De epilepsia theses

poisonous by its malignancy, infesting the ventricles of the brain and irritating them toward its own expulsion.

X.

The remote or προηγουμένη preceding causes of the disease are the accumulations of bad humors or vapors in the body: which for the most part are phlegmatic or melancholic, collected in the brain, stomach, and other parts: and there, either through long-progressed putrefaction or some other cause, they are corrupted into a poisonous substance.

XI.

Among the external or προκαταρκτικὰς pre-initiating causes, the main place is held by a depraved and disorderly diet, the use of vaporous foods, the smell of foul things, and the suppression of habitual evacuations. Also, labor or exercise in plethoric and cacochymic those with an imbalance of humors bodies, anger, idleness, and finally whatever is accustomed to provoke epileptic paroxysms by occult property.

XII.

While the brain is affected by itself, these signs precede: heaviness of the head or even severe pain: stupor or slowness of the senses and mind: turbulent dreams: and the attack suddenly befalls the man without any premonition of symptoms.

XIII.

But as soon as this evil has invaded the sick, they immediately collapse, there is snoring, gnashing of teeth: in a more defiant affection...