Crato prescribes the condite fruit of wild rose, to a nobleman his Patient to be taken before dinner or supper, to the quantity of a chestnut. It is made of sugar, as that of Quinces. The decoction of the roots of sowthistle before meat by the same author is much approved. To eat of a baked Apple some advise, or of a preserved Quince, Commin seed prepared with meat in stead of salt, to keep down fumes: not to study or to be intensive after meals.

℞. Nucleorum persic. seminis melonum ana unc. ℈ ß aquæ fragrorum l. ij. misce, utatur mane.

To apply cupping glasses to the shoulders is very good. For the other kinde of ruddiness which is setled in the face with pimples, &c. because it pertains not to my subject, I will not meddle with it. I refer you to Crato’s Counsels, Arnoldus lib. 1. breviar. cap. 39. I. Rulande, Peter Forestus de Fuco, lib. 31. obser. 2. To Platerus, Mercurialis, Ulmus, Randolettius, Heurnius, Menadous, and others that have written largely of it.

Those other grievances and symptomes of headach, palpitation of heart, Vertigo, deliquium &c. which trouble many melancholy men, because they are copiously handled apart in every Physician, I do voluntarily omit.