Liquid, as syrups of poppy, verbasco, violets, roses.
Solid, as _requies Nicholai, Philonium, Romanum, Laudanum Paracelsi_.
Oil of nymphea, poppy, violets, roses, mandrake, nutmegs.
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.
♌ 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.
♍ Cure of hypochondriacal or windy melancholy. 3. Memb.
Diet, preparatives, averters, cordials, purgers, as before, saving that they must not be so vehement.
Use of pennyroyal, wormwood, centaury sod, which alone hath cured many.
To provoke urine with aniseed, daucus, asarum, &c., and stools, if need be, by clysters and suppositories.
To respect the spleen, stomach, liver, hypochondries.
To vomit after meals sometimes, if it be inveterate.
Galanga, gentian, enula, angelica, calamus aromaticus, zedoary, china, condite ginger, &c.
Pennyroyal, rue, calamint, bay leaves, and berries, scordium, bethany, lavender, camomile, centaury, wormwood, cumin, broom, orange pills.
Saffron, cinnamon, mace, nutmeg, pepper, musk, zedoary with wine, &c.
Aniseed, fennel-seed, ammi, cary, cumin, nettle, bays, parsley, grana paradisi.
Dianisum, diagalanga, diaciminum, diacalaminthes, electuarium de baccis lauri, benedicta laxativa, &c. pulvia carminativus, and pulvis descrip. Antidotario Florentine, aromaticum, rosatum, Mithridate.
or Outwardly used, as cupping-glasses to the hypochonries without scarification, oil of camomile, rue, aniseed, their decoctions, &c.