Iatrica, seu, Praxis medendi, The practice of curing being a medicinal history of above three thousand famous observations in the cure of diseases, performed by the author hereof : together with several of the choicest observations of other famous men ... : wherein for the most part you will find 1. the constitution of the body of the sick, 2. the symptoms predominant, 3. the cause of the disease, what? 4. the exact method which was taken in the cure, 5. an exact account of the medicines exhibited, with the order of their exhibition, various doses and success thereupon ... / perform'd by William Salmon ...

CHAP. V. Of the FALLING-SICKNESS.

The Authors Observations.

• Sect. 1. The Falling-sickness in a Child of a week old. 239.
• Sect. 2. The Fi••ling sickness in a Girl of fourteen years old. 240.
• Sect. 3. The Falling sickness in another young Woman about twenty years of age. 241.
• Sect. 4. The Epilepsy in a Man thirty four years old. 242.
• Sect. 5. The Fallng-sickness in a Girl caused by a Fall. 243.
• Sect. 6. An Epilepsy in an antient Man, mortal. ibid.
• Sect. 7. The Falling sickness in a little Boy. 245.
• Sect. 8. The Falling-sickness in a melancholy Woman. ibid.
• Sect. 9. An Epilepsy accompanied with the Scurvy 248
• Sect. 10. An Epilepsy in a young Woman from the disaffection of the Stomach. 249
• Sect. 11. A sim•••••• Epilepsy originally in the Bran. 250
• Sect. 12. An Epilepsy which was cured only with a Sternutatory. 251.
• Sect. 13. An Epilepsy with a great Pain of the Spleen, and disaffection to the Joints, by some suppo∣sed, to be the Gout. 252
• Sect. 14. An Epileptick afflicted with the Obstruction of Ʋrine, which proved mortal. 253
• Sect. 15. A simple Epilepsy in a Girl of nine years old. ••54
• Sect. 15. An Epilepsy in an old Woman which dege∣nerated into a Palsy. 255
• Sect. 17. The Falling sickness in a middle aged Wo∣man, proceeding from Melanch••ly. 256.
• Sect. 18. An Epilepsy in an elderly Matron. 257.
• Sect. 19. An Epilepsy in a little Boy, who was af∣flicted with a scald Head. 258.
• Sect. 20. An Epilepsy in a consumptive Person. 259.

Observations from other Authors.

• Sect. 21. The Falling-sickness in a Child. 260.
• Sect. 22. The Epilepsy in a young Maiden. ibid.
• Sect. 23. The Falling-sickness accompanied with a dead Palsy. ibid.
• Sect. 24. The Falling-sickness proceeding from the Mother. ibid.
• Sect. 25. The Falling-sickness by Sympathy with the Stomach. 261.
• Sect. 26. The Falling-sickness in a Boy of eight years old, with the loss almost both of Reason and Memory. ibid.
• Sect. 27. The Falling-sickness with many other Symp∣toms. 262
• Sect. 28. An Epilepsy easily cured. 263
• Sect. 29. The Falling-sickness in a young Girl. ibid.
• Sect. 30. The Falling-sickness coming every day. ibid.
• Sect. 31. The Falling-sickness in a Child half a year old. ibid.
• Sect. 32. The Falling-sickness arising from Blood. ib.
• Sect. 33. The Falling sickness cured by a Caustick. 264
• Sect. 34. The Falling sickness cured by Syrup of To∣bacco. ibid.
• Sect. 35. One preserved from a cruel Epilepsy by a Vomit. ibid.
• Sect. 36. A most excellent Remedy against the Fal∣ling sickness. 265.
• Sect. 37. A cruel Epilepsy after Child-birth; cured by applying Horse-Leeches to the inner part of the Womb. 266.
• Sect. 38. The Falling sickness in Women with Child, arising from their Womb, are safely cured by bleeding in the Ankle. ibid.
• Sect. 39. The Epilepsy took a Woman with Child in her ninth Month, she was cured by applica∣tion of Leeches to the Hemorrhoid Veins. ib.
• Sect. 40. The Eilepsy in a Man, he was delivered here from by frequent opening the Saphena Vein. ibid.
• Sect. 41. The Epilepsy in a Woman who had her Cour∣ses actually flowing, is cured by a Vein opened in her Nose. 267

• Sect. 42. The Epilepsy cured by Stibium. ibid.
• Sect. 43. The Epilepsy proceeding from an old Ʋlcer, shut up in the tip of the Nose, cured by an Issue made in the Leg. ibid.
• Sect. 44. A strong Epilepsy in a Woman that bore three Daughters, presently after which she dyed thereof. 268
• Sect. 45. The Falling-sickness in a Boy frighted with shooting of Guns, dyed thereof. ibid.
• Sect. 46. The Falling-sickness in a Child. ibid.
• Sect. 47. The Epilepsy in a Man by reason of a Re∣gurgitation of Ʋrine, was with much ado cured. 269
• Sect. 48. The Falling-sickness is somtimes hereditary. ibid.
• Sect. 49. The Falling-sickness by consent from the Sto∣mach. ibid.
• Sect. 50. The Falling-sickness with the Scurvy. 270
• Sect. 51. The Falling-sickness in a Country Girl. ibid.
• Sect. 52. The Falling-sickness in a Child. 271
• Sect. 53. A continual Falling-sickness with a Luna∣cy in a Maid grown up, which never had her Flowers. ibid.
• Sect. 54. A dayly Epilepsy which had its Original from a Tremor in the Hand, afterwards turn'd into an Ʋlcer. 273
• Sect. 55. The Falling-sickness from too great Inten∣tention of Mind 274
• Sect. 56. The Falling-sickness with a Consumption of the whole Body. 376
• Sect. 57. The Falling-sickness in a Man sixty years of age. 277
• Sect. 58. The Falling-sickness whose Original is in the Brain. 278
• Sect. 59 The Falling-sickness in an Infant. 279
• Sect. 60. An Epilepsy in a Maid arising from a pi∣tuitous Matter in the Brain. 280
• Sect. 61. An Epilepsy in a young Man of fifteen years of age, by consent from the Stomach. 281
• Sect. 62. An Epilepsy in a Boy, by consent from the Stom••ch 282.
• Sect. 63. An Epilepsy in a little Boy of three years old. 28••.
• Sect. 64. An Epilepsy arising from the Womb. ibid.
• Sect. 65. The Epilepsy having its Original from the Feet. 284.
• Sect. 66. A Woman big with Child, seeing another in a Fit of the Epilepsy, brought forth a Child epileptick. 285.
• Sect. 67. The Epilepsy cured in a young Man, who was afterwards blind. ibid.
• Sect. 68. The Epilepsy arising from one of the Legs. 286.
• Sect. 69. The Epilepsy cured by the use of Guaja∣cum. 288.
• Sect. 70. The Epilepsy hapning in the Night. 290.
• Sect. 71. The Advice of Rondeletius for the Falling-Sickness. 291.
• Sect. 72. Another Falling Sickness hapning in the Night. ibid.
• Sect. 73. Epileptick Remedies out of the Epistles col∣lected by Laurentius Scholzius. 293.
• Sect. 74. The Epilepsy in a Woman by consent from the Stomach, hapning suddenly by reason of the wonderful plenitude of the whole Body, but especially of the Brain, was happily cured within the space of two days. 294.
• Sect. 75. A certain noble Woman after difficult La∣bour in Child-bearing, fell suddenly into Fits of the Epilepsy. 298.
• Sect. 76. An Epilepsy beginning with a Vertigo. 300.
• Sect. 77. An Epilepsy idiopathick, or originally in the Head. 301.
• Sect. 78. An Epilepsy with Convulsions. 305.
• Sect. 79. An Epilepsy in a Maid. 306.
• Sect. 80. An Epilepsy without Convulsions. ibid.
• Sect. 81. The Epilepsy in a Maid. 307.
• Sect. 82. The Epilepsy. ibid.
• Sect. 83. The Epilepsy in a Maid. ibid.
• Sect. 84. The Epilepsy in a Child ten years old. 308
• Sect. 85. An Epilepsy occasioned by Troubles of the Mind. ibid.
• Sect. 86. An Epilepsy prevented. 309.
• Sect. 87. An Epilepsy caused from the translation of the morbifick Matter. 310.
• Sect. 88. An outragious Assault of Ep••••epsy, by which was caused the contraction and shrinking of the Nerves of the right Hand and Foot. 311.
• Sect. 89. An epileptick Convulsion. ibid.
• Sect. 90. An Epilepsy with a bastard Palsy. 313.
• Sect. 91. An Epilepsy not proceeding from Vapours only. 316.
• Sect. 92. An Epilepsy with a Cholick, wherein all things appeared as double. ibid.
• Sect. 93. An Epilepsy with a Cholick, proceeding from corrupt and stinking Humors. 317.

• Sect. 94. An Epilepsy in a young Man having many ••••ts in a day. ibid.
• Sect. 95. Epileptick Motions in a young Woman. ibid.
• Sect. 96. An Epilepsy in a melancholy Man. 318.
• Sect. 97. An Eiplepsy in a young Girl cured in twen∣ty days. 319.
• Sect. 98. Out of Horstius against the Epilepsy. ibid.
• Sect. 99. The Epilepsy in a Youth. 321.
• Sect. 100. The Epilepsy in a middle-aged Woman. ibid.
• Sect. 101. The Epilepsy in a young Man. ibib.
• Sect. 102. The Epilepsy in an aged Man. ibid.
• Sect. 103. The Epilepsy. ibid.
• Sect. 104. The Epilepsy in a Child. 322.
• Sect. 105. The Epilepsy in an old Man. ibid.
• Sect. 106. The Epilepsy in a middle-aged Person. ibid.
• Sect. 107. The Epilepsy in a Youth. ibid.
• Sect. 108. The Epilepsy vehemently afflicting a young Man. ibid.
• Sect. 109. The Epilepsy. 323.
• Sect. 110. The Epilepsy in a Youth. ibid.
• Sect. 111. The Epilepsy proceeding from Madness. ibid.
• Sect. 112. The Epilepsy in a sedentary young Man. ibid.
• Sect. 113. The Epilepsy in an aged Woman. 324.
• Sect. 114. The Epilepsy proceeding from the Iliack Passion. ibid.
• Sect. 115. The Epilepsy in a young Girl. ibid.
• Sect. 116. The Epilepsy in another young Girl. 325.
• Sect. 117. The Epilepsy in a Man about forty-years of age. ibid.
• Sect. 118. The Epilepsy or Falling-Sickness in a Child or Youth. ibid.
• Sect. 119. The Epilepsy in a middle-aged Man. ibib.
• Sect. 120. The Epilepsy. 316
• Sect. 121. The Epilepsy in an elderly Gentleman, ibid.
• Sect. 122. The Epilepsy in a middle-aged Man. ibid.
• Sect. 123. The Epilepsy in a middle-aged Woman. ibid.
• Sect. 124. The Epilepsy in a very aged Woman. ibid.
• Sect. 125. The Epilepsy in another antient Woman. ibid.
• Sect. 126. A Man epileptick afflicted with the Stone. 327..
• Sect. 127. The Epilepsy with other Symptoms. ibid.
• Sect. 128. The Falling-Sickness. 328.
• Sect. 129. An Epilepsy with a vehement Obstruction of the Lungs. ibid.
• Sect. 130. The Falling-Sickness. 329.
• Sect. 131. The Falling-Sickness. ibid.
• Sect. 132. The Epilepsy from a sudden Fright. ibid.
• Sect. 133. Another Epilepsy from vehement Passion. 330.
• Sect. 134. An Epilepsy in a Boy. ibid.
• Sect. 135. An Epilepsy from the Womb. 331.
• Sect. 136. An Epilepsy in a Child. ibid.
• Sect. 137. An Epilepsy in a young Man. ibid.
• Sect. 138. An Epilepsy in a Boy. ibid.
• Sect. 139. An Epilepsy in a Boy and in a Girl. 332.
• Sect. 140. The Falling-Sickness in a young Man. ibid.
• Sect. 141. Another young Man troubled with the Fa••ling-Sickness. ibid.
• Sect. 142. A Woman troubled with the Epilepsy. ibid.
• Sect. 143. Of epileptick Persons. ibib.
• Sect. 144. A Remedy for the Epilepsy. 333.

SCHOLIA, The Theory of the Epilepsy by the Author Wm. Salmon.

• Sect. 145. The Pathology of the Epilepsy, and first of the Notation thereof. 333.
• Sect. 146. The Signs of the Falling-Sickness. ibid
• Sect. 147. The various causes of the Falling-sickness. 335.
• Sect. 148. The Prognosticks of an Epilepsy. 337.
• Sect. ••49. The method of curing the Epilepsy. 338.
• Sect. 150. The curing of the Falling sickness in el∣der Persons. 341.
• Sect. 151. Of an Epilepsy caused by Distemper of the Womb. 348.
• Sect. 152. The Cure of an Epilepsy by consent from the Stomach. 351.
• Sect. 153. Of an Epilepsy arising from Worms. 352.
• Sect. 154. The Cure of a pure or simple Epilepsy pre∣sent in the Fit. 353.
• Sect. 155. The cure of a pure or simple Epilepsy out of the Fit. 355.