The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton V.2

trout, sea-fish, solid, white, &c.

* Herbs

* Borage, bugloss, balm, succory, endive, violets,

in broth, not raw, &c.

* Fruits and roots.

* Raisins of the sun, apples corrected for wind,

oranges, &c., parsnips, potatoes, &c.

* or Subs. 2. Quantity.

* At seasonable and unusual times of repast, in good

order, not before the first be concocted, sparing,

not overmuch of one dish.

* Memb. 2. Rectification of retention and evacuation, as

costiveness, venery, bleeding at nose, months stopped,

baths, &c.

* Memb. 3. Air rectified, with a digression of the air

* Naturally in the choice and site of our country,

dwelling-place, to be hot and moist, light, wholesome,

pleasant &c.

* Artificially, by often change of air, avoiding winds,

fogs, tempests, opening windows, perfumes, &c.

* Memb. 4. Exercise

* Of body and mind, but moderate, as hawking, hunting,

riding, shooting, bowling, fishing, fowling, walking in

fair fields, galleries, tennis, bar.

* Of mind, as chess, cards, tables &c., to see plays,

masks, &c., serious studies, business, all honest

recreations.

* Memb. 5. Rectification of waking and terrible dreams, &c.

* Memb. 6. Rectification of passions and perturbations of

the mind.

* From himself

* Subsect. 1. By using all good means of help,

confessing to a friend, &c.

* Avoiding all occasions of his infirmity.

* Not giving way to passions, but resisting to his

utmost.

* or from his friends.

* Subsect. 2. By fair and foul means, counsel,

comfort, good persuasion, witty devices, fictions,

and, if it be possible, to satisfy his mind.

* Subsect. 3. Music of all sorts aptly applied.

* Subsect. 4. Mirth and merry company.

* Sect. 3. A consolatory digression, containing

remedies to all discontents and passions of the

mind.

* Memb. 1. General discontents and grievances

satisfied.