THE SYNOPSIS OF THE SECOND PARTITION. Cure of melancholy is either Sect. 2. Dietetical, which con sists in re forming those six Sect. 1. General to all, which contains or Unlawful means or Lawful ог Quest. 2. Whether it be lawful in this case to sue to them for aid? 4. Medi ately by concerns and Subsect. 1. Physician, in whom is required science, confidence, honesty, &c. 2. Patient, in whom is required obedience, constancy, willingness, patience, confidence, bounty, &c., not to practise on himself. 3. Physic, (Dietetical which Pharmaceutical 8 works by consists of Chirurgical п Particular to the three distinct species, & me Such meats as are easy of digestion, well-dressed, hot, sod, &c., young, moist, of good nourishment, &c. Bread of pure wheat, well-baked. Water clear from the fountain. Wine and drink not too strong. Matter Flesh Fish Herbs Fruits and roots Mountain birds, partridge, pheasant, quails, &c. Hen, capon, mutton, veal, kid, rabbit, &c. That live in gravelly waters, as pike, perch, trout, sea-fish, solid, white, &c. (Borage, bugloss, balm, succory, endive, violets in broth, not raw, &c. Raisins of the sun, apples corrected for wind, oranges, &c., parsnips, potatoes, &c. At seasonable and usual times of repast, in good order, not before the first be concocted, sparing, not overmuch of one dish. 2. Rectification of retention and evacuation, as costiveness, venery, bleeding at nose, months stopped, baths, &c. 3. Air, recti- (Naturally in the choice and site of our country dwelling-place, fied, with a to be hot and moist, light, wholesome, pleasant, &c. S non-natural digression of Artificially, by often change of air, avoiding winds, fogs, temthings, as in the air. 4. Exercise. pests, opening windows, perfumes, &c. Of body and mind, but moderate, as hawking, hunting, riding, shooting, bowling, fishing, fowling, walking in fair fields, galleries, tennis, bar. Of mind, as chess, cards, tables, &c., to see plays, masks, &c., serious studies, business, all honest recreations. 5. Rectification of waking and terrible dreams, &c. 6. Rectification of passions and perturbations of the mind. U Subsect. 1. By using all good means of help, confessing to a friend, &c. Avoiding all occasions of his infirmity. Not giving way to passions, but resisting to his utmost. 2. By fair and foul means, counsel, comfort, good persuasion witty devices, fictions, and, if it be possible, to satisfy his mind 3. Music of all sorts aptly applied. 4. Mirth and merry company. Sect. 3. tory digres- Simples altering melancholy, with a di gression Memb. 1. General discontents and grievances satisfied. 2. Particular discontents, as deformity of body sickness, baseness of birth, &c. 3. Poverty and want, such calamities and adversities. 4. Against servitude, loss of liberty, imprison. ment, banishment, &c. 5. Against vain fears, sorrows for death of friends or otherwise. 6. Against envy, livor, hatred, malice, emulation, ambition, and self-love, &c. 7. Against repulses, abuses, injuries, contempts, disgraces, contumelies, slanders, and scoffs, &c. 8. Against all other grievances and ordinary symptoms of this disease of melancholy. Herbs. 3. Subs. To the heart; borage, bugloss, scorzonera, &c. Stomach; wormwood, centaury, pennyroyal. To purify the blood; endive, succory, &c. of exotic 4. Precious stones, as smaragdes, chelidonies, &c. simples. 2. Subs. or Com- altering Purging Particular to the three distinct species, m. purging I Chirurgical physic, which consists of Memb. 3. Sect. 5. Cure of head-meJancholy. Memb. 1. Interior parts; as clysters strong and weak, and suppositories of Castilian soap, honey boiled, &c. Phlebotomy, to all parts almost, and all the distinct species. Cupping-glasses. Cauteries, and searing with hot irons, boring. Dropax and sinapismus. Issues to several parts, and upon several occasions. 1. Subsect. Moderate diet, meat of good juice, moistening, easy of digestion. Sleep more than ordinary. Excrements daily to be voided by art or nature. Exercise of body and mind not too violent, or too remiss, passions of the mind, and perturbations to be avoided. 2. Blood-letting, if there be need, or that the blood be corrupt, in the arm, forehead, &c., or with cupping glasses. 3. Prepara- 4. Averters. 5. Cordials, Preparatives; as syrup of borage, bugloss, epithyme, hops, with their distilled waters, &c. Purgers; as Montanus, and Matthiolus helleborismus, Quercetanus, syrup of hellebore, extract of hellebore, pulvis Hali, antimony prepared, Rulandi aqua mirabilis; which are used, if gentler medicines will not take place, with Arnoldus, vinum buglossatum, senna, cassia, myrobalanes, aurum potabile, or before Hamech, Pil. Inda, Hiera, Pil. de lap. Armeno, lazuli. Cardan's nettles, frictions, clysters, suppositories, sneezings, masticatories, nasals, cupping-glasses. To open the hæmorrhoids with horseleeches, to apply horseleeches to the forehead without scarification, to the shoulders, thighs. Issues, boring, cauteries, hot irons in the suture of the crown. A cup of wine or strong drink Bezars stone, amber, spice. Conserves of borage, bugloss, roses, fumitory. Confection of alchermes. Electuarium latificans Galeni et Rhasis, &c. Diamargaritum frig. diaboraginatum, &c. 2. Memb. Cure of melancholy over the body. my Cure of hypo- 6. Correctors of accidents, Odoraments of roses, violets. Irrigations of the head, with the decoctions of nymphea, lettuce, mallows, &c. Epithymes, ointments, bags to the heart. Fomentations of oil for the belly. Baths of sweet water, in which were sod mallows, violets, To procure sleep, and are Inwardly or Liquid; as syrups of poppy, ver Com- or Outward- as basco, violets, roses. Solid; as requies Nicholai, Philonium, Romanum, Laudanum Paracelsi. Oil of nymphea, poppy, violets, roses, mandrake, nutmegs. Odoraments of vinegar, rose-water, opinm. Frontals of rose-cake, rose-vinegar, nutmeg. Ointments, alablastritum, unguentum populeum, simple, or mixed with opium. Irrigations of the head, feet, sponges, music, murmur and noise of waters. Frictions of the head and outward parts, sacculi of henbane, wormwood at his pillow, &c. Against terrible dreams; not to sup late, or eat peas, cabbage, venison, meats heavy of digestion, use balm, hart's tongue, &c. Against ruddiness and blushing, inward and outward reinedies. (Diet, preparatives, purges, averters, cordials, correctors, as before. To correct and cleanse the blood with fumitory, senna, succory, dandelion, Subsect. 1. Phlebotomy, if need require. Diet, preparatives, averters, cordials, purgers, as before, saving that they must not be so vehement. Use of pennyroyal, wormwood, centaury sod, which alone hath cured many. To respect the spleen, stomach, liver, hypochondries. To vomit after meals sometimes, if it be inveterate. 2. to ex- Inwardly or or Simples, Compounds, as Roots, Herbs, Spices, Seeds, Galanga, gentian, enula, angelica, calamus aromaticus, zedoary, china, condite ginger, &c. Pennyroyal, rue, calamint, bay leaves, and berries, scordium, bethany, lavender, camomile, centaury, wormwood, cummin, broom, orange pills. Saffron, cinnamon, mace, nutmeg, pepper, musk, zedoary with wine, &c. Aniseed, fennel-seed, ammi, cary, cum min, nettle, bays, parsley, grana paradisi. Dianisum,diagalanga,diaciminum,diacalaminthes, electuarium de baccis lauri, benedicta laxativa,&c., pulvis carminativus, and pulvis descrip. Antidotario Florentino, aromaticum, rosatum, Mithridate. Outwardly used, as cupping-glasses to the hypochondries without scarification, oil of camomile, rue, aniseed, their decoctions, &c. THE SECOND PARTITION. THE CURE OF MELANCHOLY. THE FIRST SECTION, MEMBER, SUBSECTION. Unlawful Cures rejected. INVETERATE Melancholy, howsoever it may seem to be a continuate, inexorable disease, hard to be cured, accompanying them to their graves, most part, as "Montanus observes, yet many times it may be helped, even that which is most violent, or at least, according to the same author, "it may be mitigated and much eased." Nil desperandum. It may be hard to cure, but not impossible for him that is most grievously affected, if he be but willing to be helped. Upon this good hope I will proceed, using the same method in the cure, which I have formerly used in the rehearsing of the causes; first general, then particular; and those according to their several species. Of these cures soine be lawful, some again unlawful, which though frequent, familiar, and often used, yet justly censured, and to be controverted. As first, whether by these diabolical means, which are commonly practised by the devil and his ministers, sorcerers, witches, magicians, &c., by spells, cabalistical words, charms, characters, images, amulets, ligatures, philters, incantations, &c., this disease and the like may be cured? and if they may, whether it be lawful to make use of them, those magnetical cures, or for our good to seek after such means in any case? The first, whether they can do any such cures, is questioned amongst many writers, some affirming, some denying. Valesius, cont. med. lib. 5. cap. 6, Malleus Maleficor. Heurnius, l. 3. pract. med. cap. 28, Cælius, lib. 16. c. 16, Delrio, tom. 3, Wierus, lib. 2. de præstig. dam., Libanius Lavater, de spect. part. 2. cap. 7, Holbrenner the Lutheran in Pistorium, Polydor Virg., . 1. de prodig., Tandlerus, Lemnius (Hippocrates and Avicenna amongst the rest), deny that spirits or devils have any power over us, and refer all with Pomponatius of Padua to natural causes and humours. Of the other opinion are Bodinus, Dæmonomantiæ, lib. 3. cap. 2, Arnoldus, Marcellus Empyricus, I. Pistorius, Paracelsus, Apodix. Magic., Agrippa, lib. 2. de occult. Philos. cap. 36. 69. 71. 72. et l. 3. c. 23. et 10, Marcilius Ficinus, de vit. cælit. compar. cap. 13. 15. 18. 21. &c., Galeottus, de promiscua doct. cap. 24, Jovianus Pontanus, tom. 2, Plin. lib. 28. c. 2, Strabo, lib. 15. Geog. Leo Suavius: Goclenius, de ung. armar., Oswoldus Crollius, Ernestus Burgravius, Dr. Flud, &c. Cardan de subt. brings many proofs out of Ars Notoria, and Solomon's decayed works, old Hermes, Artefius, Costaben Luca, Picatrix, &c., that such cures may be done. They can make fire it shall not burn, fetch back thieves or stolen goods, shew their absent faces in a glass, make serpents lie still, stanch blood, salve gouts, epilepsies, biting of mad dogs, tooth-achų Consil. 235. pro Abbate Italo. Consil. 23. aut curabitur, aut certè minus afficietur, si volet. |