De epilepsia theses

with a violent shaking of the body, foam is moved from the mouth, and sometimes evacuations of excrement and semen occur, and a faint voice is then uttered: which is usually loud at other times.

XIV.

And these are indeed the certain signs of Epilepsy, which exists as quite severe and usually incurable. That is considered lighter whose symptoms are not so express and grave: which, however, as it is not entirely easy, so it is not always impossible to cure, and occurs more frequently for physicians to treat.

XV.

Another species of Epilepsy, which takes its beginning from the orifice of the Stomach, is preceded by pain of the stomach, distention, prickling, and difficult tolerance of fasting: and when the attack is near, nausea, heartburn, λειποθυμία fainting: but when it has ceased, vomiting follows, sometimes phlegmatic, sometimes bilious.

XVI.

A third species often arises from the fingers of the hands or feet, or from the leg, and sometimes from the uterus, in which many putrid things are accustomed to be collected and amassed.

XVII.

This species is detected most clearly from the nature of the sending part and the property of the pain. For from that seat in which the fuel of the evil lurks, at the seizing of the paroxysm, the sick...