THE SYNOPSIS OF THE SECOND PARTITION.

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 ♈
        • Pharmaceutical ♉
        • Chirurgical ♊
• or Particular to the three distinct species, ♋ ♌ ♍

♈ 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. ♎

Memb. 6. Passions and perturbations of the mind rectified.

• 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 calamites 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.

♉ 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 ☾
• or Particular to three distinct species, ♋ ♌ ♍.

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.

♊ Chirurgical physic, which consists of Memb. 3.

• Phlebotomy, to all parts almost, and all the distinct species.
• With knife, horseleeches.
• Cupping-glasses.
• Cauteries, and searing with hot irons, boring.
• Dropax and sinapismus.
• Issues to several parts, and upon several occasions.

♋ 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 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 blushing, inward and outward remedies.

♌ 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.

♍ 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, bethany, 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 hypochonries without scarification, oil of camomile, rue, aniseed, their decoctions, &c.