use treacle now and then in winter.
To vomit after meals sometimes, if it be inveterate.
_Subsect. 2._ To expel wind.

Inwardly Taken,
Simples,
Roots,
Galanga, gentian, enula, angelica, calamus aromaticus,
zedoary, china, condite ginger, &c.
Herbs,
Pennyroyal, rue, calamint, bay leaves, and berries,
scordium, bethany, lavender, camomile, centaury,
wormwood, cumin, broom, orange pills.
Spices,
Saffron, cinnamon, mace, nutmeg, pepper, musk, zedoary
with wine, &c.
Seeds,
Aniseed, fennel-seed, ammi, cary, cumin, nettle, bays,
parsley, grana paradisi.
or Compounds, as
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.

THE SECOND PARTITION.
THE CURE OF MELANCHOLY.

THE FIRST SECTION, MEMBER, SUBSECTION.
_Unlawful Cures rejected_.

Inveterate Melancholy, howsoever it may seem to be a continuate, inexorable
disease, hard to be cured, accompanying them to their graves, most part, as
[2789]Montanus observes, yet many times it may be helped, even that which
is most violent, or at least, according to the same [2790]author, "it may
be mitigated and much eased." _Nil desperandum._ It may be hard to cure,
but not impossible for him that is most grievously affected, if he but
willing to be helped.

Upon this good hope I will proceed, using the same method in the cure,
which I have formerly used in the rehearsing of the causes; first general,
then particular; and those according to their several species. Of these
cures some be lawful, some again unlawful, which though frequent, familiar,
and often used, yet justly censured, and to be controverted. As first,
whether by these diabolical means, which are commonly practised by the
devil and his ministers, sorcerers, witches, magicians, &c., by spells,
cabilistical words, charms, characters, images, amulets, ligatures,
philters, incantations, &c., this disease and