The practice of physick in seventeen several books wherein is plainly set forth the nature, cause, differences, and several sorts of signs : together with the cure of all diseases in the body of man / by Nicholas Culpeper ... Abdiah Cole ... and William Rowland ; being chiefly a translation of the works of that learned and renowned doctor, Lazarus Riverius ...

The PREFACE.

IN this our Treatise of Head-Diseases, we speak first only of those which are in the substance of the Brain, and the Films which contain it: For although the Eyes, Ears, Tongue, Teeth, Gums, Jaws, and Pallat, go to the making up of the Head; yet we think it fit to speak of their Dis∣eases in several Books for better Method sake; And to call the Diseases of the Brain and its Meninges, or Films, by the name of Head-diseases, most properly so from the excellency of the parts where∣in they are. These come from the hinderance of the Action of the Brain, either in respect of Sence, Motion, or Nutrition. The Sence is divided into Inter∣nal, and External: The Internal hath the chief actions, as Imagination, Reaso∣ning, Memory; as also Sleep and Waking: the Diseases of which are, Frenzie, Madness, Melancholly, Catoche, Coma waking sleep, and Coma long sleep, Le∣thargie, Carus, Apoplexy. The External Sences are five, namely, Sight, Hearing, Smelling, Tast, and Feeling: But because the first four have their peculiar Or∣gans or parts, which have divers Diseases, which we shall treat of in several Books: We will in this Book lay down and declare those which belong to the

sence of Feeling, because they come immediately from the Brain and its Membranes or Films disturbed, and are either termed Palsies, which come from Sence destroy∣ed or diminished; or Headaches, which comes from Sence depraved. When the actions of the Brain are hindred in respect of motion, there ariseth Convulsion, Falling-sickness, Palsey, Apoplexy, Giddiness, or swimming of the Head, called Vertigo, and Trembling: Finally, When the acting or working of the Brain is hurt or hindred in its Nutrition, or Nourishment, the Disease is either in di∣stemperature, or disorder of the excrement of the Brain, of which cometh a Ca∣tarrh, defluxion or distillation. We shall bring all these Diseases under their pro∣per Heads and Chapters, in that order which is most usual for the way of Cure: Therefore we shall first declare the Cold Distemperature of the Brain, and then all Diseases that come from thence, because the ground of their Cure is in the Cure of that. Afterwards we shall lay down the Diseases that come from a Hot Distem∣per, and Hot Humors; which will all more clearly appear in their several Chapters.