h a little water of life, make two small
plasters thereof, and apply them to the temples.

Rulandus _cent. 1. cur. 17. cent. 3. cur. 94._ prescribes epithems and
lotions of the head, with the decoction of flowers of nymphea,
violet-leaves, mandrake roots, henbane, white poppy. Herc. de Saxonia,
_stillicidia_, or droppings, &c. Lotions of the feet do much avail of the
said herbs: by these means, saith Laurentius, I think you may procure sleep
to the most melancholy man in the world. Some use horseleeches behind the
ears, and apply opium to the place.

[4355]Bayerus _lib. 2. c. 13._ sets down some remedies against fearful
dreams, and such as walk and talk in their sleep. Baptista Porta _Mag. nat.
l. 2. c. 6._ to procure pleasant dreams and quiet rest, would have you take
hippoglossa, or the herb horsetongue, balm, to use them or their distilled
waters after supper, &c. Such men must not eat beans, peas, garlic, onions,
cabbage, venison, hare, use black wines, or any meat hard of digestion at
supper, or lie on their backs, &c.

_Rusticus pudor_, bashfulness, flushing in the face, high colour,
ruddiness, are common grievances, which much torture many melancholy men,
when they meet a man, or come in [4356]company of their betters, strangers,
after a meal, or if they drink a cup of wine or strong drink, they are as
red and fleet, and sweat as if they had been at a mayor's feast,
_praesertim si metus accesserit_, it exceeds, [4357]they think every man
observes, takes notice of it: and fear alone will effect it, suspicion
without any other cause. Sckenkius _observ. med. lib. 1._ speaks of a
waiting gentlewoman in the Duke of Savoy's court, that was so much offended
with it, that she kneeled down to him, and offered Biarus, a physician, all
that she had to be cured of it. And 'tis most true, that [4358]Antony
Ludovicus saith in his book _de Pudore_, "bashfulness either hurts or
helps," such men I am sure it hurts. If it proceed from suspicion or fear,
[4359]Felix Plater prescribes no other remedy but to reject and contemn it:
_Id populus curat scilicet_, as a [4360]worthy physician in our town said
to a friend of mine in like case, complaining without a cause, suppose one
look red, what matter is it, make light of it, who observes it?

If it trouble at or after meals, (as [4361]Jobertus observes _med. pract.
l. 1. c. 7._) after a little exercise or stirring, for many are then hot
and red in the face, or if they do nothing at a