The Anatomy of Melancholy Part 32

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or solid, as those aromatical confections.

hot Diambra, dianthos.

Diamargaritum calidum.

Diamosc.u.m 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 [Symbol: Moon-3/4]

or Particular to three distinct species, [Symbol: Cancer] [Symbol: Leo]

[Symbol: Virgo].

Medicines purging melancholy are either _Memb. 2._

Simples purging melancholy

_1. Subs._ Upward, as vomits Asrabecca, laurel, white h.e.l.lebore, 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 h.e.l.lebore.

or _3. Subs._ Compounds purging melancholy

Superior parts Mouth swallowed Liquid, as potions, juleps, syrups, wine of h.e.l.lebore, 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.

[Symbol: Gemini] Chirurgical physic, which consists of _Memb. 3._

Phlebotomy, to all parts almost, and all the distinct species.

With knife, horseleeches.

Cupping-gla.s.ses.

Cauteries, and searing with hot irons, boring.

Dropax and sinapismus.

Issues to several parts, and upon several occasions.

[Symbol: Cancer] _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, pa.s.sions 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-gla.s.ses.

_Subsect. 3._ Preparatives and purgers.

Preparatives; as syrup of borage, bugloss, epithyme, hops, with their distilled waters, &c.

Purgers; as Monta.n.u.s, and Matthiolus _h.e.l.leborismus, Querceta.n.u.s_, syrup of h.e.l.lebore, extract of h.e.l.lebore, pulvis Hali, antimony prepared, _Rulandi aqua mirabilis_; which are used, if gentler medicines will not take place, with Arnoldus, _vinum buglossatum_, senna, ca.s.sia, 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-gla.s.ses.

To open the haemorrhoids 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.

_Subsect. 5._ Cordials, resolvers, hinderers.

A cup of wine or strong drink.

Bezars stone, amber, spice.

Conserves of borage, bugloss, roses, fumitory.

Confection of Alchermes.

_Electuarium laetificans 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 blus.h.i.+ng, inward and outward remedies.

[Symbol: Leo] _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.

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