For (he saith) _Gentilis_ relateth in his Comment upon _Avicen_, that a certain young man troubled with this rabiousness, did exhort his Mother, that she should not come near him, for he could not contain himself but bite those that came near him.” 2. As concerning Wolf-melancholy, we shall only give a short relation or two, the first from _Donatus ab alto mari_, who confesseth that he had seen two: of the one of which he saith: “This person (he saith) having formerly known me, did one day meet me when he was holden with this distemper; but I truly fearing went aside, and he looking at me a little went away. There was with him a multitude of men, and he did bear upon his shoulders a whole thigh and a leg of a dead man: At last being cured he was well, who afterwards when he met me again, did ask me, if I had not been afraid, when he found me in such a place when he was mad: by which it is manifest, that in him the memory was not vitiated.” Another take from that able Physician of _Delfe Petrus Forestus_ in English thus: “A certain Countryman was in the Spring-time seen at _Alemaria_ with an horrid look, and mad, to stay about the Church-yard, and after to enter the Church, and did leap upon a Seat or Plank (as we have seen him) only climbing upwards, and another while downwards with great fury, and never resting in one place. He carried a long staff in his hand, but did strike no body, but did with it beat off the Dogs; for he had his thighs and legs black and ulcered with black cruds or scurff by the biting of Dogs. His whole body did appear squalid, very black, and melancholick, but pale in the face, and his eyes exceeding hollow. From the foresaid signs (he saith) I did judge the man affected with the _Lycanthropia_ or wolfish Melancholy. He never used any Physician that I know of.” And this both this Author, _Schenckius_ and _Sennertus_ do sufficiently confirm from _Paulus_, _Aetius_, _Avicen_, and the like. From all which it is clear and manifest, that _Nebuchadnezzars_ distemper was but as some kind of Melancholy, whereby the imagination was corrupted, and the use of reason and right understanding for the time taken quite away, as saith the Text: _Let his heart be changed from mans, and let a beasts heart be given unto him_. That is, let his thoughts, desires, and affections be made brutish; for by the heart in Scriptures the cogitations, will, and affections are understood, as, _my son give me thy heart_, that is, the love and affections of thy soul and heart. So that when it is said, _Let a beasts heart be given him_, that is, let his mind, thoughts, and affections be made bestial; and so there was a change of the conditions and qualities of his mind and heart, but no real or essential change of his natural heart at all. And in this sense _Tremellius_ doth take it, saying: _obbrutescat, nihil humanum sapiat_, and so doth _Polanus_, _Rollock_, and others understand it; for