Theses de epilepsia

The patient is treated differently while a paroxysm is present than when one is expected.

While a paroxysm is present, the brain must be assisted in shaking off or drawing away from itself the cause of the malady.

This is accomplished by those things which repel, intercept, incise, attenuate, cleanse, dissipate, and evacuate, and which simultaneously strengthen the brain.

Moreover, so that the patient may be preserved from a future paroxysm, effort must be directed toward hindering the generation of the humors and vapors that produce this malady; or if this cannot be avoided, let them be evacuated and removed from the head.

This will be achieved both by the correct use of the six non-natural things and by the removal of antecedent causes. With which specific medicinal materials these individual things may be accomplished in each of the three classes of medical instruments, it has pleased me to omit for the present out of a desire for brevity.