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losophiseth after this manner. He teacheth, that there are indeed Animal Spirits; that they constitute the Being of the Corporeal Soul, and are also the next and immediate Instruments of all Animal motions, producing them by a kind of Explosion or Shooting; upon which Elastick or Explosive Power, he establishes his whole Doctrine of Convulsions. To which, he annexes a Disquisition of the Scurvey, as being near of kin to the same Doctrine, and grounded upon the same Hypothesis.
The First Part consists of XII. Chapters.
- Of Convulsive Motions in general.
- Of the Epilepsy or Falling-sickness.
- Of the differences of the Epilepsy, and the Causes of some of the Symptoms thereof; together with a Draught of the method of curing this Disease.
- Of the other kinds of Convulsions, and particularly of those in Children.
- Of the Convulsive-fits in grown and aged persons, proceeding chiefly from the vitiated Origin of the Nerves.
- Of those Convulsive Motions, whole Cause lies about the Extremities of the Nerves, or within the Plexus nervei.
- Of those that are caused by Liquors, bedewing the nervous Bodies, and irritating the whole processes of them into Convulsions; where are considered the Cramps that arise from Poysons.
- Of the Universal Convulsions that are wont to be caused in malign, or ill-judged, and some anomalous Feavers; where are described the Epidemical and Malign Convulsive Distempers formerly reigning in some parts of Germany, as also that Epidemical Feaver which raged Ann. 1661, in England, and did principally afflict the Brain and Nerves.
- Of those that proceed from the Scorbutick Disposition of the Nervous Juice.
- Of Hysterick Passions, where he maketh the Womb plead Not guilty.
- Of those Passions that are vulgarly called Hypochondriacal, shewing, that they are chiefly Convulsive; where by the by he treateth of Chalybeat Remedies/
- Of Convulsive Coughs and Asthma's, and their Cure.
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