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Cure of melancholy is either
* Sect 1. General to all, which contains
* Unlawful means forbidden,
* Memb. 1. From the devil, magicians, witches, &c., by
charms, spells, incantations, &c.
* Quest. 1. Whether they can cure this, or other such
like diseases?
* Quest. 2. Whether, if they can so cure, it be lawful
to seek to them for help?
* or Lawful means, which are
* Memb. 2. Immediately from God, a Jove principium by
prayer &c.
* Memb. 3. Quest. 1. Whether saints and their relics can
help this infirmity?
Quest. 2. Whether it be lawful to sue to them
for aid.
* or Memb. 4. Mediately by Nature which concerns and
works by
* Subsect. 1. Physician, in whom is required science,
confidence, honesty, &c.
* Subsect. 2. Patient, in whom is required obedience,
constancy, willingness, patience, confidence,
bounty, &c., not to practise on himself.
* Subsect. 3. Physic, which consists of
* Dietetical A
* Pharmaceutical B
* Chirurgical C
* or Particular to the three distinct species, D, E, F
A Sect. 2. Dietetical, which consists in reforming those six
non-natural things, as in
* Diet rectified 1. Memb.
* Matter and quality 1 Subs.
* 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, &c.
* Flesh
* Mountain birds, partridge, pheasant, quails,
&c. Hen, capon, mutton, veal, kid, rabbit, &c.
* Fish
* That live in gravelly waters, as pike, perch,
trout, sea-fish, solid, white, &c.
* Herbs
* Borage, bugloss, balm, succory, endive, violets,
in broth, not raw, &c.
* Fruits and roots.
* Raisins of the sun, apples corrected for wind,
oranges, &c., parsnips, potatoes, &c.
* or Subs. 2. Quantity.
* At seasonable and unusual times of repast, in good
order, not before the first be concocted, sparing,
not overmuch of one dish.
* Memb. 2. Rectification of retention and evacuation, as
costiveness, venery, bleeding at nose, months stopped,
baths, &c.
* Memb. 3. Air rectified, with a digression of the air
* Naturally in the choice and site of our country,
dwelling-place, to be hot and moist, light, wholesome,
pleasant &c.
* Artificially, by often change of air, avoiding winds,
fogs, tempests, opening windows, perfumes, &c.
* Memb. 4. Exercise
* 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.
* Memb. 5. Rectification of waking and terrible dreams, &c.
* Memb. 6. Rectification of passions and perturbations of
the mind.
* From himself
* 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.
* or from his friends.
* Subsect. 2. By fair and foul means, counsel,
comfort, good persuasion, witty devices, fictions,
and, if it be possible, to satisfy his mind.
* Subsect. 3. Music of all sorts aptly applied.
* Subsect. 4. Mirth and merry company.
* Sect. 3. A consolatory digression, containing
remedies to all discontents and passions of the
mind.
* Memb. 1. General discontents and grievances
satisfied.
* Memb. 2. Particular discontents, as deformity of
body, sickness, baseness of birth, &c.
* Memb. 3. Poverty and want, such calamities and
adversities.
* Memb. 4. Against servitude, loss of liberty,
imprisonment, banishment, &c.
* Memb. 5. Against vain fears, sorrows for death of
friends, or otherwise.
* Memb. 6. Against envy, livor, hatred, malice,
emulation, ambition, and self-love, &c.
* Memb. 7. Against repulses, abuses, injuries,
contempts, disgraces, contumelies, slanders, and
scoffs, &c.
* Memb. 8. Against all other grievous and ordinary
symptoms of this disease of melancholy.
B. Sect. 4. Pharmaceutics, or Physic which cureth with
medicines, with a digression of this kind of physic, is
either Memb. 1. Subsect. 1.
* General to all
* Alterative
* Simples altering melancholy, with a digression of
exotic simples 2. Subs.
* Herbs. 3. Subs.
* To the heart; borage, bugloss, scorzonera,
&c.
* To the head; balm, hops, nenuphar, &c.
* Liver; eupatory, artemisia, &c.
* Stomach; wormwood, centaury, pennyroyal.
* Spleen; ceterache, ash, tamarisk.
* To Purify the blood; endive, succory, &c.
* Against wind; origan, fennel, aniseed, &c.
* 4. Subs Precious stones; as smaragdes,
chelidonies, &c. Minerals;
* or compounds altering melancholy, with a digression
of compounds. 5. Subs.
* Inwardly taken
* Liquid
* fluid
* Wines; as of hellebore, bugloss,
tamarisk, &c.
* Syrups of borage, bugloss, hops,
epithyme, endive, succory, &c.
* or consisting.
* Conserves of violets, maidenhair,
borage, bugloss, roses, &c.
* Confections; treacle, mithridate,
eclegms or linctures.
* or solid, as those aromatical confections.
* hot
* Diambra, dianthos.
* Diamargaritum calidum.
* Diamoscum dulce.
* Electuarium de gemmis.
* Laetificans Galeni et Rhasis.
* or cold
* Diamargaritum frigidum.
* Diarrhodon abbatis.
* Diacorolli, diacodium with their
tables.
* Condites of all sorts, &c.
* or Outwardly used, as
* Oils of camomile, violets, roses, &c.
* Ointments, alablastritum, populeum, &c.
* Liniments, plasters, cerotes, cataplasms,
frontals, fomentations, epithymes, sacks,
bags, odoraments, posies, &c.
* or Purging H
* or Particular to three distinct species, I; J; K
H. Medicines purging melancholy are either Memb. 2.
* Simples purging melancholy
* 1. Subs. Upward, as vomits
* Asrabecca, laurel, white hellebore, scilla, or
sea-onion, antimony, tobacco
* or Downward. 2. Subs.
* More gentle; as senna, epithyme, polypody,
mirobalanes, fumitory, &c.
* Stronger; aloes, lapis Armenus, lapis lazuli, black
hellebore.
* or 3. Subs. Compounds purging melancholy
* Superior parts
* Mouth
* swallowed
* Liquid, as potions, juleps, syrups, wine of
hellebore, bugloss, &c.
* Solid, as lapis Armenus, and lazuli, pills of
Indie, pills of fumitory, &c.
* Electuaries, diasena, confection of hamech,
hierologladium, &c.
* or Not swallowed, as gargarisms, masticatories,
&c.
* or Nostrils, sneezing powders, odoraments,
perfumes, &c.
* or Inferior parts, as clysters strong and weak, and
suppositories of Castilian soap, honey boiled, &c.
C. Chirurgical physic, which consists of Memb. 3.
* Phlebotomy, to all parts almost, and all the distinct
species.
* With knife, horse-leeches.
* Cupping-glasses.
* Cauteries, and searing with hot irons, boring.
* Dropax and sinapismus.
* Issues to several parts, and upon several occasions.
D. Sect. 5. Cure of head-melancholy. Memb. 1.
* 1. Subsect. Moderate diet, meat of good juice, moistening,
easy of digestion.
* Good air.
* 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.
* Subsect. 2. Bloodletting, if there be need, or that the
blood be corrupt, in the arm, forehead, &c., or with
cupping-glasses.
* Subsect. 3. Preparatives and purgers.
* 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,
mirobalanes, aurum potabile, or before Hamech, Pil.
Indae, Hiera, Pil. de lap. Armeno, lazuli.
* Subsect. 4. Averters.
* Cardan's nettles, frictions, clysters, suppositories,
sneezings, masticatories, nasals, cupping-glasses.
* To open the haemorrhoids with horse-leeches, to apply
horse-leeches to the forehead without scarification, to
the shoulders, thighs.
* Issues, boring, cauteries, hot irons in the suture of
the crown.
* Subsect. 5. Cordials, resolvers, hinderers.
* A cup of wine or strong drink.
* Bezoars stone, amber, spice.
* Conserves of borage, bugloss, roses, fumitory.
* Confection of Alchermes.
* Electuarium lætificans Galeni et Rhasis, &c.
* Diamargaritum frig. diaboraginatum, &c.
* Subsect. 6. Correctors of accidents, as,
* 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, roses, water-lilies, borage flowers,
ramsheads, &c.
* To procure sleep, and are
* Inwardly taken,
* Simples
* Poppy, nymphea, lettuce, roses, purslane,
henbane, mandrake, nightshade, opium, &c.
* or Compounds.
* Liquid, as syrups of poppy, verbasco, violets,
roses.
* Solid, as requies Nicholai, Philonium,
Romanum, Laudanum Paracelsi.
* or Outwardly used, as
* Oil of nymphea, poppy, violets, roses, mandrake,
nutmegs.
* Odoraments of vinegar, rosewater, 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
remedies.
E. 2. Memb. Cure of melancholy over the body.
* Diet, preparatives, purges, averters, cordials, correctors,
as before.
* Phlebotomy in this kind more necessary, and more frequent.
* To correct and cleanse the blood with fumitory, senna,
succory, dandelion, endive, &c.
F. Cure of hypochondriacal or windy melancholy. 3. Memb.
* 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 provoke urine with aniseed, daucus, asarum, &c., and
stools, if need be, by clysters and suppositories.
* To respect the spleen, stomach, liver, hypochondries.
* To use treacle now and then in winter.
* To vomit after meals sometimes, if it be inveterate.
* Subsect. 2. To expel wind.
* Inwardly Taken,
* Simples,
* Roots,
* Galanga, gentian, enula, angelica, calamus
aromaticus, zedoary, china, condite ginger,
&c.
* Herbs,
* Pennyroyal, rue, calamint, bay leaves, and
berries, scordium, betony, lavender, camomile,
centaury, wormwood, cumin, broom, orange pills.
* Spices,
* Saffron, cinnamon, mace, nutmeg, pepper, musk,
zedoary with wine, &c.
* Seeds,
* Aniseed, fennel-seed, ammi, cary, cumin,
nettle, bays, parsley, grana paradisi.
* or Compounds, as
* Dianisum, diagalanga, diaciminum, diacalaminthes,
electuarium de baccis lauri, benedicta laxativa,
&c. pulvia carminativus, and pulvis descrip.
Antidotario Florentine, aromaticum, rosatum,
Mithridate.
* or Outwardly used, as cupping-glasses to the
hypochonrdies without scarification, oil of camomile,
rue, aniseed, their decoctions, &c.