lofophifetfi after this manner. He teacheth^ that there are indeed' 
Animal S^int%% that they conftitute the Being of the Corporeal 
Soul^and are alfo the nextmd immediate Inftruments of all Aoi- - 
mal mocionSjproducing them by aiind of Sat//^?;?^;? or Shooting- 
upon which Ela^ick^ or Exflofwe povver he cftablirti's his whole 
Doctrine of C&nvulfions. To which he annexes a Difqaifitioa of 
the Scurvej^ as bnog near of kin to the fame Dodtriae, and 
grounded upon the fame Hjpothsfis. 
The Firfi: part confijis of XII Chapters. 
I. OFConvoIfive Motiomin general. 
2 , Of the Spikpfy or Falliog-Sicknefs. 
3; Of thedifFertaces of the Epilepfy., and the Caufes of fome 
oiih^ Symptoms thereof together with a Draught of the me- 
thod of Coring this Difeafe, 
4. Of the other kinds of Coavu'fions^ and partjcolarly of 
thofe in children. 
5. OftheCoaviilavefitsin^r^ji?;^ and dged perfons^ proceed^ 
log chiefly from the vitiated Origin of the Nerves. 
6. OfthofeConvulfive Motions, whofe Caufe lies about the 
Extremities of the Nerves, or vvitHa the Flexm nervei, 
7. Of thofe that are caufed by Liquors, bedewing the nervous 
Bodies, and itricating the whole proceffes of them into Convul- 
fions : whdreaj*e confidered the Cramps that arife from Poyfons, 
8. Oh\\tUniv€r[d Convalfions, that are woat to be caufed 
in Malign, or ill Judged, and fome anomalous Feaverl : where 
aredefcribed the Epidemical and Maiigne Convulfive Diflem-- 
pen, formerly reigning in fome parts of Germmjy as alfo thai: 
£//Ve;^/V^/ Feaver, which raged -r^;?, 16^1 in England^ and did 
principally afflict the Brain and Nerves. 
9. Of thofe that proceed ftom the Scerhutick Difpoficioa of 
the Nervous ^uyce. 
10. Of^;/?wVi^paflions, where he maketh the ff^w^ plead 
Notguilty, 
1 1 . Of thofe Paffions, that vulgarly called Hfpochondrid'- 
r/i/, (hewing, that they are chiefly Convulfive 5 whereby the by 
he ? reaceth of Chdjheat Remedies, 
1 2. Of Coavuifive Cot^ghs and Afthmas^ and their Care. 
