CHAP. X.
Of the Symptoms coming from Wind.
THere are also divers Symptoms produced from the divers places where the wind is, being a large off-spring of a fruitful Parent, the solution of continuity. This causeth pain. All pain, chiefly of the head, is in the Membranes, which if not offended by distemper, heat, or cold, stroke, or bad scent, or sharp humours, must needs be hurt by wind bred in the part (which is seldom seen) or sent from other parts where it abounds (which is usual.) This wind gets between the Skull and the Pericranium, or between the Skull and the Dura Mater, or hard film, or between both the Meaninges or films, and twitcheth and pulleth them from the bone. Hence is intolerable head-ach. Some∣times this wind stretcheth the ventricles of the Brain and the whole inward Membrane called Pia Mater, like a bladder, and causeth unspeak∣able pain. They complain that the head is