be drunk. Areteus, _c. 7._ commends alum baths above the
rest; and [2971]Mercurialis, _consil. 88._ those of Lucca in that
hypochondriacal passion. "He would have his patient tarry there fifteen
days together, and drink the water of them, and to be bucketed, or have the
water poured on his head." John Baptista, _Sylvaticus cont. 64._ commends
all the baths in Italy, and drinking of their water, whether they be iron,
alum, sulphur; so doth [2972]Hercules de Saxonia. But in that they cause
sweat and dry so much, he confines himself to hypochondriacal melancholy
alone, excepting that of the head and the other. Trincavelius, _consil. 14.
lib. 1._ refers those [2973]Porrectan baths before the rest, because of the
mixture of brass, iron, alum, and _consil. 35. l. 3._ for a melancholy
lawyer, and _consil. 36._ in that hypochondriacal passion, the [2974]baths
of Aquaria, and _36. consil._ the drinking of them. Frisimelica, consulted
amongst the rest in Trincavelius, _consil. 42. lib. 2._ prefers the waters
of [2975]Apona before all artificial baths whatsoever in this disease, and
would have one nine years affected with hypochondriacal passions fly to
them as to a [2976]holy anchor. Of the same mind is Trincavelius himself
there, and yet both put a hot liver in the same party for a cause, and send
him to the waters of St. Helen, which are much hotter. Montanus, _consil.
230._ magnifies the [2977]Chalderinian baths, and _consil 237. et 239._ he
exhorteth to the same, but with this caution, [2978]"that the liver be
outwardly anointed with some coolers that it be not overheated." But these
baths must be warily frequented by melancholy persons, or if used, to such
as are very cold of themselves, for as Gabelius concludes of all Dutch
baths, and especially of those of Baden, "they are good for all cold
diseases, [2979]naught for choleric, hot and dry, and all infirmities
proceeding of choler, inflammations of the spleen and liver." Our English
baths, as they are hot, must needs incur the same censure: but D. Turner of
old, and D. Jones have written at large of them. Of cold baths I find
little or no mention in any physician, some speak against them:
[2980]Cardan alone out of Agathinus commends "bathing in fresh rivers, and
cold waters, and adviseth all such as mean to live long to use it, for it
agrees with all ages and complexions, and is most profitable for hot
temperatures." As for sweating, urine, bloodletting by haemrods, or
other