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A45776	Levamen infirmi: or, cordial counsel to the sick and diseased Containing I. Advice concerning physick, and what a physician ought to be; with an account of the author's remedies, and how to take them. II. Concerning melancholy, frensie, and madness; in which, amongst other things, is shew'd, how far they differ from a conscience opprest with the sense of sin, and likewise how they differ among themselves. III. A miscellany of pious discourses, concerning the attributes of God; with ejaculations and prayers, according to scripture rule. Likewise an account of many things which have happen'd since the creation. To which are added several predictions of what may happen to the end of the world. The whole being enrich'd with physical, pious, moral & historical observations, delightful to read, & necessary to know. By D. Irish, practitioner in physick and surgery, now dwelling at Stoke, near Guilford in Surry, where he is ready to serve any person, to the utmost of his skill.	Irish, David.	1700 (1700)	Wing I1036; ESTC R221621	80,143	149

to give a large Fee to a worthy and able Physician nor to answer the Charge of an Apothecary's Bill tho' but reasonable I therefore publish this Book to give Notice to all Persons that I will afford my Medicines more reasonable than any Man can by reason I make and prepare all my self and will go when sent for to visit any Patient cheaper than any Man I know and for this my Charity I hope your Experience will crown my Works and a Blessing attend my Endeavours in that I afford Medicines of great Worth for a little Money An Account of the Doctor 's Remedies and how to take them I Am not ashamed to give an account of what I profess nor to express of what my Pills and Tincture are made that those who are expert Practitioners who indeed are only capable to judge of their Excellence may give their Opinion of them and those that desire further Satisfaction of my Abilities let them examine those that have made tryal of me and of my Stomach Pills and Tincture which are only an extract of the chiefest Simples of the Family of Vegetables that are Specificks Hepaticks an● Spleneticks My Antiscorbutick Tincture is drawn from an Infusion of Scurvy-Grass Liver-wort Hearts Tongu● Tamarask and Hepatick and Splenetick Ingredients therefore they are more proper for Curing the Scurv● with all its crowd of Symptoms than commmo● Spirit of Scurvy-Grass and consequently I may justl● commend my Pilula Stomachica Tinctura Antiscorbutica that is my Stomach Pill and Tincture again●● the Scurvy to be most useful and profitable for al● those for whom I have the best Wishes and therefore I advise all my Friends and Neighbours t● make tryal of these my Pills and Tincture which wil● cure those complicated Distempers intermixt wit● the Scurvy by rectifying the Scorbutick Humour● by cleansing the Stomach from all peccant matte● that hinders Digestion also they carry off all aci● or acrimonious Iuyce or any undigested thing tha● breeds adust Choler whence frequent Diseases ar● derived therefore it is most proper to take a Dos● or two of these Pills to carry off those Humour● before one enters upon any other Medicine to effe●● a Cure To apply things outwardly as some do to Brea●ings out or Sores of a Scorbutick nature is hurtful for it drives back the Humours into the Stomach which cause Sickness and Vomiting want of Appetit● Pains and Wind in the Stomach and adjacent Parts and makes the Stomach to lose its Tone and Rectitude and then the Body can enjoy no Health besides a bad Chylification is the original of many Diseases How careful then ought People to be in keeping the Kitchen of their Bodies I mean their Stomachs clean since that would be the only means to prevent Diseases as well as cure them nay this would so preserve Health that Men might attain the Happiness of seeing the utmost of their appointed days with Ease and Comfort It was the Opinion of the ancient Physicians That the Stomach and Spleen contained a Ferment which hindred them from performing rightly what they were intended for because the abundance of fixt Salt falling upon the Stomach causeth soure and unsavoury Belchings from which also proceeds melancholick tenacious gross and crude Humours which mixing with the Mass of Blood causeth a Cachexy which obstructs the Liver and finally ends in Scorbutick Distempers Now my Pills and Tincture are the most excellent means yet known for their Cure and Prevention by cleansing and sweetning the whole Mass of Blood and nervous Iuyce rectifying all the Defects and Injuries that putrifie the Blood which being corrupt defileth the whole Habit of Body and is the Cause of Eruptions or all sorts of Breakin gs out as Itch Leprosie Spots Ring-worms Kings-Evil and all sorts of Swellings in the Joynts or other parts which sometimes turns into Fistula's or such fretting Vlcers or Sores that will hardly admit of Cure till the Scorbutick Humours be carried off and the Mass of Blood cleansed from the aforesaid Humours the primary Cause thereof therefore you must first remove their Cause before you can effect a Cure Sometimes these Humours break out principally in the Head and then it turns to the Scurff or Scald-Head Sometimes they fall on the Eyes and produce Lachrymarious Humours which endanger the Sight by breeding Cataracts and Glaucoma's and if they obstruct the Optick Nerves incurable Cataracts follow Sometimes these Humours over-heat the Brain by reason of Vapours which arise from the lower parts of the Body sent up to the Head and then they bring Deafness by obstructing the Organs and auditory Nerves which hinder the Drum and Anvil from sending the Eccho to the Brain and many times is the Cause of more stubborn Diseases as Cancers in the Breast Gouts of all sorts Dropsies Iaundice Collick Pains with Griping in the Bowels Stitches in the Sides Pains and Weakness of the Back Obstructions of the Liver Spleen Mesentary Diaphragma Tranchea Arteria and Stoppage of the Pipes of the Lungs hence come Asthma's and Consumption Coughs with Shortness of Breath and when the Stomach is stufft with these ill Scorbutick Humours we are afflicted with Giddiness of the Head Convulsion-Fits and lastly with Contraction of the Nerves Sometimes by over-charging of Nature with strong Drinks proceed Vapours which cause Apoplexies Belchings and loss of Appetite Sometimes these Scorbutick Humours produce Numbness and Tingling in the Flesh and so turn to a Palsie with Weakness and Wearisomness wasting of the Flesh and decay of Body besides in Old and Young these Humours bring Swooning and by coagulating of the Blood hinders its Fermentation and then the Influx of Spirit● to the Heart is stop'd There is no Disease more like Death than these Swooning-Fits Fermentation once hindred any peccant Humours that abound in the Blood are no longer mixt with its Mass but soon separates by the Pores of the Arteries and so sticking by its Viscidity among the Membranes of the Stomach causes Vomiting when the Patient comes to himself Let this suffice for the Cause of Swooning in general As for the Vterine Swooning of Virgins it arises sometimes from the Womb and shows it self by Anxiety and almost loss of Breathing yet sometimes these Scorbutick Humours by heat condence and breed Stone and Gravel which is the Cause of Stop-page and Sharpness of Vrin they may know their Distemper by their Urin which is thin pale venous and hath red Gravel sticking to the Pot. Sometimes there is a Scum or Cream on the top of the Urin. And thus much I thought fit to say of the Scurvy such as would know more may consult my little Pamphlet I formerly set out for the Cure of the Sick and Diseased through God's Blessing by my Famous Medicines therein mentioned This is the Second Edition for some Reasons I have left many things out that were in that In that Book I gave an account of Three Pills and a Quart Bottle of Diet-Drink which Three Pills and Bottle

in Physick His Advice concerning Melancholy Phrensie and Madness I Purpose dear Countrymen in this Discourse to shew the difference betwixt Phrensie Madness Melancholy and a Distressed Conscience opprest with the Sense of Sin with many other things not unprofitable for thee to Read nor unbecoming me to Write Before I define Melancholy for the clearer understanding of that wherein I mean to Instruct you it will be necessary to set forth the di●erse acceptations of the word Melancholy which therefore is very equivocal for that under one name it is so differently apply'd that it requires several Definitions according to its diversity of Significations Sometimes it signifies a certain fearful disposition of the Mind deviated from Reason and sometimes an humour of the Body commonly taken to be the Cause that the Reason is depraved through fear This Humour is of two sorts Natural or Vnnatural Natural is either the grosser part of the Blood ordained for Nourishment which through too great Plenty or immoderate Heat overchargeth the Body and yieldeth up to the Brain certain Vapours whereby the Vnderstanding is obscured or else is an Excrement ordained to be Emitted out of the Body through so many alterations of Natural Heat and variety of concoctions having not a drop of nourishing Juice remaining whereby the Body either in Power or Substance may be Relieved If this Excrement keepeth within Bounds it produceth less inconvenience or trouble to the Body or Mind but if it corrupt or degenerate further from it self and the quality of the Body then Perturbations and Passions are more Vehement and do so outragiously oppress and disturb the sedateness of the Mind that all the organical Actions thereof are mixed and affected I had like to have said infected with Melancholy-Madness and Reason thereby is converted in●● a vain fear or becomes a down-right Desperation and now the Brain is quite alter'd in its Complection being as it were transported into an Instrument of a different nature from what it was at first and I have observed that these Humours do according to the diversity of their setling fill the Patient with diversity of Passions and no wonder since thereby they diversly affect the understanding In a word they strangly alter the natural Inclination and Affection especially if by corruption of Nature Education or Custom the Party be rash and hasty The ●nnatural is an humour arising of the Melancholy before-mentioned or else from Blood or Choler totally changed as it were into another Nature by an unkindly heat which violently turneth these humours that before were obedient to Natures Government and by her kept in good order and decorum into a quality wholly repugnant whose substance and vapours gives such annoyance to all parts where it passes or is seated that it makes strange alterations in Mens Actions whether they be Animal Voluntary or Natural not depending on our Will And here observe that all Actions proceed from some faculty and that Man being composed of Body and Soul has two sorts of Faculties viz. Corporeal and Spiritual the Corporeal faculties are such as belong to Man as he is a living Creature and are common to him and even to Plants or else are such as belong to him as he is a sensitive Creature and are common to him and Beasts The faculties common to Man and Plants are three First The Nutritive by which he is nourished and converts Aliments into his own Substance Secondly The Auctritive faculty by which he grows bigger And lastly The faculty of continuing his ●pecies by which in his Off-spring his Nature as Ma● is preserved or continued The faculties common to Man and Beast are three that is Sense Appetite and Power to Move Sense is twofold External and Internal The Spiritual faculties of Man which are peculiarly proper to him as Man are three Vnderstanding Will Memory Now the Humours before mentioned make strange alterations in Mens actions from what faculty soever they proceed As to the Definition or what Melancholy ●s as was hinted before the things being divers ●●ough the word be the same yet the Definition must be diverse also Therefore Melancholy is of the Humour or of the Passion The Humour is either a Nutritive Iuice or an Excrement at this time then I will define the Humour to be no other than that part of the Blood which naturally is more gross than all the rest and the Excrement to be the superfluity of the same which if it putrifie assumes a far different Name Temper and Nature commonly called Black Cholar The Melancholy Passion is a doating of Reason occa●ioned by vain fear procured by the prevalency of ●he Melancholy Humour We divide this Disease into Melancholy Cephalick and Hypocondriack A Cephalick is when the disorder has its Residence ●bout the lower part of the Abdomen the Brain is ●hiefly affected which being disturbed Men frame ●trange Fancies and monstrous Idea's of things all Melancholy people are extraordinary fearful sad and ●nactive According to the order I have observed in divi●ing Melancholy it remains that I now speak of that ●hich is called Hypocondriack which for the most ●art renders those Afflicted therewith more stupid ●han any other sort doth insomuch that they are ●any times depriv'd of all Sense and Motion This ●ort proceeds from Flegm obstructing the Hypocondria ●nd Spleen Hypocrates asserts that the Soul in this Distemper 〈◊〉 distinctly affected with the weightier matter with●n and so neglects the Bodies Motions by reason of ●he Brains stupidity through the aforesaid Humour If the Brain be hurt by Communication from or by ●he Spleen Hypocondria or Womb then the Melancholy Humours are gathered there and then the symptoms ●ommonly are gathered from the Parts affected as it ●ppears in Child-bearing Women whose Lechia are ●●opt or in Maids when their Terms do not flow the ●lood is spoiled and becomes more fixt and is turn'd into a Melancholy Dyscrasie and that by this mea● this Distemper arises for which reason the Ancien●● blame the Spleen but our Opinion is that rather t●● Morbid Sourse than the Disease it self lies there Th● Famous Willis thinks that both the Heart and Bra●● in this Case are affected and some think the Corpore●● Soul to be the Subject of it Helmont thinks it li● out of the Brain and is in the Praecordia and abo●● the Mouth of the Stomach Our own opinion in sho●● is that it has its Residence in the Globous frame 〈◊〉 the Brain which being the principal part and fou●tain from whence the Animal Spirits issue out in●● every corner of the Body if they be dull langui●● and unactive the Hypocondria Spleen Liver Pancre●● Mesentery Womb c. being thereby deprived 〈◊〉 their Firmentations must needs suffer and be recept●cles of latent Evils The causes of excess of this Humour are diver● and all except it be received from the Parent spri●● from fault of Diet now altho' Meats and Drin● chiefly do yield matter to this Humour yet besid● we may add

him the Knowledge of Nature in all her intricate Operations Faculties and Virtues that is discovered to him the secret Energy of all things contained in the Circuit of this Universe and at this day we see the same God preserves by means all those Beings he at first made without means In fine said the Emperor I will not adventure to be preserv'd by unexperienced Men lest I should Shipwrack my self upon the Rocks of horrid Ignorance but will look for the Continuance of my Life from those whose Experience under God has furnish'd them with the Me●ns and Methods of preserving Nature You see Reader ●n Example of a wise Emperor to teach thee a Les●on of necessary Caution Since the Lord has endow'd the Earth and its ●umerous Product with many Medicinal Virtues 't is 〈◊〉 well irreligious as 't is foolish in any to di●own their Being or to abhor their Use. From the Lord as we have elsewhere said cometh the Gift of Healing which also appears from Scripture seeing God is therein stiled the Only Physician God was the first Operator as you will confess upon calling to mind his taking out one of our Grand-Father Adam's Ribs whereof to make a Woman which thing was so wonderful that it may well be counted the greatest as well as the first Operation Our Blessed Saviour ●ook his Name from his healing Nature and to countenance our Practice made use of ordinary means as Clay and Spittle in Restoring Sight to the Blind not but that he was able to have alone perfected the Cure by his powerful Word without such means were it not that he meant to show us by his Example that with Means and God's Blessing thereon much may be done in Restoring Health to the Sick and Ease to those in Pain 'T is above 5700 Years since God first taught our great Grand-Father Adam the Virtues of all things and consequently furnish'd him with the main Materials fit for a Physician and Surgeon but as to the practick part by what I have already said the latter is more ancient Let us be moderate in our desire after Knowledge lest by a too hot pursuit we with Adam not only lose what we seek for but our primitive Science and Happiness into the Bargain therefore let us take our Saviour's Advice along with us First to seek after the Kingdom of Heaven and then all other things shall be added unto us Let us then take heed that we set not our Affections too much upon the things of this World but rather let us seek after the true Knowledge of God but we have no means to know God to purpose but by his Word therefore let us study his Word that we may have Eternal Life which Word will in the next World bring us to it and then we shall know the great Creator of the World and us and since even now all our little Knowledge Arts and Sciences come from God let us then wholly rely upon Him for except we abide in Him we can do no good thing John 15.16 Next I will give you to understand what manner of Men Physicians and Surgeons ought to be Omnibus aliis Medicus praestantior unus They ought to excel others in fearing God and eschewing Evil as much as Divines themselves for truly the Divine and Physician conveniunt in uno tertio they are both for Curing the Divine heals Corpus per Animam the Physician Animam per Corpus Every Divine is a Spiritual Physician and every Physician ought to be a Spiritual Divine tho' not by Profession yet by Practice for into their Hands God has put the Lives of those he lov'd so well that he Redeem'd them by the Blood of his only begotten Son St. Luke the beloved Physician was a Divine Evangelist and commends the Study of those great Books of God the Book of his Scripture and that of his Creatures since the glory of God and the good of his Creatures ought to be the Mark to which all the Endeavours of Physicians ought to be directed Physicians should by no means give the least Entertainment to such a Monster as Covetousness within their Breasts nor ought they to have any respect to Persons but go as freely to the Poor for a little Money or for nothing when Need requires as to the Rich for ample Rewards for those that give to the Poor lend to the Lord and may be sure God will reward them double-fold On the other hand a Physician is not bound to behave himself in this manner to the Rich but may take his Fee lawfully and cheerfully when it is offer'd but there are too many who are willing to have the Physicians Help but slow in Paying him Hence 't is observ'd that a Doctor appears to his Patient in three different Forms First when he tells the Patient there is hopes O then he appears as an Angel Next when the Cure is perform'd the Patient looks upon his Physician as a God But lastly when the Physician demands his Reward then his Patient takes him for a Devil Thus different Circumstances beget different Opinions in those hateful Minds that are corrupted by Avarice and Ignorance Therefore it is the Physicians and Surgeons Rule Accipere dum dolet to take the Sound Fee whilst the Sick Hand gives it Life is short Art long Occasion sudden Experience dangerous Judgment difficult Hence we may conclude there are but few good Physicians and yet it is not sufficient tho' the Physician or Surgeon do their Parts or Office unless the Patient and his Attendance do their Duty also whereby outward things may be as well order'd as those that are given inwardly this is the main Hinge upon which all the rest turn and therefore ought earnestly to be prest and all too little to make Servants diligent The Physician ought to be faithful and cautious in Practice for Life hangs as it were but by a slender Thread and is at best but short yet is apt to be made much shorter by many Accidents and those very small ones too Art is long if Theory and Practice are consider'd Diseases are sudden and if not suddenly removed may quickly ruine Past Experiments if not well understood may lead the Physician into Errour besides Judgment is very difficult through the Variety of Diseases and their Causes which by the Fault of the Sick and his Attendance are many times not perceived even by Physicians of greatest Abilities Astrology tho' in many of its parts is accounted ●idiculous yet is greatly if not only useful for ●hose that study Physick for without it the pre●ended Physician can never have the true Knowledge of the Crisis or Critical and Judicial Days It is most certain that Hippocrates and Galen the two Pillars of the Art of Physick found out the Use of Vegetables and their Natures as also many other Physical things by the Influence of the Stars But God is the Governour and Disposer of all their seve●al Virtues and when they are transplanted out

but the practick ●ethod of Curing each particular Disease Chirurgery teaches how to contribute to the Cure 〈◊〉 many Diseases by Manual Operation it is in ●●ny things subordinate to Physick for as some di 〈◊〉 Arts into Architectonick or Magisterial Arts 〈◊〉 Ministerial Arts so according to them the Art 〈◊〉 Physick is an Art Magisterial in a knowing Phy●●●ian who not only prescribes a Remedy but can 〈◊〉 show the Reasonableness thereof when as the 〈◊〉 Ministerial is that which follows the Directions 〈◊〉 the Art Magisterial without giving the Reason 〈◊〉 for Example The Art of Breathing a Vein in a ●●rgeon whose Province is to execute the Commands 〈◊〉 the Physician tho' he know not the Reason why 〈◊〉 Physician so commands The Art of Surgery is very ancient for which ●eason perhaps it is that the Words to the Surgeons 〈◊〉 is De Praecipientia Dei 'T is exercis'd espe●●ally on external Parts yea and on internal too 〈◊〉 far as Hand or Instruments may reach It con●●ins four Parts the Knowledge of which makes a ●●mpleat Surgeon viz. Composorix Ablatrix Sepe●●trix Apposearix it con●iders Anotomicks in the ●●ructure of Humane Bodies c. Secondly The ●●ysical State of the same It also enquires into the ●isquisitions of things relating to Humane Bodies as 〈◊〉 Preservation Agitation and Affections The Physician ought first to consider the Maete●● Medica Secondly the Pharmaica And lastly oug●● to know the Names and Kinds of Diseases the 〈◊〉 affected the Signs Causes Iudgments and vario●●●ay● of Curing all internal Diseases whether gen●ral or particular acute or chronick happening 〈◊〉 the Bodies of Men c. Those that intend to be excellent in these Art ought often to read good Authors have freque●● Commerce with Physicians Surgeons Chymists 〈◊〉 Apothecaries see Preparations and mechanick Mi●tures and to frequent Hospitals where they 〈◊〉 see great Varieties In Summer they should He●balize Likewise Travel will much advance the●● Knowledge These things as they help Experien●● and Knowledge will acquaint them with the Mist●ries of Art and render them skilful in the Ico●● and Figures used in Philosophical Zoological 〈◊〉 Chymical Parts and prevent their being impos●● upon by ignorant pretending Medicasters c. Since I have made these things thus known to 〈◊〉 let it be thy Care good Reader not to adventu●● the being Shipwrack'd upon the Rocks of horr●● Ignorance and of being at once rob'd of Heal●● and Wealth too by such as think all Diseases 〈◊〉 be cured by Chance which indeed is a Chance some ignorant Pretenders to Physick and Surge●● cure one of a Thousand Indeed some recover the●● Health by the successful Endeavours of Nature 〈◊〉 under the Hands of the Ignorant and this gives 〈◊〉 unskilful Pretender some Reputation tho' indeed 〈◊〉 deserve none for in reality the Patient was reliev●● by meer Chance if what the Pretender gave wroug●● the Cure since he was ignorant of the effect of 〈◊〉 Medicines or perhaps his Medicines as they did 〈◊〉 ●ood so did little harm and then i● was the Pre●alency which endeavouring Nature obtain'd over ●he Disease which effected the Cure and in this cas● 〈◊〉 that can be attributed to such Medicine-makers 〈◊〉 ●hat they as I said only gave the Patient by 〈◊〉 something that very little or not at all 〈◊〉 the Power of Nature Many ●●lly Women and others as ●●mpl● as they 〈◊〉 mix many things together w●ich con●●sting o●●any medlies of contrary Na●ures oft-tim●s works ●ery dreadful Effects for fomenting together they ●ecome poysonous or what 's as ill ●est●uct●ve o● 〈◊〉 Patient's Life y●t t●es● th●y 〈…〉 ●hich at best commonly prove a 〈…〉 good 〈◊〉 nothing It requires Art and Skill ●o make a ●●ight Mixture that s●●ll be of a 〈◊〉 Qua●●●y for the ●isease and Diseased ●n hand there must be in it Harmony if you would have it put the Body in 〈◊〉 what Medicine soe●●● wants this will put ●●ery thing out of Order 〈◊〉 so 〈◊〉 the Patients ●e●tr●ction And this is ●he To●a● 〈◊〉 can be ex●●cted from taking of Medicines from those who ●●ow not how to make up a Composition proper 〈◊〉 their Patients Malady In the next place tho' Physick Books are useful 〈◊〉 I would not perswade any ●o so much Levity as 〈◊〉 try all sorts of Medicines they shall find in Books 〈◊〉 may be had in Apothecaries Shops for he that ●●ould do so shall scarce ever 〈◊〉 cured or know 〈◊〉 true worth of any one Medicine but be ever to 〈◊〉 and the further he goes shall be the more out 〈◊〉 his Way whereas if he find a Man of long ●xperience honest Principles and good Judgment ●ho consequently is able to make choice of or com●ound Medicines excellent in Operation and curing many Distempers then those that stand in Nee● may best supply their Want by buying such approve● M●dicines and so neither venture Life or Limb o● the unwholsome and un●xperienced Compositions o● ig●orant Pretenders The ordinary way of Curing most Diseas●s i● begun by removing the Ca●se or Causes whence th● Infirmity proceeds grounded on ●hat Axiom of th● Philosopher Sublata causa tollitur eff●ctus The C●use● of all Diseases are commonly either breach of Duty or s●ch Accidents as befal us against our Wills unlooked ●or Now for the Comfort of those that are afflicte● with any Disease and desire Help if they or an● Friend of theirs think fit to make choice of me t● administer such Physick Helps as their Distempe● requires I shall be ready and willing to supply them as re●sonably as can be desired and shall give them such Heavenly Counsel as my slender Skill doe● afford therefore take Courage in the Consideratio● of G●d's Goodness for He through the Means o● timely Applications of the skilful Physician his In●trument for the Recovery of Health will if it b● for your Souls good turn your Sickness and Pai● into Health and Indolence this being so 't is hard ●o say this or that Person is incurable for I am o● Opinion and my Opinion is grounded upon Experience that many may be re●tor'd to their former Strength and Health which have long in an untimely Despair lay languishing under their Distempers but let not any dispair or distrust God's Ability of giving Success to Man's Endeavours Let them make tryal of me or of my most approved safe and often experienced Medicines skilfully prepared according to Art for internal means I ha●e also Remedies for external Applications of whose Virtue and Efficacy I doubt not but by God's Blessing thereon if us'd in time the Sick and Diseased will be highly sensible for as far as Physick can pretend aided by Divine Assistance they cure all curable Diseases and Infirmities proceeding from what Cause or Causes soever inward or outward To give a Relation of the Causes and Names of all manner of Diseases and Infirmities would make too big a Pamphlet to present you withall but considering that the Generality of People are poor and not able

the Complexions inclining to such Tempe● 'T is also encreased by Perturbation of Mind by 〈◊〉 temper of Air and kind of Habitation and that 〈◊〉 which otherwise would yield a nutritive Iuice 〈◊〉 the best sort by these occasions is turn'd into the Dregs of Melancholy To conclude if either Hum●●● or Excrement should have part in moving the 〈◊〉 no Counsel of Philosophy nor Precepts 〈◊〉 Wise Men are comparable for calming these 〈◊〉 Passions unto the Purging Potions of Physicians 〈◊〉 in this case several use the Ellebores of Anticera 〈◊〉 and Colycinthy of Spain together with the 〈◊〉 of Alexandria but I have far better Remedi●● than some of them which my long Experience 〈◊〉 to be almost Infallible There are several that pretend to cure Melancholy ●nd Madness as well as other Distempers but I shall ●ot so mispend my time as to give an account of ●●ch Hare-brain'd fellows whose shallow Capacities ●nd short Experience are unable to fathom the depth ●f such a Chronick Distemper but allow every Sect to ●ollow their own Doctors Dictates notwithstanding ●here are Hippocrites in Arts as well as Religions ●ut this by the by Now to my Subject This Melancholy and Excrement let me tell you is ●red of Melancholy Iuice drawn off the Milt out of ●he Liver by a branch of the Porte Veine wherewith ●eing nourished it rejecteth the rest as meer Excre●ental and voideth part into the Mouth of the Sto●ach to provoke Appetite and Hunger and passeth ●he other part in some Persons by the Haemorrhoid ●eins into the Siege It aboundeth there when it is ●indred of such passage as Nature requireth or else ●y feebleness of the Part it is not able either to suck ●he Melancholy from the Blood or discharge it self ●nto those passages which Nature has thereto or●ained such a●e always very hungry and lean This Member I mean the Spleen of the whole Body is greatest and worst favoured to behold black ●f colour and evil savoured if tasted and giveth a ●anifest sign of Natures strong desire to that whereto ●t is most like Hence the Spleen delights more in ●nd is better pleas'd with these muddy dregs than it ●ould be with purer and finer Blood which if it ●hould be offer'd to other Parts they would abstain ●xcept great want so far overcame their aversion as ●o make them entertain a little of it Thus much of ●he cause of Natural Melancholy both Iuice and Ex●rem●nt it remaineth next to shew what the H●mour ●s which raiseth this or any else called by the Name of Melancholy and also to shew what Burnt Cholar and causes thereof That kind of Melancholy called Atra Bilis com● by excessive heat of the Parts where it is engend●● or received whereby the Humour is made so add●●● that it becomes of such an exulcerating and frett●●● quality as to wast those parts where it lighte● This most commonly ariseth of the Melancholy E●crement before spoken of and divers times of 〈◊〉 other thick part of Blood as also of the Cholar 〈◊〉 Salt Flegm which contract such heat partly by d●stempers of the Body and partly by Putrefacti●● which produceth an humour breeding most terri●●● accidents and pains to the Body which the Melanch●●● and gross Blood doth more forcably procure beca●●● the grosser the substance is into which it is receive● the more violently it consumeth Cholar being 〈◊〉 Nature of the hottest temper carries with it mo●● degrees of heat than the other Humours Now to know whether the perturbations rise 〈◊〉 the Humour or not The perturbations are take● commonly to rise of Melancholy Cholar Blood 〈◊〉 Flegm therefore we call Men of a hasty dispositio● Cholerick those of sad dispositions Melancholy tho●● of heavy and dull Flegmatick others of merry an● cheerful Sanguine Melancholy differs from Phrensie and Madness tho●● in some respects they are near a Kin for they all disturb the Reason they differ thus a Phrensie has always a Burning Fever those that are taken with thi● Disease are so Mad that they furiously fall upon an● body and it is strange and admirable they do no● destroy themselves so exorbitant is the Malady and such was their Infirmity spoken of in the Scripture Mat. 8.28.24 They spare not their Parents nor ●●eir best Friends but are often most of all invete●●te against them and 't is no wonder since they bid ●●fiance to self-Preservation the oldest Principle of ●ature that they often attempt to lay violent hands ●●on themselves therefore great care ought to be ●●ken of them They are usually Untractable Talk●●●ve with strange Gestures as Jumping Singing ●ancing and Antickly tossing their Heads writhing ●●eir Bodies and generally look Surly and Haughty 〈◊〉 sometimes they will seem Mild. The common symptoms which attend most Mad ●●ople are constant Watchings and a prodigious ●●rculean strength they can endure the greatest 〈◊〉 Hungar and Stripes without any sensible harm 〈◊〉 sometimes Swear Shout and on a suddain make ●●●ange Noises they play Apish tricks often pulling ●●eir own Hair tearing their Cloaths breaking their ●●ndows c. they are strong and never tired out 〈◊〉 often muttering something to themselves as if it 〈◊〉 about great matters they are sometimes too ●erry and often too Sad they sometimes Laugh and ●●●etimes Cry and are fearful where no fear ought 〈◊〉 be and on a suddain become hasty frappish angry ●●sterous breaking their Chains and Fetters beating 〈◊〉 pieces Walls and Doors nay every thing that ●●nds in their reach to be sure goes to wrack when 〈◊〉 surly Fit is upon them tho' they sleep little 〈◊〉 or Night yet are they incredibly strong they 〈◊〉 very turbulent in their Anger showing much 〈◊〉 brawling shouting and frame dreadful 〈◊〉 by reason of the fiery strength of the Animal 〈◊〉 which darts vigorously thro' all the Pores of 〈◊〉 distempered Body hence also it is that they endure the severest Cold tho' stark Naked with 〈◊〉 the least concern Some say they are not sensible of Cold c. because as they imagine the Soul is so bus●● within that it does not attend to what is of less concern without neither do they scarce perce●●● any inconvenience by such things as much annoy others sometimes they are as Sav●●e as Wild Beasts thei● Eyes look stern big and attentive and they are eve●● contriving some Mischief because the Animàl Spiri● pass furiously through the Brain by reason of whic● they are sometimes so Mad as to reproach and Cur●● themselves and others at such times they ought 〈◊〉 be Fetter'd Madness often derives its Origen from the extr●vagant height of some Passion such as Fear Lo●● Ambition Covetuousness Care Study c. Helm●● says it proceeds from Agony Fear Wrath En●● Ambition Love Pride great Study Care Shame c. The Mad people are frequently solicitous about Ma●ters above their reach or about business that no wa● concern them Lastly Some are prone to Vene●● delighting much in Company c. The Melancholy person walks in

osbcure places sad and heavy oft museth imagining and speaki●● many ridiculous things but usuall● fixes upon 〈◊〉 trifle he will not be perswaded from what he fancie ●or tho' he fancy himself a King a Prince or Proph●● or indeed any thing else he will industriously im●●tate the Person or Character he puts upon himse●● Some that are afflicted with Melancholy are weary 〈◊〉 their Lives have ill thoughts talk idly or witho●● any order or coherence they also take pleasure 〈◊〉 Solitude are subject to Weep and are often tak●● with a suddain dislike of what they formerly 〈◊〉 affected they are so jealous that they think eve●● body cheats and lays snares for them they are afr●●● of being Poysoned their sleep is but little and 〈◊〉 troubled with strange frightful Dreams some have a silly foolish Laughter and these are the most gene●al Signs But to lay open all the Symptoms and their Causes would take up too much Room they ought to refrain from Wines Spirits and hot Cordials likewis● strong Beer is hurtful tho' they complain of a cold●●ss i● their Stomach or elsewhere yet such liquo●s mu●● be deny'd them and indeed as to strong ●rink I would have all Men remember the Ancient ●bserva●●on of the Heathen in drinking to the Ho●our of their Gods the first Bowl was they s●id ●o Iup●t●● Olympus the second to the Heroes and the ●hird to Iupiter Sospiter Or take it thus The first to ●heir Health ●he second to their Friend and the ●hird to their Rest what was more than this they ●eckoned Madness and injurious to their Health ●n lik● manner we Physicians usually attribute the ●●rst Glass to the quenching of our Thi●st the second ●o Pl●●sure the third to Drunkenness and the four●h●o M●dness but if ●hey drink more you need not ●oubt but they 'l make as bad a Bussel and Noise as the ●oudest graduate in Moorfi●lds College alias Bedlam ●or as a ●oaded Ship in a great Storm when the Pilate ●s a Sleep or when her Rudde● is lost cannot Stee● ●igh● so ●hose that have their Senses overwhelm'd ●ith Wine or other strong Liquors or their Minds ●pprest with strange imaginations and disorders ●un against the Rocks of Folly 'T was Pythagoras his Opinion that all disorders of the Mind or Body are ●o many causes of Madness Therefore let all People ●ndeavour to be moderate in all ●hings as well in all ●inds of Studies as in Meats and Drinks which supply ●he four Humours of the Body for if any of them do ●●per abound Diseas●s follow at best if not some sort ●f Mad●ess or other For 't is no Wonder if that Liquors can Transform and Change the fickle mind of Man As the ordinary cure of all Diseases and ways 〈◊〉 help Infirmities are to be begun with removing su●● Causes as first procured the Malady even so the 〈◊〉 thing to be done in restoring Melancholy Men is 〈◊〉 fortisie the Brain and Heart and so bring them to better state of mind and chear and this is to be eff●cted by removing such causes that first procur'd the●● Indisposition but for perfecting the Cure if tho●● that are Afflicted with this or any other Disease d●sire a Physitian that will truly and justly proc●ed 〈◊〉 the Cure of what he undertakes without any frau● this is then to certifie such That if they think ●it 〈◊〉 make use or choice of Me I will honestly and exp●ditiously do my endeavour to restore them to th●●● former state of Health Strength and Tranquility But now it is time to shew the difference betwi●● the aforesaid Melancholy and a Distressed Conscien●● First then whatsoever molestation ariseth directly 〈◊〉 a proper O●ject of the Mind the same is not in 〈◊〉 respect Melancholy but hath a further ground th●● Fancy and if the Molestation proceed from a con●●deration of things done that are really sinful in themselves such Trouble has its ●rigen from Conscien●● condemning the Guilty Soul according to those E●graven Laws of Nature which no Man is void of 〈◊〉 he never so Mean Illiterate or Rude This take● nothing of the Body nor intermeddleth with H●mours but giveth a direct Wound with those 〈◊〉 Darts which many thus Afflicted most sensibly 〈◊〉 and complain of Nay This Infirmity is of so 〈◊〉 Latitude since all Men are Sinners that there is one but what more or less betimes labour under it ●nd some being highly culpable of the breach of ●ods Laws incur the Punishment of Condemnation ●nd thro' the sense of that miserable Condition fall ●●to deep Despair Such say that they feel the Wrath ●f God kindled against their Souls their anguish of ●onscience is so intollerable that they find no releas●ent tho' Prayers and Supplications are made unto ●●e Lord for them by reason that in their own ag●ravating Judgment they stand as Reprobates to God ●s excluded from his Covenant and void of all hopes ●f inheriting the Kingdom of Heaven and rest assu●ed that the termination of their Life will be the ●eginning of a Condemnation which will never have ●nd I pray you dear Melancholy Christian consider God● ●ercies of old and your own former Experience of his ●avours call to mind those holy Testimonies of ●lection which no doubt but some of you have in ●●mes past found in your selves this done consider ●hether you are not under some Temptation than ●as you imagine God's Anger for Satan tempteth 〈◊〉 in the very utmost recesses of our hearts for he ●eing a Spirit it is not to be doubted but that he hath 〈◊〉 Spiritual access into our Spirits to trouble them and ●isorder their Operations by a spiritual or subtile conference whereby he bears too great a sway in ●hem this may seem the more probable because 't is ●bse●v'd that these in this sad Condition alter the ●ccent of their Speech and shew gr●at disorder in ●he●r discourse it being far otherwise than what i●●as before Nay it may seem that their whole Nature is at Satan's beck and their utterance wholly ●as he suggesteth but as to these Speculations and Instructions in this matter I refer you to the Judgments and Resolutions of Divines whose Provinc● it is to consider and who no doubt will put you i● mind how the Spirit of God calleth Satan the Tempter the Deceiver of the World the Accuser of the Faithful the Dragon and Old Serpent and in sine a Lyar and the Father of Lyes Now if the condition of your Affliction be onl● some kind of Temptation which I doubt not but to make manifest and plain then ought you to estee● of your Case as more Comfortable than thro' Erro● you do and to attend with Patience the Issue whic● in such as have been in like Circumstances have afterwards given evident Testimonies of Salvation Nay such have not only felt a spiritual Joy and Comfor● in themselves but in the end have also become abl● to confirm others both by their own Examples and words of great Consolation from their