ed with meat instead of salt, to keep down fumes: not to study or to
be intentive after meals.

"[Symbol: Rx]. Nucleorum persic. seminis melonum ana unc. [Symbol:
Scruple]ss aquae fragrorum l. ij. misce, utatur mane."

[4370]To apply cupping glasses to the shoulders is very good. For the other
kind of ruddiness which is settled in the face with pimples, &c., because
it pertains not to my subject, I will not meddle with it. I refer you to
Crato's counsels, Arnoldus _lib. 1. breviar. cap. 39. 1._ Rulande, Peter
Forestus de Fuco, _lib. 31. obser. 2._ To Platerus, Mercurialis, Ulmus,
Rondoletius, Heurnius, Menadous, and others that have written largely of
it.

Those other grievances and symptoms of headache, palpitation of heart,
_Vertigo deliquium_, &c., which trouble many melancholy men, because they
are copiously handled apart in every physician, I do voluntarily omit.

MEMB. II.
_Cure of Melancholy over all the Body_.

Where the melancholy blood possesseth the whole body with the brain, [4371]
it is best to begin with bloodletting. The Greeks prescribe the [4372]
median or middle vein to be opened, and so much blood to be taken away as
the patient may well spare, and the cut that is made must be wide enough.
The Arabians hold it fittest to be taken from that arm on which side there
is more pain and heaviness in the head: if black blood issue forth, bleed
on; if it be clear and good, let it be instantly suppressed, [4373]
"because the malice of melancholy is much corrected by the goodness of the
blood." If the party's strength will not admit much evacuation in this kind
at once, it must be assayed again and again: if it may not be conveniently
taken from the arm, it must be taken from the knees and ankles, especially
to such men or women whose haemorrhoids or months have been stopped. [4374]
If the malady continue, it is not amiss to evacuate in a part in the
forehead, and to virgins in the ankles, who are melancholy for love
matters; so to widows that are much grieved and troubled with sorrow and
cares: for bad blood flows in the heart, and so crucifies the mind. The
haemorrhoids are to be opened with an instrument or horseleeches, &c. See
more in Montaltus, _cap. 29._ [4375]Sckenkius hath an example of one that
was cured by an accidental wound in his thigh, much bleeding freed him from
melancholy. Diet, diminutives, alteratives, cordials, correctors as before,
intermixed as occasion serves, [4376]"