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Show I 1 28 0f Sleepy @i/tfl/i'h ‘-. Bogs-Ill: k\\ on Bleeding; whereupon the Blood freely retired from the Brain, by the Jugulars, into the Cow and Chambers of the Heart, and thence was carri: ed upward again by the alcendent Trunk of the Aorta, and lubclavian and axillary Branches into the Limbs, caufing great pains in the Shoulders and Arms; and at the fame time another portion of Blood was conveyed downward by the defcendent Trunk of the Aorta, and lliaclt Arteries into the Thighs and Legs, which being reconveyed by the Iliaclt Veins, and afcen. dent Trunk oi the C4714, into the Ventricles of the Heart, and from above by the axillary Veins, and defcendent Trunk of the Coca, into the Sim» of the Heart; and from thence again, a quantity of Serous Blood Was impelled by the Aorta and Carotides into the Coats and fubflance of the Brain, highly comprefling the Filaments, and thereupon wholly fupprefling the defcent of the Animal Liquor, into the roots and bodies of the Nerves. Another cauic may be afligned of an Apoplexy, ( feared in the Cortex of ‘ Of Sleep} {Di/m/Zr. 7 r129 Book I ll. ,,_, a great inundation of Blood, {0 intiafsatedby the Opium, that the extremi. ties of the Jugulars were not receptlve of it, So that upon the whole it is molt evrdent that this poor Love-lick Gentle: woman was her own executioner in the immoderate Pole of Opium, which $2?an? canted a quantity of Blood to Ptagnate in the Cortex, In which .1: comprelEed 21:21:: 13153313. the roots of the Fibrils, denying the accefs of nervous Liquor into them, and ""501 m; (o fired the Animal Spirits, that they were rendred lifelel's, as being uncapa- "mt . ble to invigorate the fibrous parts of the Brain and Body. An Ap0plexy alfo may proceed, not from concreted ferous Liquor only, ggyrlipgfiigy but from Blood too, coagulated ( in blafled perfons upon Thunder, or the iilinhiuagim$131,. like) in the Cortex and Mediillary part of the Brain, which hi‘ndreth the ge- "so" by thunder, ncration of nervous Liquor in the Cortex, and diftribution of it through the ‘ ‘ of the Brain. 1rilzlr'iiis Difeafe alfo may be derived from the prohibited circulation of Blood, flyiiispiiixy Li: iii-"Lid: the Brain) the immoderate ufe of Opiates, as Learned Webfler would have 5:21;??? caufed bya fupprefsed motion of the Heart in a Syncope, or Hyflenck palT- Onarcsryiv it, by too great a dilatation of the pores of the Brain, expofing it to avio- on; whereupon the Blood cannot be impelled outof the Heart into the com- Bloodimlp fitfi;fii,¢." lent incurfion of ill humors, brought along with the Blood, and giving a di- ‘2f man and afcendent Trunk of the Aorta, and carotide Arteries into the Cortex 33:52:11: flutbance to the regular motion of the Animal Liquor; But I humbly conceive ( with the leave of this Learned Author) that Opiates do rather obfiruét, and (but up the Pores of the Brain,then immoderately open them,and make ill impreflions upon the Animal Liquor, and by incrallation, and fixation of the Spirits, in taking away their volatil, airy, elafiick Particles, do unbrace the natural Tenfenefs of the fibrous parts of the Cortex 5 and by confequence do take away the vigor of the Nerves of the whole Body, whence themotion of the Heart groweth weakfrom its dil'torted Fibres, attended with a great dif- of the Brain, in order to the produétion of Animal Liquor and Spirits. _ $325315)". This difiafiefiion of the Heart and Brain, as being departure of a due pro- 31):]??? portion of Blood, is often produced by the convulfiye motions of the Cardi- ‘1""5‘dv2'fm 3:2m1'219n;°, ack Nerves, and a fuddain Nam/it of the Animal Spirits, (not only diiafl‘céted from iifri/casidmk in the Procefses of the Brain, but Cerebellum too ) which taketheir rilje fome malignant fieams, flowing from the ill influxes of the Stars porfoniiig fittigfathrcrapni}: into fii‘ifl'gé‘ the Air, which is received by the Nofirils, and conveyd'by fecret'Pores Mum" of not fiiccecding well in her Amours (as {be conceived) took Twelve pills 0(0- rr°¥",‘l"a""of the Mcdullary Procefses, and cineritious part of the-Brain, wherein the Ani1:11:14an functions the and difpirited, and vitiated, often are Spirits and Liquor mal ‘ . . Apoplcxy. an asin of the Brain wholly abolilhed, Ilit be inquired, what is the nature or the matter of this Difeafe; it may he replied, it is of an abfirufe difpofition, hard to be underflood, and is not, ""er of 302532111; pium in {0 many Cherries, every Pill, as I apprehend, contained about Ten Opium. grains of Opium; an hour after fire had taken the Pills, (he began to be dazed ' as in Convulfive difeafes of a- nitrous' fulphureoUS temper 3 bl" Of. a 813mm" Sleepy Dim. , . . ' lle f i- fescuifill iii ficulty ofBreathingfiowing from the flabby Fibres of the intercoflal Mufcles, proceeding from the nervous Liquor, difpirited by Narcoticks. Mrs. 7am Reynolds-,2. young Gentlewoman being paflionately in love,and 1 P Spi‘jwmsfi tituous, elaflick Particles; whence are proPagated the Sleepy difeafcs of an lincMartcr‘ ‘ (TC. 0 lex Coma Carm APTIhedihErtnces of air Apoplexy, in fhort, maybe thefe, The 0E1: {,5 ha- Fibres of her Stomach were [0 Hupified and relaxed by the Opium, that they could not contract themfelves to expel the Vomit. bitual, which proceedeth from a grofs Cachocbymical Blood, cau e . y an ill concoétion of the Stomach, and Intefiines, tranfmitted to the Brain7 or Two hours and lefs after {he had taken the Opium, a great Stupor felled opium my her Brain, and rendred the Mufcles of the 02114 fo Laxe: that {be wholly iifiic'riaiii'c": lOPC the ufe of it, being not able to (wallow; and immediately afterwai Nerves. ous-faline, In which the Animal Spirits are fixed, as lofing their ag and giddy, and although an hour after {he {Wallowed the Pillsflie took great quantities of Oil and Medicines to provoke Vomiting, yet without fuccefs: {he being hard to vomit in time other health; and upon this fad occafion, the afflicted with a great difficulty of breathing, which grew higher and high", ['0 that the Mufcles ofthe Scapula were drawn in to the aflifiance of the inter- COPCalS and Diaphragmc, which being not able of themfelves to perform their duty in refpiration, were attended with a high Stertor, which was more and more aggravated from Twelve at Night till Five in the Morning, about which time Nature being too much over-born, quitted all farther contefis. . Two hours after the Head being opened, and the Brain being diveficd "5 Coverings, the carotide Arteries did much exceed their natural Djmenfi- 0'15: and their {paces of the Vefsels, fwelled with undue proportions ofBloflda though it good quanty of it was difchatged by the venous Ducts into the Third 8mm, full of Blood; which the Head lying low, was afterward tranf' mittcd by the lateral Simu down to the Bafe of the Brain, where] difccrned a great A" A C 13' . b an ill n itution of the nervous Li uor. frotrln 2})rForf: ami:in? yThe Sgofrid kind of Apoplexy, isqimmediatel‘y derived caufes ; T .isf iea t ‘2:§i"3§,';;:"" firong caufe, productive of it, without procatarétick is feared in the Brain fometimes, and other times in the‘CerebelIum, . reqtrrsi: :HMWM lum. vertiginous Difpofitions do denote it_to be in the firarfn, an; air:1 Richie: tent Pull} , Syncope, and fainting Fits {hew the Di ea c tr; A [em-4 Pa pop ("7605; MW, as Dr. Willi; hath obferved7 in the Eighth Chapter é:2 ::?::ninmbw time/m 17L Cerebrum buic morho magi/5 obnoxium denotent a ""73, 6» wertigini: afl‘eé'iw: : Cerebellum mole afiEEflrnx argmm , . d' f de tees loll/Mr intermittonr, Syncope, (9i- Lipotbymm frequent: This Difeafe admitteth another difference accordingto its iver e g . , as it is more or leis {'trong, which is difcovered by the difaffeéhon of the in‘ and the . tellcétual, or fenlitive operations of the Brain, or of all .of them , The are: ‘ 2:35;]??an ((03,2ng ev ra gm" greattfl Th Dr diam . . ' eminent difficulty 0f breathing ETCatnefs of their malady is flicwn very much m the . _ isa greatfign a moflmeh orApbptexy. Breathing, and a general abolition of all animal Funéiion-‘i- As |