for the spleen in him and [4391]Lod.  Mercatus, who is a great magnifier of this medicine.  This Chalybs praeparatus, or steel-drink, is much likewise commended to this disease by Daniel Sennertus l. 1. part. 2. cap. 12. and admired by J. Caesar Claudinus Respons. 29. he calls steel the proper [4392]alexipharmacum of this malady, and much magnifies it; look for receipts in them.  Averters must be used to the liver and spleen, and to scour the mesaraic veins:  and they are either too open or provoke urine.  You can open no place better than the haemorrhoids, “which if by horseleeches they be made to flow, [4393]there may be again such an excellent remedy,” as Plater holds.  Sallust.  Salvian will admit no other phlebotomy but this; and by his experience in an hospital which he kept, he found all mad and melancholy men worse for other bloodletting.  Laurentius cap. 15. calls this of horseleeches a sure remedy to empty the spleen and mesaraic membrane.  Only Montanus consil. 241. is against it; [4394] “to other men” (saith he) “this opening of the haemorrhoids seems to be a profitable remedy; for my part I do not approve of it, because it draws away the thinnest blood, and leaves the thickest behind.”

Aetius, Vidus Vidius, Mercurialis, Fuchsius, recommend diuretics, or such things as provoke urine, as aniseeds, dill, fennel, germander, ground pine, sodden in water, or drunk in powder:  and yet [4395]P.  Bayerus is against them:  and so is Hollerius; “All melancholy men” (saith he) “must avoid such things as provoke urine, because by them the subtile or thinnest is evacuated, the thicker matter remains.”

Clysters are in good request.  Trincavelius lib. 3. cap. 38. for a young nobleman, esteems of them in the first place, and Hercules de Saxonia Panth. lib. 1. cap. 16. is a great approver of them. [4396]"I have found (saith he) by experience, that many hypochondriacal melancholy men have been cured by the sole use of clysters,” receipts are to be had in him.

Besides those fomentations, irrigations, inunctions, odoraments, prescribed for the head, there must be the like used for the liver, spleen, stomach, hypochondries, &c. [4397]"In crudity” (saith Piso) “’tis good to bind the stomach hard” to hinder wind, and to help concoction.

Of inward medicines I need not speak; use the same cordials as before.  In this kind of melancholy, some prescribe [4398]treacle in winter, especially before or after purges, or in the spring, as Avicenna, [4399] Trincavellius mithridate, [4400]Montaltus paeony seed, unicorn’s horn; os de corde cervi, &c.