[Sidenote: _Imprudentia obliuio._] [Sidenote: _Sopor._] [Sidenote: _Apoplexiæ._ _Epilepsia._] [Sidenote: _Catalepsis._] The functions of it are three, the first is called _Internall_ and principall sence which doth gouerne and direct all the rest by _Imagination_, _Reason_ and _Memory_: which if it bee hurt either by imminution or deprauation or total abolishment, then the inferior functions doe necessarily participate with the offence. They are hurt by Imminution when a man doth not _Conceiue_, _Iudge_, or remember so well as hee ought to doe, as in dulnesse or blockishnesse,[40] as wee call it in vndiscretion, foolishnes or want of iudgement, in obliuion or forgetfulnes, &c. They are abolished either in those drowsie affects which wee call _Caros_, _Coma_, _veternus_, _Lethargus_ &c. or in those astonishing _Symptoms_ wherein all the animall faculties are at once taken away, sometimes with a generall resolution or palsie, as in _Apoplexies_: sometimes with a generall conuulsion, as in the falling sicknes: sometimes with a _Stifnesse or congelation_ of the body, wherein they lie like an image in the same forme they were taken. [40] _Hypp. de morbis muliebr. lib 1 et 2. Torpor occupat caput mẽs percellitur et improba fit non facile intelligit. De virginum morbis cor fatuum fit, ex fatuitate torpor._ _Gal. loc. affect. 6. 5. De composit. pharm. s. L. lib. 9. in fine_ _Rhasis continẽt 22. Egineta. li. 3. ca. 71._ _Ætius tetr. 4._ _Serr21 4. cap. 68. paschalius lib. 1: cap. 58._ _Valescus de Taran. Iacobus Syluius Altomam. Augeni. Aui. Fen. 21. 3. cap. 16. tract. 4: Idem._ _Petr. salius de catelepsi. pag. 384._ These internall sences are ouerthrowne either in part or in whole in this suffocatiõ of the mother: and thereupon it is likened vnto these former diseases: and this kind is accounted by _Auicen_ to be the most grieuous of all other, where the imagination and reason is hurt: and the other which holds them with conuulsions, contractions, &c. he accounts to bee the milder and the more vsuall. And therefore he saith that commonly they can remember what was done about them in their fit: vnlesse it be of this most grieuous kinde. [Sidenote: _Insania. Delirium. Melancholia. Furor._] The Internall sence is depraued when a man doth imagine, iudge, or remember thinges that are not as if they were, or things that are, otherwise then they are indeed. Whether they do it in cogitation alone, or do expresse it by word or deede. As we see in those fooles which we call naturals, in mad men, in melancholike men, in those that are furious, in such as do dote, in such as are distracted through loue, feare, griefe, ioye, anger, hatred, &c. In some of which they will laugh, crye, prattle, threaten, chide, or sing, &c. according to the disposition of the party or the cause of the affect. [Sidenote: _Vigilia. Insomnium._]