A discourse of the preservation of the sight: of melancholike diseases; of rheumes, and of old age ... / Translated out of French into English, according to the last edition by Richard Surphlet.

  • André du Laurens
Date:
1599
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Credit: A discourse of the preservation of the sight: of melancholike diseases; of rheumes, and of old age ... / Translated out of French into English, according to the last edition by Richard Surphlet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    me em nn ao How we nsuft make old folkes merrie,and put thers out of all maner of violent palfions of the minde, Een Lato'ina Dialogue,which he intituleth (r= tepA|##ides, rivet as che trueth is; chat the mot BO ES FSC: {violent and dangerous difeafesthat the body 4 étihes fuffereth; doe come from the minde: for the € oe (] ë re monientasit pleafeth, How many difeafes doe wefeeto rife, and amples haue we offuchasfudden and extreame ioy hathbrought vntothcirend? And griefes,penfiuenes,and fadnes, doe they not caft vsheadlong into an infinite number of melancholike difea- fes, which ferue for a fcourge vnto the Phifition, and their owne confufion for their obltinacie ? Wechave readmanyhiftories of fuch asthaue growne-white haired in foure and twentie houres, vpon feareonely and a conceited opinion of death, So that hee which would live long and in health, muft keépehimfelf as much as he can free from all violent paffions, But olde men morethen any other muft beware, both becaufe they:are ordinarily more {ubiectto feare, taking of offence, and waywardries , becaufe of their cold diftemperature : as:alfo becaufe' of the weakenes of their braine. Aad other men muft indeuour to take from them all: occafion of feare and fadnes, leaft they fhould thereby become more cold, There is no danger now and then to moue their cho- bee made merrie as much as may bee, and cuery thing minifired ynto them that may content and pleafe them, : But for as much: mindes , doe rife from the fences, which are the truftie {pyes, and faithfull meflengers thereof , wee muft (if wee will cons tent and pleafe olde men,). flatter and tickle their fences, rl the: