CHAP. XVIII.Of maute Symptomes which happen together with the Plague: and first of the paine of the head.IF the malignitie be carried into the braine, and nature be not able to expell it, it inflames not onely it, but also the membranes that do couer it: which inflamation doth one while hurt, trouble, or abolish the imagination, another while the iudgement, and sometimes the memorie, accor∣ding to the situation of the inflamation, whether it bee in the former, hinder, or middle part of the head; but hereof commeth alwayes a Phrensie, with fierie rednesse of the eyes and face, and heauinesse and burning of the whole head. If this will not be amended with Clisters, and with opening the Cephalicke veine in the arme, the arteries of the temples must be opened, taking so much bloud out of them, as the greatnesse of the Symptomes and the strength of the patient shall require and permit. Truely the incisi∣on that is made in opening of an arterie will close and ioine together as readily, and with as little difficultie, as the incision of a veine. And of such an incision of an arte∣rie commeth present helpe, by reason that the tensiue and sharpe vapours do plentifully breath out together with the arterious bloud. It were also verie good to prouoke a fluxe of bloud at the nose, if nature be apt to exonerate her selfe that way. For, as Hippocrates saith, when the head is grie∣ued, or generally aketh; if matter, water, or bloud flow cut at the nostrels, mouth, or eares, it presently cures the disease. Such bleeding is to be prouoked by strong blow∣ing, or striuing to cleanse the nose, by scratching or pick∣ing of the inner sides of the nostrels, by pricking with an horse haire, and long holding downe of the head. The Lord of Fontaines, a Knight of the Order, when wee were at Bayon, had a bleeding at the nose, which came naturally 0