CAP. CXVIII. De Dentium Stridore, & Stupore.
STridor dentium, The grinding or crashing noise of the teeth, proceedeth either from Worms, the Brain being affected by consent, or from the imbecillity of the jaw-bone, Mus∣cles produced and caused by cold, vel à vapo∣rum multitudine, ut in paroxysmorum princi∣piis.
Grinding of the teeth is wont to threaten the Apoplexie, or Epilesie, and likewise, in Fe∣vers, the deliry or dotage; (in such especially as are not accustomed thereunto) in case this do∣ting went not before the Fever. Hippocrates puts the Stridor or crashing of the teeth, amongst the signs of conception.
The cure of it must not be directed to the Stridor it self, but to the causes.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, seu stupor dentium, The astonishment of the teeth, happens for the most from the sourness either of meats, or of the humors, or else of the Fumes and Vapours, which fre∣quently befalleth those that are Hypochon∣driacal.