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Show iii/iii." fl_t _ 0/~ [/th Vertigo, or Mcagrum. m / w"Astortheili'rognoflicks ofithEIbifeafe, if {the fymptomarical, flowing from the indifpolition of the Vifi'fm, afii'tfting the Brain 5 it hath- lcfs ofdan. ‘ get, ifit be a Difeafe not deeply radicated. But an inveterate Vertigo, being almoi't continued, thrCatenc-th a greater danger, as more difficult to be cured, and giveth a Phyfician great trouble, C H A P. LXVI. 0f the Delirium and Phrenitis. before the Patient labouring with this ftubbotn Difeafe, can be r'ecovcicd. This Difeafe, when feared in the anterior Region of the Brain, is more fife, as making lefs impreilion upon it, and is often turned into the pain ofrhe Head, and difcharged many times by a flux of Blood Homng through the Noftrils. A vertiginous affeétion having its fubjefi in the hinder part of the Brain. attended with ill fymptomes, as falling upon the Floor, and an ablation of of the noble fcnfitive Fundtions is obnoxious to imminent danger,aiidfomc. times degenerates into an Apoplexy, and other times into a Pall‘ey. This Difeaf‘e, as to its Cure, admits a diverfe confideration, in reference to its Paroryfme, or to prevent its Fit. which is prefervatory. The Fit «2c l]0fC31':lCC(l' ILg. As to the Fir-ll, it denoteth in a Plethorick Conflitution, a free Letting of Blood in the Jugulars, Arm, or by Leeches in the Hemorrhoidal Veins, and in a great cafe by the application of Cupping-Glades to the Shoulders and Neck; And as to the prefervarory Indication in an ill habit of Body, purPurgatives u i gative Medicines may be applied, prepared with Cephalicks. As alfii Chaly7 beats, mixed with Antifcorbuticks, and Diureticks, which I have fecngive great relief in vertiginous diflempers, as they difcharge the Recrements of the Blood, which elfe being carried to the Brain, do take off the purity of the Prii‘eingl'ills. A; memes. nervous Liquor, and Animal Spirits, and hinder their free progrcfs, between the Filaments of the Nerves, feared in the various Procell‘es of the Brain. And to this end, Pills of Amber, mixed with Fxrraélum Quilt}, 6v. As all?) Alteratives may lEC adminifired, as Apozemes made with the Flowers of Be- tony, Sage, Cowflips, leilly of the Valley, Lime, (five. and to every Dofe, fome drops may be added of the Spiritof Hartihorn, of Salt Armoniack liiccinared; Confervcs alfo dude with thefc Flowers, mixed with Powder of White Amber, Caitor, roots of Paeony, and Millepedes powdered, made up With Symp of I, ime-Flowers, or Lilly 5 drinking after every Dofe, agood draught of a Cephalick Apozemc, to which may be added Ten or Twelve drops 0f In lapes. Tinclnrc of (as preliminary to it ) which doth not truly apprehend the Images in, of things, Firft prefcnted to the outward Senfes, and afterward imparted to the common Fenfe and Phancy, by reafon the Animal Spirits are much cloud» ed by an ill nervous Liquor; and as its due temper and modem is more or leis perverted, it is produfiive of greater or lefs dififiteftions of the Brain, ivlierein the fpecies prefentcd from the outward to the inward scuffle" are ill perceived, 0r unduely compounded, or divided; whereupon the Uni. derflanding being prelEnted with diliracted and confufed Phantafmes, ex. ertcth irregular operations, and giveth an ill condutft to the Will, in vari- onsmifguided and unreafonable 3&5, which are all Ptyled under a common Phrcxilir. isa Nameof Delirium, which being in a lefs degree, and {hotter in time, is vul- fix" w" garly called a Delirium, and when it continueth longer, and more feverc, as accompanied with acher, and other more troublefome accidents, is named ‘Plireiiitia, attended fometimes with Raving, and other times degeneratesinto ail/Tania, MCIJIZC/Jtilid, 0‘ SticPiditM,of which I will difcoutfe in order, and Fitll of a Delirium and Plircnitir. A Delirium is rather a Symptome then a Dillafe, as being a fhadow, fol- A roiliriitm a; lowing other Difafli'étions; My Province at this time is [U make an infpe- 22:13.01", then into the nature, and caufes of the Malady, called newt-writ», by the """Dmf‘" Greelp, and Delirium by the Latino", and is a perverted operation of the 9m") flowing from malignant Fevers, Hyderick Paroxyiines, the eruption ' oithe Small Pox, am This Symptome lecmeth to be feared in the more inward Receifes of the Brain, where the common Fenfe, Phanfy, and Memory do perform their which being hurried in irregular motions, Clo confound the reprefentations of outward lEnfible Objects, when their Appulfes are conveyed by nervous FL brllh to the more inward fenfitive Faculties, which being diliurbed in their due apprehenfions, do make diforderly Phantaiines, recommended to the Peony; to which may be added the Spirit of Lavender, and iweetncd With llnderlianding; whereupon this more noble Function cannot make a right refined Sugar. Powders alfo may be adrift-d, prepared with White Amber roots of Paco- that Judgment of the Objeéts (prefented to it from the inward Senfes) {0 ny, Coral, prepared Pearl, (W. and may be given in aDecoétion of CCPha' lick Flowers of Rofemary, Betony, Sage, Tey, (five. A Tiné‘ture, or Syrup ofSteel, or its Powder prepared with Sulphur, may in'rwcr Aiiu- be adrifed to be taken with Cephalick Apozemes, made with the Flowers trims. of Rofemary, Lavender, Patony, 61w. . l'nrgati. ns h‘r'thCY of it, pi eparcd, and given in Every Fourth or Fifth day, a gentle purgative draught may be prefcrl' bed, mixed with Cephalick Medicines, during the courfe ofSteel. The (eat an Delirium. Operationsgvhich are aé‘ted by the Animal Spirits, the Minii'ters of the Mind, Spirit of Caftor. Pearl J'ulapes, made ofthe Dif'cilled waters of Cephalicks, and compound htccl, or man be u. w and then adrii‘cii in notctl tonne. Efore I Treat of a 'Pbmzitis, I will difcourfc briefly ofa Delirium 7." the Will following the irregular Dictate-s of the Underftanding, doth male Ill Elections, as miilgoverned by an erroneous guide. In a Brain well-difpofed, the Animal Spirits make regular motions from the Origen of the Nerves, through the Interitices oftheir Filaments, making their progrefs throngh the feveral Proceffes of the Brain, in due manner and inward Senfes, and order, as initituted by nature; whence the outward and in the true perOperations, regular exercife do Faculties t e ("Ore intelleétual v _ csPf10n of outward and inward Objeéts. But if the nervous Liquor, and its more agile, and more refined Particles, do make violent and tumultnary excurlions through theyarions Filaments, the Mind are "[2"ng to the fibrous Compaqe of the Brain 3 the thoughts of rendted diiiurbe'd, and the oiit..ard and inward perceptions of Serrfc and Kenton; 1‘ I , 1 Tiie'regnllalryr Rfrflig‘w‘ ""' ,. . £32263: frilly-m iri' |