But for the most part (as hath already béene sayd) this paine in the head procéedeth of the intemperature of the foure humors, namely of bloud, choler, flegme and melancholy.
THe common causes of head-ach in generall are innumerable as heate of the Sunne, bathings, chaunge of ayre, a continuall South wind, a strong sent of spices, whether they be hote or cold by nature: also the smell of wine, drun∣kennesse, stinking meate, garlicke, onions, mustard, strokes or blowes, brui∣sings or great motions of the braine, sleepe presently after dinner, much blee∣ding, wormes in the eares, nostrels, or stomacke, choler in the stomacke, fumes and vapours out of the same, too much repletion of the stomacke, Intemperies or an vnnaturall mixture of the humors, with many more, which for breuities sake we omit, and will treate of more necessary matters.
r, wherein also the affe∣cted body is suddenly depriued both of sense and feeling.
*The fourth kind of head-ach is Congelatio, as it were a cold nummednesse: this procéeding from the backe part of the head taketh away all sense and féeling of the patient, and therefore it is not vnlike vnto that heauy and drowsie disease Lethargus and Stup It doth also very often so disease the eyes, that it perisheth the sight of them: insomuch that this paine is so like to the aboue named Cephalaea, that Galen and many others do not onely de∣scribe them both together, but vse also one and the selfesame remedies for them both, as hereaf∣ter may appeare. * Hemicrania is also an head ach, wherewith either the right or the left side, the backe or fore∣part of the head is infected: it taketh commonly the one side of the head, euen from the midst of the forehead, & so passeth through the boll or concauity of the scull to the very back part of the head. And albeit this affection of the head oft times groweth of a light and small cause, yet pro∣cureth it diuers times very heauy and grieuous accidents. This ach sometimes commeth in the sinewes of the eyes, and doth opilate and harme them greatly, and at the length induceth blindnes altoge∣ther. * Cephalaea is an intolerable headach, which (notwithstanding that it hath some communion with the aforenamed Cephalalgia) doth maruellously weaken all the powers of the head, and at sometime ceaseth, séeming as though it would not returne againe, yet (in maner like vnto the falling sicknesse) by fits returneth with such violence, such noise in the eares, such beating in the forehead, such thrusting forth of the eyes, and finally with such swelling vp of all the veines of the head, that both hearing and sight thereby decayeth: yea taketh diuers with that extremity, that it séemeth vnto them as if something did beate on the inside of their head with a hammer, and would rend and teare their head asunder. * Cephalalgia, by the Gréekes so termed, is such a disease that almost affecteth the whole head: which sometimes is very violent, otherwhiles more tolerable, and either continueth long, or passeth ouer spéedily. Of all outward accidents, as blowes, bruises, wounds, and falles on the head, shal be shewed in the Chapter of the braine-pan or scull. Of giddinesse of the head, falling euill, dead palsie, and such like infirmities shal be spoken hereafter, where we intreate of the braine: for that these and diuers other diseases are caused for the most part of a debilitie and weaknesse of the braine. They are deliuered vnto vs either in particular, proper, principall or vniuersall affections, vnder which all the other are comprehended, as Cephalalgia, Cephalaea, Hemicrania, and Congelation.
THere are many paines of the head, by the Arabians commonly called Soda: which as they procéede of diuers causes, so do they also differ in nature.
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