Volume 2

The anatomy of melancholy / edited by the Rev. A.R. Shilleto ; with an introduction by A.H. Bullen.

  • Robert Burton
Date:
1903-1912
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Credit: The anatomy of melancholy / edited by the Rev. A.R. Shilleto ; with an introduction by A.H. Bullen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ^Simples purging melan- choly. ''i. Suis. Upward, as vomits. - or Down- ward. ^2. Suds. lAsarabacca, Laurel, white Hellebore, Scylla, or Sea- I onion, Antimony, Tobacco. TMore gentle ; as Senna, Epithyme, Polypody, Myro- balanes. Fumitory, &c. Stronger ; Aloes, lapis Armenus, lapis Lazuli, black ^ Hellebore. (Mcines ! ing 1 ncholy, ^ [■■ither 2. or 3. S7(ds. Com- pounds purging melan- .^choly. Superior parts. - or f Mouth < or /'CO o J re 1 CL ^Liquid; as Potions, Julips, Syrups, wine of Hellebore, bugloss, &c. Solid ; as lapis Armenus, & Lazuli, pills ■{ of Indy, pills of Fumitory, &c. Electuaries, Dia.sena, confection of Hamech, Hierologladium, &c. Not swallowed ; as gargarisms, mastica- ^ tories, &c. ^.Nostrils, sneezingpowders, odoraments, perfumes,&c. Inferior parts, as clysters strong and weak, and suppositories of ^ Castilian soap, honey boiled, &c. /iHiirurgical Physick, ' which consists of Mettib. 3. Phlebotomy, to all parts almost, and all the distinct species. With knife, horseleeches. Cupping-glasses. Cauteries, and searing with hot irons, boring. Dropax and Sinapismus. Issues to several parts, and upon several occasions ^ I. Subsect. Moderate diet, meat of good juice, moistening, easy of digestion. * Good Air. Sleep more than ordinary. E.xcrements daily to be voided by Art or Nature. Exercise of body and mind, not too violent or too remiss, passions of the mind, and perturbations to be avoided. 2. Blood-letting, if there be need, or that the blood be corrupt, in the arm, forehead, &c. or with cupping-glasses. ’..'ct. 5. of • -melan- ,• zb I. ■< 3. Prepara- ratives and purgers. 'Preparatives ; as Syrup of borage,, bugloss,. epithyme, hops, with their distilled waters, &c. , ' Purgers ; as Montanus, and Matthiolus, Helleborismus, Quer- cetanus. Syrup of Hellebore, Extract of Hellebore, Pulvis -I Hali, Antimony prepared, Rulantii aqua, mirabilis which are used, if gentler medicines will not take place, with Arnoldus, vimc7ii bztglo^satuin, senna, cassia, myrobalanes, aziT^tm potabile, or before Hamech, pil. Indse, -hiera. pil. ^ de lap. Armeno, Lazuli. 4. Averters. CCardan’s nettles, frictions, clysters, suppositories, sneezings, I masticatories. nasals, cupping-glasses. J To open the Haemrods with Horseleeches, to iapply Horse- I leeches to the forehead without scarification, to the shoulders, I thighs. l^Issues, boring, cauteries, hot irons in the suture of the crown. 5. Cordials, resolvers, hinderers. rA cup of wine or strong drink. I Bezoar’s stone, amber, spice. * I Conserves of Borage, Bugloss, Roses, Fumitory, j Confection of Alchennes. I Electuarium icBti/icans Galeni R basis, ,&^c. \_Dia771argarit7mt fHg. Diaboragi7taiu77t,
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