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Show 1158 Of It Mania, or Aldrinafl. m ‘Ww. . Book I". _ > 0/ Mun/714$, and it; Clue. _\ in Cacheotick Habits, as I have often feen in perfons committed to my cm, a a Phyfician, particularly in a perfon of Honour, who frequently vomited iniiifniiiiic a quantity oi acidc Humors, and in a Doctor of Phyfick, who was Per?" "5",.ng by tually aHliéled With violent pains of his Limbs, proceeding from acrdc feline Hmmns' Particles of the Blood, which appeared in a great proportion of fovverfali. Particles derived from the Blood, do weaken the Compage of the Bram-a; tend" the Animal Spirits fierce and unquiet, making new Menus and pal"fagfsi by over-much expanding the Interfiices of the nervous Filaments, and cauling inordinate motions, do produce delirous Phantaiines, which being offered to the underf'tanding, do form unreafonable conceptions. val Liquor, flowing out of the Oral Glands, Which vitiated the mafli'cated Sometimes the Animal Spirits are too much exalted, by great appreé "#3 W Aliment, and fpoiled the Chyle ofthe Stomach; thefe ill conditioned Retro. inents do often infect the nervous Liquor, and produce Apofiemcs, foul and henfious of our own perfeétions, and the too low ei'teems of others; or when SEEM". Men unteafonably court Honours, or when they are Mafia-rs of them, are malignant Ulcers, which are found in the parotide, axillary, and inguinal highly puffed up, to the great unquiet and diiturbance of their Minds; Glands; and by reafon the putrid Humors of thefe ulcerecl parts, arethin Atide time- and warty, it is manifefl they take much of their l‘lfe from the acide Rem. §;3';§°£,‘,‘,‘§,c ments of the Blood, vitiating the Sumo: nemafm ( havmg rccourfe to the "with"! faid Glands, the Colatories of it) which often degenerates in Scorbutick MW" Confiitutions, into a fxtide corrofive Humor, which fomctimc proveth cancrous: And the reafon fcemeth plain 3 becaufe the nervous [ iquor is impreg. natcd with numerous Particles of volatil Salt, which being depraved, hath its more refined Atomes dcprcifed, as confazdei'ated with the more fixed, faline, and ferous parts of the Blood, vitiating the genuine temper of the nervous whereupon the nervous Liquor and Animal Spirits, are put into a great agi- tation and ferment, and at laft 216th with a Maniack affeéiion. Othertimes this Difeafe fucceedeth iVIelancholy, and the Phienl'y, which have beforeindifpofed the Brain, and rendred it liable to .Madnefs; in the Firil; being Very high, the Sum" nere‘oflu, and its moi} fpirituous Particles degenerate into an acide difpofition, which curring into fellowfliip with ful- pliureous Becrements ( coming from the Blood) do produce [0 fierce a tem» per in the Animal Spirits, that they generate a Mania. A Phrenfy is more akin to this Difeafe then Melancholy, as it is accompan Liquor ( in its firfl: production) whofe volatil parts being gone, as becoming fixed, do eafily degenerate into a Fluor, and being accompanied with fulphureous Atomes, do make a corrofive Liquor ( not much Unlike Mineral Water) which being of a Septick nature, doth generate foul, {hu- tried with boldriefs and fury, {0 that a @ljrelzitis is eaiily turned into a Mania, mous, and cancerous Ulcers in the Emunétories of the Body, and in the Glands tttliices of the nervous Filaments, and make new and wandring paffages in them; whereupon the Animal Spirits ranting in various progreii'cs through the territories of the Brain, make a Maniack Delirium, and confound the aéts of Reafon and Imagination, commonly called Madnefs. A This Difeafe rnofi commonly borroweth its firf't rife from an ill mafs of flffhfifflflyw Blood, in a great part, vitiated with grois fulphureous Recrements, forne~ "9:12p Ill", of the Tongue, Palate, and Breai'ts of Women, and other parts. aacpravca This depraved nervous Liquor (productive of Apoi'temes, Ulcers, and ijiiiufifaiiic Cancers in the Glandulous and nervous parts) may be reafonably apprefinfifigffi' hended to vitiate the purity of the Animal Spirits, refiding in the nervous Liquor, as their fubjeét and vehicle, which being endued with a hot fulphii- :e as the Brain is clogged with a fiery temper ariling out of nitrous and fulphu- ' reous Particles, affecting the Sumo ncrwfiw , and its more afliVe Particles, "sens-mud» which being hurried in the fibrous Compage of the Brain, do expand the In; reous, and acide corrofive nature, may be conceived to dtfirdy the finer times caufed by the ill tone of the Hepatick Glands, n0t fecerning the bili- mm BW" parts of the Animal Spirits ( the Minif'ters of the Faculties of Reafon and Senfe) and beget a Maniack difpofition of the Brain, perverting the Deconomy of the Brain, in reference to its different operations, attended with raging paHions, fci‘eeches, and out-cries, and unfeemly gei'tures, and motions ous from the more laudable parts of Blood, produced fometimes by its grofsnefs, and by the flraightnefs of the excretory Dufts of the Liver, and othertimes by the obflruélion or narrownefs of the Meir/m ()fl'itw, and of the Limbs. This Difeafe taketh its rife, either immediately from the Animal Liquor Mariner's. and Spirits, the chief initruments of the Soul, in producing its nobler, and meaiier aéts of Reafon and Senfe', or more remotely from the Blood, as the Materiafubflmta of the Succur ncrryofm. ‘ A Madnefs (arifiiig out ofthe Animal Spirits ) either proceedeth from'an Evidentcaufes 0t Mariners, evident caufe,as fome extravagant paflion, or from an ill afiEéiion oftheBrain, afccndent Trunk, and Carotide Arteries, into the Cortex of the Brain, where- The rife of caufed by aPhrenfy or Melancholy 5 whereupon a Madnefs often fucceedeth. A violent paiiion doth highly influence the Brain, and .enrage the. 1116!; Xiihiiiiiiirii; ziilislto'fMad- vous Juyce and Animal Spirits (as its more refined and fpitituous Palm es, ‘ by rendring the nervous Liquor and its Spirits highly fermentative, tea 95: and diforderly in wandring motions, confounding the regular operatlonso‘ the Brain, accompanied with a Raging,aDelirium, and other horrid Symff' (Omespccalioned by immoderate Anger,great Difgrace,or Shame,or high pa 1' di coin-I on ofl 0"" breach 0f Vows: of fcruples of Confcience, which highly pofing the peace of the Soul, do generate a Maniack dificmper of the Brain: wherein the Spirituons parts of the nervous Liquor being debafed, the film: parts are exalted and brought to a Fluor and being efpoufed to fulPhur.wus ' ParClClcs) Clioledocbm, whereby the Bile cannot be difcharged into the Intefiincs, to that it is forced to regurgitate into the Extreinities of the Velm Cam, and is thence carried with the Blood through the Right Ventricle of the Heart, L‘mgs, and Left Chamber of the Heart, and afterward through the common in the Albuminous parts of the Blood being infected with fulphureous and nitrous Particles, do fpoil the nervous Liquor and Spirits, producing a furiousi mad temper in the Brain. . And the acide Particles ( difcompofing the 51mm nerwfuy, and its more 1;, a iVe parts in the production of Madnefs) may claim in fomc part their , Origen from an ill affefied Pancreas, whofe numerous minute Glands haying 10" their due coni'titution, cannot make a feparation of the Recrements of the Blood from its pure fubfiance; or when the Origens of the excretory Veffels of the Glands, or the common Pancreatick Duéi are obi'truéied by ‘ e grofsnefs, or quantity of the pancreatic]: juyce; whereupon it being not tranfmitted into the Intei'tines, is lodged fometimes in the lnterf'tices of the fifth, where it being compofed of Heterogenous Particles, doth ferment, and acquire greater degrees of acidity,as being fometimes brought to a Fluor, and afterward a {lay being; made in the fpaces of the Veflels (relating to the 'landsfihe pancreatick Jityce is mixed with the Blood, and carried by leffer R ,9 v err" |
