De epilepsia theses

...sometimes it is taken for the disease which exists as the cause of the aforementioned lesions.

V.

As it denotes a disease, it is called a vicious disposition of the ventricles of the brain, in which, due to a poisonous or otherwise gravely hostile or inimical humor or vapor to the substance of the brain, it is forced to expel it: from which follows the impairment of the senses and mind, along with an interrupted convulsion of the whole body.

VI.

The fuel of this, however, lurks sometimes in the brain, sometimes in the orifice of the stomach, and sometimes in other more distant locations: from which a foul and malignant vapor creeps and progresses through hidden ducts into the ventricles of the brain.

VII.

Hence arise three differences of Epilepsy: the first of which is generated with the brain primarily and in itself affected: the second is that which arises from the stomach: the third is that which happens by the consent of any other part.

VIII.

The causes of this affection are some internal, others external. Of the intrinsic ones, some are proximate, which are also called by physicians the containing or conjoined causes: some are remote.

IX.

The containing or proximate cause of this disease is a poisonous vapor.