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Show _/-'-'fifl¥'fi'i 1186 Of £170 Cnizaiulzrcc filOHt/fi‘f of Children.77777 Book III, thlll: /-r" i' pate of dwm kinds ofpreternatural Salts and Sulphurs, which being of, Fermentative nature (as cotililting ol Heterogeneous Elemtnts,) L‘ndcaVOUring to lirhdue each other ) are very much exalted in Children prel'cntly after the Birth, by the nitrous Particles of Air; whereup< n Nature bt' {3 highly aggrieved by the diiputes of contrary Principles of he Blood, endeavonrtth (when they cannot be mutually reconciled by a baggy harmony ) to throw them from the Center to the Circumference by greater and fmaller Arteries, terminating into the cutaneous Glands, wherein the oflren. five Rectements being fevered from the more benigne and vital parts ol‘thc Blood, are dil-Cliai‘ged by excretory Ducts into the CHM and ("rim/4, which ‘¥_ 0/ 1/36 Canon/five motions" of Children. tides; and diH‘erent Elements, producing great Contef'ts, and undue intell‘meMotions in the Blood, which being tranlinittcd to the Brain, confound the Animal Liquor and Spirits, and give a high diflurbance to it's fine con-. texture of numerous Fihrils, putting the Firft into various irregnl ar motions, A which are afterward tranfinitted into the lylteme ofNerves, lomctime leated in one place, and othertimcs in another. Convullive motions may alfo proceed from Worms and {harp Humors,vel- (‘onvn l Fr: heating the tender Fibrils of the Intellines, which draiv into confent tl1C miitlol 5 pi titermite tr om Plexes of Nerves lodged in the Mefentery, and other parts oi the Body. Worms, But the Conculions of the Multular parts ofthe Face, Limbs,and Trunk (‘onvullire 0(th Body, have their Origen chiefly from the great agitations of the li- Tm"??? giveth 9. great cafe and repofc to Nature, and often prevents Convullive mo- nons 3 and the Blood is olten oppreiled with {0 great a quantity, or {0 ill a quality ofill Humors, that Nature is not able to make a lECretion offer. culcnt horn its more profitable parts in the cutaneous Glands, or their: of hious contexture of the Brain, and feldom from me diliall‘eélions, obllruc'ti- l'i‘iiI-ilflk‘lnw tins, and ill coftions of the wifcem, by realon when the loivePt and middle mum"- Apartiments of many young Children have been opened, and a great inlpeétion made into the "from, they have lound them very found, arid afterward 1h": Kidney, l iver, and other Colatories of the Blood", whereupon the Blood it» tranlinitted from the Heart,by the afcendent Trunk oi the Aoriaand inter. rial Caroride Arteri , into the Cortical Glands ofthe Brain, wherein it the Skull having been taken OH, and the Pr'oct'tles oithe Brain viewed, thev havebeen difcovcred to be immerled in ferous Liquor (full of fabric and tainterh the nervous liquor, which is firft carried into the Extremities "F the nervous Fibrils, lodged in the Cortex, and afterward into the fibrous (don"‘ge of the Corpus calla/inn, Fornix, Corpora Stridtzz, Medalla obloquttiz, aside Particles) tahingz away the bounty ofthe Sitrms Ncrelo 1/: and Animal Spirits, and rendring the tone oithe fibrous Compage, to be very laxe and unable to refill the ill afit'étions of the nervous I_ iquor, whence cnlire diverle unnatural motions of the Fibrils of the Brain, and nervous l'lexes ofthc lifter-4, and mulbular parts of the Body. Spinalir; and thence by many pairs and plexes of Nerves, itto allthe Vrflem, and Mulbular parts of the Body, wherein the Smart NEWl/oflV, and Animal Spirits bcinng'ted with flatulent heterogeneous, elaflick Particles, do And farther-more, another realon may be offered, thatthe Blood and le- Thornton unnaturally pul'r‘up the Filaments of Nerves, and render them unquiet, till rous Liquor infecting th; Brain, are a great cattle of Convulfive motions, li‘rii-Yrridiiiiiii‘ by rcalon, Fontanels in the neck, and bliflering plaillers applied to it, and S{f€;j£f"" Lecches fet under the Ears, do take away much of the ferous Humors, they have quitted their load by many violent concuflive motions'7 which I "wamr humbly conceive are performed after this manner, by various expanlions, ortnmiiwc and contractions of Nerves, wherein the refilels Animal Spirits (reiiding opprelling the Brain, and divert the motion of Blood, which are experi- mwm' mentally found very conducive to the alleviation and Cure of Convullive motions in Children. Thus (promndu/omco) I have given a Hillary of Convullivc motiom that torture Children, chiefly in the Two or Three firft Months, ariling out in the Nervous l iquor) infefled with turbulent elaf'tick parts,doinlinuate into the narrow Interfiices of the Filaments ( confiituting the Nerves) and enlarge their {paces , and pufl‘ up the body of the Nerves; whereupon their Filaments being fenlible of their burden, do highly contract their enlarged Intcrlltices, to expel the unquict Animal Liquor and Spirits, and to 0 0i an ill trials of Blood contracted in the Womb, confilling in Heterogene~ reduce themlclves to their former pofture and repole, as moll: agreeable K0 wt ous and contrary Elements, railing a high fermentation in the vital Liquor, which afterwgn-d infeéteth the Succm Nerwfur and Animal Spirits, with ni- nature. The carries produé‘tive of Convulfive motions, may be chiefly reduced (0 tro-fiilphureous, flatulent, and elafiick Particles, cauling expanfive and con: \f; "Vifllfli Two Heads, the Firlt may be \vhatfocver doth raile the immodcrate Fer°‘S~ mentation oi the Bloody which may proceed in fucking Children, ltomthC "active motions in the nervous Filaments of the fibrous Compage of the Biain,and other Plexes ofNerves, feated in the Vzflcra, Mufcular and Nlemranousparts of the Body, which often prove fatal; And though nature Heterogeneous parts of the Nudes Milk, cndued with nitro-Calinc» 0‘ ll‘l‘ phureous Elements, or from too large a quantity of Milk, received fromthfi Brealt into the Ventricle of the Child, endued' with acide liline Particles, F Ulh‘ong as to conquer thefe terrible motions in the Brit Months, yet {he 13 obnoxious afterward to great danger, in reference to violent Convulfive motions (aflociates ofa Fever) and proceeding from the breeding ofTeeth. All Children having Fevers in breeding of Teeth, are not always aflliéted ,3; vitiating the concoction ofthe Aliment, which being conveyed through le- veral kinds of Milky vellels, into the mafs of Blood, which is rendred highly fermentative by contrary principles, proceeding from [llc ill. conCoitcd Chyle, which being aflociated "illl the Vital Liquor, is [raliilillll'Ed wrrhconcuflions of mtil‘cular parts, as having oftentimes good Conflitutions, 5W V and alaudable mals of Blood, and a well-difpofed Animal l iquor, and Spi- Event)"; "hand a firm tone ofthc Syllteme of Nerves 5 whereupon they are "0t 017- idling"! noxious to Convulfive motions. Butthe great pains of Dcntition, in an ill habit of Body and laxe CornPagc ol Nerves ( l humbly conceive) are the immediate caufe ofa Fever, by the carOtide Arteries into the Glands of the (hr/ex, wherein it initC‘ttIll the Sum; Ncrwfiw, and its more refinedparts (the Animal Spirits) \Vlfh Elaltick Hatulent Particles, highly dilbompofing the fibrous Compage 0f the Brain, and other parts of the Body, with violent agitations. Th: m r_ ‘As to the Second Head, or caulc of Convullive Motions, the ellervelccnfc lit- "will" ol the Blood is alfo much intended by the heat, and ill qualities of the Air; v w mv_-i~h:r- and by :he chariot-sot the new and lirll Olillit' Moon, which do promo!ethe Xfr‘fc‘l‘" ‘" undue Fermentation of the Blond, chiefly lorrtitlul in Heterogeneous?" tic c5, 1 187 "77¥4\\»---vrwrfifi -fi 3" Convulfive motions, proceeding from an Inflammation of the Gums, ‘1 PlOdllced by Blood, fiagnated in the Interflices of the VelTels, tumefying the and parts, and comprellingg the branches or the Fifth pair of Nerves (leated 3 ut the roots of the Teeth) ofleiidcd allb \vith {alinc and acide parts 0f ierous A ,4 . |