(seq. 51)

Catalepsy Catochies or Catoche.

The Catalepsis is also called Catochus & Catoche They who are affected
with it are in a Moment Rendred as immovable as a Statue without
Sense and without Motion. and Continue in the Same Posture
they were in the first Moment they were Seized.
This is a kind of a Trance as the Patient after his Recovery often tells of
Seeing & hearing Wonderfull things as Tragical Sights Divine Visions Conversing with Angles &c.

It is often Cured by exciting large Hemorrhages from the Nose;
The method of cure is Various according to the Different Causes, the
Patient should be excited with things that greatly Strike the Senses
Such as Light, Noise Stimulating Things, Volatile Salts,
Pain Frictions continual Agitations by causing a hemorrhage
at the Nose by promoting the hemorrhoidal
or Menstrual Flux by Sternutatories and Emetics; by Blisters
By [?] by [Setons?] by a moistening Diet

Catalepsy Catochies or Catoche.

The Catalepsis is also called Catochus & Catoche They who are affected
with it are in a Moment Rendred as immovable as a Statue without
Sense and without Motion. and Continue in the Same Posture
they were in the first Moment they were Seized.
This is a kind of a Trance as the Patient after his Recovery often tells of
Seeing & hearing Wonderfull things as Tragical Sights Divine Visions Conversing with Angles &c.

It is often Cured by exciting large Hemorrhages from the Nose;
The method of cure is Various according to the Different Causes, the
Patient should be excited with things that greatly Strike the Senses
Such as Light, Noise Stimulating Things, Volatile Salts,
Pain Frictions continual Agitations by causing a hemorrhage
at the Nose by promoting the hemorrhoidal
or Menstrual Flux by Sternutatories and Emetics; by Blisters
By [?] by [Setons?] by a moistening Diet