THE SYNOPSIS OF THE SECOND PARTITION.

Cure of melancholy is either Sec. 1. Generall to all, which contains Unlawfull means forbidden. Mem. 1. From the Divel, Magicians, Witches, &c. by charmes, spels, incantations, Images, &c. Quest. 1. Whether they can cure this, or other such like diseases? Quest. 2. Whether if they can so cure, it be lawfull to seek to them for help?

or Lawfull means, which are 2. Immediately from God, a Jove principium, by prayer &c. 3. Quest. 1. Whether Saints and their Reliques can help this infirmity? Quest. 2. Whether it be lawfull in this case to sue to them for aide?

or 4. Mediatly by Nature, which concerns and works by Subsect. 1. Physician, in whom is required science, confidence, honesty, &c. 2. Patient, in whom is required obedience, constancy, willingness, patience, confidence, bounty, &c. not to practise on himself. 3. Physicke, which consists of Dieteticall ♈ Pharmaceuticall ♉ Chirurgicall ♊ or Particular to the three distinct species ♋ ♌ ♍

♈ Sect. 2. Dietetical, which consists in reforming those six non naturall things, as in Diete rectified 1. Mem. Matter & quality. 1. Subs. Such meats as are easie of digestion, well dressed, hot, sod, &c. young, moist, of good nourishment, &c. Bread of pure wheat, well baked. Water cleer from the fountain. Wine and drink not too strong, &c.

Flesh: Mountain birds, partridg, pheasant, quails, &c. Hen, capon, mutton, veale, kid, rabbit, &c. Fish: That live in gravelly waters, as pike, pearch, trowt, Sea-fish, solid, white, &c. Hearbs: Borage, bugloss, bawm, succory, endive, violets, in broth, not raw, &c. Fruits & roots: Raysins of the Sun, apples corrected for wind, oranges, &c. parsnips, potatoes, &c.

or 2. Quantity: At seasonable and usuall times of repast, in good order, not before the first be concocted, sparing, not overmuch of one dish. 2. Rectification of Retention and Evacuation, as costiveness, Venery, bleeding at nose, months stopped, baths, &c.

3. Aire rectified, with a Digression of the Aire. Naturally in the choice, and site of our countrey, dwelling-place, to be hot and moist, light, wholsome, pleasant, &c. Artificially, by often change of aire, avoiding winds, fogs, tempests, opening windows, perfumes, &c.

4. Exercise. Of body and minde, but moderate, as hawking, hunting, riding, shooting, bowling, fishing, fowling, walking in fair fields, galleries, tennis, bar. Of minde, as Ches, cards, tables &c. to see playes, masks, &c. serious studies, business, all honest recreations. 5. Rectification of waking and terrible dreams, &c. 6. Rectification of passions and perturbations of the minde. ♎

Memb. 6. Passions and perturbations of the minde 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 2. By fair and foul means, counsell, comfort, good perswasion, witty devices, fictions, and if it be possible to satisfie his mind. 3. Musick of all sorts aptly applyed. 4. Mirth, and merry company.

Sect. 3. A consolatory digression, containing remedies to all discontents and passions of the minde. Memb. 1. Generall discontents and grievances satisfied. 2. Particular discontents, as deformity of body, sickness, baseness of birth, &c. 3. Poverty and want, such calamities and adversities. 4. Against servitude, loss of liberty, imprisonment, banishment, &c.

5. Against vain fears, sorrows for death of friends, or otherwise. 6. Against envy, livor, hatred, malice, emulation, ambition, and self-love, &c. 7. Against repulses, abuses, injuries, contempts, disgraces, contumelies, slanders, and scoffes, &c. 8. Against all other grievous and ordinary symptoms of this disease of melancholy.

♉ Sect. 4. Pharmaceutice, or Physick which cureth with medicines, with a digression of this kinde of Physick, is either Mem. 1. Subs. 1. Generall to all Alterative Simples altering melancholy, with a digression of Exotick Simples. 2. Subs.

Hearbs. 3. Subs. To the heart; borage, buglosse, Scorzonera, &c. To the head; balm, hops, nenuphar, &c. Liver; Eupatory, artimesia, &c. Stomack; wormwood, centory, peniroyall. Spleen; Ceterache, ashe, Tamerisk. To purifie the blood; endive, succory, &c. Against wind; origan, fennel, aniseed, &c. 4. Pretious stones; as smaragdes, chelidonies, &c. Minerals, as gold, &c.

or Compounds altering melancholy, with a digression of Compounds. 1. Subs. Inwardly taken liquid fluide: Wines; as of Hellebor, Buglosse, Tameriske, &c. Syrupes of borage, buglosse, hops, Epithyme, endive, succory, &c. or consisting: Conserves of violets, maidenhair, borage, buglosse, roses, &c. Confections; Treacle, Mithridate, Eclegmes or Linctures.

or solid, as those aromatical confections hot: Diambra, dianthos. Diamargaritum calidum. Diamoscum dulce. Electuarium de gemmis. Lætificans Galeni & Rhasis. or cold: Diamargaritum frigidum. Diarrhodon Abbatis. Diacorolli, diacodium, with their tables. Condites of all sorts, &c.

or Outwardly used, as Oyls of Camomile, Violets, Roses, &c. Oyntments; alablastritum, populeum, &c. Liniments; plaisters, cerotes, cataplasms, frontals, fomentations, Epithymes, sacks, bags, odoraments, posies, &c. or Purging ☾ or Particular to the three distinct Species ♋ ♌ ♍.

Medicines purging melancholy, are either Mem. 2. Simples purging melancholy 1. Subs. Upward, as vomits: Asarabacca, Lawrell, white Hellebor, Scylla, or Sea-onyon, Antimony, Tobacco. or Downward. 2. Subs. More gentle; as Sena, Epithime, Polipody, Mirobalanes, Fumitory, &c. Stronger; Aloes, lapis Armenus, lapis lazuli, black hellebor.

or 3. Subs. Compounds purging melancholy. Superior parts Mouth swallowed, or Liquid, as Potions, Julips, Syrups, wine of Hellebor, buglosse, &c. Solid, as lapis Armenus, & lazuli, pils of Indy, pils of Fumitory, &c. Electuaries, Diasena, confection of Hamech, Hierologladium, &c. Not swallowed, as gargarisms, masticatories, &c. or Nostrils; sneezing powders, odoraments, perfumes, &c. or Inferior pars, as Clysters strong and weak, and suppositories of Castilian sope, hony boiled, &c.

♊ Chyrurgical physick, which consists of Memb. 3. Phlebotomy, to all parts almost, and all the distinct Species. With knife, horsleeches. Cupping-glasses. Cauteries, and searing with hot Irons, boaring. Dropax and Synapismus. Issues to severall parts, and upon severall occasions.

♋ Sect. 5. Cure of head-melancholy. Mem. 1. 1. Subsect. Moderate diet, meat of good juyce, moistning, easie of digestion. Good Ayr. Sleep more then ordinary. Excrements daily to be avoided by Art or Nature. Exercise of body and minde not too violent, or too remiss, passions of the minde, and perturbations to be avoided. 2. Bloud-letting if there be need, or that the blood be corrupt, in the arm, forehead, &c. or with Cupping-glasses.

3. Preparatives and purgers. Preparatives; as Syrup of borage, bugloss, Epithime, hops, with their distilled waters, &c. Purgers; as Montanus, & Matthiolus Helleborismus, Quercetanus, Syrup of Hellebor, Extract of Hellebor, Pulvis Hali, Antimony prepared, Rulandi aqua mirabilis: which are used, if gentler medicines will not take place, with Arnoldus, vinum buglossatum, Sena, cassia, mirobalanes, aurum potabile, or before Hamech, Pil. Indæ, Hiera. Pil. de lap. Armeno, lazuli.

4. Averters. Cardans nettles, frictions, clysters, suppositories, sneezings, masticatories, nasals, cupping-glasses. To open the Hæmrods with horsleeches, to apply horsleeches to the forehead and without scarification, to the shoulders, thighs. Issues, boaring, cauteries, hot irons in the suture of the crown. 5. Cordials, resolvers, hinderers. A cup of wine or strong drink. Bezars stone, amber, spice. Conserves of Borage, Buglosse, Roses, Fumitory. Confection of Alchermes. Electuarium lætificans Galeni & Rhasis, &c. Diamargaritum frig. Diaboraginatum, &c.

6. Correctors of accidents, as To procure sleep, and are Odoraments of Roses, Violets. Irrigations of the head, with the decoctions of nymphea, lettice, mallows, &c. Epithemes, oyntments, bags to the heart. Fomentations of oyl for the Belly. Baths of sweet water, in which were sod mallows, violets, roses, Water-lillies, Borage flowers, ramsheads, &c.

Inwardly taken Simples: Poppy, Nymphea, lettice, roses, purslane, henban, mandrake, night-shade, opii &c. or Compounds: Liquid, as Syrups of Poppy, Verbasco, Violets, Roses. Solid, as requies Nicholai, Philonium Romanum, Laudanum Paracelsi.

or Outwardly used, as Oyls of Nymphea, Poppy, Violets, Roses, Mandrake, Nutmegs. Odoraments of Vinegar, rosewater, opium. Frontals of rose-cake, rose-vinegar, nutmeg. Oyntments, alablastritum, unguentum populeum, simple or mixt with opium. Irrigations of the head, feet, spunges, Musick, murmure 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 pease, cabbage, venison, meats heavy of digestion, use bawm, harts-tongue, &c. Against ruddiness and blushing, inward and outward remedies.

♌ 2. Mem. 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, Sene, Succory, Dandelion, Endive, &c.

♍ Cure of Hypocondriacall, or windy melancholy, 3. Mem. Subsect. 1. Phlebotomy if need require. Diet, preparatives, averters, cordials, purgers, as before, saving that they must not be so vehement. Use of peny-royal, 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, stomack, liver, hypocondries. To use Treacle now and then in winter. To vomit after meals sometimes, if it be inveterate.

2. To expel wind Inwardly taken Simples: Roots, Hearbs, Spices, Seeds Galanga, gentian, Enula, Angelica, calamus Aromaticus, zedoary, china, condite ginger, &c. Peniroyal, rue, calaminth, bayleaves, & berries, Scordium, Bettany, Lavander, camomile, centaury, wormwood, cumin, broom, orange pils.

Saffron, cynamome, mace, nutmeg, pepper, musk, zedoary with wine, &c. Aniseed, fennelseed, ammi, cary, cumin, nettle, bayes, parsly, grana paradisi.

or Compounds, as Dianisum, Diagalanga, Diaciminum, dicalaminthes, Electuarium de baccis Lauri, Benedicta laxativa, &c. pulvis Carminativus, & pulvis descrip. Antidotario Florentino, aromaticum, rosatum, Mithridat. or Outwardly used, as Cupping-glasses to the Hypocondries without scarification, oyl of camomile, rue, aniseed, their decoctions, &c.