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Show , 0f the Corruulfirvc motions of Children. 1190 13W 'BJoiiii. ' /M._~e w,__ r ‘Oiloficafior, Amber, mixed with the compound Spirit of Lavender may be very proper to anoint the Chine ofaChiId, afflicted with Convul ' five motions. In Convulfive motions, proceeding from breeding of Teeth, Blood mar LCCCh"saP< plied bLllilitl be taken away by Leeches fer behind the Bars, and Blii'tering Plailtcrs may the Eat; are good in Den- be applied to the Nut/m, or {ides ofthe Neck, and Anodynes, and Nam): titzoii; Asa}io lililleiing ticks may be ufed in violent pains of the Teeth; whereupon the Gums ma Bathing the ( hine nitli hpiiizs, or Oil, is of great Life. I'liilicrs. Al.0tl)nc$ and Narcotitks att- gootl in am: good For to {it} l toy Worms. be rubbed, or cut with lbme {harp infirument, to make way for the eruptioK _ of Teeth. In reference to Convnlfioiis, coming from Worms, Rubarb infiifcd in Wine, Beer, or Ale may be proper, or fome grains of Calamelanus, given in extract of Aloes ; or with Rubarb, mixed with fome very few grains of Jailape. In a Child of a ltrong Confiitution, and of fome years, Wormlecd or Salt of Prunel, Tartar, or any bitter, or fail: Medicine will defiroy Worms. A Pliil‘lrr may litaiiplic,: [u the N:vtl in this tale. A Plaifier made of Colocynth, Aloes macerated in juyce of Wormwood the Gall of an Ox, all mixed and embodied with Bees-wax, may he apply: ed to the Navil of the Child. ' C H A P. LXXIIL 0f [/29 ‘Pzzlfliy; HE noble Compage of the Brain being a lylleme of nlimerons H T Fibrils3 branched through the Cortex, Corpm calloflim Foriziit Ci]: 1mm flyiam, Rater, Yefler, Meduiliz oblongata, (Cordial/um, and 'ifs Pmééffes) and through the Merliilla Spizmlir as an elongation of the Brain. Thel'e innumerable minute I‘ll‘H‘XlS of the Brain, Ccrclwllrtm, and Mal/{[14 rimming», Spindle, being the conl‘tituent parts, are framed of many finall Fil'lmentc \Vliolelnterfiices are receptive oithc Animal Liquor and Spirits by( whole, "L ‘0 ipirituous and elafiiclt Particles, the Fibrils are rcndred plump, tenfi: ahd $32: fit to exert the aéts oi Senle and Motion, which are allb imphrted t'o tho ‘i‘. thaw".Nerves of the whole Body, as lb many outlets of the Brain, and the conti: l2": nmtion of its fibrous Compage, the firlt Origen and rudiment of all nCrV'l'I" "I‘ll" Divarications, overl‘preading, and invigorating all the Apartiments of iile Body, with their {elect Liquor, and their more refined Particles aivin Senflition, motion, and nourilhment. )p g k ‘- Tlie Faculties relating to the {aid Operations, are lefiL‘nt-tl, depraved or Th kiT‘ncJ, ahohlhed, by the errors of the Brain, as beinga Btfienie of innumerableT‘ibrils,containing the nervous Liquor and its Spirits, giving vigor and tenfcnefs to the fibrous frame of the Brain,and its appendices,wliicli arc cliiefiy hurt in rclerence to Settle and Motion, in Two difiiffefiiOiis, either as they are depraved by ConvulfiVe motions, or when pain arifcth in point of Seiile' or "'"lml'm "' llg‘i‘lli‘l'iz'fl $21,213::mm‘ When the Funétions of Senfe and Motion are very much leiTencd, or abolilh- (Trigtiurigiw Ed in aPalfey, cauling an impotency in the Linibs, when the fibrous parts Mind": of the Brain, and Limbs, 1017: their vigor and tenlhielis. iioliihldiii APalley may admit this delci'iption, That it isa refolution, or relaxation [Ihicliii'iiii of the fibrous Compage of the Body, proceeding from defeft ofa due tenlb- iii :3" rich of the nervous Filaments; whereupon the Faculties of Senl'e and Moti- ‘ J on cannot exert their due operations, in lime or all parts oithe Body. . A refolution happens to the nervous parts,,when the Snrcm Nervzlofm, and (ll.".°ff"."‘€i., its lpiritiions Particles are denied an accels to the fibrous parts of the Brain J‘l‘: L Cerebellar", and Mes'irlla Spinalis; or when the Animal Spirits loling their dud Nam volatil, or elallzick parts, do not influence the Nerves with due Spirits, and Trnlenefs, efpccially when they are affected with high Narcotick fieams, which defpoil them of their laudable temper and tone. V The motive Faculty is impeded,or abolilhed,by realon the Origcns of the Nerves, are obltruéted in the (Mex, or their ptogrels in other Procefles ofthe "lib Ccrcbcllum, or Mcdullzz Spin/111'}, or in the Trunks of the Neives, and their diverfe Plexes, and divarications. rm mam.- iifiifr'lt‘il-ii Shuffle" 3‘0?!"in The origination ofthe Nerves, may be obltrué'ted by the grolsnels of the riliciiiicn Sumo Name/M, as not being capable to be received into the beginning of gift???" thelnterltices, relatinop to the nervous Filaments, conflitntinoD the body of ltdsbraol. I C Nerves, gtolsnctvouz Liquor. The grol‘snel‘s~ of the nervous Liquor may arile from a thiclt Faecnlent ala aThufiufi‘ m rois ,er . ' OUminous part of the Blood, the Maicrm firbflram of the Storm Nemofiwg vuisthiuozi rWhen the cortical Glands being not well difpoled, as having too large ex: B x 4; travagant |
