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SUBSEC. 3. Division of the diseases of the Head.
These Diseases of the Minde, forasmuch as they have their chief seat and organs in the head, which are commonly repeated amongst the diseases of the head, which are divers, and vary much according to their site. For in the head, as there be several parts, so there be divers grievances, which according to that division of Heurnius, (which he takes out of Arculanus) are inward or outward (to omit all others which pertaine to Eyes & Eares, Nostrils, Gums, Teeth, Mouth, Palate, Tongue, Wesel, Chops, Face, &c.) belonging properly to the brain, as baldness, falling of haire, furfaire, lice, &c.
Inward belonging to the skins next to the Brain, called dura and pia mater, as all head-aches, &c. or to the Ventricles, Caules, Kels, Tunicles, Creeks, and parts of it, and their passions, as Caro, Vertigo, Incubus, Apoplexie, Falling sickness. The diseases of the Nerves; Crampes, Stupor, Convulsion, Tremor, Palsie: or belonging to the excrements of the brain, Catarrhes, Sneezing, Rheumes, Distillations: or else those that pertaine to the substance of the brain it self, in which are conceived, Frensie, Lethargie, Melancholy, madness, weake memory, Sopor, or Coma Vigilia & vigil Coma.
Out of these again I will single such as properly belong to the Phantasie, or Imagination, or Reason it self, which Laurentius calls the diseases of the minde, & Hildisheim, morbos Imaginationis, aut Rationis læsæ, which are three or four in number, Frensie, Madness, Melancholy, Dotage & their kindes: as Hydrophobia, Lycanthropia, Chorus sancti viti, morbi dæmoniaci: which I will briefly touch and point at, insisting especially in this of Melancholy, as more eminent then the rest, and that through all his kinds, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, cures: As Lonicerus hath done de Apoplexia, and many other of such particular diseases.
Not that I finde fault with those which have written of this subject before, as Iason Pratensis, Laurentius, Montaltus, T. Bright, &c. they have done very well in their several kinds & methods; yet that which one omits, another may happely see; that which one contracts, another may inlarge. To conclude with Scribanius, that which they had neglected, or perfunctorily handled, we may more thoroughly examine; that which is obscurely delivered in them, may be perspicuously dilated and amplified by us: and so made more familiar and easie for every mans capacity, and the common good; which is the chief end of my Discourse.