compound, and that gently, or violently, purging upward or downward.
These following purge upward. [4185]Asarum, or Asrabecca, which, as
Mesue saith, is hot in the second degree, and dry in the third, it is
commonly taken in wine, whey, or as with us, the juice of two or three
leaves or more sometimes, pounded in posset drink qualified with a
little liquorice, or aniseed, to avoid the fulsomeness of the taste, or
as Diaserum Fernelii. Brassivola in Catart. reckons it up amongst those
simples that only purge melancholy, and Ruellius confirms as much out
of his experience, that it purgeth [4186]black choler, like hellebore
itself. Galen, lib. G. simplic. and [4187]Matthiolus ascribe other
virtues to it, and will have it purge other humours as well as this.
Laurel, by Heurnius's method, ad prax. lib. 2. cap. 24. is put amongst
the strong purgers of melancholy; it is hot and dry in the fourth
degree. Dioscorides, lib. 11. cap. 114. adds other effects to it.
[4188]Pliny sets down fifteen berries in drink for a sufficient potion:
it is commonly corrected with his opposites, cold and moist, as juice
of endive, purslane, and is taken in a potion to seven grains and a
half. But this and asrabecca, every gentlewoman in the country knows
how to give, they are two common vomits.
Scilla, or sea-onion, is hot and dry in the third degree. Brassivola in
Catart. out of Mesue, others, and his own experience, will have this
simple to purge [4189]melancholy alone. It is an ordinary vomit, vinum
scilliticum mixed with rubel in a little white wine.
White hellebore, which some call sneezing-powder, a strong purger
upward, which many reject, as being too violent: Mesue and Averroes
will not admit of it, [4190]by reason of danger of suffocation,
[4191]great pain and trouble it puts the poor patient to, saith
Dodonaeus. Yet Galen, lib. 6. simpl. med. and Dioscorides, cap. 145.
allow of it. It was indeed [4192] terrible in former times, as Pliny
notes, but now familiar, insomuch that many took it in those days,
[4193]that were students, to quicken their wits, which Persius Sat. 1.
objects to Accius the poet, Illas Acci ebria veratro. [4194]It helps
melancholy, the falling sickness, madness, gout, &c., but not to be
taken of old men, youths, such as are weaklings, nice, or effeminate,
troubled with headache, high-coloured, or fear strangling, saith
Dioscorides. [4195]Oribasius, an old physician, hath written very
copiously, and approves of it, in such affections which can otherwise
hardly be cured. Hernius, lib. 2. prax. med. de vomitoriis, will not
have it used [4196]but with great caution, by reason of its strength,
and then when antimony will do no good, which caused Hermophilus to
compare it to a stout captain (as Codroneus observes cap. 7. comment.
de Helleb.) that will see all his soldiers go before him and come post
principia, like the bragging soldier, last himself; [4197]when other
helps fail in inveterate melancholy, in a desperate case, this vomit is
to be taken. And yet for all this, if it be well prepared, it may be
[4198] securely given at first. [4199]Matthiolus brags, that he hath
often, to the good of many, made use of it, and Heurnius, [4200]that he
hath happily used it, prepared after his own prescript, and with good
success. Christophorus a Vega, lib. 3. c. 41, is of the same opinion,
that it may be lawfully given; and our country gentlewomen find it by
their common practice, that there is no such great danger in it. Dr.
Turner, speaking of this plant in his Herbal, telleth us, that in his
time it was an ordinary receipt among good wives, to give hellebore in
powder to ii'd weight, and he is not much against it. But they do
commonly exceed, for who so bold as blind Bayard, and prescribe it by
pennyworths, and such irrational ways, as I have heard myself market
folks ask for it in an apothecary's shop: but with what success God
knows; they smart often for their rash boldness and folly, break a
vein, make their eyes ready to start out of their heads, or kill
themselves. So that the fault is not in the physic, but in the rude and
indiscreet handling of it. He that will know, therefore, when to use,
how to prepare it aright, and in what dose, let him read Heurnius lib.
2. prax. med. Brassivola de Catart. Godefridus Stegius the emperor
Rudolphus' physician, cap. 16. Matthiolus in Dioscor. and that
excellent commentary of Baptista Codroncus, which is instar omnium de
Helleb. alb. where we shall find great diversity of examples and
receipts.
Antimony or stibium, which our chemists so much magnify, is either
taken in substance or infusion, &c., and frequently prescribed in this
disease. It helps all infirmities, saith [4201]Matthiolus, which
proceed from black choler, falling sickness, and hypochondriacal
passions; and for farther proof of his assertion, he gives several
instances of such as have been freed with it: [4202]one of Andrew
Gallus, a physician of Trent, that after many other essays, imputes the
recovery of his health, next after God, to this remedy alone. Another
of George Handshius, that in like sort, when other medicines failed,
[4203]was by this restored to his former health, and which of his
knowledge others have likewise tried, and by the help of this admirable
medicine, been recovered. A third of a parish priest at Prague in
Bohemia, [4204]that was so far gone with melancholy, that he doted, and
spake he knew not what; but after he had taken twelve grains of
stibium, (as I myself saw, and can witness, for I was called to see
this miraculous accident) he was purged of a deal of black choler, like
little gobbets of flesh, and all his excrements were as black blood (a
medicine fitter for a horse than a man), yet it did him so much good,
that the next day he was perfectly cured. This very story of the
Bohemian priest, Sckenkius relates verbatim, Exoter. experiment. ad.
var. morb. cent. 6. observ. 6. with great approbation of it. Hercules
de Saxonia calls it a profitable medicine, if it be taken after meat to
six or eight grains, of such as are apt to vomit. Rodericus a Fonseca
the Spaniard, and late professor of Padua in Italy, extols it to this
disease, Tom. 2. consul. 85. so doth Lod. Mercatus de inter. morb. cur.
lib. 1. cap. 17. with many others. Jacobus Gervinus a French physician,
on the other side, lib. 2. de venemis confut. explodes all this, and
saith he took three grains only upon Matthiolus and some others'
commendation, but it almost killed him, whereupon he concludes,
[4205]antimony is rather poison than a medicine. Th. Erastus concurs
with him in his opinion, and so doth Aelian Montaltus cap. 30 de melan.
But what do I talk? 'tis the subject of whole books; I might cite a
century of authors pro and con. I will conclude with [4206]Zuinger,
antimony is like Scanderbeg's sword, which is either good or bad,
strong or weak, as the party is that prescribes, or useth it: a worthy
medicine if it be rightly applied to a strong man, otherwise poison.
For the preparing of it, look in Evonimi thesaurus, Quercetan, Oswaldus
Crollius, Basil. Chim. Basil. Valentius, &c.
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond
all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign
remedy to all diseases. A good vomit, I confess, a virtuous herb, if it
be well qualified, opportunely taken, and medicinally used; but as it
is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a
plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish,
devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
SUBSECT. II.—_Simples purging Melancholy downward_.
Polypody and epithyme are, without all exceptions, gentle purgers of
melancholy. Dioscorides will have them void phlegm; but Brassivola out
of his experience averreth, that they purge this humour; they are used
in decoction, infusion, &c. simple, mixed, &c.
Mirabolanes, all five kinds, are happily [4207]prescribed against
melancholy and quartan agues; Brassivola speaks out [4208]of a thousand
experiences, he gave them in pills, decoctions, &c., look for peculiar
receipts in him.
Stoechas, fumitory, dodder, herb mercury, roots of capers, genista or
broom, pennyroyal and half-boiled cabbage, I find in this catalogue of
purgers of black choler, origan, featherfew, ammoniac [4209]salt,
saltpetre. But these are very gentle; alyppus, dragon root, centaury,
ditany, colutea, which Fuchsius cap. 168 and others take for senna, but
most distinguish. Senna is in the middle of violent and gentle purgers
downward, hot in the second degree, dry in the first. Brassivola calls
it [4210]a wonderful herb against melancholy, it scours the blood,
lightens the spirits, shakes off sorrow, a most profitable medicine, as
[4211] Dodonaeus terms it, invented by the Arabians, and not heard of
before. It is taken diverse ways, in powder, infusion, but most
commonly in the infusion, with ginger, or some cordial flowers added to
correct it. Actuarius commends it sodden in broth, with an old cock, or
in whey, which is the common conveyor of all such things as purge black
choler; or steeped in wine, which Heurnius accounts sufficient, without
any farther correction.
Aloes by most is said to purge choler, but Aurelianus lib. 2. c. 6. de
morb. chron. Arculanus cap. 6. in 9. Rhasis Julius Alexandrinus,
consil. 185. Scoltz. Crato consil 189. Scoltz. prescribe it to this
disease; as good for the stomach and to open the haemorrhoids, out of
Mesue, Rhasis, Serapio, Avicenna: Menardus ep. lib. 1. epist. 1.
opposeth it, aloes [4212]doth not open the veins, or move the
haemorrhoids, which Leonhartus Fuchsius paradox. lib. 1. likewise
affirms; but Brassivola and Dodonaeus defend Mesue out of their
experience; let [4213]Valesius end the controversy.
Lapis armenus and lazuli are much magnified by [4214]Alexander lib. 1.
cap. 16. Avicenna, Aetius, and Actuarius, if they be well washed, that
the water be no more coloured, fifty times some say. [4215]That good
Alexander (saith Guianerus) puts such confidence in this one medicine,
that he thought all melancholy passions might be cured by it; and I for
my part have oftentimes happily used it, and was never deceived in the
operation of it. The like may be said of lapis lazuli, though it be
somewhat weaker than the other. Garcias ab Horto, hist. lib. 1. cap.
65. relates, that the [4216]physicians of the Moors familiarly
prescribe it to all melancholy passions, and Matthiolus ep. lib. 3.
[4217]brags of that happy success which he still had in the
administration of it. Nicholas Meripsa puts it amongst the best
remedies, sect. 1. cap. 12. in Antidotis; [4218]and if this will not
serve (saith Rhasis) then there remains nothing but lapis armenus and
hellebore itself. Valescus and Jason Pratensis much commend pulvis
hali, which is made of it. James Damascen. 2. cap. 12. Hercules de
Saxonia, &c., speaks well of it. Crato will not approve this; it and
both hellebores, he saith, are no better than poison. Victor
Trincavelius, lib. 2. cap. 14, found it in his experience, [4219]to be
very noisome, to trouble the stomach, and hurt their bodies that take
it overmuch.
Black hellebore, that most renowned plant, and famous purger of
melancholy, which all antiquity so much used and admired, was first
found out by Melanpodius a shepherd, as Pliny records, lib. 25. cap. 5.
[4220]who, seeing it to purge his goats when they raved, practised it
upon Elige and Calene, King Praetus' daughters, that ruled in Arcadia,
near the fountain Clitorius, and restored them to their former health.
In Hippocrates's time it was in only request, insomuch that he writ a
book of it, a fragment of which remains yet. Theophrastus, [4221]Galen,
Pliny, Caelius Aurelianus, as ancient as Galen, lib. 1, cap. 6. Aretus
lib. 1. cap. 5. Oribasius lib. 7. collect. a famous Greek, Aetius ser.
3. cap. 112 & 113 p. Aegineta, Galen's Ape, lib. 7. cap. 4. Actuarius,
Trallianus lib. 5. cap. 15. Cornelius Celsus only remaining of the old
Latins, lib. 3. cap. 23, extol and admire this excellent plant; and it
was generally so much esteemed of the ancients for this disease amongst
the rest, that they sent all such as were crazed, or that doted, to the
Anticyrae, or to Phocis in Achaia, to be purged, where this plant was
in abundance to be had. In Strabo's time it was an ordinary voyage,
Naviget Anticyras; a common proverb among the Greeks and Latins, to bid
a dizzard or a mad man go take hellebore; as in Lucian, Menippus to
Tantalus, Tantale desipis, helleboro epoto tibi opus est, eoque sane
meraco, thou art out of thy little wit, O Tantalus, and must needs
drink hellebore, and that without mixture. Aristophanes in Vespis,
drink hellebore, &c. and Harpax in the [4222] Comoedian, told Simo and
Ballio, two doting fellows, that they had need to be purged with this
plant. When that proud Menacrates ὀ ζεὺς, had writ an arrogant letter
to Philip of Macedon, he sent back no other answer but this, Consulo
tibi ut ad Anticyram te conferas, noting thereby that he was crazed,
atque ellebore indigere, had much need of a good purge. Lilius Geraldus
saith, that Hercules, after all his mad pranks upon his wife and
children, was perfectly cured by a purge of hellebore, which an
Anticyrian administered unto him. They that were sound commonly took it
to quicken their wits, (as Ennis of old, [4223]Qui non nisi potus ad
arma—prosiluit dicenda, and as our poets drink sack to improve their
inventions (I find it so registered by Agellius lib. 17. cap. 15.)
Cameades the academic, when he was to write against Zeno the stoic,
purged himself with hellebore first, which [4224]Petronius puts upon
Chrysippus. In such esteem it continued for many ages, till at length
Mesue and some other Arabians began to reject and reprehend it, upon
whose authority for many following lustres, it was much debased and
quite out of request, held to be poison and no medicine; and is still
oppugned to this day by [4225] Crato and some junior physicians. Their
reasons are, because Aristotle l. 1. de plant. c. 3. said, henbane and
hellebore were poison; and Alexander Aphrodiseus, in the preface of his
problems, gave out, that (speaking of hellebore) [4226]Quails fed on
that which was poison to men. Galen. l. 6. Epid. com. 5. Text. 35.
confirms as much: [4227]Constantine the emperor in his Geoponicks,
attributes no other virtue to it, than to kill mice and rats, flies and
mouldwarps, and so Mizaldus, Nicander of old, Gervinus, Sckenkius, and
some other Neoterics that have written of poisons, speak of hellebore
in a chief place. [4228]Nicholas Leonicus hath a story of Solon, that
besieging, I know not what city, steeped hellebore in a spring of
water, which by pipes was conveyed into the middle of the town, and so
either poisoned, or else made them so feeble and weak by purging, that
they were not able to bear arms. Notwithstanding all these cavils and
objections, most of our late writers do much approve of it. [4229]
Gariopontus lib. 1. cap. 13. Codronchus com. de helleb. Fallopius lib.
de med. purg. simpl. cap. 69. et consil. 15. Trincavelii, Montanus 239.
Frisemelica consil. 14. Hercules de Saxonia, so that it be opportunely
given. Jacobus de Dondis, Agg. Amatus, Lucet. cent. 66. Godef. Stegius
cap. 13. Hollerius, and all our herbalists subscribe. Fernelius meth.
med. lib. 5. cap. 16. confesseth it to be a [4230] terrible purge and
hard to take, yet well given to strong men, and such as have able
bodies. P. Forestus and Capivaccius forbid it to be taken in substance,
but allow it in decoction or infusion, both which ways P. Monavius
approves above all others, Epist. 231. Scoltzii, Jacchinus in 9.
Rhasis, commends a receipt of his own preparing; Penottus another of
his chemically prepared, Evonimus another. Hildesheim spicel. 2. de
mel. hath many examples how it should be used, with diversity of
receipts. Heurnius lib. 7. prax. med. cap. 14. calls it an
[4231]innocent medicine howsoever, if it be well prepared. The root of
it is only in use, which may be kept many years, and by some given in
substance, as by Fallopius and Brassivola amongst the rest, who
[4232]brags that he was the first that restored it again to its use,
and tells a story how he cured one Melatasta, a madman, that was
thought to be possessed, in the Duke of Ferrara's court, with one purge
of black hellebore in substance: the receipt is there to be seen; his
excrements were like ink, [4233]he perfectly healed at once; Vidus
Vidius, a Dutch physician, will not admit of it in substance, to whom
most subscribe, but as before, in the decoction, infusion, or which is
all in all, in the extract, which he prefers before the rest, and calls
suave medicamentum, a sweet medicine, an easy, that may be securely
given to women, children, and weaklings. Baracellus, horto geniali,
terms it maximae praestantia medicamentum, a medicine of great worth
and note. Quercetan in his Spagir Phar. and many others, tell wonders
of the extract. Paracelsus, above all the rest, is the greatest admirer
of this plant; and especially the extract, he calls it Theriacum,
terrestre Balsamum, another treacle, a terrestrial balm, instar omnium,
all in all, the [4234]sole and last refuge to cure this malady, the
gout, epilepsy, leprosy, &c. If this will not help, no physic in the
world can but mineral, it is the upshot of all. Matthiolus laughs at
those that except against it, and though some abhor it out of the
authority of Mesue, and dare not adventure to prescribe it, [4235]yet I
(saith he) have happily used it six hundred times without offence, and
communicated it to divers worthy physicians, who have given me great
thanks for it. Look for receipts, dose, preparation, and other cautions
concerning this simple, in him, Brassivola, Baracelsus, Codronchus, and
the rest.
SUBSECT. III.—_Compound Purgers_.
Compound medicines which purge melancholy, are either taken in the
superior or inferior parts: superior at mouth or nostrils. At the mouth
swallowed or not swallowed: If swallowed liquid or solid: liquid, as
compound wine of hellebore, scilla or sea-onion, senna, Vinum
Scilliticum, Helleboratum, which [4236]Quercetan so much applauds for
melancholy and madness, either inwardly taken, or outwardly applied to
the head, with little pieces of linen dipped warm in it. Oxymel.
Scilliticum, Syrupus Helleboratus major and minor in Quercetan, and
Syrupus Genistae for hypochondriacal melancholy in the same author,
compound syrup of succory, of fumitory, polypody, &c. Heurnius his
purging cock-broth. Some except against these syrups, as appears by
[4237]Udalrinus Leonoras his epistle to Matthiolus, as most pernicious,
and that out of Hippocrates, cocta movere, et medicari, non cruda, no
raw things to be used in physic; but this in the following epistle is
exploded and soundly confuted by Matthiolus: many juleps, potions,
receipts, are composed of these, as you shall find in Hildesheim
spicel. 2. Heurnius lib. 2. cap. 14. George Sckenkius Ital. med. prax.
&c.
Solid purges are confections, electuaries, pills by themselves, or
compound with others, as de lapide lazulo, armeno, pil. indae, of
fumitory, &c. Confection of Hamech, which though most approve,
Solenander sec. 5. consil. 22. bitterly inveighs against, so doth
Rondoletius Pharmacop. officina, Fernelius and others; diasena,
diapolypodium, diacassia, diacatholicon, Wecker's electuary de
Epithymo, Ptolemy's hierologadium, of which divers receipts are daily
made.
Aetius 22. 23. commends Hieram Ruffi. Trincavelius consil. 12. lib. 4.
approves of hiera; non, inquit, invenio melius medicamentum, I find no
better medicine, he saith. Heurnius adds pil. aggregat. pills de
Epithymo. pil. Ind. Mesue describes in the Florentine Antidotary,
Pilulae sine quibus esse nolo, Pilulae, Cochics, cum Helleboro, Pil.
Arabicae, Faetida, de quinque generibus mirabolanorum, &c. More proper
to melancholy, not excluding in the meantime, turbith, manna, rhubarb,
agaric, elescophe, &c. which are not so proper to this humour. For, as
Montaltus holds cap. 30. and Montanus cholera etiam purganda, quod
atrae, sit pabulum, choler is to be purged because it feeds the other:
and some are of an opinion, as Erasistratus and Asclepiades maintained
of old, against whom Galen disputes, [4238]that no physic doth purge
one humour alone, but all alike or what is next. Most therefore in
their receipts and magistrals which are coined here, make a mixture of
several simples and compounds to purge all humours in general as well
as this. Some rather use potions than pills to purge this humour,
because that as Heurnius and Crato observe, hic succus a sicco remedio
agre trahitur, this juice is not so easily drawn by dry remedies, and
as Montanus adviseth 25 cons. All [4239]drying medicines are to be
repelled, as aloe, hiera, and all pills whatsoever, because the disease
is dry of itself.
I might here insert many receipts of prescribed potions, boles, &c. The
doses of these, but that they are common in every good physician, and
that I am loath to incur the censure of Forestus, lib. 3. cap. 6. de
urinis, [4240]against those that divulge and publish medicines in their
mother-tongue, and lest I should give occasion thereby to some ignorant
reader to practise on himself, without the consent of a good physician.
Such as are not swallowed, but only kept in the mouth, are gargarisms
used commonly after a purge, when the body is soluble and loose. Or
apophlegmatisms, masticatories, to be held and chewed in the mouth,
which are gentle, as hyssop, origan, pennyroyal, thyme, mustard;
strong, as pellitory, pepper, ginger, &c.
Such as are taken into the nostrils, errhina are liquid or dry, juice
of pimpernel, onions, &c., castor, pepper, white hellebore, &c. To
these you may add odoraments, perfumes, and suffumigations, &c.
Taken into the inferior parts are clysters strong or weak,
suppositories of Castilian soap, honey boiled to a consistence; or
stronger of scammony, hellebore, &c.
These are all used, and prescribed to this malady upon several
occasions, as shall be shown in its place.
MEMB. III.
_Chirurgical Remedies_.
In letting of blood three main circumstances are to be considered,
[4241] Who, how much, when. That is, that it be done to such a one as
may endure it, or to whom it may belong, that he be of a competent age,
not too young, nor too old, overweak, fat, or lean, sore laboured, but
to such as have need, are full of bad blood, noxious humours, and may
be eased by it.
The quantity depends upon the party's habit of body, as he is strong or
weak, full or empty, may spare more or less.
In the morning is the fittest time: some doubt whether it be best
fasting, or full, whether the moon's motion or aspect of planets be to
be observed; some affirm, some deny, some grant in acute, but not in
chronic diseases, whether before or after physic. 'Tis Heurnius'
aphorism a phlebotomia auspicandum esse curiationem, non a pharmacia,
you must begin with bloodletting and not physic; some except this
peculiar malady. But what do I? Horatius Augenius, a physician of
Padua, hath lately writ 17 books of this subject, Jobertus, &c.
Particular kinds of bloodletting in use [4242]are three, first is that
opening a vein in the arm with a sharp knife, or in the head, knees, or
any other parts, as shall be thought fit.
Cupping-glasses with or without scarification, ocyssime compescunt,
saith Fernelius, they work presently, and are applied to several parts,
to divert humours, aches, winds, &c.
Horseleeches are much used in melancholy, applied especially to the
haemorrhoids. Horatius Augenius, lib. 10. cap. 10. Platerus de mentis
alienat. cap. 3. Altomarus, Piso, and many others, prefer them before
any evacuations in this kind.
[4243]Cauteries, or searing with hot irons, combustions, borings,
lancings, which, because they are terrible, Dropax and Sinapismus are
invented by plasters to raise blisters, and eating medicines of pitch,
mustard-seed, and the like.
Issues still to be kept open, made as the former, and applied in and to
several parts, have their use here on divers occasions, as shall be
shown.
SECT. V. MEMB. I.
SUBSECT. I.—_Particular Cure of the three several Kinds; of Head
Melancholy_.
The general cures thus briefly examined and discussed, it remains now
to apply these medicines to the three particular species or kinds,
that, according to the several parts affected, each man may tell in
some sort how to help or ease himself. I will treat of head melancholy
first, in which, as in all other good cures, we must begin with diet,
as a matter of most moment, able oftentimes of itself to work this
effect. I have read, saith Laurentius, cap. 8. de Melanch. that in old
diseases which have gotten the upper hand or a habit, the manner of
living is to more purpose, than whatsoever can be drawn out of the most
precious boxes of the apothecaries. This diet, as I have said, is not
only in choice of meat and drink, but of all those other non-natural
things. Let air be clear and moist most part: diet moistening, of good
juice, easy of digestion, and not windy: drink clear, and well brewed,
not too strong, nor too small. Make a melancholy man fat, as
[4244]Rhasis saith, and thou hast finished the cure. Exercise not too
remiss, nor too violent. Sleep a little more than ordinary.
[4245]Excrements daily to be voided by art or nature; and which
Fernelius enjoins his patient, consil. 44, above the rest, to avoid all
passions and perturbations of the mind. Let him not be alone or idle
(in any kind of melancholy), but still accompanied with such friends
and familiars he most affects, neatly dressed, washed, and combed,
according to his ability at least, in clean sweet linen, spruce,
handsome, decent, and good apparel; for nothing sooner dejects a man
than want, squalor, and nastiness, foul, or old clothes out of fashion.
Concerning the medicinal part, he that will satisfy himself at large
(in this precedent of diet) and see all at once the whole cure and
manner of it in every distinct species, let him consult with Gordonius,
Valescus, with Prosper Calenius, lib. de atra bile ad Card. Caesium,
Laurentius, cap. 8. et 9. de mela. Aelian Montaltus, de mel. cap. 26.
27. 28. 29. 30. Donat. ab Altomari, cap. 7. artis med. Hercules de
Saxonia, in Panth. cap. 7. et Tract. ejus peculiar. de melan. per
Bolzetam, edit. Venetiis 1620. cap. 17. 18. 19. Savanarola, Rub. 82.
Tract. 8. cap. 1. Sckenkius, in prax. curat. Ital. med. Heurnius, cap.
12. de morb. Victorius Faventius, pract. Magn. et Empir. Hildesheim,
Spicel. 2. de man. et mel. Fel. Plater, Stockerus, Bruel. P. Baverus,
Forestus, Fuchsius, Capivaccius, Rondoletius, Jason Pratensis, Sullust.
Salvian. de remed. lib. 2. cap. 1. Jacchinus, in 9. Rhasis, Lod.
Mercatus, de Inter. morb. cur. lib. 1. cap. 17. Alexan. Messaria,
pract. med. lib. 1. cap. 21. de mel. Piso. Hollerius, &c. that have
culled out of those old Greeks, Arabians, and Latins, whatsoever is
observable or fit to be used. Or let him read those counsels and
consultations of Hugo Senensis, consil. 13. et 14. Reinerus Solenander,
consil. 6. sec. 1. et consil. 3. sec. 3. Crato, consil. 16. lib. 1.
Montanus 20. 22. and his following counsels, Laelius a Fonte Egubinus,
consult. 44. 69. 77. 125. 129. 142. Fernelius, consil. 44. 45. 46. Jul.
Caesar Claudinus, Mercurialis, Frambesarius, Sennertus, &c. Wherein he
shall find particular receipts, the whole method, preparatives,
purgers, correctors, averters, cordials in great variety and abundance:
out of which, because every man cannot attend to read or peruse them, I
will collect for the benefit of the reader, some few more notable
medicines.
SUBSECT. II.—_Bloodletting_.