129 I say with him in a A. Gellius, " let us maintain the vigor of our souls with a moderate cup of wine," * Natis in usum lætitia scyphis, " and drink to refresh our minde; if there be any cold sorrow in it, or torpid bashfulness, let's wash it all away.' Nunc vino pellite curas; so saith + Horace, so saith Anacreon, Μεθύοντα γαρ με κεῖσθαι I too, Let's drive down care with a cup of wine: and so say (though I drink none my self) for all this may be done, so that it be modestly, soberly, opportunely used: So that, "they be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess," which our Apostle forewarns; for as Chrysostome well comments on that place, ad lætitiam datum est vinum, non ad ebrieta tem, 'tis for mirth wine, but not for madness: And will you know where, when, and how that is to be understood? Vis discere ubi bonum sit vinum? Audi quid dicat Scriptura, hear the scriptures, "Give wine to them that are in sorrow,' or as Paul bid Timothy drink wine for his stomack sake, for concoction, health, or some such honest occasion. Otherwise, as Pliny telleth us: If singular moderation be not had, "nothing so pernitious, 'tis meer vinegar, blandus dæmon, poyson it self.” But hear a more fearfull doom, Habac. 2, 15. & 16. "Wo be to him that makes his neighbour drunk, shamefull spewing shall be upon his glory." Let not good fellows triumph therefore (saith Matthiolus) that I have so much commended wine; if it be immoderatly taken, "in stead of making glad, it confounds both body and soul, it makes a giddy head, a sorrowful heart." And twas well said of the Poet. of old," Vine causeth mirth and grief, nothing so good for some, so bad for others, especially as one observes, qui a causa calida malè habent, that are hot or inflamed, And so of spices, they alone, as I have shewed, cause headmelancholy themselves, they must not use wine as an ordinary drink, or in their diet. But to determine with Laurentius c. 8. de melan. wine is bad for mad men, and such as are troubled with heat in their inner parts or brains; but to melancholy, which is cold (as most is) Wine, soberly used, may be very good. Lib. 15. 2. noct. Att. Vigorem animi moderato vini usu tueamur, & caJefacto simul, refotoq; animo, si quid in eo vel frigidæ tristitiæ, vel torpentis verecundiæ fuerit, diluamus. *Hor. 1. 1. Od. 27. + Od. 7. lib. 1. 26. Nam præstat ebrium me quam mortuum jacere. Ephes. 5. 18. ser. 19. in cap. 5. Lib. 14. 5. Nihil pernitiosius viribus si modus absit, vene num. Theocritus idyl. 13. vino dari lætitiam & dolorem. • Renodeus. * Mercurialis consil. 25. Vinum frigidis optimum, & pessimum ferinâ melancholiâ. • Fernclius consil. 44, & 45. vinum prohibet assiduum, & aromata, VOL. II. K I may I may say the same of the decoction of China roots, Sassafras, Sarsaparilla, Guaiacum: .China, saith Manardus, makes a good colour in the face, takes away melancholy, and all infirmities proceeding from cold, even so Sarsaparilla provokes sweat mightily, Guaiacum dries, Claudinus consult. 89. & 46. Montanus, Capivaccius consult. 188. Scoltzii. make frequent and good use of Guaiacum, and China, "so that the liver be not incensed," good for such as are cold, as most melancholy men are, but by no means to be mentioned in hot. The Turks have a drink called Coffa (for they use no wine), so named of a berry as black as soot, and as bitter, (like that black drink which was in use amongst the Lacedæmonians and perhaps the same) which they sip still of, and sup as warm as they can suffer; they spend much time in those Coffa-houses, which are some what like our Ale-houses or Taverns, and there they sit chatting and drinking to drive away the time, and to be merry together, because they finde by experience that kinde of drink so used helpeth digestion, and procureth alacrity. Some of them take Opium to this purpose. Borrage, Bawm, Saffron, Gold, I have spoken of; Montaltus c. 23. commends Scorzonera roots condite. Garcius ab IIorto plant. hist. lib. 2. cap. 25. makes mention of an hearb called Datura, "" which if it be eaten, for 24 hours following, takes away all sense of grief, makes them incline to laughter and mirth:" and another called Bauge, like in effect to Opium, "Which puts them for a time into a kinde of Extasis," and makes them gently to laugh. One of the Roman Emperours had a seed, which he did ordinarily eat to exhilarate himself. Christophorus Ayrerus prefers Bezoar's stone, and the confection of Alkermes, before other cordials, and amber in some cases. 662 Alkermes comforts the inner parts;" and Bezoar stone hath an especiall vertue against all melancholy affections, "ait refresheth the heart, and corroborates the whole body." Amber provokes urine, helps the body, breaks winde, &c. After a purge, 3 or 4 gr. of Bezoar stone and 3. gr of Amber Greece, drunk, or taken in Borage or Bugloss water, in which gold hot hath been quenched, will do much good, and the purge shall diminish less (the heart so refreshed) of the strength and substance of the body. "P. confect. Alkermes 3 B lap. Bezor. j. jj. cum Syrup. de cort. citri; fiat electuarium." Modo jecur non incendatur. u Per. 24. horas sensum doloris omnem tollit, & ridere facit. y Hildesheim spicel. 2. Alkermes, omnia vitalia viscera mire confortat. Contra omnes melancholicos affectus confert, ac certum est ipsius usu omnes cordis & corporis vires mirum in modum refici. ⚫ Succinum vero albissimum confortat ventriculum, statum discutit, urinam movet, &c. To To Bezoar's stone most subscribe, Manardus, and many others; "it takes away sadness, and makes him merry that useth it; I have seen some that have been much diseased with faintness, swouning, and melancholy, that taking the weight of three grains of this stone, in the water of Oxtongue, have been cured." Garcias ab Horto brags how many desperate cures he hath done upon melancholy men by this alone, when all Physitians had forsaken them. But Alchermes many except against; in some cases it may help, if it be good and of the best, such as that of Monspelior in France, which Iodocus Sincerus, Itinerario Galliæ, so much magnifies, and would have no traveller omit to see it made. But it is not so generall a medicine as the other. Fernclius consil. 49. suspects Alchermes, by reason of its heat, "nothing (saith he) sooner exasperates this disease, then the use of hot working meats and medicines, and would have them for that cause warily taken." I conclude therefore of this and all other medicines, as Thucydides of the Plague at Athens, No remedy could be prescribed for it, Nam quod uni profuit, hoc aliis erat exitio: There is no Catholike medicine to be had: that which helps one, is pernitious to another. Diamargaritum frigidum, Diambra, Diaboraginatum, Electuarium latificans Galeni & Rhasis, de Gemmis, Dianthos, Diamoscum dulce and amarum, Electuarium Conciliatoris, syrup. Cidoniorum de pomis, conserves of Roses, Violets, Fumitory, Enula campana, Satyrion, Limmons, Orange-pills condite, &c. have their good use. "R. Diamoschi dulcis & amari ana 3 jj. Diabuglossati, Diaboraginati, sacchari violacei Every Physitian is full of such receipts: one only I will add for the rareness of it, which I finde recorded by many learned Authors, as an approved medicine against dotage, headmelancholy, and such diseases of the brain. Take a & Ram's head that never medled with an Ewe, cut off at a blow, and the horns only take away, boyl it well, skin and wooll to • Gartias ab Horto aromatum lib. 1. cap. 15. adversus omnes morbos melancholicos conducit, & venenum. Ego (inquit) utor in morbis melancholicis, &c. & deploratos hujus usu ad pristinam sanitatem restitui. See more in Bauhinus' book de lap. Bezoar c. 45. d Ed.t. 1617. Monspeli electuarium fit preciocissimum Alcherm. &c. • Nihil morbum hunc æque exasperat, ac alimentorum vel calidiorum usus. Alchermes ideo suspectus, & quod semel moneam, caute adhibenda calida medicamenta." Skenkius 1. 1. Observat. de Mania, ad mentis alienationem, & desipientiam vitio cerebri obortam, in manuscripto codice Germanico, tale medicamentum reperi. Caput arietis nondum experti venerem, uno ictu amputatum, cornibus tantum demotis, integrum cum lana & pelle bene elixabis, tum aperto cerebrum eximes, & addens aromata, &c. K2 gether gether; after it is well sod, take out the brains, and put these spices to it, Cinamome, Ginger, Nutmeg, Mace,Cloves, ana 3B, mingle the powder of these spices with it, and heat them in a platter upon a chafing-dish of coals together, stirring them well, that they do not burn; take heed it be not overmuch dried, or dryer then a calve's brains ready to be eaten. Keep it so prepared, and for three daies give it the patient fasting, so that he fast two hours after it. It may be eaten with bread in an egg or broath, or any way, so it be taken. For 14 daies let him use this diet, drink no wine, &c. Gesner. hist. animal. lib. 1. pag. 917. Caricterius pract. 13. in Nich. de metri pag. 129. Iatro: Witenberg. edit. Tubing. pag. 62. mention this medicine, though with some variation; he that list may try it, and many such. h Odoraments to smell to, of Rose water, Violet flowers, Bawm, Rosecakes, Vinegar, &c. do much recreat the brains and spirits, according to Solomon. Prov. 27. 9. "They rejoyce the heart," and as some say, nourish: 'tis a question commonly controverted in our schools, an odores nutriant; let Ficinus lib. 2. cap. 18. decide it; many arguments he brings to prove it; as of Democritus, that lived by the smel of bread alone, applyed to his nostrils, for some few daies, when for old age he could eat no meat. Ferrerius lib. 2. meth. speaks of an excellent confection of his making, of wine, saffron, &c. which he prescribed to dull, weak, feeble, and dying men to smell to, and by it to have done very much good, que ferè profuisse olfactu & potu, as if he had given them drink. Our noble and learned Lord * Verulam, in his book de vitá & morte, commends therefore all such cold smels as any way serve to refrigerate the spirits. Montanus consil. €1. prescribes a form which he would have his melancholy Patient never to have out of his hands. If you will have them spagirically prepared, look in Oswaldus Crollius basil. Chymi ca. Irrigations of the head shaven," of the flowers of water lillies, Lettuce, Violets, Camomile, wild Mallows, wether'shead, &c." must be used many mornings together. Montan. 'consil. 31. would have the head so washed once a week. Lælius a fonte Eugubinus consult. 44. for an Italian Count, troubled with head-melancholy, repeats many medicines which Cinis testudinis astus, & vino potus melancholiam curat, and rasura cornu Rhinocerotis, &c. Skenkius. Instat in matrice, quòd sursum & deorsum *Vicount S. Albans. i Ex decocto flo ad odoris sensum præcipitatur. rum nympheæ, lactucæ, violarum, chamomile, alibeæ, capitis vervecum, &c. he he tried, ❝k but two alone which did the cure; use of whey made of Goats milk, with the extract of Hellebor, and irrigations of the head with water-lillies, lettuce, violets, camomile, &c. upon the suture of the crown." Piso commends a Ram's lungs applied hot to the fore part of the head, or a yong Lamb divided in the back, exenterated, &c.; all acknowledge the chief cure to consist in moistening throughout. Some, saith Laurentius, use powders, and caps to the brain : but forasmuch as such aromatical things are hot and dry, they must be sparingly administered. Unto the Heart we may do well to apply bags, Epithemes, Oyntments, of which Laurentius c. 9. de melan. gives ex. amples. Bruel prescribes an Epitheme for the Heart, of Bugloss, Borrage, water-lilly, Violet waters, sweet-wine, Bawm leaves, Nutinegs, Cloves, &c. For the Belly, make a Fomentation of oyle, m in which "the seeds of Cummin, Rue, Carrets, Dill, have been boyled. Baths are of wonderfull great force in this malady, much admired by Galen, ° Etius, Rhasis, &c. of sweet water, in which is boyled the leaves of Mallows, Roses, Violets, water-lillies, Wether's head, flowers of Bugloss, Camomile, Melilot, &c. Guianer. cap. 8. tract. 15. would have them used twice a day, and when they come forth of the Baths, their back bones to be anointed with oyle of Almonds, Violets, Nymphea, fresh capon greas, &c. Amulets and things to be born about, I finde prescribed, taxed by some, approved by Renodeus, Platerus, (amuleta inquit non negligenda) and others; look for them in Mizaldus, Porta, Albertus, &c. Bassardus Visontinus ant. philos. commends Hypericon, or S. John's wort gathered on a * friday in the hour of "Jupiter, when it comes to his effectuall operation (that is about the full Moon in July); so gathered and born, or hung, about the neck, it mightily helps this affection, and drives away all phantasticall spirits." + Philes, a Greek ↑ Author that flourished in the time of Michael Paleologus, writes that a Sheep or Kid's skin, whom a Woolf worried, ' Con *Inter auxilia multa adhibita, duo visa sunt remedium adferre, usus seri caprini cum extracto Hellebori, et irrigatio ex lacte Nymphcæ, violarum, &c. suturæ coronali adhibita; his remediis sanitaté pristina adeptus est. fert et pulmo arietis, calidus agnus per dorsum divisus, exenteratus, admotus sincipiti. Semina Cumini, ruta, dauci anethi cocta. n Lib. 3. de locis • Tetrab. 2. ser. 1. cap. 10. * Cap. de me collectum die vener. hora Jovis cum ad Energia venit. c. 1. ad pleniluniŭ Julii, inde gesta et collo appensa hunc affectü apprime juvat et fanaticos spiritus expellit. proprietat. animal. ovis à lupo correpta pelle no esse pro indumento corporis usurpandam, cordis enim palpitationem excitat, &c. affect. K3 + L. de Hadus |