revulsion, coolers, clysters, epithems, diureticks, and diet, as in the inflammation of the brain.
4. Melancholy, which is a madnesse, caused by a melancholick phantasme, with which, the patient, sticks upon one cogitation, without raging and a feaver, and with sadnesse and feare; it's cured, by the generation, of thin, cleare, and subtile bloud, ceasing from perturbation, reduction to the contrary, diet thin, easily concocted, and not flatulent, sc. chickens, partridges, flesh of kids, lambs, veale, saxatile fishes, sor∣bile eggs, borrage, almonds, &c. if essentiall to the brain, by alte∣ration, evacuants, discutients, roborants, corrigents, and diet as be∣fore; if from love sicknesse, by society, mirth, spermosbesticks, rue, porcelain, mints, camphire, sugar of Saturn, and thin diet; if from philtrons, by alexipharmicks and vomitories; if by consent of the heart & whole body, by preparation, evacuation, revulsion, alterants, and roborants, phlebotomy, and diet as aforesaid; if hypochondriacal, by lenients, vomitories, preparants, attenuants, aperients, purgers, chalybiats, topicks, roborants, and diet as aforesaid; if from the womb, by phlebotomie, preparants, purgers, alterants, specificks, con∣fortants, topicks, fontanels, and humecters; if errabund, by altera∣tion, evacuation, roborants, humecters, and correction; if attonit, as the rest, but by stronger remedies.
5. The mania, which is a long emotion of the mind, with boldnesse and fiercenesse, with∣out a feaver, caused, by a fiery fervor and heate of the spirits; it's cured, by phlebotomie, preparation, purgation, aversion, repul∣sion, alteration, mutation, roborants, hypnoticks, specificks, to∣picks, cauteries, lotions, and frictions; if from the womb, by sper∣mosbesticks, refrigerants, society, sleepe, diet as before, and the rose julep, &c.
6. The rabies, which is a madnesse, caused, by some peculiar poyson ingendred in some creature, and communicated to the patient, with a great hatred to all liquids, especially water, and it's called hydrophobie; it's cured, by interception, extraction, li∣gature, scarrification, cupping glasses, attrahents, amputation, cau∣teries, venesection, purgation, preparation, alexipharmicks, sudo∣rificks, and diet, of rams, crevises, chestnuts, cabbage, walnuts, garlick, onions, radishes, and succory, &c.
7. The tarantats, which are caused, by bitings, and are cured by antidots, attrahents, cupping glasses, vesicatories, the Q E. of rosemary, and musick, &c.