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Show 1!] so Of Me/mic/Joly. 3001,17,. Boole l l l 0' Cf [lift/tmt/Mll‘. laments, by making them depart into the Pores and Albums of the {ub{lance of the Brain 3 whence proceedeth the depravation of the \‘ll‘loung‘ After death, the Head being opened, and the Colts [JliCli ell, thy gm,of the Brain appeared full of black Blood, and the Right \mnmcic O; the culties Trult and Beafon refiding init. ‘ Again, the Blood acquiring an undue Crafis, as being mixed witlia tiou (if the Cliyine, not broken into linall Particles, by the faint motion of the HCart Blood profifiiniflnfl as in pear, Sldnels, (9w. doth render the vital Liquor crude, and full oflixttl I faline Particles, as not well attenuated by the motion of Blood, comingY from ' Brain was difcmered to be liuffed with Blood,tnade tip of many concretcd lii- Theintlifpof- ‘l by violent uriclft. fiance. Liver was difcoloured with a lividc hue, and the middle or the Spleen was bleeding at Nofe, and of purging the ferous Becrements, by Vomiting and Stool, all which do infeét the Blood aim render it Atrabilarian, which afterward indilpofetb the nervous Liquor, a: d Linimal Spirits. The Antients did conceive the fitll rife of Melancholy to be feared in the Brain, and other times it: the. "term and Spleen; as to the Brain it maybe defaced with a blewifh colour about the furface, and its more Interior Recei- fts being infpeéted, were found to be of a laudable colour and lubl‘tance. Thisidreadful Malady fonictimes proceedeth from black corrupt Hllmol‘g lodged in the bofom of the Stomach, attended .Wltll :L Stirrhzzr of the 1') lorm, and a Scirrbiu of the Melentery, of which, fome part is concreted . ‘ . jmo a hard l'ti'ong fubltance. n,‘ and of COHRITUFtO cholerick a with Apgrfon of Honour being endued "hi" habit of Body, found a great weight in the bottom of his bronnmli, attended with fxtide Belchings,and much Halmnnalunga norle in Its pallage called Mm'um, when the Brain hath its liihflanee habitually vitiated by an ill found the Inteltines, and (lilleiilions 0f the Hypocondres, accompanied usitli {ion of accuftomed evacuations of Blood, by the Hacmorrhoids and Men/m4 Womb, which is only occafional, in point ofan ill mafs of Blood, produ- ced by the flipprelfed pnrgation of the Mmfw 5 whereupon the vital Liquor growerh degenerate, as being deprefled with grofs faline and fulphureous Particles, which being aflociated with the Blood, (imparted by the mtotide Artery into the fubltance of the cortical Glands) doth malte an ill nervous Liquor, the vehicle and ground of the Animal Spirits. And as to the Spleen it is vulgarly apprehended to be the fubiect of the liiciiii'iuiidéi Atrabilarian Humors, commonly called Hypocondriacal Melancholy, by rea‘ fon of the Blood, being filled With many Patterns not deputated 1n the Glands "WHUWS- of the Spleen ; whereupon the Ferments of the Blood are fpoiled, and being l‘r Atmlnlm carried with itinto the fubftance of the Brain7 doth produce an impure Animal Liquor, vitiating its more volatil Particles (commonly l'tyled Spirits) cauling a melancholiclr difiemper. Sometimes this fad Difeafe is conceived to be propagated from all the apartiments of the Body, as in a Scotbutiek habit, wherein the mafs of Blood hath loll: its tone, and bounty, as being tainted with grofs, faline, and fillphureous parts,\vhich are not l‘evered from the vital»Liquor,in the variouscola(cries of Blood, the Spleen, Liver, Kidneys, conlilting,r of numerousGlandsi the fyfiems of innumerable and various vellels, theLfecretories ofthe Vital Liquor, from feveral kinds of Recrements (efpecially as being litline and fulphureous ) which being not feparated from the mafs of Blood, have a recoutfe to the Brain, and defeat the produétion of good nervous Liquor and 59mm, re the ground of this AtrabilariadMalady. _ r X ,, This Difeal'e fometimes arilcth from a fiuiious and mucous Matter in the "LT Left Ventricle of the Heart, and from the Gangreen ofthe Liver and Spleen, §‘_mm;_"-‘f" and from the jugular Veins, full ofadult black Blood. Hi part or the And the lower Apartiment being laid open, the convex the weal; contrafiions of the Helhy Fibres of the Heart 3 whereupon the ill. out of which it is formed SomecnnOthers do imagine the feat of Melancholy to be in the Vinitib, which is f;‘,‘,,,‘:",,",: very improper, feeing the Atrabilian Humor is not Cat generated in the iiiil'ifilify Matter; And afterward the Thorn being opened, and the Heart Dillected, a quantity of black Blood gulhed out 3 and the Lobesof the l rings were li~ ride, and being opened, a famous corrupt Matter difiilled out ol' their‘lub- affetflcd Blood doth make, or fpoil the produétion of laudable Animal Li. quot and Spirits in the cortical Gland»; of the Brain. The Blood alfo contraé‘tetli an ill temper by immoderate Exercife, gym;Dier, nf‘salt Meats, efpeeially if they be dried in Smoke; and the fuppi-cf. nervous Liquor, primarily flowing from Ll1C ill fetous Liquor of the Blood, min?!" lauitiits'7 and in the Lelt Ventriclc was lodged a quantity ol'ianiousdnuam; 1 A Servant of a Merchant labouring under a melancholick affection,\va5f0 with afllieled with a deep fadnefs, that {he perpetually ivilhed for death, always ‘ ‘ treating her lelfwrth Sighs and Tears‘ ,_ A met: in the Stomntli. An lul'arre cf this Lil; great Fear and Sadnefs, and deiCp Thoughts, and a wealrnels or the Animal toll». faculty; and after a proper courfc 0f Phylick had been adinuiillred, [isfy all Indications according to Art, nothing proved iuccelsful in this delpe~ . . rate Difcafe. the diAndafter he had yielded to Fate, hi5 Body being Dilleéted, and black cora feen was it of botmm the in opened, being Stomach licnded be burr/apt", rUpt Matter, refembling Ink, and the (Pym-«int was found to Mctnd And the lhutting up the paffage out of the Venmcle into the Guts. itiy was difcerncd to be alfo Seirrbm -, and loine' part Ofclt was conuttt like; tone. E bY R lapidefteme Juyce, into a hard Matter fomewhar. Its rife tom men- And a melancholick dil'temper of the Brain may talxc ) when the ' fliuousBlood ( debafed by grofs fabric and fulphureous Particles natural Channels are flopped in the "term, fo that it cannot‘bc {dillcharglc‘l t 1;. monthly by the Cavity ofthe Body and Vagmzf of the VVoni.) 3.. .9 to}; 00, Icariyl‘ng Arteries, Hypogaflzrlck and Spermatick the of terminations bu, into the fubftanee of the 1mm, and the fccret Morin", leading into the loin ofthe Womb being obfli'iiéted, the vital Liquor is received iftito {thc Spermatick, and Hypogaftrick Veins, and tranfmitted through rhea chnECm iolni Trunk of the Venn Carl/t1, into the Right Ventricle oi the Heart, an thence through the Blood-veilels of the Lungs, intothe Left Chamber of [11: common and afccndentCTiun [ Hem, and conveyed afterward through the oi the Aorta, and Carotide Arteries, into the lubllance of the, 1 qitica a. fei'mentative and Atiaiiiariaq~ Glands, Wherin the Blood (tainted with '0 tlltiplilllt‘): Difpofition, and not difcharged by the uteri") doth take off the nervous Liquor, and Animal Spirits, and deprave the upper an on er Animal Functions, often attended with deep, fad, and defpaiiipgliiriljpilqac; L lions) highly torturing the unquiet minds of Patients, a5 frmcym‘c "5‘ Eft‘mally unhappy. ‘ itted given of this cafe, in a Gentlewoman (comm An lnftance may be who walking in the Fields, pren‘ {,0 my care ) of a Sanguine Conlhtution, \vas furprized with cold blafls ol Sweat, by evacuation free a 13"le after were Wind lhuttino up the cutaneous ['0res,and flopping her Mcnflrnanvhich the to fe recour a had lood rhm in mm?" >* whereu P on the ill-affected B - Heart, P1; Melancholy mung lrnrri the «mutual, on of the 'Urrrm. |