Out of the fit, in regard of _Externall_ causes, remoue from them all occasions of breeding or increasing the disease: as sweet sauors, pleasant meats and drinks, much rest and slouthfulnesse, &c. Also if [64]discontinuance of any thing accustomed bee the cause of this disease, bring it into custome againe: if want of any thing necessary for their health, let it be supplied, [65]let their diet be sparing and vpon cooling things, let them vse much fasting and prayer, and all other meanes to pull downe their bodies: and contrariwise abstaine from egges, wine, flesh, &c. If the perturbations of the mind be any occasion hereof, let them haue their proper remedies, as anger and iealousie are to be appeased by good counsell and perswasions: hatred and malice by religious instructions, feare by incouragements, loue [66]by inducing hatred, or [67]by permitting them to enioy their desires, &c. _Galen_ boasteth that he did euery yeare cure many diseases by this stratagem of moderating the perturbations of the mind by the example of _Æsculapius_ who deuised many songs and ridiculous pastimes for that purpose. To which end also other phisitions haue vsed diuers sorts of fallacies to encounter the melancholike conceits of their patients. _Cardan_ tels of a Gentlewoman, who finding her self vexed with many grieuous _Symptoms_, imagined that the Diuell was the author thereof, and by _Iosephus Niger_ was cured by procuring her son to make her beleeue that he saw three diuels in her looking glasse, & one great one to driue them out. Another like policie _Marcellus Donatus_ tells vs of, which a Physition vsed towardes the Countesse of _Mantua_, who being in that disease which we call _melancholia Hyppocondriaca_ did verily beleeue that she was bewitched, and was cured by conueying of nayles, needles, feathers, and such like things into her close stoole when shee tooke physicke, making her beleeue that they came out of her bodie. The like there he mentioneth also out of _Trallian_, of a woman who did thinke that she had a serpent within her, and was cured by the like meanes. [64] _Hollerius nullum remedium melius marito. Valescus de taranta, Syluius: si nubilis est nec monialis nubat si non libet aut non licet nubere vtatur frigidis &c._ _Mat. Rochius de morb. mal. cap. 5._ _Guaynerius suppositio in hoc casu principatũ obtinet, &c._ [65] _Valetius in Holl. Cap. 59. istud genus demonii non eiicitur nisi multo ieiunio._ _Paschali. Sinõ posit vti viro præcibus & ieiunio curabitur._ _Guaynerius. Curpus macerãtibus vtatur._ [66] _Auicen, Fen. 1 3. c. 1. 4. tract. 4. de Ylisco._ [67] _Aretæus. lib. 1. cap. 5. De sani tuend. lib. 1. cap. 11. De subtilit. l. 19 De medica historia mirabili. lib. 2. cap. 1._ [Sidenote: _Lib de incant. adiuratione, &c._]