcpiuvvd m , v PT'C [he warns.- |