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A00695	Erōtomania or A treatise discoursing of the essence, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, and cure of love, or erotique melancholy. Written by Iames Ferrand Dr. of Physick; Traité de l'essence et guérison de l'amour. English	Ferrand, Jacques, médecin.; Chilmead, Edmund, 1610-1654.	1640 (1640)	STC 10829; ESTC S102065	141,472	420

diseases and in like manner by saying certaine verses over one that was troubled with an issue of blood instantly stopt it as it is also reported of the sonnes of Autolycus who stopped Vlisses blood when he had received a great wound in his thigh on the Mountaint Parnassus only by some Charme or spell they used 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 These Poeticall or Homericall Remedies consisted in certaine Charmes Characters Amulets or such like Periapses which no Christian Physitian ought to use notwithstanding that the common people doe to this day too superstitiously believe and put in practise many of these Paganish devises In conclusion then we affirme that the most powerfull and soveraigne remedy against Philters are Prayers reading of good bookes and other serious exercises Ergo quisquis opem Medicâ tibi poscis ab Arte Deme Veneficiis Carminibusque fidem If therefore for thy griefes thou seek'sta Cure All faith in Charmes and Spells thou must abjure CAP. XXXVI Empericall Remedies for the Cure of Love and Erotique Melancholy THe Ancient Greeks in this case had in great account the Copaean Lake wherein Agamemnon is reported by Plutarch to have bathed himselfe when hee desired to quit the Love of the faire Chryseis Dexicreon is said to have cured the Samian women of this disease by some certaine Ceremonies and Expiatory Sacrifices that he used Others were wont to repaire to the Sepulchers of Rhadina Leontina or Jole and there offer up their devotions But the most famous and certaine Remedy of all was the Leucadian Rocke from the top whereof distracted Lovers would throw themselves downe headlong into the sea The first that ever adventured to make experiment of it is said to be Sapho Saltusque ingressa viriles Non formidatâ temeraria Chalcide Sapho And this she did because she could not obtaine the Love of hard-hearted Phao as she complaines her selfe and this provoked her to this desperate Attempt But those Antiquaries that have enquired more diligently into the truth hereof affirme that the first that ever took this Leape was one Phocas or as some rather thinke one Cephalus who was enamoured of Pterela Sapho in Ovid attributes the glory of this discovery to Deucalion who was extreamely transported with the Love of Pyrrha whom afterwards he married Hinc se Deucalion Pyrrhae succensus amore Misit illaeso corpore pressit aquas Nec non versus Amor fugit lentissima Mersi Pectora Deucalion ig ne levatus erat The faire Calyce also so highly commended by the Poet Stesichorus for her beauty was so miserably enamoured of Evanthlus that seeing her selfe refused by him she adventured to runne that desperate course that Sapho had done before her But the harshnesse and unpleasantnesse of this Remedy gave occasion to some others to substitute instead thereof Cupids fountaine in Cyzicus the vertue whereof as Mutianus reports was such as that it would utterly extinguish and allay the heats of doating Lovers Of the like vertue also was the river Selemnus spoken of by Pausanias who notwithstanding seems to give litle or no credit at all unto it For if this were so saith he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the water of this river would be far more pretious then gold Notwithstanding for my owne part I find no such great Absurdity or Improbability in the story of this River For it is most certaine that a Bath of cold water is a very soveraigne Remedy for the cure of the Vterine Fury which is a Species of Love-Melancholy and also of the Dropsy especially if the water be any whit Minerall as it is probable the waters of those fountaines were And this seems also to be very much confirmed by Mercurialis who assures us that he hath cured diverse women of this disease of Love meerely by making them drinke a good quantity of cold water and bathing them in the like The Doricke Musicke is also reported to have been of so great force in appeasing and composing the perturbations of the Mind as Galen saith as that Agamemnon the Generall of the Grecian forces in the Expedition against Troy left no other Guardian of his Wives Chastity in his absence save only a Musitian that was excellently well skilled in the Doricke Tone who by the power of his Harmony restrained Clytemnestra from all unchast and Illicite Loves so long as he lived But the Adulterous Aegistus perceiving that so long as the Musitian lived it was impossible for him to compasse his designes he caused him to be murdered and by this meanes at length obtained the love of the faire Clytemnestra Boëthius tels a story of Pythagoras how that meeting a company of mad Youngsters who being well heated with wine were going about to offer violence to some that detained a sweet-heart of theirs from them threatning to set the house afire about their eares Pythagoras presently caused the Musitian that played to them to change the Tone and so by a heavy grave Spondaicall Musicke hee presently appeased their fury and made them give over their violence and insolent attempt Ovid makes mention of a certaine Oblivious or Lethaean Love to whom the ancient Romans dedicated a Temple and built it on the the top of the Mountaine Eryx neare unto which stood the Temple of Venus And to this forgetfull God would all those that desired to deliver themselves from their Amorous follies tender their devotions Est illic Lethaeus Amor qui pectora sanat Inque suas gelidam lampadas addit aquam Illic Iuvenes Votis oblivia poscunt Et ●i qua est duro capta marita viro Instead of this Deity the Greekes acknowledged and offered sacrifice to Venus surnamed Apostraphia which I conceive to bee the same with the Celestiall Venus or Vrania whom the Scythians also anciently worshipped at Ascalon after that by cutting the veines or Arteries behind their Eares they had made themselves weake and Impotent as is before delivered Terpsicles as Athenaeus reports him prescribes for the cure of Love a Mullet that hath been suffocated in a vessell of wine And Pliny for the same purpose commends Chrysocolla which the Arabians call Baurach or else the drinking of wine that a Lizard hath been choaked in The Ancients made great account also of the waxe of a mans left eare and of Pigeons dung steeped in oyle as also of the Vrine of a Hee-goat mixed with a quantity of Indian Spikenard Iohannes de Vigo who was Surgeon to Pope Iulius the Second counsells the party affected to take the Excrement of the person he is in love with and burne it affirming very confidently that this is a most singular and certaine remedy if the Patient doe but smell it But such Receits as these come out of the shops of such kind of Physitians as Aristophanes calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Some other there are that in this case will have a wenches haire cut of just as Farriers use to doe with Mares who cut of their Manes when

are wont to discourse of in tearmes though grosse enough yet very necessary For it is impossible as Celsus observes to follow the precepts of this our Art and withall preserve the modesty of language whatsoever any Impertinent Aristarchus or censorious Criticks alleadge to the contrary The Fabulous Love-stories of the Poets or lascivious songs and sonnets are much more effectuall in this case and carry more danger in them Quid enim non excitat Inguen Vox blanda nequam And those flattering Love-letters wherewith Lovers are wont to insinuate themselves into their Mistresses favour are no lesse dangerous Neither is this given as a priviledge to men only for Nature hath instructed even the very Birds also to make use of these Allurements who when they desire to stirre Affection in their Mates ●e observed to chant it more pleasantly and melodiously then otherwise they are ●●ont to doe The Partridge by this ●eanes growes more Amorous and con●●ives only by the harmony of her Mates ●oyce if we may beleive what Aristotle ●eports of them The Greeks were used ●o flatter their sweet-hearts with these and such like tearmes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Latines had ●hese Lux mea Hirundo mea Puta mea Putilla mea c. Dic me tuam Hirundinem monedulam passerculam putillam Their Mistresses were used to be called by their servants and Lovers Putae Putillae as the Commentator on Plautus observes from that part which distinguisheth the sexes from whence perhaps the word Putain is descended which is a name the French give those women that are too free of that part The women would likewise call their Lovers Putis and Salaputia the French use the word Potons in the same sense a word tha● seems to be derived from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which words according to Dioscorides Aristophanes and Suydas signify Preputium or the foreskin Others as we may observe out of the same Plautus would use these words Meum Cor Mi● Colostra Meus Molliculus Caseus c. To these other allurements and provocations to Love caused by the hearing we might adde Musicke For as Boethius affirmes the Phrygian Mood had such a● power to ravish the spirits that a young man that had his wench kept from him by another his rivall by hearing this Mood plaied was so transported with Fury that in all hast he would needs have set fire on the house where she was had he not beene restrained by the wisdome of Pythagoras who commanded the Musitian to change the Mood and so by playing the Doricke he restored him to his former sober temper againe Yet sometimes I confesse the performance is so bad that what with the harshnesse of the singers voyce and also the ungracefullnesse of his singing the Musicke proves rather a Remedy against Love Pallas as the Poets ●ell would needs one day beare a part in a ●onsort of wind-Instruments in the pre●ence of Venus and Iuno but putting the ●nstrument to her mouth to wind it she made such an ill-favoured Trumpeters ●ce that Iuno and Venus fell a laughing at ●er in so much that Pallas in a great chafe ●oke her pipe and threw it against the ●round I shall omit in this place to speake of ●e diverse Amorous formes of salutati●ns prayers and complaints that Lovers ●se to their Mistresses set downe at large ●y Aenaeas Sylvius Iacobus Caviceus Bo●acius Trithemius Abbas in his Stenogramy and others Vigenerius upon Philostra●s reports that the Ancients were wont ●● use a certaine perfume composed of ●●ignum Aloës red Roses Muske and ●●d Corall tempered together with the ●aines of a Sparrow and the bloud of a ●ung Pigeon Which is not altogether ●nlikely considering that our Physitians be now prescribe the use of Muske Ci●t Amber powder of Violets Cypresse ●●eet waters and the like Odoriferous drugs for those that are of a cold constitution and are either Impotent or Barren And that which is reported by Iustin and Plutarch of Alexander the Great that he was very much beloved of the Ladies b● reason of the sweet smells that he had about him makes much for the confirmation of what we have already said But the most powerfull and effectual cause of all and therefore the most dangerous is the use of hot provocative Flatu● lent and Melancholy Meats of which ●● shall speake more hereafter And yet it is to be feared that famil●rity and dayly conversation is of much more force then any of those things wee have already named Consuetudo conci●nat Amorem sayes the Poet Familiarity and frequent conversation winnes Affection Nam levitèr quamvis quod crebro tunditur ictu Vincitur in longo spatio tamen atque lobascit The weakest stroakes though ne're so soft laid on ●f oft repeated force the hardest stone This is that undid the faire Deidamia ●aughter to Lycomedes King of the Isle ●cyros whom Achilles got with child being entertained in her fathers house under the habit of a Virgin and also the beau●eous Helen For from this familiarity ●rowing by continually conversing together they come at length to Revel●ngs Dauncings Maskings and other such ●●ke sports and pastimes which are very dangerous for those that are inclinable to Love As the Pike saith Bapt. Mantua●us is the proper weapon of the Macedo●ian the Launce of the Amazons the ●avelin of the Romans and the Arrow of ●he Persian so Mirth and Sports are the proper Armes of Cupid especially that ●inde of Laughing which is called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which according to Vigenerius signifies a Quaile or as Aristotle will have it a Feildfare And for this cause Venus is called by the Poets 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if we should say Love-●aughter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Laugh or Smile Although Hesiods Scholiast will have it derived from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Privy Members of Saturne whence the Poets fetch Venus Descent as also Plato affirmes in Phaedro And her sonne Cupid also was drawne by the Painter Praxiteles with a smiling countenance Nec cibus ipse iuvat morsu fraudatus aceti Nec facies grata est cui Gelasinus ab est No meat tastes well not dipt in Vineger Nor does that face please where Smiles wanting are Kisses are yet much more dangerous then Smiles as the Poet Moschus assures us and which is also confirmed by Socrates in Plato sunt oscula noxia in Ipsis Sunt venena labris They carry poyson along with them It is true indeed that in some countries as in France the use of kissing is not so frequent as it is in Italy Spaine England where they have a custome alwaies to kisse at their first salutation But this custome is conceaved by Michaell Montaigne to be somewhat injurious to Ladies in that they are hereby bound in civility to afford their Lip to every silken coxcombe that has but a Page at

ij ss cum syrupo rosato solut aut conserv rosar viol If your Patient be unwilling to purge so often with liquid medicines although they be a great deale the more fit to purge Melancholy Humours then the solid are for to satisfy his desire you may give himsome such Laxative Electuary as this following 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Succi Mercur. depurati Vnc. ij in quibus infunde 24. horas fol. senae mund Vnc. ij expressio decoquatur cum s q. sacchari in formam electuarij Posteà adde pulpae Cassiae recenter è cannâ extractae Vnc. ij Epyth Vnc. ff caryoph conquass Drach ij misce fiat opiata de qua capiat semel aut bis in mense Vnc. j. ss But in the meane time we must not forget to comfort the Heart Liver and Braine of our Patient with some such Cordiall as this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Conserv rosar Vnc. j. conserv flor nenuf borrag ana Drach vj. carnis Citri lactucae saccharoo conditae ana Vnc. ss myrobal emblic saccharo condit num ij confect Alkermes Drach ij pulvoris latit Galen Drach j. Margar. Orient 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 iiij rasurae eboris Scrup. ij misce cum syrupo de pomis fiat opiata de qua capiat ad quantitatem unius castaneae superhausto tantillo vino albo aqua buglossi multùm diluto alternis diebus horis circiter duabus anto cibum Or else this R. Terebinth Venetae aqua lactucae lotae Vnc. ss semin dauci agnicasti Cinnam ana gr viij agar rec trochis Drach j. fiat bolus purgando semini idoneus ex Hollerio Mercato c. Dioscorides prescribes for this purpose the Powder of Aphrodilles and the seed of Coltes foot given in drinke Porphyrius as Stobaeus reports and Pliny commend Willow blossoms given in cold water to drinke Cujus flos in aquâ sumptus frigescere cogit Instinctus Veneri cunctos acres stimulantes I should here also commend the use of these Losenges or some other of the like vertue R. Semin agnicasti portul ruta ana Scrup. ss semin lactucae papau albi ana Scrup. ij granor Canabis gr viij cornu cervi usti coralli anther ana gr vj semin melon Drach iij sacchar aqua rosar borrag dissoluti q. s misce fiant tabella vel Lozengae ponder Drach j. capiat unam ad horam somni vel manè longè ante cibum And it would not bee amisse to give him sometimes fowre graines of Bezar steeped in water of Scorzonera or of Lettice which hearbe by reason of it's singular vertue in this case the Pythagoreans called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Athenaeus reports After we have thus done we shall then come in the next place to our externall Medicines among which Bathes of fresh water are the first chiefest For as much as both P. Aegineta and Oribasius in their severall Tracts of Love make their boasts that they cured diverse of this disease of Love-Melancholy meerely by Bathes of fresh water And this is confirmed also by Avicen whose advise is the same Fac ipsos balneari secundùm conditionem Humectationis notam also by all the Ancient Physitians And we shall doe well to adde hereto some other Simples that are of approved vertue against this disease in manner following R. Althaeae cum toto maluae lactuc. borrag Nympheae cucurb fumar lupul. lapathi acut ana m. 4. summit salic pampinor vitis ana m. ij slor nenuf viol borrag rosar calend ana p. iiij semin viticis Cannab ana Vnc. ij capit vervec num ij fiat decoctio in aqua fluviatili pro balneo iiij dierum in quo sedeat horâ unâ circitèr Some are of opinion that it is very good that in the meane while the Patient is bathing there should be some by to entertain him with merry Iests pleasant discourse Musick whatsoever else may be thought fit to provoke him to Mirth Aetius adviseth to apply an Oxyrrhodinum to his head for to repell the vapors that ascend up to his head from the spermaticall vessels in men and in women from the Matrix who may also in this case make use of a suppository made of Diacodion tempered with a litle Vinegar and the juyce of Sorrell or else a litle quantity of Nitre and Cardamomum or else a Nascall or Pessary composed of Castoreum mixed with Rue to which Avicen addes the rootes of Lillies and Nenufar Or else you may make use of this Vterine Clyster prescribed by Lodovicus Mercatus R. Lactis caprilli vel bubuli Vnc. iiij aquae marinae Vnc. ij mellis Vnc. j. misce fiat Clyster iniiciatur in sinum pudoris But I should rather preferre this other here following R. Lentium p. ij fol. flor salicis ana m. j. fiat decoctio ad lib. j. in qua dissol trochisc albor Rhazis trochisc de Camphora ana Drach j. misce fiat Clyster infundatur in delta muliebre Eros addes to these Opium Pliny in his Naturall History and Rondeletius in his 12. booke de Piscibus cap. 19. will have the secret Parts to be rubbed all over with the gall of a Cramp-fish which is of a marveilous Narcoticke or Stupefactive vertue or else a Pessary made of the root of Nymphaea Heraclea Briefly you may find a thousand such like medicines as these in the writings of Physitians that have spoken of the cure of this disease with which I shall not here trouble you Only thus much for the present I shall advertise you of that Nicolaus Monardus a Physitian of Sevill and Clusius speaking of Medicaments that have been lately found out in the Western parts of the world doe highly magnify for a soveraigne remedy and Antidote against Vnchast Love and Philters the Powder of a certaine Hearbe called Contra-Yerva brought not long since from Charcys a Province of Peru being in shape like Corne-flag and having leaves like Fig-tree leaves Which relation of theirs if it be true we may say of this Plant as Pausanias did of the fountaine Selemnus that it would be more worth then all the gold in the world The like Iudgement doe we give of the stone called by the Greekes Selenites or Aphroselenum spoken of by Dioscorides as also of the Amiantus a certaine stone found in Cyprus which Pliny calls Linum vivum Strabo Carystium Zoroaster Bostrychitem Solinus Carbasum some others Corsoidem Spoliam Spartospoliam and the vulgar call it though improperly Stone-Allum whereof in old time they were wont to make Table-cloathes that would be made white only in the fire and yet never burne Mercurialis in his 4. book de Morbis Mulier affirmes that himselfe hath cured diverse both Maids and married Women of the Vterine Fury or Love-Madnesse by the use of cold Minerall waters such as are those waters in Italy which they call The waters of Virgins or de Villa But this seemes to me a thing incredible considering that