The marrow of physicke, or, A learned discourse of the severall parts of mans body being a medicamentary, teaching the manner and way of making and compounding all such oyles, unguents ... &c. as shall be usefull and necessary in any private house ... : and also an addition of divers experimented medicines which may serve against any disease that shall happen to the body : together with some rare receipts for beauties ... / collected and experimented by the industry of T.B.

CHAP. XIV. Of passions and perturbations of the mind, which are commonly called the accidents of the mind.

Accidents of the mind. PErturbations or passions of the mind, are the suffering of the mind, either by joy, hope, love, hatred, anger, and the like, which bring great mutations in the body most necessary to be remarked, because of the great chances that ensue thereupon: for by these motions the heate and spirits are sometimes gently, sometimes violently diffused o∣ver all the body, for enjoying of the present or future good, or by receiving any affront, whereby many have so exceedingly been moved, that they have died.

What joy is. Ioy is an affection of the minde, of a thing good, and pleasant, which recreates and quickens all the facul∣ties, and stirres up the spirits; for it proceeds from the heart mooved by the facultie at the thing causing mirth, and the heart thus mooved is dilated and ready to re∣ceive the exhilarating object, and by the force of the di∣latation, it sends forth much heat and spirits together with the bloud into all the body, insomuch that often∣times death ensues, because the heart is altogether desti∣tute of bloud.

What anger is. Anger, is a suddaine revocation or calling back the spi∣rits to the externall parts with a desire of revenge; it causeth the same effusion of heate in us as joy doth, but farre speedier; it inflameth the whole habitude of the body, spirits, and humours, and also the braines, and nerves.

Griefe. Sorrow, dries and wastes the body by a lingring con∣sumption, because by it the heart is straitned, the heat ex∣tinct, and the spirits cannot be generated, nor if any be, yet they cannot freely passe into the members with the bloud.

Feare. Feare, is a motion which calles back and drawes in the spirits to the heart by the arteries, and not by little, and little, as sorrow, but suddenly, and violently which suf∣focateth the naturall heate, causeth trembling, maketh the face pale, and the extreame parts cold, with an uni∣versall shaking and pulsation of the heart.

Shame. Shame, is a motion of our body, mixed of anger, and feare; anger for being suspected or knowne in a fault, and fearing the judgement of others; if feare prevaile over anger, the face w••xeth pale, the bloud running back to the heart, but if anger get the dominion, then on the con∣trary, the bloud runnes to the face, and the eies look red; but there is another kind of shame which we call shame∣fastnes, shamefast∣nes. in which the bloud goes, and comes forward, and backward, but it is a gentle motion not hurting the heart, and is familiar to yong maids, who often blush by being taken with a fault unawares.

These things ought to be considered by every practiti∣oner in the curing of any disease; for if any accident hap∣pen that shall procure any one or more of these pertur∣bations and passions, you shall easily perceive a suddaine

alteration in the patient: Next I shall shew you the things against nature, which are such as are apt to wea∣ken and corrupt the state of our body.