y he with Hollerius, Fracastorius, Falopius, and others, being
to give their sentence of a party labouring of hypochondriacal melancholy,
could not find out by the symptoms which part was most especially affected;
some said the womb, some heart, some stomach, &c., and therefore Crato,
_consil. 24. lib. 1._ boldly avers, that in this diversity of symptoms,
which commonly accompany this disease, [2634]"no physician can truly say
what part is affected." Galen _lib. 3. de loc. affect._, reckons up these
ordinary symptoms, which all the Neoterics repeat of Diocles; only this
fault he finds with him, that he puts not fear and sorrow amongst the other
signs. Trincavelius excuseth Diocles, _lib. 3. consil. 35._ because that
oftentimes in a strong head and constitution, a generous spirit, and a
valiant, these symptoms appear not, by reason of his valour and courage.
[2635]Hercules de Saxonia (to whom I subscribe) is of the same mind (which
I have before touched) that fear and sorrow are not general symptoms; some
fear and are not sad; some be sad and fear not; some neither fear nor
grieve. The rest are these, beside fear and sorrow, [2636]"sharp belchings,
fulsome crudities, heat in the bowels, wind and rumbling in the guts,
vehement gripings, pain in the belly and stomach sometimes, after meat that
is hard of concoction, much watering of the stomach, and moist spittle,
cold sweat, _importunus sudor_, unseasonable sweat all over the body," as
Octavius Horatianus _lib. 2. cap. 5._ calls it; "cold joints, indigestion,
[2637]they cannot endure their own fulsome belchings, continual wind about
their hypochondries, heat and griping in their bowels, _praecordia sursum
convelluntur_, midriff and bowels are pulled up, the veins about their eyes
look red, and swell from vapours and wind." Their ears sing now and then,
vertigo and giddiness come by fits, turbulent dreams, dryness, leanness,
apt they are to sweat upon all occasions, of all colours and complexions.
Many of them are high-coloured especially after meals, which symptom
Cardinal Caecius was much troubled with, and of which he complained to
Prosper Calenus his physician, he could not eat, or drink a cup of wine,
but he was as red in the face as if he had been at a mayor's feast. That
symptom alone vexeth many. [2638]Some again are black, pale, ruddy,
sometimes their shoulders and shoulder blades ache, there is a leaping all
over their bodies, sudden trembling, a palpitation of the h