Platerus Golden practice of physick : Fully and plainly discovering, I. All the kinds. II. The several causes of every disease. III. Their most proper cures ... In three books, and five tomes, or parts. Being the fruits of one and thirty years travel: and fifty years practice of physick / By Felix Plater, Abdiah Cole, Nich. Culpeper.

Felix Platter

Date:: 1664

Credit: Platerus Golden practice of physick : Fully and plainly discovering, I. All the kinds. II. The several causes of every disease. III. Their most proper cures ... In three books, and five tomes, or parts. Being the fruits of one and thirty years travel: and fifty years practice of physick / By Felix Plater, Abdiah Cole, Nich. Culpeper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$The accidents in all the Spccies of an Ej>ilepf]e both j ApoleHick, and Stran^datedthey die^ faith Ht^po- continued and fl)ort do almoft concur the lanaej and they may as well vary in all, as well thofc which arc ob- lerved in tht hurts of the fenfes as of motion. For all the InternalJenfes and by confequence the Ex¬ ternal wo, are abolifht in all, thcwhol time they are polfcft with the ht, they underftanding, judging or tecling nothing at all: wherefore they refrain not from crates 3) and oftentimes they make a noife with crying out. But thefe accidents which we have related, as they come on a fuddain, fo the fit ccaflng they pvefcntly re¬ mit Yet fomtimes certain relicks of them do rcmainc, and the fenfes being yetweakned, they cannot rightly underftand Realbn, or remember any thing; or an xioi'cnt ’monons though thereby they' hurt themlelves; alienation of Mtnde coming upon it, tliey do all things • - • ' ..>— amifs and blafphemc, or they break forth into a great Laughter, perhaps that which Cicero calls Sardoman; and that till a new fit return, which is wont to attend thefe foretelling figns; but before and after thefe fits, ihmeparticular convulfwns fomtimes either went before or remain, as a dijiortton of the Month, a dtjjiadty of Jwallowmg or a fpafrne of fome other parts as fhall be explai¬ ned in its place; or that Spajrne wnich they call Flatulent which fomtimes alfo threatens if it be by rca- Ibnofthc Nerves as Iballbe laid; as alfo that and after they come to themlelves, they remember none of thoi'c things they have fufierd, neither do they know that they have fufierd this evil, unlcfs they be told of it, or fufped it, by taking fome fignal, from the niarkc of fome hiut left behind, as a Wound or Contu- jion. All Motion alfo both voluntary which wholly de¬ pends on our power, and that which is performed by help of Nature, as breathing and evacuating; and that of me Pulfcs which Nature Sone performs, continuing in all thefe Species dillinguifhedi the Epileptical from five Palpitation alfocaufed from anaff'edof the the yjpopledick, and Syncopal in whom thefe motions do Nerves doth oftentimes along while forego an Epilepfe ’ : .^1-- ...--./..u../. \ and remain ftill in the Members after it, and exercile it fail (the Pullc only remaining iuihedpopleiiicl{.) The which notwithfianding being deprived in the Convul- k\{: or other Symptomes of motions do fomtimes five, doth caufe that they fal, and ufe inordinate mod- trouble them, as with Gefticulations, fomtimes Dan- icings or fome other difturbance of the Limbs, and ons. But they fall, not by rcafon of a privation of the lenlcs, but bccaufe their whol Body at once and of a fuddain is convellcd; fo that unlefs they be forewarned by a Vertigo which is wont fomtimes to go before it, or being taught by Cujlome of the fit at a day or hour, if it be wont to come at let times, they have a care of them- felvcs, being feaxed with it whiles they are upright, they prcfemtly fall dow fall into Swonings tremblings of them. A Stupidity with I{igidnefs of Body, is a rare and wonderful afiedl, which is called ciCatochsoxCatalepJjs, that is, a laying hold which they cal alfo a Congelation wfienas they are as ftift' as if they were frozen; in which all the internal fenfes and external A Stupidity With rigid- nefs is a Ca- takpfis. vn like to tlie Apcpletlnk^aixd thole that are fuddainly abolifht; but only the motion of the Bo- ..ers and as tis commonly faid arc free dy is depraved, whenas they keep that form which the neither fr(|fn W'atcr nor fire, but arc in the greateft jeo- Body had before it m as feazed on with this evil, whe- pardy bylanger of the fall; and if upon tihis account' ther Lying, Sitting, or Going, and being taken like a • -Tsf ’ whence they have called it the watchful Stupidity, yet , blind and altogether fpeechlefs, breathing in the interim not taken away, or very muchhindred northePulfe. tis Icfs dangcribr thofe, who lying in their Bed by rca- ftatue they cannot change it, neither of their own ac- fSn offomc ficknefs, cannot fall when the Convulfions ! cord nor by compulfion ; and with^ open, come upon them, yet they arc more hazarded by the cruelty of the Difcafc : So that every is horri¬ ble and abominable, which the ancients therefore called u u the Jacred Dijeafi as fent by the Gods by way of punilL- But it happens alfo in fome, that though ment, and others have Superlliuoufly impofed the they lie rigid like a flock vyitliout motion Names of the Gods on it. ! and fpeech,yet ncvcrtlielels they perceive They alfo loftir their Body with inordmate motions, j thole things, which the Handers by do That oftentimes tis all of a fire, and the pullc becomes 1 fpcak oft, and can aftervt aRls^rclate th^t, morelwift, and fomtimes Iwcats break tonh. Wrea¬ thing A Stupidity with hearing rernaimnz. rms ind diftorting their Back, Neck, Head A Feet, into divers Figures, and with ihem beating and lhaking every thing in the way as the Bed, Walls, Ground, bruifing and wounding their own Limbs, gnafhing with their Teeth fet, and bitterly biting their Tongues if they be out, rowling their Eyes about, which being opened and very much drawn afunder, as allb the bending of the Face towards the hinder parts, do ufially give the firft fign of the fit alfailing; which at length in the end of the fit, lying as men wearied and alloniftit, they keep fixt and flernc, til they come to themlelves again. Their breathing alfo is very^unequal, whenasfom-' times they hold it for a while fo’that from the Hopping oftheir breath, and vehement ftriving, they fomtimes call forth their ordure and Urine, and feed to, efpec?* ifit abound. But at other times they fetch their Breath with difllculty and noife, hoxh when an Epilepjie of the Womb hath the laid Jhangulation its companion and caule, and w'hen Flcgm falling upon the jawes and Noftrils hinders it; and they bring forth a froth at the Mouth ai.d Nofe, arifing fr om Flcgm, confufed and Hirrcd there with the Air (which happens not to the A Stupidity with motion remaining. w’hich they have called Ecjlaticf(. But others remaining in the fame Hate like to dead Men, although they he^ird nothing, nor law not, now being prickt fet no¬ thing, yet if any thing were pvit into their Mourh, they fwallowed it, and being lift up do Hand, being forced do walk, and keep their Members fixt in that poHuve as they are bent lor them. In a certain Woman thus taken, only the Belly and BreaH were veiy much moved, all the rell of the Body being llupid. The Caujest In all the foremention’d kinds of Sleep and Stupidity with Langutfhing, Convulfion or Bjgor it muH needs be that is afteded whenas all motion and fenle proceed from that. Neither here as they would have it, arc the Fundions diverfely weakend, as the former, middle or hinder Ventricles of the Brain are hurt; nor as the Brain is affeded before or behind, wftenas the fubllancc of the Brain doth on every part perform its Fundions, but as it is more or lets hurt, it loofeth more 01 fewer Fundions. For ifthc hurt be great lb afieding vhe$

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