4123. _the humour of malencolye._ 'The name (melancholy) is imposed from the matter, and disease denominated from the material cause, as Bruel observes, [Greek: melancholia] _quasi_ [Greek: melainacholê], from black choler.' Fracastorius, in his second book of Intellect, calls those melancholy [252] 'whom abundance of that same depraved humour of black choler hath so misaffected, that they become mad thence, and dote in most things or in all, belonging to election, will, or other manifest operations of the understanding.'--Burton's Anat. of Melancholy, p. 108, ed. 1805. 4128. 'That cause many a man in sleep to be very distressed.' 4130. _Catoun._ Dionysius Cato, de Moribus, l. ii. dist. 32: _somnia ne cures_. 'I observe by the way, that this distich is quoted by John of Salisbury, Polycrat. l. ii. c. 16, as a precept _viri sapientis_. In another place, l. vii. c. 9, he introduces his quotation of the first verse of dist. 20 (l. iii.) in this manner:--"_Ait vel Cato vel alius_, nam autor incertus est."'--Tyrwhitt. Cf. note to G. 688. 4131. _do no fors of_ = take no notice of, pay no heed to. Skelton, i. 118, has 'makyth so lytyll fors,' i. e. cares so little for. 4153. 'Wormwood, _centaury_, pennyroyal, are likewise magnified and much prescribed, especially in hypochondrian melancholy, daily to be used, sod in whey. And because the spleen and blood are often misaffected in melancholy, I may not omit endive, succory, dandelion, _fumitory_, &c., which cleanse the blood.'--Burton's Anat. of Mel. pp. 432, 433. See also p. 438, ed. 1845. '_Centauria_ abateth wombe-ache, and cleereth sight, and vnstoppeth the splene and the reines'; Batman upon Bartholomè, lib. xvii. c. 47. '_Fumus terre_ [fumitory] cleanseth and purgeth Melancholia, fleme, and cholera'; id. lib. xvii. c. 69. 'Medicinal herbs were grown in every garden, and were dried or made into decoctions, and kept for use'; Wright, Domestic Manners, p. 279. 4154. _ellebor._ Two kinds of hellebore are mentioned by old writers; 'white hellebore, called sneezing powder, a strong purger upward' (Burton's Anat. of Mel. pt. 2. § 4. m. 2. subsec. 1.), and '_black hellebore_, that most renowned plant, and famous purger of melancholy.'--Ibid. subsec. 2.