s
madness. Marius the Roman was so cured, some, say, though with great pain.
Skenkius hath some other instances of women that have been helped by
flowing of their mouths, which before were stopped. That the opening of the
haemorrhoids will do as much for men, all physicians jointly signify, so
they be voluntary, some say, and not by compulsion. All melancholy are
better after a quartan; [2717]Jobertus saith, scarce any man hath that ague
twice; but whether it free him from this malady, 'tis a question; for many
physicians ascribe all long agues for especial causes, and a quartan ague
amongst the rest. [2718]Rhasis _cont. lib. 1, tract. 9._ "When melancholy
gets out at the superficies of the skin, or settles breaking out in scabs,
leprosy, morphew, or is purged by stools, or by the urine, or that the
spleen is enlarged, and those _varices_ appear, the disease is dissolved."
Guianerius, _cap. 5, tract. 15_, adds dropsy, jaundice, dysentery, leprosy,
as good signs, to these scabs, morphews, and breaking out, and proves it
out of the 6th of Hippocrates' Aphorisms.

Evil prognostics on the other part. _Inveterata melancholia incurabilis_,
if it be inveterate, it is [2719]incurable, a common axiom, _aut
difficulter curabilis_ as they say that make the best, hardly cured. This
Galen witnesseth, _l. 3, de loc. affect. cap. 6_, [2720]"be it in whom it
will, or from what cause soever, it is ever long, wayward, tedious, and
hard to be cured, if once it be habituated." As Lucian said of the gout,
she was [2721]"the queen of diseases, and inexorable," may we say of
melancholy. Yet Paracelsus will have all diseases whatsoever curable, and
laughs at them which think otherwise, as T. Erastus _par. 3_, objects to
him; although in another place, hereditary diseases he accounts incurable,
and by no art to be removed. [2722]Hildesheim _spicel. 2, de mel._ holds it
less dangerous if only [2723]"imagination be hurt, and not reason,"
[2724]"the gentlest is from blood. Worse from choler adust, but the worst
of all from melancholy putrefied." [2725]Bruel esteems hypochondriacal
least dangerous, and the other two species (opposite to Galen) hardest to
be cured. [2726]The cure is hard in man, but much more difficult in women.
And both men and women must take notice of that saying of Montanus _consil.
230, pro Abate Italo_, [2727]"This malady doth commonly accompany them to
their grave; physicians may ease, and it may lie hid for a time, but they
c