To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, seu Incubus, The Night-mare or Hag, is an interception of the motion, e∣specially that of breathing, and the voice, with a false and erroneous dream of some heavy and weighty thing lying upon the breast, and there∣by causing a suffocation (as it were) and choak∣ing
of the party, by means of the impeding and hindring the free penetration; of the spirit (the passages being obstructed and stopt) unto the Nerves. Vel si brevius definire velis, Ephi∣altes est symptoma facultatis animalis, quo thoracis motus impeditur, sensus hebescit, & phantasia de∣pravatur. Et 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 nuncupatur, quod in∣vadere & premere significat.
If this affect chance to be of long continuance, and frequent, it doth threaten an Apoplexie, or Falling sickness, (especially if it happen unto the party while he is half asleep, and half awake) as also madness, saepius melancholiam hypocondria∣cam, vertiginem, paralysim, spasmum, nervorum distentionem aut subitam mortem. If after the Pa∣tient awake, panting of the heart, and cold sweat∣ing do happen, it is an ill sign; as also, if a Con∣vulsion or a Syncope do follow. The cure is doubtful, if after the awakening, the sick person remaineth stupid and blockish: He that useth a slender diet, and accustometh himself to lye on his side, is seldome troubled with the Night-Mare.
Theriaca in aqua Poeoniae exhibita contra incu∣cubum commendatur.