STAGGERS, Sec. 313 



'^ lep/y, and feems to be no other th^n an 

 ** APOPLEXY or VERTIGO, ac'companied with 

 *' convuUions, either as the caufe or effe£t." 

 This being a kind of fynonymous ambiguity^ 

 I (hall fo confider it, and revert to his difini- 

 tion of con'vulJio?is at larger where he fays, 

 «' The caufe of convulfions are firft whatever 

 *<^ waftes and exhaufts the body, or any of 

 *Mts parts 5 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 obftrudlions 

 '' in the blood veffels or nerves, or brings 

 '^ a debility and weaknefs into the ilomach; 

 ^' and, laftly, wounds, or whatever elfe caufes 

 ^* pain and inflammation : as to the cure it is 

 " the fame with that of apoplexy and ver- 

 *' TiGo/' He has thus technically and ab- 

 ftrufely laboured through a multiplicity of clofc 

 written pages to perplex the mind and con- 

 found the judgment, milleading his readers by 

 repeated attempts to prove the diftind exiftence 

 pf all thefe feparate difeafes ; though at the 

 ponclufion of each defcription, he acknow- 

 ledges they are nearly fynonymous, and come 

 diredly under the fame methods of cure. 



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