[5631]Avicenna confirms as much if need require, and [5632]"bloodletting above the rest,” which makes amantes ne sint amentes, lovers to come to themselves, and keep in their right minds.  ’Tis the same which Schola Salernitana, Jason Pratensis, Hildesheim, &c., prescribe bloodletting to be used as a principal remedy.  Those old Scythians had a trick to cure all appetite of burning lust, by [5633] letting themselves blood under the ears, and to make both men and women barren, as Sabellicus in his Aeneades relates of them.  Which Salmuth. Tit. 10. de Herol. comment. in Pancirol. de nov. report. Mercurialis, var. lec. lib. 3. cap. 7. out of Hippocrates and Benzo say still is in use amongst the Indians, a reason of which Langius gives lib. 1. epist. 10.

Huc faciunt medicamenta venerem sopientia, “ut camphora pudendis alligata, et in bracha gestata” (quidam ait) “membrum flaccidum reddit.  Laboravit hoc morbo virgo nobilis, cui inter caetera praescripsit medicus, ut laminam plumbeam multis foraminibus pertusam ad dies viginti portaret in dorso; ad exiccandum vero sperma jussit eam quam parcissime cibari, et manducare frequentur coriandrum praeparatum, et semen lactucae, et acetosae, et sic eam a morbo liberavit”.  Porro impediunt et remittunt coitum folia salicis trita et epota, et si frequentius usurpentur ipsa in totum auferunt.  Idem praestat Topatius annulo gestatus, dexterum lupi testiculum attritum, et oleo vel aqua rosata exhibitum veneris taedium inducere scribit Alexander Benedictus:  lac butyri commestum et semen canabis, et camphora exhibita idem praestant.  Verbena herba gestata libidinem extinguit, pulvisquae ranae decollatae et exiccatae.  Ad extinguendum coitum, ungantur membra genitalia, et renes et pecten aqua in qua opium Thebaicum sit dissolutum; libidini maxime contraria camphora est, et coriandrum siccum frangit coitum, et erectionem virgae impedit; idem efficit synapium ebibitum.  “Da verbenam in potu et non erigetur virga sex diebus; utere mentha sicca cum aceto, genitalia illinita succo hyoscyami aid cicutae, coitus appelitum sedant, &c. [Symbol:  Rx]. seminis lactuc. portulac. coriandri an. [Symbol:  Dram]j. menthae siccae [Symbol:  Dram]ss. sacchari albiss. [Symbol:  Ounce]iiij. pulveriscentur omnia subtiliter, et post ea simul misce aqua neunpharis, f. confec. solida in morsulis.  Ex his sumat mane unum quum surgat”.  Innumera fere his similia petas ab Hildishemo loco praedicto, Mizaldo, Porta, caeterisque.

SUBSECT.  II.—­Withstand the beginnings, avoid occasions, change his place:  fair and foul means, contrary passions, with witty inventions:  to bring in another, and discommend the former.