Of the Apoplexy.
THe Apoplexy, is a disease depriuing all the whole body of sense and mouing. And if it depriue but part of the body, then it is called of the Latines by the Greeke name Paralysis, in our tongue a palsie. It proceedes of cold, grosse, and tough humors,* 1.1 op∣pressing the braine all at once, which may breed partly of crudities and raw digestion, and partly by meanes of some hurt in the head, taken by a fall, stripe, or otherwise. As touch∣ing [ 30] Apoplexy, few or none writing of horsleach-craft do make any mention thereof: but of the Palsie Vegetius writeth in this manner. A Horsse (saith he) may haue the palsie as wel as a man, which is knowne by these signes. He will go grouelling and sideling like a Crab, carrying his necke awry, as if it were broken, and goeth crookedly with his legs, beating his head against the wals and yet forsaketh not his meate nor drink, and his prouender see∣meth moist and wet. The cure. Let him blood in the temple vaine, on the contrary side of the wrying of his necke, and annoint his necke with comfortable ointment, and splent it with splents of wood to make it stand right, and let him stand in a warme stable, and giue him such drinks as are recited in the next chapter following. But if all this profiteth not, then draw his necke with a hot yron on the contrary side: that is to say, on the whole side, [ 40] from the neather part of the eare downe to the shoulders, and draw also a good long strike on his temple, on that side and on the other temple make him a little star in this sort,* and from his raines to his mid backe, draw little lines, in a manner of a ragged staffe, and that will heale him.