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A02045	The castel of memorie wherein is conteyned the restoring, augmenting, and conseruing of the memorye and remembraunce, with the safest remedies, and best preceptes therevnto in any wise apperteyning: made by Gulielmus Gratarolus Bergomatis Doctor of Artes and Phisike. Englished by Willyam Fulvvod. The contentes whereof appeare in the page next folovvynge.; De memoria reparanda. English	Gratarolo, Guglielmo, 1516?-1568?; Fulwood, William.	1562 (1562)	STC 12191; ESTC S117976	36,540	132

in artificiall Memorie thou must diligentlye and circumspectly often pervse the same whiche if at the length thou canst not vnderstande doe not therefore opprobriouslye contemne it but rather aske counsell at some other for Non cuiuis homini contingit adire Corynthum or elles repare to easyer and playner wherof there is in this treatise greate abundaunce to the same effect what soeuer it be for I haue not presumed to lessen myne Authour and therefore reporte me fauourablye In whiche doynge thou shalte styll encorage and prouoke me to further paynes I truste to thy furtheraunce and the glorye of almightye God the Father the Sonne and the Ghost to whome be laude and praise worlde without ende Amen This. xx of Nouember 1562. Lege perlegé Ne quid temeré The Bookes verdicte A Castell stronge I doe present well furnished and sure Munited eke with armoure bent For euer to endure Vhich hitherto longe tyme hath bene In limbo patrum hidd But now at last may here be sene from daungers men to ridd Procuringe them a perfect state And safe security Whereby they may fynde out the gate Of wisedomes lore For why He that hath lost his Memorie By me may it renewe And he that will it amplifie Shall fynde instructions trewe And he that will still kepe the same That it shall not decaye By me must learne the way to frame And my precepes obaye Lo here ye see my full effecte And that I doe entend The secrettes therof to detect That therby wittes may mend Then Iudge me As I am worthie What Memorie is where it florisheth how profitable and necessary it is The first Chapter MEmorie is by the whiche the mynde repeateth things y t are past Or it is a stedfast percesuyng in the mynde of the disposition of thinges and wordes Or as Aristotle supposeth it is an imagination that remaineth of such thinges as the sense had conceyued Also by y t sentence of Plato Memorie is a sense a safetie or safe reteining of things for y t soule obtaineth by the office of the senses whatsoeuer thinges chaunce vnder the sense and therefore it is the beginninge of an opinion But by the mynde it selfe it considereth intellectuall thynges so is it become intelligence Yet y t Memorie being lost it is renued againe by remembraunce for whereas forgetfulnes or the losse of Memorie is double to wit perpetuall and temporall or for a tyme in this verely remembraunce worketh of the which it shalbe spoken hereafter in his place Neither is inuention or imaginatiō of y t one part of the soule or braine and Memorie of the othe●… but they are in one same subiecte thing and the functions of the same part of the soule and either of them is of y e hole brayne in whose hole body y t soule being y t principal parte of vnderstanding is dispersed yet haue auncient Writers not withoute a cause saide that diuers partes of the head and braine be occupied of these functions of the soule Memorie therefore hath his seate in the hinder part of the head in the thyrde Ventricle whiche is also called Puppis It would be long and altogether superfluous here where I studye breuitie to describe the Anatomie of the whole braine the whiche is to be seene in the bookes of manyé especially of the learned yea and dilligent Andrea Vesalius Yet will I briefely speake somwhat making nerer vnto our matter There be three operations of the soule in the braine fantasie or imagination reasonyng or iudgement and Memorie or remembraunce The two first haue their operation in the two greater Ventricles of the braine and the thyrde is erxercised in thirde and lesser Ventricle In the concauities or holownes of the brayne is frequented a liuelye small pure and moste cleane spirite and suche a one is caried to the Memorie the which surely hath neede of thè clearenes and subtilitie of the spirite For if so be that that waye be not opened by the whiche the spirite passeth to the hinder part or Puppis of the braine the man remembreth nothing and contrariwise they that haue a swifte openinge of that waye are wise and answere spedely as are diuers cholericke persons and they that haue that openinge slowe are dull and slack to learne and to aunswere and such are for the most parte flematick or melancholicke vsynge grosse and much meates and drincks Certeinlye there be fewe founde that are indewed with a good witte and an excellent Memorie of Nature for because that witte betokeneth a subtile and softe substaunce of the braine and Memorie a permanent substaunce Also Galenus saith in his .xii. Chapter Artis medicinalis that witte declareth a subtile substaunce of the braine and the dulnes of vnderstandinge a grosse substaunce c. The spirite seruynge for this office doth flee vpwarde from the heart thorough the synowes to the head and is nourished with an outwarde compassing ayre obtayneth a longe continuaunce And to be short al Philosophers do accorde that Memorie is most of strength by the good temperature of the organe or seate in the whiche the soule doth exercise this office And it shalbe a token that they haue a good Memorie whose hinder part of the head is great and longe and they a weake Memorie whose hinder parte of the head is as it were playne and equall with the necke It is also to be knowen that it causeth wisedome by the goodnes of the spirites and those are good spirites whiche be tempered with clearenes mouing and subtilitie Plato in Theaeteto saieth that the soule is not well at ease in a body that is thicke or muddye or that hath the fleshe to softe or harde And vntemperatnesse chaungeth many wayes For sometyme a body shall bringe it oute of the mothers wombe so stronge and violent that not onelye the Memorie but also the reason shalbe hurte in suche sorte y t euen folishnes shall happen therewithall the whiche amongest the other signes that it hath is the cause that the eares are verye great and erected as Aristotle reciteth in hys firste De animalium natura Who so chaunceth to be borne when the Moone doth encounter the Sunne wandering through Aries and Scorpio shall haue his brayne so afflicted that beinge somewhat growen in yeres a melancholicke passion shall beginne to spring Also this vntemperatues of the brayne commeth manye tymes of ill nourishement sometyme of the vnwholsome ayre that is aboute vs For it is an olde sayinge there as the ayre is dryer there also for the most part the wits be sharper and the soule wiser and prompter euen so a thicke grosse element causeth the wittes to be duller Of the same diet is reason as also Galenus saieth in his booke Quod animi mores c. The Memorie also is weakened of chaunce of being striken of sickennes and diuers other lyke accidentes whereof there maye be had manye examples

well dressed with Sugre doth let the vapoures from ascending to y t heade and helpeth the Memorie also Diacotoneon doth the same To chewe Masticke with a lytle Ginger being fasting doth purge the heade from moiste fleumatike humors without any greif or paine and the Memorie being so hindred is ther with cōforted Galingale beinge put to the nostrells dothe strengthen the colde brayne Take the whitest Frankensence beate it into pouder put it in pure and symple colde water and drincke it at the encrease of the Moone at the springe of the daye at noone and at the Sunne settinge and it wyll cause a good Memorye a sharppe witte and drye the brayne and the ventricle Symeon Sethi affirmeth that the Galle of a Partrige being anoynted once in a moneth vppon the vaynes of the temples so that it doe perce thorowe is verye profitable to confirme the Memorie Baulme gentle establisheth the Memorie quickneth the witte and in what fashion soeuer it be eaten maketh a mā studious and dilligent the whiche vertue also Cresses doc bringe to passe in them that be colde and olde wherof it is come into a cōmon prouerbe Ede nasturtium Eate Cresses Baulme gentle also besides this bringeth quietnes to the minde in causinge a pleasant sleepe to come to the heade It is also sayde that the fleshe of A Turtle Doue dothe encrease the witte The braynes of a Henne dothe helpe the witte and the Memorye in suche sorte that it hathe broughte some agayne to their wittes that beganne to dote The seede of Orminum or housholde Clarye dothe wonderfullye ayde the restoringe of the Memorye yf it be taken in poulder with some meate or drinke And the scrapinges of Yuorie dothe remedye forgetfulnes if a little thereof be taken in the morning in a litle wine Also a Grayne of whyte Frankensence when you goe to bedde dothe greatlye helpe the clammye or glewed substaunce for it dryeth vp the moystenes of the heade and the Ventricle and so easethe the Memorye Vse thys after a purgaryon twyse or thryse in a weeke yf there be much moistnes Twoo Drammes in wayghte of the confectyon of Ple●esar●hotycum taken when youe goe to sleepe or Myrobalanum Cepulum preserued and well chewed beynge taken in the mornynge fowre howres before meate once in a weeke dothe wounderfullye restore the Memorye especially yf it be hurte of a moiste cause For Myrohalani cepuli preserued doe strengthen the vnderstandynge and in a maner conserue you the. So doe passula It is good to take twise or thryse in a weeke preserued Ginger the bygnes of a small nut or litle cheste nut for it helpeth muche an emptye stomacke The confection of Diambar hath the same effect Remember that in a moyste substaunce or cause there procede fyrste purginges For a moyste substance is for the moste parte the cause of the weakenes of the Memorie as it is alredy declared ❧ The fifte chapter comprehendeth certaine best approued and chosen medicinable compounded remedies and preseruatiues greatly encreasing the Memorye ¶ A Medecine wonderfully helping the Memorie and lethargie or forgetfulnes it comforteth the ventricle and all the members weakened by fleume and coldenes Take Ginger Galingale Mastike Cūmin Organny ech of thē vi drammes Nutmige Calamus Aromaticus Asarum or Fole foote Carpesium y t is Cubebe Lignū aloes Mace Percely seede Ammios eche of theym .ij. drammes whyte Frākensence Cloues Cardamomum or graines Zedoaria Piretrum or Pellitorye Castoreum lōg blacke Peper Costum or Cocus Ciperus eche of them .iij. dragmes dry Mintes half an vnce let theym all be punned and beaten to pouder and with a sufficiente quantytye of Penydes and of puryfyed Honnye let there be made a linctuarye The whiche and the reste also you muste vse chieflye in colde wether or not ouer hote that a good space betwene ❧ Pilles that are good for a languishing brayne especially in aged and colde folkes Take swete Amber or elect Ambargrise one Dramme Lignum Aloes halfe a scruple Cubebe twoo scruples with the purest and swetest wyne make .xv. Pilles and minister a cople of them before supper ¶ Catapotia or Pilles very effectuall to the Memorie Take Cubebes bushe Calamint Nutmiges Cloues eche of theym a dragme and a halfe pure Frankensence fine Mirrhe orientall Ambargrise ech of them a dramme a halfe Muske .v. graines with Maiorā water make Pilles geue one at bedde time and two at Sunne rising fyue howers before meat in Somer by a monthes space in the springe and in haruest seldomer ¶ An odoriferous or swete swellinge Apple for the Memorie Take the rootes of Floure de luce the seedes of Sesclis or Osiar that is Syler montanum or wylde Cummyn Stichas eche of theym two Drammes Nuttmygge half a Dramme Minte a Dramme Ambergrise Frankensence bushe Calaminte Storax Lignum Aloes eche of theym halfe a Dramme Ladanum as muche as shall suffyce make thereof an Apple by arte the whiche notwithstanding in winter must be made of warmer things and in sommer of colder A moste proued Experiment for the witte and Memorie which is said to be of Aristotle Take Beares Greasse or fatte whiche he hathe in the righte shoulder or sklyse and put the same in the sayde Beares bladder together with his vrine or water and let them stand together eight dayes than pul it out and take the iuyce of Orminum or housholde Clarie Cybrighte Veruene Buglosse Phu or Valerian Aloes of eche a lyke quantitye and mingle theym together wyth the sayde fatte sturringe theym vppon the fyer wyth a wodden sklise till it come to a thycke oyntment of y e which take when you will the quantytye of a lytle Beane and anoynt the forehead and the temples rubbyng them a lytle whyle and you shall remember the thynges that you haue harde ¶ A comfortynge Water or Lees for the washyng of a cold and moyst head also it helpeth the Memorse and it must be of the Ashes of Twigges or of an Oke then after let these thinges boyle in it Take righte Acorus Stichas Baye leaues Rosemary Iua or Chamapithys Sage eche of them a handfull with this washe the head and after the washynge bathe the foreparte of the head with a lytle Aqua vite and sprinckle it with the pouder folowynge Take Penyroyall bushe Calamint Cloues Sandarake Mace Stichas drye Mynte Maioram of eche fyue drammes mingle them and make thereof a fyne pouder and after the sprincklynge laye it vppon hempe towe Also at other tymes when you goe to bedde put of the same pouder vpon the hinder parte of the head the head also beinge vnwashed for it dryeth c. ¶ Another Lee for to comfort the head and Memorie Take walle Yuye Rosemarye Baye leaues Stichas Marubium or Horehounde or Betony and let them boyle in the Lee and therewith you shall washe your head Cipres nuttes haue almoste the same operation being often vsed And that you mai haue Sope w t the same Lee. 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