de Saxonia
_Panth. lib. 1. cap. 16._ is a great approver of them. [4396]"I have found
(saith he) by experience, that many hypochondriacal melancholy men have
been cured by the sole use of clysters," receipts are to be had in him.

Besides those fomentations, irrigations, inunctions, odoraments, prescribed
for the head, there must be the like used for the liver, spleen, stomach,
hypochondries, &c. [4397]"In crudity" (saith Piso) "'tis good to bind the
stomach hard" to hinder wind, and to help concoction.

Of inward medicines I need not speak; use the same cordials as before. In
this kind of melancholy, some prescribe [4398]treacle in winter, especially
before or after purges, or in the spring, as Avicenna, [4399] Trincavellius
mithridate, [4400]Montaltus paeony seed, unicorn's horn; _os de corde
cervi_, &c.

Amongst topics or outward medicines, none are more precious than baths, but
of them I have spoken. Fomentations to the hypochondries are very good, of
wine and water in which are sodden southernwood, melilot, epithyme,
mugwort, senna, polypody, as also [4401]cerotes, [4402]plaisters,
liniments, ointments for the spleen, liver, and hypochondries, of which
look for examples in Laurentius, Jobertus _lib. 3. c. pra. med._ Montanus
_consil. 231._ Montaltus _cap. 33._ Hercules de Saxonia, Faventinus. And so
of epithems, digestive powders, bags, oils, Octavius Horatianus _lib. 2. c.
5._ prescribes calastic cataplasms, or dry purging medicines; Piso
[4403]dropaces of pitch, and oil of rue, applied at certain times to the
stomach, to the metaphrene, or part of the back which is over against the
heart, Aetius sinapisms; Montaltus _cap. 35._ would have the thighs to be
[4404]cauterised, Mercurialis prescribes beneath the knees; Laelius
Aegubinus _consil. 77._ for a hypochondriacal Dutchman, will have the
cautery made in the right thigh, and so Montanus _consil. 55._ The same
Montanus _consil. 34._ approves of issues in the arms or hinder part of the
head. Bernardus Paternus in Hildesheim _spicel 2._ would have [4405] issues
made in both the thighs; [4406]Lod. Mercatus prescribes them near the
spleen, _aut prope ventriculi regimen_, or in either of the thighs.
Ligatures, frictions, and cupping-glasses above or about the belly, without
scarification, which [4407]Felix Platerus so much approves, may be used as
before.

SUBSECT. II.--_Correctors to expel Wind. Against Costiveness, &c._

In this kind of melancholy one of the m