too violent.  Sleep a little more than ordinary. [4245]Excrements daily to be voided by art or nature; and which Fernelius enjoins his patient, consil. 44, above the rest, to avoid all passions and perturbations of the mind.  Let him not be alone or idle (in any kind of melancholy), but still accompanied with such friends and familiars he most affects, neatly dressed, washed, and combed, according to his ability at least, in clean sweet linen, spruce, handsome, decent, and good apparel; for nothing sooner dejects a man than want, squalor, and nastiness, foul, or old clothes out of fashion.  Concerning the medicinal part, he that will satisfy himself at large (in this precedent of diet) and see all at once the whole cure and manner of it in every distinct species, let him consult with Gordonius, Valescus, with Prosper Calenius, lib. de atra bile ad Card. Caesium, Laurentius, cap. 8. et 9. de mela. Aelian Montaltus, de mel. cap. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. Donat. ab Altomari, cap. 7. artis med.  Hercules de Saxonia, in Panth. cap. 7. et Tract. ejus peculiar. de melan. per Bolzetam, edit.  Venetiis 1620. cap. 17. 18. 19. Savanarola, Rub. 82.  Tract. 8. cap. 1. Sckenkius, in prax. curat.  Ital. med.  Heurnius, cap. 12. de morb.  Victorius Faventius, pract.  Magn. et Empir.  Hildesheim, Spicel. 2. de man. et mel. Fel.  Plater, Stockerus, Bruel.  P. Baverus, Forestus, Fuchsius, Capivaccius, Rondoletius, Jason Pratensis, Sullust.  Salvian. de remed. lib. 2. cap. 1. Jacchinus, in 9.  Rhasis, Lod.  Mercatus, de Inter. morb. cur. lib. 1. cap. 17. Alexan.  Messaria, pract. med. lib. 1. cap. 21. de mel.  Piso.  Hollerius, &c. that have culled out of those old Greeks, Arabians, and Latins, whatsoever is observable or fit to be used.  Or let him read those counsels and consultations of Hugo Senensis, consil. 13. et 14. Reinerus Solenander, consil. 6. sec. 1. et consil. 3. sec. 3. Crato, consil. 16. lib. 1. Montanus 20. 22. and his following counsels, Laelius a Fonte Egubinus, consult. 44. 69. 77. 125. 129. 142. Fernelius, consil. 44. 45. 46. Jul.  Caesar Claudinus, Mercurialis, Frambesarius, Sennertus, &c.  Wherein he shall find particular receipts, the whole method, preparatives, purgers, correctors, averters, cordials in great variety and abundance:  out of which, because every man cannot attend to read or peruse them, I will collect for the benefit of the reader, some few more notable medicines.

SUBSECT.  II.—­Bloodletting.

Phlebotomy is promiscuously used before and after physic, commonly before, and upon occasion is often reiterated, if there be any need at least of it.  For Galen, and many others, make a doubt of bleeding at all in this kind of head-melancholy.  If the malady, saith Piso, cap. 23. and Altomarus, cap. 7. Fuchsius, cap. 33. [4246]"shall proceed primarily from the misaffected brain, the