De epilepsia disputatio

pain and biting, nausea, inordinate appetite, and difficult tolerance of fasting. Indeed, if the epileptic movement ceases after the excrementitious humors have been returned through vomiting, there is no doubt that the disease was excited by a fault of the stomach.

XLVI.
If, finally, this evil arises from another part of the body, for example from the uterus, the spleen, the leg, or the fingers of the hands or feet, you will easily detect it if you have applied a diligent judgment of the circumstances and have considered which of the parts is laboring and is in a bad state.

XLVII.
Although the sick themselves often feel, from the seat in which the source of the disease lurks, upon the onset of the paroxysm, as it were a certain colder aura being carried upward through the continuous parts until it reaches the beginning of the nerves.

XLVIII.
Epilepsy in which the paroxysms are vehement and severe, lasting a long time, returning frequently, and pressing with many and great symptoms, especially where it occupies children, likewise where the sick absolutely forget those things they suffered at the beginning of the attack, or even where, when the attack itself ceases, snoring supervenes and remains, is the worst and, like acute diseases, quickly kills.

XLIX.
And it is credible that Aretaeus looked to this in book 1, concerning the causes and signs of acute diseases, chapter 4, where he numbered it among acute diseases. Celsus also desired this in book 3, chapter 23; Trallianus, book 3, chapter 13; Galen, 5th aphorism 30; Avicenna, book 4, fen 1, doctrine 4.

L.
Otherwise, it is usually chronic, long-lasting, and drawn out, which even Aretaeus admitted in book 1, concerning the cure of chronic diseases, chapter 4; Galen in his Introduction; and Hippocrates in his book on the Sacred Disease. For those in whom it began from childhood, and is not resolved by puberty, or the beginning of menstruation, or childbirth, is cured with great difficulty and is for the most part prolonged until the day of death. I also refer here those in whom it occurred in the vigor of life, namely from the twenty-fifth year to the forty-fifth.