De epilepsia disputatio

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.

LI.
Those are also cured with difficulty in whom no sign appears of the part in which the cause of the disease is born, and when a sign of this thing is present, those are freed with more difficulty in whom it takes its beginning from the head. Those, however, in whom the evil begins from the feet or hands are the most curable of all.

LII.
Here, however, it must be noted that those things which we have already said about the difficult cure of this disease are to be understood not as always true, but for the most part true. For if the sick are patient, if they obey the prescribing physician, if the strengths of the sick are valid and constant, even the desperate are freed.

LIII.
Indeed, something must always be attempted in this affection, even if it is inveterate or hereditary. For if we do not entirely extirpate that malignant and harmful matter, we will nevertheless render the paroxysm and its force in some way milder.

Cure.

LIIII.
In the cure of Epilepsy two things are required, therapeia treatment or prophylaxis prevention: for the sick person, while he is in a paroxysm, must first be aroused; then, however, it must be ensured that he does not fall into a paroxysm again.

LV.
Therapeia which is applied to the present paroxysm consists in evacuating and revulsive remedies, or in those deriving and discussing meaning dispersing or dissipating the harmful matter that has already occupied the head.