OFall thePartsof the Body, theHeadis most expos’d toPains; that is, to a troublesome and grievousSensationof theMembranous Parts; proceeding fromVapoursof the noxiousHumours; which ascending to theHead, distend and rend, in a manner, theMembranesof theBrain.
THEPartsmost commonly affected, are theHairy Scalp, thePericranium, and theDiploe; That is, the medullousDuplicatureof theCranium, otherways call’d theMeditullium: For theseParts, by a continualSolution, when it happens so, are always most severely pain’d. But besides, in aWomanthat has conceiv’d, thePainscommonly shift and move from one Place, to another, of theHead; and take certainIntervals, longer or shorter, betwixt theirAccessandRecess.
BUTas theInfantgrows, and exhausts a greater Quantity, or at last thewholeof theBlood; and as theHumoursfix in their proper Place: So thisSymptomgradually goes off, and quite ceases.
HOWEVER, in case theAccessesbe long and violent, they may be discreetlycur’dby repelling andmitigatingApplications, or by peculiarCorroborativesandDiscutients, or properAlteratives, according to theNatureandQualityof theCause. I refer what may be farther added on this Head, toSect.IX.Chap.3.