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.