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Matthew Bennet, of Clifton in the County of Warwick, Shoe∣maker, in an Hemiplegia, or Half Palsey, of the right side, with many Cramps, and frequent Con∣vulsive motions of the muscles of the M••••th, Arms, and other parts, especially of the singers of the left hand, after 12 days bathing, at one Season, in the Hot (or Long) Bath, and 3 weeks at another, re∣ceived cure, 23 May, 1677.
That these Convulsions were
from emptiness, by reason of weakness and defect of the Ani∣mal Spirits, and those we call Symptomatic, which, on the cure of the Palsey, vanished; whereas the convulsive motions called Es∣sential, or depending on no other diseases, by the use of the Hotter waters, and the Hot Bath parti∣cularly, are usually provoked.