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Show H52 thls‘r/smc/Jol}, and its Cum, BouTlfi 333i; lll. r'F‘J" Heart, producing great Fears, and dcfpairing Thoughts, and quickm ons , and afterward the Atrabilarian Blood being impelled by the CarotidArteries into the fubftance of the Brain, did infeét the Liquor and 1 c Spirits with faline and fulphureous Atomes, and pervert the operations ofhe 1' ima. 'IIi: cure of N mtho‘ry is i a grcarpait dillcmperr. 1153 V And above all, a thin and temperate Art is to be cholen, which attenucm5, cooleth, and moilteneth the Blood, and taketh off ‘ts dry, lirline, and hot and grofs lulphureous Particles, and rel'toreth it to its bounty and purity. The cure of Melancholy is ofas great difficulty, as importance, in refe- TM turn 0' many, and dreadful fymptomes; whereupon the remedies, and method of Phyfick do admit great variation. The evident caufes confifting in the paflions ofthe Mind, are to be allay- L ed by all means imaginable, as forrow by a pleafant convcrfe, and indigna~ to the great joy and fatisfaétion of her Friends and Relations, and the (3h; times do appeafe the immoderate paflions of the Mind; And a good Coun- ry of the All-Wife and Sovereign Phylieian ofBody and Soul. As to the cure of Melancholy in a general notion, in reference to its an- teccdent caufe, it indicates the depuration ofthe Blood by makingic Hood tion, and anger by excellent precepts of meeknefs and humility, which forms. {cl oia Spiritual guide, and intimate Friends, do often takeolfvain fcruples in Spiritual Matters, and calm the great [forms of afflicted, wounded, and dcfpairing Souls, that the bones which God hath broken, may rejoyce. clear, and volatil, by taking away its grofs, fulphureous, and faline Patiiclesa "his is elltéted by opening the obftruétions of the Liver, Spleen, Kidne s! and 11mm, whofe various fubftance are different Syfiemes of numergu: the Curatory relates to the Difeafc and its continent caufe, the Prefervatory, Glands, the feveral Colatories ofthe Blood. founded Viri/Jm confertvmzdir. J The Therapeutick method in this Difeafe, doth ofil‘r us Three Indications, conlifting in the Procatarétick, and evident caules, and the Vital, which is And as to the difcompofure of the Mind, having great influence upon the Vital and Animal Liquor and Spirits, we are to divert the paflions of Sorrow As to the Difeafe, which is chiefly caufed by an ill Snows Here/rifle, and clouded Animal Spirits proceeding from acidc, and fixed faline Particles ofthe and Fear, attended with Cares and deep Thoughts, with pleafant compa. Blood, fpoiling the purity of the Spirits of the Brain, it doth indicate pro- ny, and ingenious and merry Difcourfes, and Thoughts, by rendrina them free and eafy, and by telling the Patient the caufes of his dreadfulbappre- per Antifcorbuticlt Medicines, prepared with Garden and Sea fieorby-grafs, henfions are removed 5 wherupon the Melancholy immediately difappears, Tia/[it'll]!!! givcth an account of a Phylician who fancied his Head to be cut off; \vheteupona Leaden Cap being ordered to be put upon his Head; he felt the weight of the Lead, which gave him the Senfe of his Head and ation ofMilk, Mum, évc. or prepared by way of the faid Juyces of Plants mixed with that of Oranges,which refineth, and giveth them a plealant Taf‘te. As alfo Antefcorbutielt Syrupes, or Conferves, made Up with Powder of ) the. noilc of Wind pafling up and down his Bowels; and was cured by Purgatives, making great evacuations of Excrements intoa Clofe‘ B001, wherein the Phylidan advifed Frogs to be call, and defired the Patient to view the hogs fwimming in the Excrements, which took away his melancholy apprehenfion of Frogs in his Belly. I could add many more fuch inllances of this Difeafe, and their Cures, but I will omit the trouble. And the caufe of. this Difeale being an ill mafs of Blood (clouged With grofs, adult, and falu e Recrements ) a good Diet may be advifedto render it laudable, as Meats ofgood nourifhment, of a moifi temper, Ofa thin fuh- Steel, prepared with Sulphure, are beneficial in this Difeafe, as they depua rate the ferous parts of the Blood, the Maren); [rib/tram of Animal Liquor and Spirits. And in reference to the prefervatory Indication, by taking away the ante- A Vein may bctrezly (Illt'l'ttl u: a mclmrthuily difp lillt [2, morrhoids to divert the Blood, and to produce a natural evacuation by thofe Velltls from the Head, and the Saplm'lm is proper to be opened in Women, la~ much Bland. Lettiiea may lawaingof be als'oappli. homing with the fuppteflion of the Men/trim. As alfo a proper method Aedam.to the Of Phyliclt may be given before propoundcd in the difcafes of the lit:- r'"; in order to purge the Blood of its grofsnefs, and to open the obftruéted Blood-veflels of the Womb. Vomitories alfo prove very advantageous in mc~ lets,Capons,Partridges,Lamb, Mutton, Veal, (7c, OfFilh Whirings, Perch. Plounders, Gudgeons, and of new laid Egns, boiled or, roalledircar. 0f Herbs, Borage, Buglofs, Lettuce, Endive, Spilijacl'}, Of Fruits, Figs, AlmondS, (Which is vilcous indigelted Chyle, adhering to the inward coat of the Ven~ And Chalrbtats art priper in this Di cafe. " Cedent caufe, founded in the quantity ofill Blood, a Clyfler may be premiv M, and a Vein freely opened; as alfo Leeches may be applyed tothe Pia-- lancholy (affeéting the Brain) as emptying a foul Stomach of grofs Phlegme endued With a cooling and moifl temper, which do conteriiperate and moifien, and diffolvelulphureous and faline Recrements, fuch as \Xi'ater-grmh Barley-gruel, Barley-cream; thin Broths made with Oatmeal Barley, and cooling and moillning Herbs. ) And on the Other fide, all grofs, Salt, and finoaked Flefh muf't be‘forborfi: $211312? Bills, Goat, Hare ; And of Fowls, chiefly Geefe, Ducks 5 Ol‘Flfl}. ‘ ) x 31W, Thornback, Sturgeon, and all other gtols Fill) hard ofdl‘ gt'fiiona And 0f Herbs, Cabbage, Coleworts, Golly-Blowers, and the lib- Thatidcdlfpr litionei'tlie ntrvmn Liquor, ismuch (Oil‘ufletl by A: tent/rhuinks. Brooklime, Water-crefces, Pine, Firr, mixed with Millepcdes in the main- fiance, and eafy digellion, and not flatulent, as the Hell] of Chickens PUl‘ Pineze, Pifiachia, Corants : As alfo in this Difeafe, Suppinas are beneficial;as "v landmly ‘ dring her mof't unquiet in the fad apprehenfions of infernal fire and pains which all etafe upon repeated Bleeding in the Foot, and bl'al'Plican'o' of leeches to the Harmorrhoidal Veins, and a courfe ofeordial and C(‘phalicli Medicines, perfeflly refloring her by Gods allifiance and blefliiig_ to thefor mer ufe of all the Faculties of her reafon, and inward and outward Senfec- Another Patient imagined he had Frogs crokinq in, his Belly, which was Alt iitlr and {moped Net tsi had in . time to its many evident, procatarticlt, and continent caules, attended with ,_ cured his vain fancy. It um)! Diet is winner for (Mr llllC of {MS Drilai‘c. i gination, Memory, and Realon, accompanied with dreadful pallion 5, ren- er and by ilictlcfrcation (iflliL‘ BlooJ. OfMe/mc/lidv, and its Caner. . A proper tnurl'eofPhP Iitk mull be 1H}: 1 in the ohrlrut‘tion cf the Drum. trifle) and other acide Recrements, which fpoil, or weaken, at. lealt the concoé‘tive faculty of the Stomach, making an ill Chyle : Vomitories alfo ven I)' much refine the Blood, by opening the Cyltick and Choledock Duets; and that of the (Pancreas 3 whereupon various kinds of Recrements are difn Charged into the Guts : In firong Bodies, Oxymel oquuills,VVine.of Squrlls, mixed with fome few grains of White Hellcbore, may be given in 012‘an hirer-drink, and frequent draughts of it during the time of Vomiting. As 311.0 aninfufion of Croat/5 metallomm, or Emetick Tartar of Mynfichte,_0r SaltOfVitriOl, or Sulphure of Antimony. Purgatives are celebrated With gOOd fuccefs in this Difeafe, as difcharging grofs, acide, and faline Recrements of the Blood, except they be fir‘ong, which give great annoyance to the Body, asincreafing the fermentation of ill Humors, and weakening the Tune of the Blood, and vitiatizig, the nervorn Liquor, and Annual Spltr‘rfrtl:Jé 'Vomitrr'ce are goof to rCl‘lllt the Blur) l. Purgative: are pmpar in this Diltafe, |