The Anatomy of Melancholy eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 2,057 pages of information about The Anatomy of Melancholy.

The Anatomy of Melancholy eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 2,057 pages of information about The Anatomy of Melancholy.

  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.

[Symbol:  Leo] 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.

[Symbol:  Virgo] 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.

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