Praxis medicinæ, or, the physicians practice vvherein are contained inward diseases from the head to the foote: explayning the nature of each disease, with the part affected; and also the signes, causes, and prognostiques, and likewise what temperature of the ayre is most requisite for the patients abode, with direction for the diet he ought to obserue, together with experimentall cures for euery disease. ... Written by that famous and worthy physician, VValter Bruel.

The part affected.

The beginning of the marrow of the backe-bone, which is the originall of all other sinews, is more grieuously an∣noyd then the braine; and then the face being vnhurt, all parts vnder the head are hurt: sometime it doth take hold on the left, or right side of the marrow of the backe-bone,

whereby the right or left side of the body is destitute of motion and sense, because the marrow of the backe-bone, euen as the braine, is deuided into two parts through∣out the whole length of the backe-bone, whereby the si∣newes on the right side, are separated from those of the left by a certaine filme, though very obscure, and so thereafter as the stopping of the sinews is in the right side or left, or both, the Palsey in like manner will seaze on the right, or left side, or the whole body. Sometime the braine is affected, but not the whole substance of the brain, for then an apoplexy would be caused, but the right or left side of the braine, and then that part of the face as also that side of the body, whether right or left, doth suffer with the braine, and when as any part of the face is bereft of sense and motion, the rising of the sinews, from the third coniugation of the braine, are affected. Sometime one part of the body is voyd of sense and motion; which is caused by the resolution of a sinew comming from the braine, or from some part of the marrow of the backe-bone, from which, the part affected doth take sense and motion. Wherefore we ought to take paines in the Anatomy, that wee may know where this mischiefe keepes its first re∣sidence, as also the distributions of the sinews, and from what part of the marrow of the backe-bone, euery part hath its sinews. For this is an affect, belonging to the offended action of the animall faculties, sensitiue, and motiue.