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, imprisonment, 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. Purging ( Particular to the three distinct species, me. purging П Chirurgical physic, which consists of Memb. 3. To Sect. 5. Cure of head-melancholy. 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. 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, Hicra, 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- [Odoraments of roses, violets. Irrigations of the head, with the decoctions of nymphes, 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 roses, water-lilies, borage flowers, ramsheads, &c. Simplea Inwardly or taken, or Outwardly used, as Com- Poppy, nymphea, lettuce, roses, purslane, henbane, mandrake, nightshade, opium, &c. Liquid; as syrups of poppy, verbasco, violets, roses. Solid; as requies Nicholai, Philonium, Romanum, Laudanum Paracelsi. Oil of nymphea, poppy, violets, roses, mandrake, nutmegs. Odoraments of vinegar, rose-water, opium. 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 Simples, Compounds, 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, cummin, 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 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 some 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., l. 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, Dæmonomantic, 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. calit. 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-achę Consil. 235. pro Abbate Italo. Consil. 23. aut curabitur, aut certè minus afficictur, si volet. melancholy, et omnia mundi mala, make men immortal, young again as the Spanish marquess is said to have done by one of his slaves, and some which jugglers in China maintain still (as Tragaltius writes) that they can do by their extraordinary skill in physic, and some of our modern chemists by their strange limbecks, by their spells, philosopher's stones and charms. "Many doubt,” saith Nicholas Taurellus, "whether the devil can cure such diseases he hath not made, and some flatly deny it, howsoever common experience confirms to our astonishment, that magicians can work such feats, and that the devil with. out impediment, can penetrate through all the parts of our bodies, and cure such maladies by means to us unknown." Daneus in his tract de Sortiariis subscribes to this of Taurellus; Erastus de Lamiis, maintaineth as much, and so do most divines, out of their excellent knowledge and long experience they can commit 'agentes cum patientibus, colligere semina rerum, eaque materiæ applicare, as Austin infers de Civ. Dei et de Trinit., lib. 3. cap. 7. et 8. they can work stupendous and admirable conclusions; we see the effects only, but not the causes of them. Nothing so famillar as to hear of such cures. Sorcerers are too common; cunning men, wizards, and white-witches, as they call them, in every village, which if they be sought unto, will help almost all infirmities of body and mind, Servatores in Latin, and they have commonly St. Catharine's wheel printed in the roof of their mouth, or in some other part about them, resistunt incantatorum præstigiis ( Boissardus writes), morbos à sagis motos propulsant, &c., that to doubt of it any longer, or not to believe, were to run into that other sceptical extreme of incredulity," saith Taurellus. Leo Suavius in his comment upon Paracelsus seems to make it an art, which ought to be approved; Pistorius and others stifly maintain the use of charms, words, characters, &c. Ars vera est, sed pauci artifices reperiuntur; the art is true, but there be but a few that have skill in it. Marcellus Donatus, lib. 2. de hist. mir. cap. 1. proves out of Josephus' eight books of antiquities, that "Solomon so cured all the diseases of the mind by spells, charms, and drove away devils, and that Eleazar did as much before Vespasian." Langius in his med. epist. holds Jupiter Menecrates, that did so many stupendous cures in his time, to have used this art, and that he was no other than a magician. Many famous cures are daily done in this kind, the devil is an expert physician, as Godelman calls him, lib. 1. cap. 18. and God permits oftentimes these witches and magicians to produce such effects, as Lavater, cap. 3. lib. 8. part. 3. cap. 1, Polid. Virg., lib. 1. de prodigiis, Delrio and others admit. Such cures may be done, and as Paracels., Tom. 4. de morb. ament. stiffly maintains, "they cannot otherwise be cured but by spells, seals, and spiritual physic." 'Arnoldus, lib. de sigillis, sets down the making of them, so doth Rulandus and many others. Hoc posito, they can effect such cures, the main question is whether it be lawful in a desperate case to crave their help, or ask a wizard's advice. "Tis a common practice of some men to go first to a witch and then to a physician, if one cannot the other shall, Flectere si nequeant superos Acheronta movebunt. "It matters not," saith Paracelsus, "whether it be God or the devil, angels, or unclean spirits cure him, so that he be eased." If a man fall into a ditch, as he prosecutes it, what matter is it whether a friend or an enemy help him out? and if I be troubled with such a malady, what care I whether the devil himself, or any of his ministers by God's permission, redeem me? He calls a •Vide Renatum Morey, Animad. in scholam Salernit. c. 38. si ad 40 annos possent producere vitam, cur non ad centum? si ad centum, cur non ad mille? d Hist. Chinensum. Alii dubitant an dæmon possit morbos curare quos non fecit, alii negant, sed quotidiana experientia confirmat, magos magno multorum stupore morbos curare, singulas corporis partes citra impedimentum permeare, et modis nobis ignotis curare. Agentia cum patientibus conjugunt. Cap. 11. de Servat. Hæc alii rident, sed vereor ne dum nolumus esse creduli, vitium non effugiamus incredulitatis. Refert Solomonem mentis morbos curasse, et dæmones abegisse ipsos carminibus, quod et coram Vespasiano fecit Eleazar. Spirituales morbi spiritualiter curari debent. Sigillum ex auro peculiari ad Melancholiam, &c. Lib. 1. de occult. Philos. nihil refert an Deus an diabolus, angeli an immundi spiritus ægro opem ferant, modo morbus curetur. |