The art of curing sympathetically, or magnetically, proved to be most true by its theory and practice exemplified by several cures performed that way: with a discourse concerning the cure of madness, and an appendix to prove the reality of sympathy : also an account of some cures perform'd by it in London / written originally in Latin by H.M. Herwig ...

Of Melancholy Madness.

§ 4. Melancholy is a Delirium, without a Fever, attended with fear and sorrow. In this Definition Delirium is the Genus; which is common to it with Phrensy and Madness; but in the other parts it is distinguisht from them, because Phrensy hath a fever, and Madness is without fear and sorrow. The part affected is the brain, as is manifest by its imperfect actions. The imagination is many ways depraved, yet nevertheless so, That the number of fools should be infinite▪ Wherefore

let the Physician consider, from what humour of the body the Melancholy it self had its original: if from a sanguine humour, the signs of it are such as these; redness in the face and eyes; heat ap∣pearing in the parts near the head; largeness and fulness of the Veins; much laughter; which is one of the principal signs, proving that Melancho∣ly proceeds by the adustion of the blood. But if none of these signs appear, or but remissly, show themselves together with fury, fierceness and a raging confidence, then we must conclude that this Melancholy proceeds from the a∣dustion of the Choler. But if neither of these are perceived, but rather that cold predominates in the whole body, accompanied with fear and sorrow, the complaints of that patient will soon discover, that his Melancholy arises from the adustion of the Natural Me∣lancholy. But it will not be useless, first to shew the common signs, and after∣wards descend to the particular. The common signs are, fear, sorrow, ha∣tred and aversion to humane society.