Falling Sickness - A Little Advice from Nicholas Culpeper 1616-1654

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In Effigiam Nicholai Culpeper Equitis by Richard Gaywood

The brains of a Weazel dryed and drunk in Vinegar cures the Falling-sickness.

Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician, & astrologer. He published The English Physician (1652) and the Complete Herbal (1653), to help folks in the 17th century deal with medical problems & healthy living. He also wrote Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick (1655), to detail his beliefs about medical astrology.
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