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¶ This infirmitie is engendred either of a reumatike hu∣mour, or els of a grosse and a cold winde, or else of a me∣lancoly humour the which is bred in the hinder part of the head, or else of euill humours abounding in the stomake, the
which doth vapour and fume vp to the braine, opilating the v••t••l spirites Galen saith it is a cold humour the which doth epilate the celles of the brayne, vnto the time that nature hath remoued the cause. There be three kindes of the falling sicknesse, ye first is Epileptia, the second is named Analepsia, and the third is named Catalepsia. They ye which be enfec∣ted with Epilepsia, in their falling shall fome at the mouth, and this is the common falling sickenes, and they the which hath Analepsia, when they doe fall they shall defyle them selues and not fome at the mouth. And they the which hath Catalepsia, whether they be taken open eyed, or halfe closed, for the time they shall sée nothing, as it shall appere in the Chapter named Catalepsis.