A Briefe Discovrse of a Disease called the Suffocation of the MotherJorden, Edward
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A Briefe Discovrse of a Disease called the Suffocation of the Mother
Jorden, Edward
Hysteria -- Early works to 1900; Uterus -- Displacements -- Early works to 1800
[44] _Hyp: morb. muliebr. lib._ 0. _caligo ante oculos
obuersatur et vertigo, oculi non acute vidẽt nilhil olfaciunt
vocata non audit Rhasis 22. cont. in hac passione non audit
quando datur in auribus eius vox terribilis. Ægineta loco citato.
Instrumentorum sensus apprehensio &c. Auicen narrat plurimum eius
quod fuit in ea nisi sit maxima et immoderata AEtius sensus et motus
intercipiuntur. Gal. immobiles sine sensu sacẽt Horatius Angenius
Epist. 6, Gal. de motu musc. lib. 2 cap. 6. et 8._
The third function is that which giues motion to the whole bodie. This
motion serueth either for a voluntary vse onely, or for a naturall vse
also. The motions for the voluntary vse are the free motions of the
externall members of our bodies: as to bowe the whole bodie and the
head by meanes of the backe, to apprehend with the hand, to stand and
goe with the feete and legges, to chewe with the iawes, to open & shut
the lips & eyelids, to moue the eies, &c. This functiõ is _diminished_
in that affect which we cal _lassitudo_, werines or vnweldines,
wherein we are not able to move so strongly and nimbly as we should.
[Sidenote: _Paralysis._]
It is _abolished_, either by a _resolution_ or _palsie_ where the sound
part drawes the sickly part, that is the part resolued, & depending
draws the muscles & nerues &c. or by a _Spasmus_ or _contractiõ_ of
them [45]where the sick part drawes the sound part, that is, the muscle
which is affected, drawes the member which is wel.
[45] _Contractio. platerus. Gal. de causis morborũ
lib. 2. cap. 7. et loc. affect. li. 34._
A resolution or palsie is either generall of both sides of the bodie
[46]exempting the head, or of one side called _Hæmiplegia_, or yet more
particular of the hand, legge, finger, &c. called [47]_parapligia_.
[46] _Petrus Salius pag. 401. tanquam leuis Apoplexiæ Fern. de
part. morbis & sympt. li. 5. cap. 3._
[47] _Gal. prorhet com. 2. 50. et com. 3. 26. de victus rat. tom.
4. 27. de morb. vulg. com. 2. 56_ _Gybbus._ _Trismos._
_Tortura oris._ _Strabismus._ _Spasmus Cynicus._
A _Contraction_ or _Spasmus_ is also of like sortes, sometimes the
bodie is held vpright and cannot be bowed any way in that affect which
is called _Tetanos_, sometimes it is bowed forwardes _Emprostotonos_
sometimes backward _Opistotonos_, somtimes the back is crookt in some
part of it, as in _Gibbo_, sometimes the iawes, lips, face, eyelids,
&c. are contracted, wherby they make many strange faces and mouthes
sometimes as though they laughed or wept, sometimes holding their
mouthes open or awry, their eyes staring, &c. Sometimes the handes,
armes, legges, fingers, toes, &c. are contracted, sometimes particular
muscles in the sides, backe, armes, legs, &c. one or more at once, as
in crampes.
[Sidenote: _Marcellus Doc natus. li. 2. ca. 4_]
[Sidenote: _Felix Platerus de motu deprauato. pag. 401._]
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