Diamargaritum frigidum, diambra, diaboraginatum, electuarium laetificans Galeni et Rhasis, de gemmis, dianthos, diamoscum dulce et amarum, electuarium conciliatoris, syrup.  Cidoniorum de pomis, conserves of roses, violets, fumitory, enula campana, satyrion, lemons, orange-pills, condite, &c., have their good use.

[4331] “[Symbol:  Rx].  Diamoschi dulcis et amari ana [Symbol:  Dram]jj. 
        Diabuglossati, Diaboraginati, sacchari violacei ana j. misce cum
        syrupo de pomis.”

Every physician is full of such receipts:  one only I will add for the rareness of it, which I find recorded by many learned authors, as an approved medicine against dotage, head-melancholy, and such diseases of the brain.  Take a [4332]ram’s head that never meddled with an ewe, cut off at a blow, and the horns only take away, boil it well, skin and wool together; after it is well sod, take out the brains, and put these spices to it, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, mace, cloves, ana [Symbol:  Ounce]ss, mingle the powder of these spices with it, and heat them in a platter upon a chafing-dish of coals together, stirring them well, that they do not burn; take heed it be not overmuch dried, or drier than a calf’s brains ready to be eaten.  Keep it so prepared, and for three days give it the patient fasting, so that he fast two hours after it.  It may be eaten with bread in an egg or broth, or any way, so it be taken.  For fourteen days let him use this diet, drink no wine, &c.  Gesner, hist. animal. lib. 1. pag. 917. Caricterius, pract. 13. in Nich. de metri. pag. 129. Iatro:  Wittenberg. edit.  Tubing. pag. 62, mention this medicine, though with some variation; he that list may try it, [4333]and many such.

Odoraments to smell to, of rosewater, violet flowers, balm, rose-cakes, vinegar, &c., do much recreate the brains and spirits, according to Solomon.  Prov. xxvii. 9.  “They rejoice the heart,” and as some say, nourish; ’tis a question commonly controverted in our schools, an odores nutriant; let Ficinus, lib. 2. cap. 18. decide it; [4334]many arguments he brings to prove it; as of Democritus, that lived by the smell of bread alone, applied to his nostrils, for some few days, when for old age he could eat no meat.  Ferrerius, lib. 2. meth. speaks of an excellent confection of his making, of wine, saffron, &c., which he prescribed to dull, weak, feeble, and dying men to smell to, and by it to have done very much good, aeque fere profuisse olfactu, et potu, as if he had given them drink.  Our noble and learned Lord [4335]Verulam, in his book de vita et morte, commends, therefore, all such cold smells as any way serve to refrigerate the spirits.  Montanus, consil. 31, prescribes a form which he would have his melancholy patient never to have out of his hands.  If you will have them spagirically prepared, look in Oswaldus Crollius, basil.  Chymica.