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water_n	oil_n	rose_n	vinegar_n	3,393	5	10.5841	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16845	A treatise of melancholie Containing the causes thereof, & reasons of the strange effects it worketh in our minds and bodies: with the physicke cure, and spirituall consolation for such as haue thereto adioyned an afflicted conscience. ... By T. Bright doctor of physicke.	Bright, Timothie, 1550-1615.	1586 (1586)	STC 3747; ESTC S106464	155,522	312

at once by choyce of such natures as haue vertue of attenuating opening cleansing and because the cure is not onely intended against the melancholicke humour and that complexion of body but also against the fancy and affection which we call in phisicke symptomes alwayes choice would be made of such as carrie with them proprietie to strengthē the altered braine and to cheere the comfortlesse hart or if that cannot be found in one simple it is to be supplied by mixture Their temper would be moderate in heat except the naturall temper of the body time of yeare sex c. and such like considerations perswade on either side any declination The simples meete for this preparation of body humour are these which follow borrage buglosse endiue fumitory hops betony the sorts of maidē haire ceterach harts tong polypody doddar of thime agrimony cich pease ash barks caper barks tamarisk to which would be added opening roots fenell persley smallage butchers broome asparagus and such like Of these simples decoctions shold be made and mixed with syrops of like vertue as with syrope of borrage of apples simple or compound as that of King Sabor syrope of fumitory syrope of violets of ceterach syrope of epithymus or doddar of thime all openers of splene and liuer cleansers of the bloud great preparers to the purging both of bodie and humour the vse of them would be much often fasting that they may haue their ful force Moreouer to this vse a kind of beare brued with the simples before mentioned and some small relish of cloues and cynamon giuen vnto it so vsed as ordinary drinke would be very wholsome for melancholick persons and now and then if the stomach be raw rheumatick a draught of hippocras or some aromaticall wine giueth great comfort increaseth the spirits and maketh the bloud thinne But here heede must be giuen that it be not too strong of spice least through too much heate by euaporatinge the thinne part the rest of the bloud remaine more thicke and harder to be purged Besides these inwarde preparations and opening and thinning potions the liuer and the splene and the partes vnder the ribs would be suppled with conuenient fomentations and oyntmentes to soften to open to loosen those parts where the purging medicin hath most to do this may be done with fomentations made of mallowes chammomile melilot figges lineseede fetherfew rewe and rose leaues red and damaske and the part being a while supplied therwith some mollfying and warming ointment is to be rubbed chafed in gently with a soft hand as that which is called cōmonly resumptiuū the oyntment of briony the ointment of swines bread called cyclamen vpon which if need be a plaister of like effect may haue very good vse as diachylum magnum the emplaister of melilote for the splene ceroneum diamelilotum of Andramachus c. to these preparatiōs disposings of body humour to the purging If it seme good vnto the phisitiās for varietie baths would be vsed of mollifying moderatly warming simples as of mallowes marsh mallowes holihock chammomile melilot peniroyall lineseed roses c. In which decoction lukewarme the body is to be kept half an houre at a time or as present occasion shall direct fasting in the while the partes vnder the short ribbes suppled exercised with a soft hand anointed with oyle of capers oile of bitter alomonds a fewe drops of petroleum mixed therwith After the body hath bin thus prepared the humour somwhat more loose easie to moue purgation is next to be attēpted by stoole rather then by vomit except the party be verie apt therunto and the melancholy be chiefly seated therabout The simples proper to purge melancholy are these following Sena polypodie blacke hellebore and white the azure stone and more gentle then it the Armenian stone all which diligently prepared and corrected ministred in quantity meet for the patients strēgth enter combat with this humor with such force chaseth it out of the body that it followeth it euen into the stoole The compounds are diasena confectio hamech hieralogadion pils of fumitory Inde of the azure and Armenian stone in which the simples before mentioned receaue their correction due preseruation farre more safe to be vsed then the simple alone all which purgers are to be receiued mingled with some moysting decoction as of barley with borrage buglosse violet leaues syrope of violetets borrage buglosse c. if they be electuaries or powders if they be pils a thin broth drunke immediatly after them that both the liquid substance may giue a speedy conueyance the dry humor soked with that forme of medicine may more gently yeeld giue place to the purge Whē the medicine is felt now to haue passed the stomach which is perceaued that it yeeldeth no medicinable tast to the mouth by belching or breath then some broth may be takē made of such kind of flesh herbs as haue bene before mentioned and so till the working cease the whole action of the medicine to be endured Thus much for purging by stoole if vomit be thought more necessarie as I iudge it very necessarie in you whatsoeuer emptieth the stomach by prouoking nature that way except the matter be very hard to moue deep setled shall suffise for that sort of euacuation Vomit is very necessary when the stomach is moist watery and maketh shewe therof by much spitting whē the patient is troubled with soure belching and when the meate is perceaued in mouing of the body to be loose iogge in the stomach then I say all other circūstāces cōcurring together vomit is to be vsed first of the gentle sort of which kinde are radish roots seeds pompeon root netle seed astrabacka root or leafe c. if the cause strength of the melancholick require a greater force of medicine Stibium white hellebore are singular in this case which both would be ministred in fat broth the substance of Stibium the infusion of neesing powder or white helleborus being in substance most daungerous This kind of hellebore more helpeth the fancy and correcteth the braine and the other more dealeth with the humour both discretly vsed performe a most wholsome euacuation If the melancholicke do labour much in vomiting minister drinke or thin broth so shall the vomit be with more ease discharged All perturbation of the bodie being ended the medicine hauing wrought the desired effect the face is to be refreshed with some mixture of rose-rosewater and vineger and rose water is to be smelled vnto the mouth to be washed and some conserue of red roses with a quarter so much of quince preserued and one drop of oyle of cloues or cynamon would be receaued to strengthen the stomach againe to settle it quiet if any quality of the medicine remaine to correct alter it what soeuer therby the stomach should