spices, hot wines, hot meats: all which Montanus
reckons up _consil. 22._ for a melancholy Jew; and Heurnius repeats _cap.
12. de Mania_: hot baths, garlic, onions, saith Guianerius, bad air,
corrupt, much [2440]waking, &c., retention of seed or abundance, stopping
of haemorrhagia, the midriff misaffected; and according to Trallianus _l.
1. 16._ immoderate cares, troubles, griefs, discontent, study, meditation,
and, in a word, the abuse of all those six non-natural things. Hercules de
Saxonia, _cap. 16. lib. 1._ will have it caused from a [2441]cautery, or
boil dried up, or an issue. Amatus Lusitanus _cent. 2. cura. 67._ gives
instance in a fellow that had a hole in his arm, [2442]"after that was
healed, ran mad, and when the wound was open, he was cured again."
Trincavellius _consil. 13. lib. 1._ hath an example of a melancholy man so
caused by overmuch continuance in the sun, frequent use of venery, and
immoderate exercise: and in his _cons. 49. lib. 3._ from a [2443]headpiece
overheated, which caused head-melancholy. Prosper Calenus brings in
Cardinal Caesius for a pattern of such as are so melancholy by long study;
but examples are infinite.

SUBSECT. IV.--_Causes of Hypochondriacal, or Windy Melancholy_.

In repeating of these causes, I must _crambem bis coctam apponere_, say
that again which I have formerly said, in applying them to their proper
species. Hypochondriacal or flatuous melancholy, is that which the Arabians
call mirachial, and is in my judgment the most grievous and frequent,
though Bruel and Laurentius make it least dangerous, and not so hard to be
known or cured. His causes are inward or outward. Inward from divers parts
or organs, as midriff, spleen, stomach, liver, pylorus, womb, diaphragma,
mesaraic veins, stopping of issues, &c. Montaltus _cap. 15._ out of Galen
recites, [2444]"heat and obstruction of those mesaraic veins, as an
immediate cause, by which means the passage of the chilus to the liver is
detained, stopped or corrupted, and turned into rumbling and wind."
Montanus, _consil. 233_, hath an evident demonstration, Trincavelius
another, _lib. 1, cap. 1_, and Plater a third, _observat. lib. 1_, for a
doctor of the law visited with this infirmity, from the said obstruction
and heat of these mesaraic veins, and bowels; _quoniam inter ventriculum et
jecur venae effervescunt_, the veins are inflamed about the liver and
stomach. Sometimes those other parts are together misaffected; and concu