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.

  • Du Laurens, André, 1558-1609
Date:
1599
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    A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS CON- tained in this Difcour(e, à ‘The firft Difcourfe, wherein is handled the excellencieof the fight, and the meanes to preferuc it. That the braine is the principal feate of the foule, and that in confideration Chap.r. hereof allthe inftruments of the fences are placed round about is, How that the outward fences being the trustie meffengers of the minde, are only 2, fiw e,and allof. then placed without the braine, T hat the fight is thé tft excellent of all che fences, 3 Of the excellencie of the eye the proper inStrument of fight. 4 Of the compafition of the eye in:generall. 5 ; A igen defcription of all she parts of the eye, and firft of the fixe muscles @ thereof. | Of the fixe coates of the eye. a Of the three humours of the eye,of the beautie and excellencie of the chriftalline, 8 Of she finewes,veines,arteries,and other parts of theeye. How we [ce,as whether it be by receiuing in or fending forth fomeshing, lo How many waies the fight may be hurt. ) bo A briefe rehearfall of all the difeafes of the eye, Iz A general and moft exquifite order of Diet for the preferuation of che fight, in 13 which nfhewed very particularly all that may hurt or dee good unto she eyes. Choife remedies for the preferuasion of she fight, and the order to be obferued in 14 applying of them, The fecond Difcourfe,wherein is intreated of Melancholiedifeafes, and of the meanes.to curethem, That man is a divine and politique creature, hauing three fpeciall principall po~ Chapt. pers Imagination,Rea(on,and Memorie, That this creasure fallofexcellencie is now and then fo abafed and altered, by 2, aninfinit number of difeafei,as that he becommeth like a beaff. Whe thofe fhould be that ave called melancholike, and how we oughs to put dif- 3 ference betwixt melancholike men that are fickeand thofethat are found, The definition of melancholie,andall his differences. 4 , Ofmelancholie which is feated in the braine, andof all she accidents that follow. § it, and whence ariferh feare, [adnes, watchings, serrible dreames, and other acci- dents. | | Whereofit commeth that melancholike perfons haue particular objects quite 6 differing,wherenpon they dote. “ Hifforiesof certaine melancholike perfons, which hane bad frange imagina. 7 #ions. an order of diet for melancholike men,that baue their braine ficke, 8 How to cure fuch melancholike men,as hauethe difeafe fetledin theyrbraine, 9 | ne