gius
Florentinus.

Intemperate Venus is all but as bad in the other extreme. Galen, _l. 6. de
mortis popular. sect. 5. text. 26_, reckons up melancholy amongst those
diseases which are [1488]"exasperated by venery:" so doth Avicenna, _2, 3,
c. 11._ Oribasius, _loc. citat._ Ficinus, _lib. 2. de sanitate tuenda_.
Marsilius Cognatus, Montaltus, _cap. 27._ Guianerius, _Tract. 3. cap. 2._
Magninus, _cap. 5. part. 3._ [1489]gives the reason, because [1490]"it
infrigidates and dries up the body, consumes the spirits; and would
therefore have all such as are cold and dry to take heed of and to avoid it
as a mortal enemy." Jacchinus _in 9 Rhasis, cap. 15_, ascribes the same
cause, and instanceth in a patient of his, that married a young wife in a
hot summer, [1491]"and so dried himself with chamber-work, that he became
in short space from melancholy, mad:" he cured him by moistening remedies.
The like example I find in Laelius a Fonte Eugubinus, _consult. 129_, of a
gentleman of Venice, that upon the same occasion was first melancholy,
afterwards mad. Read in him the story at large.

Any other evacuation stopped will cause it, as well as these above named,
be it bile, [1492]ulcer, issue, &c. Hercules de Saxonia, _lib. 1. c. 16_,
and Gordonius, verify this out of their experience. They saw one wounded in
the head who as long as the sore was open, _Lucida habuit mentis
intervalla_, was well; but when it was stopped, _Rediit melancholia_, his
melancholy fit seized on him again.

Artificial evacuations are much like in effect, as hot houses, baths,
bloodletting, purging, unseasonably and immoderately used. [1493]Baths dry
too much, if used in excess, be they natural or artificial, and offend
extreme hot, or cold; [1494]one dries, the other refrigerates overmuch.
Montanus, _consil. 137_, saith, they overheat the liver. Joh. Struthius,
_Stigmat. artis. l. 4. c. 9_, contends, [1495]"that if one stay longer than
ordinary at the bath, go in too oft, or at unseasonable times, he putrefies
the humours in his body." To this purpose writes Magninus, _l. 3. c. 5._
Guianerius, _Tract. 15. c. 21_, utterly disallows all hot baths in
melancholy adust. [1496]"I saw" (saith he) "a man that laboured of the
gout, who to be freed of this malady came to the bath, and was instantly
cured of his disease, but got another worse, and that was madness." But
this judgment varies as the humour doth, in hot or cold: baths may be good
for one melancholy man, b