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THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY
* Odoraments of roses, violets.
* Irrigations of the head, with the decoctions of
nymphea, lettuce, mallows, &c.
* Epithymes, ointments, bags to the heart.
* Fomentations of oil for the belly.
* Baths of sweet water, in which were sod mallows,
violets, roses, water-lilies, borage flowers,
ramsheads, &c.
* To procure sleep, and are
* Inwardly taken,
* Simples
* Poppy, nymphea, lettuce, roses, purslane,
henbane, mandrake, nightshade, opium, &c.
* or Compounds.
* Liquid, as syrups of poppy, verbasco, violets,
roses.
* Solid, as requies Nicholai, Philonium,
Romanum, Laudanum Paracelsi.
* or Outwardly used, as
* Oil of nymphea, poppy, violets, roses, mandrake,
nutmegs.
* Odoraments of vinegar, rosewater, opium.
* Frontals of rose-cake, rose-vinegar, nutmeg.
* Ointments, alablastritum, unguentum populeum,
simple or mixed with opium.
* Irrigations of the head, feet, sponges, music,
murmur and noise of waters.
* Frictions of the head and outward parts, sacculi
of henbane, wormwood at his pillow, &c.
* Against terrible dreams; not to sup late, or eat peas,
cabbage, venison, meats heavy of digestion, use balm,
hart's-tongue, &c.
* Against ruddiness and blushing, inward and outward
remedies.
E. 2. Memb. Cure of melancholy over the body.
* Diet, preparatives, purges, averters, cordials, correctors,
as before.
* Phlebotomy in this kind more necessary, and more frequent.
* To correct and cleanse the blood with fumitory, senna,
succory, dandelion, endive, &c.
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