A treatise of vapours, or, hysterick fits / [John Purcell].

  • Purcell, John, approximately 1674-1730
Date:
1707
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Credit: A treatise of vapours, or, hysterick fits / [John Purcell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the Stomach, which is feparated from it: which being thereby viti- ated, creates Indigeftions and Cru- dities, whence this Diftemper a- rifes, Ree he see gheDifor- . Note alfo, that when I fay Cru- der of the dities are the caufe of this Difeafe, ris» I -do not deny but that it is the the imme-.5.. : ; Sie de PG diatecaufe Diforder of the Spirits, which im- offomedc-mediately caufes the Convulfons, cidents,but ae ( equate ever, I think that Crudities ought ee. to be look’d upon as the gece Be and Effuient Caufe, and this Difor- der of the Spirits; and the Symp- toms it produces, only as Effects which flow from thence. © °° ~~ Why Wp. ow the reafons why Women y Wo sgeitpet BRR men are are more fubje& to Vapours than more ie Men, are firft becaufe their Men: aa fes is an Excremetit more apt to Men. ~ caufe Obitructions than any Recre- rs ment or Excrement whatfoever in Man’s body ; and being retain’d produces more various’ and difmal Accidents: whence Hippocrates lib. de morkis Virginum, fays, Multis et incomprebenfibilibus fere affetionibus premuntur miferrima mulieres. And