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.

or Outwardly used, as
Oils of camomile, violets, roses, &c. 
Ointments, alablastritum, populeum, &c. 
Liniments, plasters, cerotes, cataplasms, frontals,
fomentations, epithymes, sacks, bags, odoraments,
posies, &c.

or Purging [Symbol:  Moon-3/4]

or Particular to three distinct species, [Symbol:  Cancer] [Symbol:  Leo]
[Symbol:  Virgo].

Medicines purging melancholy are either Memb. 2.

Simples purging melancholy

1.  Subs. Upward, as vomits
Asrabecca, laurel, white hellebore, scilla, or sea-onion,
antimony, tobacco
or Downward. 2.  Subs.
More gentle; as senna, epithyme, polypody, mirobalanes, fumitory,
&c. 
Stronger; aloes, lapis Armenus, lapis lazuli, black hellebore.

or 3.  Subs. Compounds purging melancholy

Superior parts
Mouth
swallowed
Liquid, as potions, juleps, syrups, wine of hellebore,
bugloss, &c. 
Solid, as lapis Armenus, and lazuli, pills of Indie,
pills of fumitory, &c. 
Electuaries, diasena, confection of hamech,
hierologladium, &c.
or Not swallowed, as gargarisms, masticatories, &c.
or Nostrils, sneezing powders, odoraments, perfumes, &c.

or Inferior parts, as clysters strong and weak, and suppositories of
Castilian soap, honey boiled, &c.

[Symbol:  Gemini] Chirurgical physic, which consists of Memb. 3.

Phlebotomy, to all parts almost, and all the distinct species. 
With knife, horseleeches. 
Cupping-glasses. 
Cauteries, and searing with hot irons, boring. 
Dropax and sinapismus. 
Issues to several parts, and upon several occasions.

[Symbol:  Cancer] Sect. 5. Cure of head-melancholy. Memb. 1.

  1.  Subsect. Moderate diet, meat of good juice, moistening, easy of
    digestion. 
  Good air. 
  Sleep more than ordinary. 
  Excrements daily to be voided by art or nature. 
  Exercise of body and mind not too violent, or too remiss, passions of the
    mind, and perturbations to be avoided.
  Subsect. 2. Bloodletting, if there be need, or that the blood be
    corrupt, in the arm, forehead, &c., or with cupping-glasses.
  Subsect. 3. Preparatives and purgers. 
      Preparatives; as syrup of borage, bugloss, epithyme, hops, with their
        distilled waters, &c. 
      Purgers; as Montanus, and Matthiolus helleborismus, Quercetanus,
        syrup of hellebore, extract of hellebore, pulvis Hali, antimony
        prepared, Rulandi aqua mirabilis; which are used, if gentler
        medicines will not take place, with Arnoldus, vinum buglossatum,
        senna, cassia, mirobalanes, aurum potabile, or before Hamech,
        Pil.  Indae, Hiera, Pil. de lap.  Armeno, lazuli.

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