y," &c. If this will not help, no physic in the world can
but mineral, it is the upshot of all. Matthiolus laughs at those that
except against it, and though some abhor it out of the authority of Mesue,
and dare not adventure to prescribe it, [4235]"yet I" (saith he) "have
happily used it six hundred times without offence, and communicated it to
divers worthy physicians, who have given me great thanks for it." Look for
receipts, dose, preparation, and other cautions concerning this simple, in
him, Brassivola, Baracelsus, Codronchus, and the rest.

SUBSECT. III.--_Compound Purgers_.

Compound medicines which purge melancholy, are either taken in the superior
or inferior parts: superior at mouth or nostrils. At the mouth swallowed or
not swallowed: If swallowed liquid or solid: liquid, as compound wine of
hellebore, scilla or sea-onion, senna, _Vinum Scilliticum, Helleboratum_,
which [4236]Quercetan so much applauds "for melancholy and madness, either
inwardly taken, or outwardly applied to the head, with little pieces of
linen dipped warm in it." _Oxymel. Scilliticum, Syrupus Helleboratus_ major
and minor in Quercetan, and _Syrupus Genistae_ for hypochondriacal
melancholy in the same author, compound syrup of succory, of fumitory,
polypody, &c. Heurnius his purging cock-broth. Some except against these
syrups, as appears by [4237]Udalrinus Leonoras his epistle to Matthiolus,
as most pernicious, and that out of Hippocrates, _cocta movere, et
medicari, non cruda_, no raw things to be used in physic; but this in the
following epistle is exploded and soundly confuted by Matthiolus: many
juleps, potions, receipts, are composed of these, as you shall find in
Hildesheim _spicel. 2._ Heurnius _lib. 2. cap. 14._ George Sckenkius _Ital.
med. prax._ &c.

Solid purges are confections, electuaries, pills by themselves, or compound
with others, as _de lapide lazulo, armeno, pil. indae, of fumitory_, &c.
Confection of Hamech, which though most approve, Solenander _sec. 5.
consil. 22._ bitterly inveighs against, so doth Rondoletius _Pharmacop.
officina_, Fernelius and others; diasena, diapolypodium, diacassia,
diacatholicon, Wecker's electuary de Epithymo, Ptolemy's hierologadium, of
which divers receipts are daily made.

Aetius _22. 23._ commends _Hieram Ruffi._ Trincavelius _consil. 12. lib.
4._ approves of hiera; _non, inquit, invenio melius medicamentum_, I find
no better medicine, he saith. Heurnius adds _pil. aggregat. pills d