32]ram's head that never meddled with an ewe, cut off at a
blow, and the horns only take away, boil it well, skin and wool together;
after it is well sod, take out the brains, and put these spices to it,
cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, mace, cloves, _ana_ [Symbol: Ounce]ss, mingle the
powder of these spices with it, and heat them in a platter upon a
chafing-dish of coals together, stirring them well, that they do not burn;
take heed it be not overmuch dried, or drier than a calf's brains ready to
be eaten. Keep it so prepared, and for three days give it the patient
fasting, so that he fast two hours after it. It may be eaten with bread in
an egg or broth, or any way, so it be taken. For fourteen days let him use
this diet, drink no wine, &c. Gesner, _hist. animal. lib. 1. pag. 917._
Caricterius, _pract. 13. in Nich. de metri. pag. 129._ Iatro: _Wittenberg.
edit. Tubing. pag. 62_, mention this medicine, though with some variation;
he that list may try it, [4333]and many such.

Odoraments to smell to, of rosewater, violet flowers, balm, rose-cakes,
vinegar, &c., do much recreate the brains and spirits, according to
Solomon. Prov. xxvii. 9. "They rejoice the heart," and as some say,
nourish; 'tis a question commonly controverted in our schools, _an odores
nutriant_; let Ficinus, _lib. 2. cap. 18._ decide it; [4334]many arguments
he brings to prove it; as of Democritus, that lived by the smell of bread
alone, applied to his nostrils, for some few days, when for old age he
could eat no meat. Ferrerius, _lib. 2. meth._ speaks of an excellent
confection of his making, of wine, saffron, &c., which he prescribed to
dull, weak, feeble, and dying men to smell to, and by it to have done very
much good, _aeque fere profuisse olfactu, et potu_, as if he had given them
drink. Our noble and learned Lord [4335]Verulam, in his book _de vita et
morte_, commends, therefore, all such cold smells as any way serve to
refrigerate the spirits. Montanus, _consil. 31_, prescribes a form which he
would have his melancholy patient never to have out of his hands. If you
will have them spagirically prepared, look in Oswaldus Crollius, _basil.
Chymica_.

Irrigations of the head shaven, [4336]"of the flowers of water lilies,
lettuce, violets, camomile, wild mallows, wether's-head, &c.," must be used
many mornings together. Montan. _consil. 31_, would have the head so washed
once a week. Laelius a Fonte Eugubinus _consult. 44_, for an Italian count,
troubled