The breuiarie of health vvherin doth folow, remedies, for all maner of sicknesses & diseases, the which may be in man or woman. Expressing the obscure termes of Greke, Araby, Latin, Barbary, and English, concerning phisick and chirurgerie. Compyled by Andrew Boord, Doctor of phisicke: an English-man.

The 220. Chapter doth shew of one of the kindes of madnesse.

MAnia is the greke. In lattin it is named Insania or Fu∣ror. In English it is named a madnes* 1.1 or woodnes like a wilde beast, it doth differ from a phrenisey, for a phrenisey is with a feuer, and so is not Mania, this madnes that I do pretend to speake now of.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of a corrupt bloud in the head, & some doth say that it doth come of a bilous bloud intrused in the head, and some sayth it doth come of weakenes of the braine the which letteth a man to sléepe, and he that can not sléepe must nedes haue an ydle brayne, and some say it is a turning vp so downe in the head, the which doth make the madnes.

A remedy.

First in the chamber wher the pacient is kept in, let ther be no picters nor painted clothes about the bed or chamber,

than vse in the Chamber all thinges that is redolent & of sweete sauours, and kepe the pacient from musing & studi∣ing, and vse mirth and mery communicatiō, and vse the pa∣cient so that he do not hurt himselfe nor no other ma••, and he must be kéept in feare of one man or an other, & if néede require he must be punished and beaten, and giue him thrée times a day warme meate, and vse to eate Cassia fistula, and Epithime vsed is very good.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Madnes.