De epilepsia theses

the sick themselves perceive as if a certain colder breeze is carried through the connected parts up to the principle of the nerves, from which the comitial circuit the epileptic seizure is excited.

XVIII.

Furthermore, this calamity is accustomed to infest children most, then adolescents: after these, those of consistent age: least of all, the elderly.

XIX.

This disease is for the most part long-lasting: which, unless it is resolved at the time of puberty, or at the beginning of menstruation, or in childbirth, is often prolonged until the day of death.

XX.

If, however, it urges with frequent attacks and great magnitude of symptoms, it strangles like acute diseases.

XXI.

Just as it is accustomed to invade men most in the time of Spring and Autumn: so also in the same time it exists as more dangerous.

XXII.

Again, when it is made by a primary affection of the head, it is cured with more difficulty than when it takes its beginning from other parts.

XXIII.

Hippocrates [states that] children suffering from this affection [are] by the change of...