STAGGERS, &c, 313 



*• Epilepfy, and feems to be no other than an 

 *' APOPLEXY or VERTIGO, accompanied with 

 ** convuliions, either as the caufe or efFed:." 

 This being a kind of fynonymous ambiguity, 

 I Ihall fo confider it, and revert to his defini- 

 tion of conviilfions at large j where he fays, 

 ** The caufe of convulfions is, firil, whatever 

 " waftes and exhaufls the body, or any of 

 '^ its parts ; as the taking away too much 

 *^ blood, violent purging, hard labour, or long 

 " ficknefs. Secondly, whatever fills the body 

 ** too much, and gives origin to obftruftions 

 '^ in the blood vefiels or nerves, or brings 

 *^ a debility and weaknefs into the ftomach ; 

 " and, laftly, wounds, or whatever elfe caufes 

 " pain and inflammation : as to the cure it is 

 " the fame with that of apoplexy and vePv- 

 ** TiGo." He has thus technically and ab- 

 ftrufely laboured through a multiplicity of clofe 

 written pages to perplex the mind and con- 

 found the judgment, mifleading his readers by 

 repeated attempts to prove the diflind: exiflence 

 of all thefe feparate dileafes; though at the 

 conclufion of each defcription, he acknow- 

 ledges they are nearly fynonymous, and come 

 direclly under the fame methods of cure. 



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