ought to fear our
own fickle estates, remember our miseries and vanities, examine and
humiliate ourselves, seek to God, and call to Him for mercy, that needs not
look for any rods to scourge ourselves, since we carry them in our bowels,
and that our souls are in a miserable captivity, if the light of grace and
heavenly truth doth not shine continually upon us: and by our discretion to
moderate ourselves, to be more circumspect and wary in the midst of these
dangers.

MEMB. II.

SUBSECT. I.--_Symptoms of Head-Melancholy_.

"If [2622]no symptoms appear about the stomach, nor the blood be
misaffected, and fear and sorrow continue, it is to be thought the brain
itself is troubled, by reason of a melancholy juice bred in it, or
otherwise conveyed into it, and that evil juice is from the distemperature
of the part, or left after some inflammation," thus far Piso. But this is
not always true, for blood and hypochondries both are often affected even
in head-melancholy. [2623]Hercules de Saxonia differs here from the common
current of writers, putting peculiar signs of head-melancholy, from the
sole distemperature of spirits in the brain, as they are hot, cold, dry,
moist, "all without matter from the motion alone, and tenebrosity of
spirits;" of melancholy which proceeds from humours by adustion, he treats
apart, with their several symptoms and cures. The common signs, if it be by
essence in the head, "are ruddiness of face, high sanguine complexion, most
part _rubore saturato_," [2624]one calls it, a bluish, and sometimes full
of pimples, with red eyes. Avicenna _l. 3, Fen. 2, Tract. 4, c. 18._
Duretus and others out of Galen, _de affect. l. 3, c. 6._ [2625]Hercules de
Saxonia to this of redness of face, adds "heaviness of the head, fixed and
hollow eyes." [2626]"If it proceed from dryness of the brain, then their
heads will be light, vertiginous, and they most apt to wake, and to
continue whole months together without sleep. Few excrements in their eyes
and nostrils, and often bald by reason of excess of dryness," Montaltus
adds, _c. 17._ If it proceed from moisture: dullness, drowsiness, headache
follows; and as Salust. Salvianus, _c. 1, l. 2_, out of his own experience
found, epileptical, with a multitude of humours in the head. They are very
bashful, if ruddy, apt to blush, and to be red upon all occasions,
_praesertim si metus accesserit_. But the chiefest symptom to discern this
species, as I have said, is this, that