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
It is _depraued_ where the motions are immoderate, peruerse,
inordinate, or indecẽt, as when they are _vnquiet_, & cannot abstaine
frõ motions and gestures, casting their armes and legges to and fro,
vp and downe, dauncing, capring, vawting, fencing, and in diuerse
maners forming their motions. Also in _Convulsions_ of the members,
where they are shaken and pulled by inordinate motions, as wee see in
the falling sicknesse. Also in _trembling_, _palpitation_, _rigor_
where the teeth do chatter, horror where the haire standes vpright,
stretching, yawning, gasping twinckling of the eyes, &c. These
impediments and deprauations of motion are dayly obserued in vterne
affects: as may appeare by these testimonies. _Hyppocrat. de morbi
muliebr. lib. 1. Albas oculorum partes subuertit, dentibus frendet,
& similis fit his qui herculeo morbo detinentur. Item fit cõuulsio
fortis articulorum corporis, claudam facit aut impotentem præ rigore,
alias atque alias seipsam iactabit. Horror. Erectæ ceruicis spiratio
ipsam tenet, & quicquid ederit aut biberit ipsam molestat. Torpor
occupat manus & inguina, & crura & poplites. Magnis pedumigitis
conuelluntur gybbosa fit, de nat. muliebr. Gal. lib. de semine cap.
3. Tensiones lumborum & manuum, & pedum viduam apprehendebant loc.
affect. 6. 5. Aliis crura & bracchia contrahuntur. Auicenna. minor
suffocationum est quæ facit accidere spasmum & tetanum, sine nocumento
in ratione & sensu. Quandoque claudit oculos & non aperit eos. Stridor
dentium, percussio oculorum, & motus inuoluntarius lacertorum. Rhasis,
Stridor dentium cum spasmo & torquedine extremitatum, dolores fortes
adeo vt mulierem torquere faciant vndique & caput genibus implicari.
&c. Mesue loco superius citato. Aetius. Oculi post multam grauitatem
attolluntur, vterus paulatim laxatur & intellectum & sensum recipit.
&c._
[Sidenote: _Suffocatio. Anthon. Guaynerius. cap. de suffocatione._]
[Sidenote: _Priuatio vocis._]
The animall motions which doe serue for naturall vse, haue their power
from the animall facultie, but their vrging and prouoking and cause
from the naturall, and are either _Respiration_, _Ingestion_, _or
Excretion_. Respiration hath annexed vnto it voyce, and speach, this is
diminished or abolished in _Suffocation_ or choaking, from whence this
disease which we intreat of taketh his name, as from the most cõmon
_Symptom_ which appeareth in it. In _difficulty_ of breathing. In
priuation of _voyce and speach_.
[Sidenote: _Citæ respiratio, suspirium. Oscitatio. Singultus.
Sternutatio, Ructus, Tusus. Deglutitio. Excretio._]
It is depraued when it is done immoderately or inordinately, whether
it be voluntarie, or inuoluntarie, as in _shortnesse of breath_,
_sighing_, _yawning_, _the hickock_, _sneesing_, _coughing_,
_belching_, _vomiting_, _making of noyses_, _blowing_, _and reaching_,
_&c._
_Ingestion, or swallowing_, is also hurt in this affect, when either
they cannot swallow meate, or drinke at all, or with great difficultie.
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