rs in
hypochondriacal melancholy, still to be used as occasion serves; [2957]
Peter Cnemander in a consultation of his _pro hypocondriaco_, will have his
patient continually loose, and to that end sets down there many forms of
potions and clysters. Mercurialis, _consil. 88._ if this benefit come not
of its own accord, prescribes [2958]clysters in the first place: so doth
Montanus, _consil. 24. consil. 31 et 229._ he commends turpentine to that
purpose: the same he ingeminates, _consil. 230._ for an Italian abbot. 'Tis
very good to wash his hands and face often, to shift his clothes, to have
fair linen about him, to be decently and comely attired, for _sordes
vitiant_, nastiness defiles and dejects any man that is so voluntarily, or
compelled by want, it dulleth the spirits.

Baths are either artificial or natural, both have their special uses in
this malady, and as [2959]Alexander supposeth, _lib. 1. cap. 16._ yield as
speedy a remedy as any other physic whatsoever. Aetius would have them
daily used, _assidua balnea_, _Tetra. 2. sect. 2. c. 9._ Galen cracks how
many several cures he hath performed in this kind by use of baths alone,
and Rufus pills, moistening them which are otherwise dry. Rhasis makes it a
principal cure, _Tota cura sit in humectando_, to bathe and afterwards
anoint with oil. Jason Pratensis, Laurentius, _cap. 8._ and Montanus set
down their peculiar forms of artificial baths. Crato, _consil. 17. lib. 2._
commends mallows, camomile, violets, borage to be boiled in it, and
sometimes fair water alone, and in his following counsel, _Balneum aquae
dulcis solum saepissime profuisse compertum habemus_. So doth Fuchsius,
_lib. 1. cap. 33._ _Frisimelica, 2. consil. 42._ in Trincavelius. Some
beside herbs prescribe a ram's head and other things to be boiled. [2960]
Fernelius, _consil. 44._ will have them used ten or twelve days together;
to which he must enter fasting, and so continue in a temperate heat, and
after that frictions all over the body. Lelius Aegubinus, _consil. 142._
and Christoph. Aererus, in a consultation of his, hold once or twice a week
sufficient to bathe, the [2961]"water to be warm, not hot, for fear of
sweating." Felix Plater, _observ. lib. 1._ for a melancholy lawyer, [2962]
"will have lotions of the head still joined to these baths, with a ley
wherein capital herbs have been boiled." [2963]Laurentius speaks of baths
of milk, which I find approved by many others. And still after bath, the