===== HEAD =====

==== Immediately to the brain ====

Immediately to the Brain it self, the seat and organ of the principal Fa∣culties; either in regard of its

=== substance  ===

Substance; when it is indisposed for the

  * More principal and noble Faculties; either by ‖ some hot Vapour or Humour diffused: or from some particular Hurt or Inflammati∣on, causing a depravation of the Intellectuals, Fancy and Memo∣ry; either ‖ with a Fever, or without.
       * FRENSY, Delirium, frantic, light-headed, phrenetic.
       * MADNESS, out of ones wits, raving, distraction, besides ones self, wood, brain-sick, crack-brained, crazed, lunatic.


  * Less principal Faculties; by the
       * Superfluity of cold pituitous matter, causing ‖ excessive drowsiness: or by crass crude vapours rising from the stomach, working a kind of Suffocation in sleeping by a sense of weight upon the Breast.
             * VETERNUS, Sopor.
             * EPHIALTES, Night-mare, Incubus.
       * Corruption of some crass phlegmatic humor, either ‖ in the Brain, causing much drowsiness and deliration: or in the Arteries which should convey the spirits to the Brain, causing first a giddiness, and then an abolition of Sense and Motion.
            * LETHARGY.
            * APOPLEXY.
       * Defluxion of Humours (which are sometimes salt or sharp) ei∣ther ‖ on the Lungs: or other parts of the Body, Limms, or Ioynts.
            * CATARRH, Distillation, Rheum, Defluxion.
            * RHEUMATISM.

=== ventricles === 

Ventricles; ‖ when any hot Vapour doth agitate and disturb the motion of the spirits, so as objects seem to turn round: or when any cold phlegmatic humour doth obstruct their motion, causing a privation of Sense, with convulsive motions in several parts.
  * VERTIGO, Giddiness, Swimming in the head, Dizziness, Scotomy.
  * EPILEPSY, Falling-sickness.


==== mediately to the brain ====

=== nerves === 

  * Obstructed; whether ‖ the greater-Nerves, and for a longer continu∣ance: or the lesser Branches, for a shorter space, whereby Sense and Motion is hindered.
       * PALSIE, paralytic.
       * NUMNESS, Stupor, asleep.
  * Contracted more generally: or distended in some particular part.
       * CONVULSION.
       * CRAMP, Stitch.
  * Oppressed with superfluous moisture, causing an unequal growth of the parts, specially the Head and Joints.
       * RICKETS, Rachitis.

=== throat === 

Throat; by such an inward Swelling and Inflammation as doth hinder Swallowing and Respiration.
  * SQUINANCY, Quinsie.