Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.

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* 1.1AS concerning phrensie or madnesse, which is a disease very daungerous to cure, if the vitalls be ouer ruled by a strong spirit, as all diseases, are spirites seueralles, so this disease of phrensie is a token of a déepe displeasure from God, when it remaineth vnto the ende in the possessed, as plainely appeareth. Also the same disease with diuerse others, ha∣uing bene a long time, and many thou∣sand yéeres past, powred on man, decla∣reth vnto vs the greate wickednesse of former ages, and as I am assured, to this ende, that as we in these latter a∣ges doe abhorre so lothsome infections, shoulde also for the auoiding of them, hate and resist the causes of their conti∣nuall increasings, which cause is, the wicked desires of the flesh, no lesse pro∣curing the same, but rather more then in times past. Yet such euer hath ben, that wonderfull goodnesse of God to man ward, first to blesse, forth from whose blessings procéedeth great prosperitie to the bodily benifit, as Exaltation, digni∣tie, renowne, honour and worshippe, to gouerne not onely men, but Diuells, in the subduing whereof, the benefit of the blessing appeareth, if thus blessed on earth, much more blessed are those in heauen: Contrary for a iust reuenge of contempt, followeth the curse, and with it commeth depriuation, indignitie, bon∣dage, dishonour, and reiection, on earth vnto man, from heauen vnto God, on the body, y^e Pestilence, y^e Consumption, the Feauer ague, the veruent heat, the Swoord, blasting, Mildewe, the heauen shall be a brasse, that is, there shal come no moistnesse to comfort the earth, the Botch of Aegypt, the E••••erodes, the scab, the itch, that thou canst not be hea∣led. And the Lord shall smite thée with madnesse and with blindnesse, and with astonieng of the heart. Phrenitis is a Gréeke worde, and signifieth disguised vsage constrained, also Sy••sen or Kara∣bitus, the barbarous word is Frenisis, in English, a phrensie or madnesse: an im∣postumation bread & ••gendered in the Pellyc••es of the braine, named in La∣tine Pia mater, the which Apostumati∣on, doth make alienation of mans mind and memorie. There is another acci∣dent Phrenyse, the which is ioyned with another sicknesse, as a Phrensie with a Feauer, or with a Plu∣ris••e, and such other lyke, which disease doth commonlye come of a bylous hu∣mour, oppressing the braine, in some an inflation, or fume of corrupt ayre: The accident Phrensie commeth two waies, through hot fume ascending from the stomacke to the braine, y^e second through colligation of the nerues and sinewes, which the braine hath with the mid∣driffe. If hope of cure bée, then let the patient bloud forth of Cephalica vena, restraine the possessed of his will, which commonly is to murther, not too hotte, temporate ayre, and diet, and for a time darknesse, to take away the imagination that commeth by the sight, yet there is one kinde of phrensie or madnesse that is worse then all these, which is disdain of knowledge of the truth, wilfull af∣fection, ignoraunce, and hate to bée re∣formed, from the which miserable bon∣dage, good Lorde deliuer the oppressed, and comfort the reléeued. Timerousnes is a king of weake distemperaunce, which if it continue, it bréedeth Luna∣cie, phrensie, and madnesse, the best cause to cure the abundance of distempered bloud, is musicke, and merrie company, little meate, sweete smells, and cleanlye lodging, because it commeth of a grose and watrie humour, thicke, that doth stifle the vitalls.

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