is
observable or fit to be used. Or let him read those counsels and
consultations of Hugo Senensis, _consil. 13. et 14._ Reinerus Solenander,
_consil. 6. sec. 1. et consil. 3. sec. 3._ Crato, _consil. 16. lib. 1._
Montanus 20. 22. and his following counsels, Laelius a Fonte Egubinus,
_consult. 44. 69. 77. 125. 129. 142._ Fernelius, _consil. 44. 45. 46._ Jul.
Caesar Claudinus, Mercurialis, Frambesarius, Sennertus, &c. Wherein he
shall find particular receipts, the whole method, preparatives, purgers,
correctors, averters, cordials in great variety and abundance: out of
which, because every man cannot attend to read or peruse them, I will
collect for the benefit of the reader, some few more notable medicines.

SUBSECT. II.--_Bloodletting_.

Phlebotomy is promiscuously used before and after physic, commonly before,
and upon occasion is often reiterated, if there be any need at least of it.
For Galen, and many others, make a doubt of bleeding at all in this kind of
head-melancholy. If the malady, saith Piso, _cap. 23._ and Altomarus, _cap.
7._ Fuchsius, _cap. 33._ [4246]"shall proceed primarily from the
misaffected brain, the patient in such case shall not need at all to bleed,
except the blood otherwise abound, the veins be full, inflamed blood, and
the party ready to run mad." In immaterial melancholy, which especially
comes from a cold distemperature of spirits, Hercules de Saxonia, _cap.
17._ will not admit of phlebotomy; Laurentius, _cap. 9_, approves it out of
the authority of the Arabians; but as Mesue, Rhasis, Alexander appoint,
[4247]"especially in the head," to open the veins of the forehead, nose and
ears is good. They commonly set cupping-glasses on the party's shoulders,
having first scarified the place, they apply horseleeches on the head, and
in all melancholy diseases, whether essential or accidental, they cause the
haemorrhoids to be opened, having the eleventh aphorism of the sixth book
of Hippocrates for their ground and warrant, which saith, "That in
melancholy and mad men, the varicose tumour or haemorrhoids appearing doth
heal the same." Valescus prescribes bloodletting in all three kinds, whom
Sallust. Salvian follows. [4248]"If the blood abound, which is discerned by
the fullness of the veins, his precedent diet, the party's laughter, age,
&c., begin with the median or middle vein of the arm; if the blood be ruddy
and clear, stop it, but if black in the spring time, or a good season, or
thick, let