Grundzüge der Hygiene / von W. Prausnitz.

  • Prausnitz, Wilhelm, 1861-1933.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Grundzüge der Hygiene / von W. Prausnitz. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and bound. The medical treatment of melancholia contained in Burton consists mainly of herbs, as borage, supposed to affect the heart, poppies to act on the head, eupatory (teazel) on the liver, wormwood on the stomach, and endive to purify the blood. Vomits of white helle- bore or antimony, and purges of black hellebore or aloes, are prescribed. The famous Herbai of Gerarde, published in 1597, gives various remedies for madness, but they are, un- fortunately, copied for the most part from Dioscorides, Galen, and other ancient writers. They are so far of interest that they show what was accepted as the best- known drug practice at the time. in England in mental disorders. Under A Medicine against Madnesse we have rhubarb and wild thyme, the latter being a right Singular remedie to eure them that have had a long phrensie or lethargie. He is here only following Aetius, and when he says, Besides its singular effects in splcnetical matters, it helpeth any disease of melancholy, he appears to follow Galen. Feverfew is said to be good for such as be melancholike, sad, pensive, and without speech. Syrup made of the flowers of borage comforteth the heart, purgeth the melancholy, and quieteth the phrenticke or lunaticke person. Hellebore, of course, has its virtues recognized. Black helleborc, or the Christmas rose, purgeth all melancholy humors, yet not without trouble and difficultie, therefore it is not to be given but to robustious and strong bodies as Mesues teacheth. It is good for mad and furious men, for melancholy, dull, and heavy persons, for those that