ection of Alchermes.
_Electuarium laetificans Galeni et Rhasis_, &c.
_Diamargaritum frig. diaboraginatum_, &c.
_Subsect. 6._ Correctors of accidents, as,
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.
[Symbol: Leo] _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.
[Symbol: Virgo] Cure of hypochondriacal or windy melancholy. _3. Memb._
_Subsect. 1_ Phlebotomy, if need require.
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.
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