| husbandman that still hunted about graves, and kept in churchyards, | | of a pale, black, ugly, and fearful look. Such, belike, or little | | better, were king Prœtus’ daughters, (_Hippocrates_ lib. de | | insaniâ,) that thought themselves kine: and Nebuchadnezzar, in | | Daniel, as some interpreters hold, was only troubled with this | | kind of madness. This disease, perhaps, gave occasion to that bold | | assertion of Pliny, (Lib. 8. cap. 22. homines interdum lupos fieri; | | et contra,) _some men were turned into wolves in his time, and from | | wolves to men again_; and to that fable of Pausanias, of a man that | | was ten years a wolf, and afterwards turned to his former shape; to | | Ovid’s (Met. lib. 1.) tale of Lycaon, &c. He that is desirous to | | hear of this disease, or more examples, let him read _Austin_ in | | his eighteenth book, _de Civitate Dei_, cap. 5; _Mizaldus_, cent. | | 5. 77; _Schenkius_, lib. 1. _Hildesheim, Spicil. 2. de maniâ_; | | Forestus, lib. 10. _de morbis cerebri; Olaus Magnus; Vicentius | | Bellavicensis, spec. met._ lib. 31. c. 122; _Pierius, Bodine, | | Zuinger, Zeilgur, Peucer, Wierus, Spranger, &c._ This malady, saith | | _Avicenna_, troubleth men most in February, and is now-a-days | | frequent in Bohemia and Hungary, according to _Heurnius_. (Cap. de | | Man.) _Schernitzius_ will have it common in Livonia. They lie hid, | | most part, all day, and go abroad in the night, barking, howling, | | at graves and deserts; _they have usually hollow eyes, scabbed legs | | and thighs, very dry and pale_, (Ulcerata crura; sitis ipsis adest | | immodica; pallidi; lingua sicca,) saith _Altomarus_: he gives a | | reason there of all the symptoms, and sets down a brief cure of | | them.”—_Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy._ Tenth Edit.: 8vo. 1804. | | Vol. 1. Page 13, et seq. | | | | It is surprising that so learned a writer as _Burton_ should | | not have alluded to Oribasius, who flourished 140 years before | | _Aëtius_, and of whom _Freind_ says, “In auctore hoc miri cujusdam | | morbi prima mentio est; is Λυκάνθρωπος sive Λυκανθρωπία dicitur, | | estque melancholiæ, aut insaniæ, species quænam ita ab illo | | descripta: ‘Quos hoc malum infestos habet, nocturno tempore domo | | egressi, Lupos in omnibus rebus imitantur, et ad diem usque circa | | tumulos vagantur mortuorum. Hos ita cognosce: pallidi sunt, oculos | | hebetes et siccos, non illachrymantes, eosque concavos habent: | | lingua siccissima est, nulla penitus in ore saliva conspicitur, | | siti enecti; crura vero, quia noctu sæpe offendunt, sine remedio | | exulcerata.’—‘Quod ad morbum ipsum attinet, si peregrinantibus | | fides adhibenda est, fuit olim in quibusdam regionibus, ut in |