| Author: | Jorden, Edward, 1569-1632. |
| Title: | A briefe discourse of a disease called the suffocation of the mother. Written vppon occasion which hath beene of late taken thereby, to suspect possesion of an euill spirit, or some such like supernaturall power. Wherin is declared that diuers strange actions and passions of the body of man, which in the common opinion, are imputed to the diuell, haue their true naturall causes, and do accompanie this disease. By Edvvard Iorden Doctor in Physicke. |
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A briefe discourse of a disease called the suffocation of the mother. Written vppon occasion which hath beene of late taken thereby, to suspect possesion of an euill spirit, or some such like supernaturall power. Wherin is declared that diuers strange actions and passions of the body of man, which in the common opinion, are imputed to the diuell, haue their true naturall causes, and do accompanie this disease. By Edvvard Iorden Doctor in Physicke. Jorden, Edward, 1569-1632. London: Printed by Iohn Windet, dwelling at the signe of the Crosse Keyes at Powles Wharfe, 1603. |
| Alternate titles: | Of the suffocation of the mother. |
| Notes: |
Running title reads: Of the suffocation of the mother.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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| Subject terms: | Hysteria -- Early works to 1900. |
| URL: | http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A04663.0001.001 |
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TO THE RIGHT WOR∣shipfull the President and Fellowes of the Colledge of Phisitions in London.
Of the suffocation of the Mother.
Cap. 1. That this disease doth oftentimes giue occasion vnto sim∣ple and vnlearned people, to suspect possession, witch∣craft, or some such like supernaturall cause.
Cap. 2. What this disease is, and by what meanes it causeth such varietie of Symptoms.
Cap. 3. Of the kinds of this disease, and first of that wherein the vitall facultie is offended.
Cap. 4. Of that kind of this disease wherein the animall facultie is offended.
Cap. 5. Of that kind wherein the naturall facultie is offended.
Cap. 6. Of the causes of this disease.
Cap. 7. Of the cure of this disease, so much as belongeth to the friends and attendants to performe.
Faults escaped.
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