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A66518	Two discourses concerning the soul of brutes which is that of the vital and sensitive of man. The first is physiological, shewing the nature, parts, powers, and affections of the same. The other is pathological, which unfolds the diseases which affect it and its primary seat; to wit, the brain and nervous stock, and treats of their cures: with copper cuts. By Thomas Willis doctor in physick, professor of natural philosophy in Oxford, and also one of the Royal Society, and of the renowned college of physicians in London. Englished by S. Pordage, student in physick.	Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.; Pordage, Samuel, 1633-1691?	1683 (1683)	Wing W2856; ESTC R219572	452,754	252

become also Elastick in the motional Fibres by reason of the bloody Copula therefore if plenty of this be taken away they grow weak and deficient Which thing indeed I have observed in many and for the most part languishings and tremblings to have been begun in the Arm out of which the blood had been taken However in some indued with a sharp and hot blood and apt to flame forth too much though disposed to the Palsie it is sometimes convenient to let blood a little and sparingly About the Aequinox a Purge ought to be instituted and after due times between to be iterated three or four times But first if nothing oppose let a Vomit be given of the Salt of Vitriol Sulphur of Antimony or an Infusion of Crocus Metallorum or of Mercurius Vitae then let there be taken Pills of Amber or of Aloephanginae by it self or with the Resine of Ialap every seventh or eighth day At other times we prescribe Cephalick Remedies such as in the sleepy Diseases viz. Electuaries Powders Spirits and Volatile Salts Tinctures Elixirs with distilled Waters and Apozems sometimes these sometimes those or others Let Issues be made in the Arm or Leg yea in fat people and such as are full of ill humors in both together or between the shoulders Let them drink all the year medicated Beer of Sage Betony Stechades Sassafrass Wood and Winterines Bark Wine and Women ought to be forbidden or but moderately to be used If that the Palsie be excited after a previous disposition either of one side or in some members and that it still continues notwithstanding the first attempt of Medicine a long and complicated method is always requisite and oftentimes doth not suffice for not only the Disease or its conjunct cause or its foregoing severally but all together ought to be opposed for which ends Phlebotomy being for the most part interdicted only a gentle Purge and rarely is convenient Besides some chief Cephalick Medicines and Antiscorbuticks are wont to help against the foregoing cause of this Disease But all of this sort are not convenient to all yea as we have observed in the Scurvey according to the various Constitutions of the Sick there are also Remedies of a diverse kind and virtue For to Cholerick Paralyticks to wit in whose sharp and hot Blood there is much of Salt and Sulphur and very little of Serum the more hot Medicines and indued with very active Particles are not agreeable yea are often hurtful which things notwithstanding are very profitable to Phlegmatick persons whose Blood is colder and contains much of Serum and but few active Elements Wherefore for this twofold state or condition of sick persons it seems convenenient that we institute here a double Method of Cure and two classes of Medicines of which these may be given to cold Parlyticks and those to the hot In the former case for the taking away the Procatartick cause after Vomiting and Purging being rightly instituted I was wont to prescribe according to these following forms Take of the Conserves of the leaves of the Garden Scurvy-grass of Rocket made with an equal part of Sugar each three ounces of Ginger Candied in India half an ounce of the rinds of Oranges and Lemons Candied each six drams of the Powder of the Claws and Eyes of Crabs each four scruples of the Species of Diambre two drams of Winterens Bark one dram and a half of the Roots of Zedoary the lesser Galingal of Cubebs the Seeds of Water-Cresses Rocket each one dram of the Spirits of Scurvy-grass Laevender each two drams of the Syrup of Candied Ginger what will suffice to make an Electuary Take of it about the quantity of a Walnut at eight of the Clock in the Morning and at five in the Afternoon drinking after it a pint of the following Decoction warm or Coffee with the leaves of Sage boiled in it six ounces of or ●per Wine three ounces Take of the shavings of Lignum Sanctum six ounces of Sarsaparilla and of Sassaphras each four ounces of white and yellow Sanders of the shavings of Ivory of Harts-horn each half an ounce infuse them according to art and boil them in sixteen pints of Spring water till half be consumed adding of Crude Antimony in Powder and tyed in a rag four ounces of the Root of the Aromatick Reed of the lesser Galingal each half an ounce of the Florentine Iris one ounce of Cardamums six drams of Coriander Seeds half an ounce six Dates make a Decoction to be used for ordinary drink Going to sleep and first in the morning let a Dose of the Spirits of Sut or Harts-horn or of Armoniacal Amber or of Blood c. be taken with three ounces of the following distilled water Take of the leaves or roots of Aron one pound of the leaves of Garden Scurvey-grass of the greater Rocket of Rosemary Sage Savory Thyme four handfuls of the Flowers of Lavender three handfuls the outer rinds of ten Oranges and six Lemons of Winterans Bark three ounces of the roots of the lesser Galingal of Calamus Aromaticus the Florentine Iris each two ounces of Cubebs Cloves Nutmegs each two ounces all being cut and bruised pour to them of white Wine and of Brunswick Beer or Mum each four pints distil it in common Stills and let all the liquor be mixed together Sometimes in the place of the Electuary may be taken for fifteen or twenty days a Dose of the Tincture of Sulphur Turpentined of the Tincture of Antimony or of Amber Also sometimes Elixir Proprietatis or of Poeony let them be taken in a spoonful of distilled Water drinking after it three ounces of the same Also sometimes the following Powders or Lozenges may be taken by turns in the medical course Take of the Powder of Vipers flesh of Monpillier prepared one ounce of the hearts and livers of the same half an ounce of Species Diambre two ounces make a Powder take one dram once or twice a day with the distilled Water three ounces or with Viper Wine with a Decoction of the leaves of Sage of the root and seeds of the Burdock and the Candied roots of Eringo made of Spring-water what will suffice and boiled to one moiety six or eight ounces in the Morning warm expecting to sweat after it Take of Bezoartick Mineral Solar half an ounce of Cloves powdered two drams mingle them make a Powder and divide it into twelve parts let one be taken after the same manner twice in a day between these kind of Remedies gentle purging may be often used Take of the Powder of the picked roots of Zedoary the lesser Galingal each half a dram of Species Diambre one dram of the Powder of the seeds of Mustard Rocket Scurvygrass Water-Cresses each half a dram make of them all a fine Powder add to it of the Oyl of the purest Amber half a dram and with white Sugar dissolved

Ammoniacum solut what will suffice make four Pills let them be taken with Government The Powder of Haly the Powder of Valesco de Tarenta of Peveda and others are very much commended And indeed in Country bodies or robust this Cathartick may seem convenient Take of Epithimum half an ounce of Agarick Lapis Lazuli each three drams Scammony one dram Cloves thirty make a Powder the Dose is from half a dram to a dram Take of the Powder Diasenna of Diaturbith with Rhubarb each half a dram make a Powder let it be taken in a draught of Posset-drink in a Decoction of Epithimum simple four or five scruples Take of the best Senna two ounces of the Roots of Polypodia of the Oak two ounces of Epithimum one ounce and a half of yellow Citrons half an ounce of Tamarinds one ounce of Coriander seeds six drams boil them in Barnet water four pints till half be consumed strain it and let it be evaporated in a warm Bath to the consistence of a Syrup adding towards the end of pure Manna and of white Sugar each four ounces make a Syrup the Dose is two spoonfuls or three in three ounces of some convenient distilled water or in any other liquor Or Take of the same liquor evaporated to the consistence of Honey six ounces of fresh Cassie four ounces of the jelly of Currans two ounces of Cream of Tartar of the Salt of Wormwood each one dram and a half of the Powder of Diasen two drams of yellow Sanders powder'd two drams mix them and make an Electuary Dose three drams to half an ounce Purging is not to be used continually nor too frequently yea it suffices that it be administred within six or seven days space and at other times let the belly be taken down by Clysters if it be bound As to other Medicines which are not evacuators though the Ancients relied not much upon them we put our greatest confidence of Cure in them For they to whom also many moderns consent thought there was nothing more to be done for the curing of Melancholy than to Purge forth the Melancholick humor wherefore making Purges their chiefest business they instituted the other Medicines called Preparatory only for the sake of this to wit making it their scope that as soon as the humor being reduced to a fit consistency by altering Medicines and that the ways for its excretion were open enough then that it should be carried forth of doors by Purgers Which kind of Hypothesis seems not agreeable neither to reason nor to Medical experience because Melancholick people rather receive hurt than help by often Purging how methodically soever it be instituted Therefore we placing the cause of this Disease in the Dyscrasie of the Blood and Spirits and in the weakness or evil conformation of the Viscera and the Brain esteem altering and corroborating Medicines to be in the first rank for Remedies and for the sake of these that Purgers may be used sometimes between whiles Therefore Purging being rightly prescribed at due intervals for the removing impediments as to the rest you may proceed according to these forms Take of the Conserves of the flowers of Gilliflowers and of Brage each two ounces and a half of the rinds of Myrobalans preserved six drams of Coral prepared and of Pearl each one dram and a half of Ivory and Crabs Eyes each one dram of Confection de Hyacintho two drams of the Syrup of Coral and red Poppy what will suffice make an Electuary take two drams Morning and Evening drinking after it three ounces of the following Iulep or the distilled Water Take of the water of the Flowers of Cowslips and of black Cherries each six ounces of Balm four ounces of Dr. Stephens his Water two ounces of Sugar six drams mingle it and make a Iulep Take of the leaves of Balm Borrage Bugloss Fumitory Water-Cresses and Brooklime each four handfuls of the flowers of Pinks Marigolds Borrage and Cowslips each three handfuls the outer rinds of six Oranges and six Lemons being all cut and bruised pour to them Whey made of Cyder eight pints distil it in a common Still and mix all the liquor together Take of the Powder of Pearl of Ivory of Coral prepared each two drams of the Species Laetificant or making merry of Diarrhod Abbatis each one dram of the Oyl of the rind of Citrons half a scruple of white Sugar dissolved and boiled to the consistence of Lozenges in what will suffice of Balm Water six ounces make Lozenges according to art weighing a dram take two or three at nine of the Clock in the Morning and at five in the Afternoon drinking after it a draught of the distilled Water or of Tea Or Take of the Roots of Chervil of Polypodium of the Oak each one ounce and a half of the leaves of Harts Tongue Ceterach Scolopendria Germander each one handul of Tamarisk half a handful of the bark of the same half an ounce of Raisins of the Sun stoned two ounces one Apple cut let them be cut and bruised and boiled in four pints of Spring-water to the consumption of a third part about the end add of the leaves of Water Cresses one handful let it be strained and clarified take of it six ounces twice or thrice in a day sweteen it with Syrup of Fu●itory Spaw-Waters coming from Iron are wont oftentimes to give great benefit for the Curing of Melancholicks to wit because they being plentifully drunk wash out salino-sulphureous Tincture of the Blood and destroy its evil ferment Moreover they wipe clean the silthiness of the Viscera unlock obstructions and what is of great benefit they corroborate by their astriction both the weak and too loose Viscera and also shut up the little mouths of the gaping Vessels of the Brain by which a passage lay open into it for the extraneous matter together with the nervous juice And for this reason to wit by corroborating the Viscera and by locking up the passages of the Head Vitriolick● prepared of Iron are wont to be given profitably in Melancholy and also in the Vertigo Take of our Steel prepared three drams put it into a quart of the Water above described take of it three or four ounces twice in a day by it self or with any other solid Medicine Take of the filings of Iron one ounce put it into a glass with the juice of Oranges two ounces let it stand for a day shaking it sometimes then pour to it of the Water of Pipins and of White Wine each one pint or of the more thin and sweet Cyder one quart take of it three ounces twice in a day after the same manner Take of the Vitriol of Steel of the Cream of Tartar of Crabs Eyes each one dram mix them make a Powder and let it be divided into nine parts Take one part every Morning in a draught of the distilled Water or the Decoction or

as it were acetous that is such as we but now described To this Noble man at the beginning we thought good to recommend these following Remedies Take of the Decoction of Senna Gerionis with Tamarinds half an ounce four ounces of the Syrup of purging Apples one ounce of Aqua Mirabilis two drams mix them and take it with government repeating it within nine days After Purging let Blood be taken away with Leeches about four ounces Take of our Syrup of Steel six drams take a spoonful in the morning and at five of the Clock in the Afternoon in the following liquor three ounces walking after it for an hour or two Take of the leaves of Balm Borrage Bugloss Pimpernel Elm-tree Harts Tongue Water-Cresses each four handfuls of the Roots of Borrage half a pound of Pinks and Marigold flowers each three handfuls the outer peels of eight Oranges and four Lemons of Mace half an ounce these being cut and bruised pour to them of Whey made of Cyder eight pints let them be distilled in common Stills Take of the Conserves of Gilliflowers Betony Borrage each one ounce and a half of Pearl powdered two drams of red Coral prepared one dram and a half of the Species Confect de Hyacintho two drams of the Syrup of Coral and red Poppies each what will suffice make an Opiate to be taken going to sleep every night the quantity of a Chesnut drinking after it of Cowslip flower water two or three ounces After sixteen or twenty days changing the method of altering Medicines the following things were used in their places Take of the Powder of Ivory Pearls red Coral prepared each two drams of male Poeony roots one dram and a half of the Wood-Aloes half a dram Lozenges made out of Oranges four ounces of the solution of Tragacanth made of Balm Water what will suffice make Troches weighing half a dram let him eat four in the Morning and at five in the Afternoon drinking after them a draught of Tea Take of the same Powder without the Lozenges half an ounce of the flowers of Sal Armoniack and of Salt of Coral each one dram with Turpentine of Chio six drams make a Mass take half a dram Evening and Morning drinking after it of the distilled water three ounces His food was only good and easily digested meats he drank small Ale with the leaves of Harts-tongue infused in it He tasted sometimes a little Water and Wine or Cyder and he was almost continually employed sometimes in some easie affairs sometimes in moderate exercises or in several sorts of recreations Thus much concerning universal Melancholy by which the sick are affected almost indifferently by any object so that they are intangled in every place and by any accidents and circumstances with a multitude of thoughts continually with raving fear and sadness We have largely enough handled the symptoms of this Disease being manifold and the reasons of them partly in this Chapter and partly in another Tract It is called special Melancholy when the sick respect a certain particular thing or some kinds of things of which they think almost without ceasing and by reason all the powers and affections of the soul being continually imployed about this one thing they live still careful and sad moreover they have absurd and incongruous notions not only about that object but also concerning many other accidents and subjects In this Distemper the Corporeal Soul bending from its proper kind assumes a certain new one but not being conformable either to the Rational Soul or to the Body or to it self it enters into a certain Metamorphosis This kind of Distemper is produced by many ways and on various occasions for vehement passions desire fear anger pleasure yea all other passions both of the concupiscible and irascible Appetite being long continued and carried forth to the height are wont to excite the same But there are two general occasions from which special Melancholy chiefly and most frequently doth arise to wit first when there lyes a most heavy pressure on the mind of some present evil or an evil just at hand whether it be true or imaginary or secondly if the loss or privation of some good before obtained or desparing of something wished for or desired happen In these opposite cases the Corporeal Soul being either drawn forth outwardly omits all domestick care either of it self or of the Body or of the Rational Soul or being pressed inwardly it relinquishes or perverts the offices of Reason and of both the Vital and Animal Functions It would be an huge work to enumerate the various cases in either kind and their ways of affecting out of the great plenty which being of the greatest moment seem to require the care of a Physician are chiefly furious Love Iealousie Superstition despair of Eternal Salvation and lastly the imaginary Metamorphosis of the Body or its parts and the good and evil phantasticks of fortune of these severally we shall speak briefly Concerning the power of Love saying nothing here of some most noble Lord or Heroick actions which appear chiefly on the stage of the Theatre and on that of humane life it is a most common observation that if any one being taken with the aspect and conversation of any Woman begins to desire her and to grow mad for her inwardly and for his most devoted affection has nothing but loss and contempt allotted him unless he be very much supported by a firm reason or is averted as it were by other cross affections there is great danger lest he falls into Melancholy Stupidity or Love-Madness with which passion if by chance he be distemper'd he forth with seems transformed from himself as it were into an animated statue he thinks on nor speaks of any thing but his Love he endeavours to get into her favour with the danger of both the loss of his Life and Fortune in the mean time he not only neglects the care of his houshold affairs or of the publick yea his own health but becoming desperate of his desires he oftentimes lays violent hands of himself But if he be content to live yet growing lean or withering away both in Soul and Body he almost puts off man for the right use of reason being lost omitting food and sleep and the necessary offices of Nature he sets himself wholly to sighing and groaning and gets a mournful habit and carriage of body If we should inquire into the reason of this Distemper it easily appears that the Corporeal Soul of Man being obnoxious to violent affections when it is wholly carried into the object most dear unto it self viz. the beloved Woman and cannot obtain and embrace her there is nothing besides that can quiet or delight it yea being refractory it grows wholly deaf to the Rational Soul and hears not its dictates but carrying only tragical notions to the Imagination darkens the sight of the intellect Further forasmuch as the Praecordia the more