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.

  Memb. 5. Rectification of waking and terrible dreams, &c.

  Memb. 6. Rectification of passions and perturbations of the mind.
    [Symbol:  Libra]

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.

[Symbol:  Taurus] 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.

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