opendria, fumitory, maidenhair, bizantine, &c.
These are most used for preparatives to other physic, mixed with distilled
waters of like nature, or in juleps otherwise.

Consisting, are conserves or confections; conserves of borage, bugloss,
balm, fumitory, succory, maidenhair, violets, roses, wormwood, &c.
Confections, treacle, mithridate, eclegms, or linctures, &c. Solid, as
aromatical confections: hot, _diambra, diamargaritum calidum, dianthus,
diamoschum dulce, electuarium de gemmis laetificans Galeni et Rhasis,
diagalanga, diaciminum dianisum, diatrion piperion, diazinziber, diacapers,
diacinnamonum_: Cold, as _diamargaritum frigidum, diacorolli, diarrhodon
abbatis, diacodion_, &c. as every _pharmacopoeia_ will show you, with their
tables or losings that are made out of them: with condites and the like.

Outwardly used as occasion serves, as amulets, oils hot and cold, as of
camomile, staechados, violets, roses, almonds, poppy, nymphea, mandrake,
&c. to be used after bathing, or to procure sleep.

Ointments composed of the said species, oils and wax, &c., as
_Alablastritum Populeum_, some hot, some cold, to moisten, procure sleep,
and correct other accidents.

Liniments are made of the same matter to the like purpose: emplasters of
herbs, flowers, roots, &c., with oils, and other liquors mixed and boiled
together.

Cataplasms, salves, or poultices made of green herbs, pounded, or sod in
water till they be soft, which are applied to the hypochondries, and other
parts, when the body is empty.

Cerotes are applied to several parts and frontals, to take away pain,
grief, heat, procure sleep. Fomentations or sponges, wet in some
decoctions, &c., epithemata, or those moist medicines, laid on linen, to
bathe and cool several parts misaffected.

Sacculi, or little bags of herbs, flowers, seeds, roots, and the like,
applied to the head, heart, stomach, &c., odoraments, balls, perfumes,
posies to smell to, all which have their several uses in melancholy, as
shall be shown, when I treat of the cure of the distinct species by
themselves.

MEMB. II.

SUBSECT. I.--_Purging Simples upward_.

Melanagoga, or melancholy purging medicines, are either simple or compound,
and that gently, or violently, purging upward or downward. These following
purge upward. [4185]Asarum, or Asrabecca, which, as Mesue saith, is hot in
the second degree, and dry in the third, "it is commonly taken in wine,
whey," or as with us, the juice