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〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 seu Lupina insania, Wolf-madness, is a disease, in which men run barking and howling about graves and fields in the night, ly∣ing hid for the most part all day, and will not be perswaded but that they are Wolves, or some such beasts.
Donatus ab Altomari saith, they have usually hollow eyes, scabbed legs and thighs, very dry
and pale, and that he saw two of them in his time.
Wierus tells a storie of such a one at Padua, 1541. that would not believe to the contrary, but that he was a Wolf: He hath another in∣stance of a Spaniard, who thought himself a Bear▪ Forestus confirms as much by many examples; one amongst the rest, of which he was an eye-wit∣ness, at Alcamer in Holland; a poor Husbandman, that still hunted about graves, and kept in Church∣yards, of a pale, black, ugly, and fearful look.
This malady, faith Avicenna, troubleth men most in February, and is now adayes frequent in Bohemia and Hungary, according to Heurnius.
A certain young man, in this City, tall, slen∣der, and black of a wild and strange look, was taken with this kinde of malady, for he run bark∣ing and howling about the room where he was, and would make to get out; so that its most like, if he had got abroad, he would have haunted some solitary place: I remember I opened a vein, and drew forth a very large quantity of blood, black like Soot; after which, I gave him this Potion.
℞ Epithymi, ʒ ii. corticum rad. Hellebori ni∣gri praeparati, ℈ i. foliorum senae, ʒ iii. seminis foeniculi contusi, ʒ ii. decoctionis communis, ℥ viii. Fiat infusio: In qua dissolve Diacatholiconis, ʒ vi. syr. rosarum sol. ℥ i. misce. He took four spoon∣fulls last at night, and all the rest in the morning,
warm. It wrought very well, and abated the symptomes: He was often fumed with some of the Pouder set down in the Chapter, De Mania in Roberti Harman curatione; Sorrel, Lettice, Bugloss, and Borage were boiled in his broth: And lastly I gave him this Vomit: ℞ Infusio∣nis stibii, ʒ xiii. syrupi violarum, ʒ ii. This wrought upward and downward; after which, he became perfectly well.